summer
Guitar Hero is too damn catchy. I can save you baby but it isn't worth my time~ Yay for buying albums!
What have I spent this summer learning? How to survive long hours trapped in an office where everyone can see everyone else. I feel such pressure when I can't work without being observed. If I wanted to pick my nose.. I would have to discreetly go to the toilet. Seriously, these are terrible working conditions, especially since I'm used to doing the majority of my work sitting cross-legged on the floor. Haha, but the real answer to this question is: I have learned how to value a business opportunity. Is knowledge worth having. I wish I had more time for badminton though :(
also, more sleep would have been nice.
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Ah ah oh, I'm excited for UI design in fall! Steven and WIll are going to be in my group, it's going to be super excellent! Will has already promised not to try to hit the Ballmer curve every time we work. I have agreed to become Director of Late Night Food Procurement in exchange for Steven becoming Director of Debugging and Cheeseburgers. Excited! It's a really good class and now I'm guaranteed to have a cool, hardworking and tight team.
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Francis Fukuyama's The End of History http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm
is absolutely fascinating. I have roughly annotated it as I read, and I'm going to spend some time thinking points through and seeking information, but basically, my number 1 problem with it is that he assumes certain things about democratic Western values due to his upbringing and education that aren't necessarily true. For instance, DEMOCRACY in the form of elected government rule fails a large percent of the time in Asian nations. However, democracy of the mind has wrought incredible positive changes. The West's greatest contribution to us, ever, ever and ever is the idea that being born poor doesn't mean you have to die poor! The idea of a meritocracy, that you're not 'fated' to remain a peasant or uneducated, the idea that everyone ought to aspire because no one is naturally superior to anyone else is (almost) completely accepted in Asia, and it's this idea of democracy that is making the difference. Democracy of mind, law and economics! That's the important 'democracy' that we learn from the West not the government form or the "western values' that he talks about!
lol, I counted, and I disagree or have an alternate interpretation of about 26 points of evidence he makes. Anyway, it's great to read and great to think about. Fukuyama is a brilliant man and now I'm looking for his Asian counterpart! Who is the Asian man of intellectual capacity, raised in Asia but with Western values, able to rethink and respond about the influence the West has on Asia and how Asia is responding and how the West seems to now fear Asian economic growth?! I want to know what HE thinks!
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Honey and Clover is sweet and lovely. Hahah, I now have time to watch, go real summer vacation time!
What have I spent this summer learning? How to survive long hours trapped in an office where everyone can see everyone else. I feel such pressure when I can't work without being observed. If I wanted to pick my nose.. I would have to discreetly go to the toilet. Seriously, these are terrible working conditions, especially since I'm used to doing the majority of my work sitting cross-legged on the floor. Haha, but the real answer to this question is: I have learned how to value a business opportunity. Is knowledge worth having. I wish I had more time for badminton though :(
also, more sleep would have been nice.
~
Ah ah oh, I'm excited for UI design in fall! Steven and WIll are going to be in my group, it's going to be super excellent! Will has already promised not to try to hit the Ballmer curve every time we work. I have agreed to become Director of Late Night Food Procurement in exchange for Steven becoming Director of Debugging and Cheeseburgers. Excited! It's a really good class and now I'm guaranteed to have a cool, hardworking and tight team.
~
Francis Fukuyama's The End of History http://www.wesjones.com/eoh.htm
is absolutely fascinating. I have roughly annotated it as I read, and I'm going to spend some time thinking points through and seeking information, but basically, my number 1 problem with it is that he assumes certain things about democratic Western values due to his upbringing and education that aren't necessarily true. For instance, DEMOCRACY in the form of elected government rule fails a large percent of the time in Asian nations. However, democracy of the mind has wrought incredible positive changes. The West's greatest contribution to us, ever, ever and ever is the idea that being born poor doesn't mean you have to die poor! The idea of a meritocracy, that you're not 'fated' to remain a peasant or uneducated, the idea that everyone ought to aspire because no one is naturally superior to anyone else is (almost) completely accepted in Asia, and it's this idea of democracy that is making the difference. Democracy of mind, law and economics! That's the important 'democracy' that we learn from the West not the government form or the "western values' that he talks about!
lol, I counted, and I disagree or have an alternate interpretation of about 26 points of evidence he makes. Anyway, it's great to read and great to think about. Fukuyama is a brilliant man and now I'm looking for his Asian counterpart! Who is the Asian man of intellectual capacity, raised in Asia but with Western values, able to rethink and respond about the influence the West has on Asia and how Asia is responding and how the West seems to now fear Asian economic growth?! I want to know what HE thinks!
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Honey and Clover is sweet and lovely. Hahah, I now have time to watch, go real summer vacation time!