It isn’t about you

by | Sep 21, 2013 | Post

The following is what I say to a younger version of myself, who had no idea how to live his life, but was desperately looking for an answer. 1. Everybody wants to give advice on how to live And I mean, literally, every, single, one. Just ask anybody that you are...

Class is out. Forever.

by | Sep 20, 2013 | Post

More people are classifying themselves as lower class. The news is from the US but it applies to everywhere in the developed world, as we are all painfully aware of. Roquemore is among the small but surging share of Americans who identify themselves as “lower...

Expansion is tired. What about a breakthrough?

by | Sep 19, 2013 | Post

Expansion is over. Welcome reality. In this video, Douglas Rushkoff poses a powerful challenge to our mindset: How long are we going to continue infinite expansion? I am going to introduce the part that struck a particular cord for me. (But I tell you, watch all of...

From ownership to access

by | Sep 18, 2013 | Post

In today’s world, the default method of gaining access to a resource is to purchase. A piece of clothes, a mobile phone, food and drink, a car… Even renting a house, what most of us the 99%s do, is considered Plan B next to buying it. We rent primarily because of...

The means is also the end

by | Sep 17, 2013 | Post

I used to get baffled by the price differences between local cuisine and foreign cuisine in Taipei’s restaurant scene. I may enter a noodle shop (麵 in Chinese term), have a delicious bowl of beef and tomato noodle, and pay 80NT (= US$3). Add “Italian” to the name...

Melting yourself to stand out

by | Sep 16, 2013 | Post

(Today’s post has also been contributed to Red Room Taipei, a network of monthly open-mic event where anybody can share anything for 5 minutes.) Whenever I meet a new Taiwanese friend and strike a short conversation, I have an obligation to answer two...