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Boy, I just can’t wait to fly now…
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI was just thrilled to hear about the Christmas terrorist attack on NW 253. Just because the attack failed doesn’t mean it wasn’t an attack. I AM overjoyed no one was seriously hurt (other than the scumbag, who deserves the emasculation). But since I will be heading to China soon, I’m less than enthusiastic the […]
Accept Defeat: The Neuroscience of Screwing Up
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyThis is a brilliant piece from Jonah Lehrer in Wired about how scientists get bottled up by their own preconceptions and groupthink and miss the discoveries their research is accidentally uncovering. Key paragraphs: While the scientific process is typically seen as a lonely pursuit — researchers solve problems by themselves — Dunbar found that most […]
You must freeze the design
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI never played Duke Nukem, but this article is a must read for anyone thinking about launching a new product of any kind. In order for any project to be successful, you have to freeze the design at some point. You have to get to “good enough” and go to market. I have seen inventors […]
Racism in China
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyFascinating piece on Lou Jing, a young Chinese woman who happens to be black. My wife and I experienced some of this when we lived in Taiwan. She is half-Vietnamese, so the assumption was that she was an ABC (American Born Chinese). She doesn’t speak a word of Chinese, and she is also a healthy, […]
Blizzard of 2009
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyPicture out my kitchen window (taken with my Blackberry Storm 2) so far 18 inches and still snowing… There is a (probably apocryphal) story I’ve heard a few times over the years from travelers to China about the Chinese method of snow removal in the provinces. Basically they drive a diesel tanker down the road […]
Battle Between U.S. and China Threatens Climate Conference
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyFascinating article about the politicking going on in Copenhagen. Regardless of what the greens want, China and India won’t be going along. They have too many mouths to feed. And they especially won’t be going along after Climategate and the recent Russian bombshell. 2010 should be an interesting year.
www.autoextremist.com
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyJust in time for the holidays, my gift to you. If you don’t read Autoextremist, you should. This week’s year-end wrap-up Rant is required reading for anyone interested in the global auto industry. If you’re an American taxpayer, you’re interested now. Like it our not, you own two of the “Big Three”. This is more […]
4 PM on a Friday
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI come from the automotive world. People who don’t understand the automotive industry can’t fathom how completely different it is from every other industry out there. The worst hour of the week in the automotive industry is 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM on a Friday. It is that nightmarish 60 minutes when Murphy’s Law takes […]
Meet the HOODIO!
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyAnother awesome product from our clients, LimbGear! The Hoodio is an MP3 enabled jacket, and LimbGear specializes in the professional and collegiate sports markets, so you will be able to get the Hoodio with your favorite sports team logo. PassageMaker will be managing the supply chain for LimbGear, including garment customization at our Assembly Center […]
World War II veteran Bill Overstreet: ‘A legend indeed’
/0 Comments/in China Business Blog /by Mike BellamyI don’t read my local paper, The Roanoke Times, often, but this article today caught my eye – very cool, flying a plane under the Eiffel Tower during a dog fight in WWII. Have a great weekend!