Aug 05 2012
Took my usual weekend ride (mostly) along the Nanshan coast from Shekou through the Shenzhen Bay Park (深圳湾公园 — a work in progress) up to Mangrove Bay Park (红树林公园). I was surprised to find, not far from where the coastal path transects the Shenzhen Bay Bridge, this impromptu doggie water park. I sometimes can’t help …
Jul 15 2012
Taking a break on a nice bike path on Nanshan. Burned 600 Kcal this morning– shooting for 1000.
Jun 15 2012
I like this article in EBN, The Stupid Futility of Cost Cutting. As usual, Mr. Bolaji Ojo gets it right. One quote: I’ll make this short. Cost-cutting does not ignite growth, no matter what any management guru has published. Unfortunately, in the electronics industry as well as in other manufacturing sectors, this seems to be …
May 22 2012
Lifted from The Art of the Print. Page url: http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/prevost_louis_benoitt_epinglier3.htm
Apr 20 2012
We have not only observed evolution in laboratories, now we have created the process by developing new strains of nucleotides and letting them reproduce themselves. This is something like an artificial form of DNA, created in the lab, and set on it’s way toward self-replication and, it turns out, evolution (based on selection pressures). This is …
Mar 25 2012
A group of obviously committed students and alumni from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute run Rensselaer in China | Greater China Business Club. Their interview with me can be read here.
Feb 06 2012
Actually, it is looking like the Chinese won’t be doing them for too long, either. Nice article in the Chicago Tribune supporting my position (and doing much better than I can) that the US, must work on job creation rather than trying to claw-back outsourced jobs from China. No comment now, just the link and …
Feb 05 2012
In the New York Times, Cristina Romer argues against too much Government support for U.S. manufacturing. Ms. Romer’s bio from the NY Times: Christina D. Romer is an economics professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and was the chairwoman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. I don’t have any comments on it yet, …
Jul 16 2010
There was some balanced perspective on the China labor situation from a July 1 Reuters article. Just wanted to share some of the main points: Yes, the fact that there were strikes is significant. But no, the actual effect of those strikes has not been significant because of their limited scope. (It is, however, …
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