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Reading Time: 2 minutes Tom Krause – CEO, Cloud Software Group – finance guy – Princeton U alumni – Now you know not all ivies have high moral standards, because Tom is obviously a #muskrat or a fat cat in the corporate world (ABS News). Quote the ABC news article a bit: One former Cloud Software Group employee said

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February 18, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes About 13 years ago, I worked at coal mining company, followed by a hospital chain, both in their IT departments. It was President Obama’s 1st and 2nd term. I worked for Arch Coal (I just fount out they merged with Consol Energy and formed as Core Natural Resources) between 01/2012 and 04/2013, and worked for

omaha
February 13, 2025

Reading Time: < 1 minute 对过去的留恋可能是人之常情,尤其是对上了年纪的人(大概过了50岁的人可以说是上了年纪?),还有一些曾经辉煌,现在落魄的人。 有一个例子是鲁迅笔下的祥林嫂。实际生活中其实这种情况不少。我感觉我自己有时候也会说/想:想当年,我年轻的时候,blah blah blah. 最近 formerly executive assistant at square, sorry I could not find her profile on LinkedIn now, as I unfollowed her recently. Due to LinkedIn’s algorithm (or AI), it seems quite hard for me to find her again (refer to my recent blog post re: LinkedIn’s search-ability). PS (02-09-2025) I gave it

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February 4, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 02-13-2025) PBS Newshour via YouTube – What Trump voters think about his first weeks in office (Original 02-03-2025) I feel RFK Jr. benefited from free publicity by saying or writing crazy things over the years (NY Times confirmation hearing for HHS secretary). I recall in 2008, President Obama beat his democratic rival Hillary Clinton

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February 3, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes (Update 02-19-2025 Wednesday) It feels like there are suddenly way more plane crashes and incidents. Here’s the truth Deadly small plane collision in Arizona, officials say (CBS News via YT). (Update 02-17-2025 Monday) Delta plane upside down in Toronto after landing incident | Special Report (CBS News via YT). (Update 02-07-2025) We had two more

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January 30, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes I am trying to order them in the severity, from the most serious to the least serious. Sept 11, 2001: terrorist flew airplanes to the twin towers in the NYC. Sept-11 had profound impact on the America society in my opinion. Before 9-11 I could go to STL Lambert International Airport and meet my friends

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January 23, 2025

Reading Time: 7 minutes 谷歌翻译的中文版在这里。下面是英文原文(偶尔会有更新;中文版一般情况下不更新)。 WeChat app is a time sucker My better half (my wife) thinks I spent too much time on WeChat app aka 微信 wei’xin, and I agree after using WeChat for about 10 years. One of my new year’s resolutions is to use less iPhone, social media in general including WeChat. I mentioned a few

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January 7, 2025

Reading Time: 5 minutes Or, put it bluntly, to combat my iPhone addiction 🙁 Why What do you do the 1st thing after you wake up? Hopefully you are not like me “yes you guessed it right, look at my iPhone and check the WeChat blah blah blah” 🙂 Sometimes I wonder if “I own the iPhone; or the

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January 6, 2025

Reading Time: 3 minutes Travel Mishaps One of the most memorable moments in 2024, for me at least, we already checked out the hotel in HK and got on the taxi to the airport, then our 14-year-old said, “I left my hoodie in the closet”. We already checked out thus cannot go back to the room directly. Had to

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January 5, 2025

Reading Time: 2 minutes A Chinese version (google translated) is here. First some background. Time: 6 Reasons Why Joe Biden Pardoned Hunter Biden MSNBC (Opinion): The unfair prosecution of Hunter Biden is over — finally The View cohosts react to Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden: ‘This is why people don’t trust Washington’ Personally, I agree with all the above.

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December 3, 2024
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