wandering the wide world in search of wonders
(Yonghegong road, Beijing) Actually, I prefer menus with pictures.
I had a conversation with an entrepreneur friend who told me he had hired a Beida grad to join his AI-development team, and I jested that his Mandarin must be much better than mine to have cross-lingual collaboration, to which he replied that he was also learning Spanish. When I asked him why Spanish, he proceeded to list languages in order of the number of speakers worldwide.
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– December 31, 2008
Now I have an excuse to visit my friends at Brown:
Congratulations! This e-mail is to inform you of your official acceptance to the Ivy Leadership Summit IX, which will be held at Brown University this year, February 6-7. This year’s theme is “Leading in a Global Community,” and will feature panel discussions ranging from sustainable energy, to civic engagement, to cultural leadership. This will be a wonderful leadership development opportunity as well as a chance to meet and form connections with your peers from other Ivy Institutions.
This will be a good time to try out the ‘conference commando’ chapter from Never Eat Alone.
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– December 30, 2008
(Zhongnanhai, Beijing) The red sign reads “Long live the great Chinese Communist Party”. A similar sign on the other side reads “Long live the undefeated Mao Zedong theory”
When I was in Washington DC last summer, I really wanted to join a White House tour, but it never materialized – our internship coordinator put one together before I had joined the think-tank. Instead I got to see the Capitol and various congressional buildings through the course of the summer. The closest I got to the White House was with all the other tourists on the South side of the park, peering through the fence, trying to identify which little speck in the distance was the oval office.
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– December 23, 2008
