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Economic Growth: Does Size Matter?

Via Kottke (via @atenni): An economic paper from Helsinki University on the relationship between GDP and – ahem – “organ” size: The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped relationship...

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Mini Review: Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir

Recently, a friend gave me a copy of Mikhail Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir. As Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita is one my favourite books, I eargerly dug into A Dead Man’s Memoir. It is a different...

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Mini-Review: Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore

After finishing Mikhil Bulgakov’s A Dead Man’s Memoir, I found myself needing to move away from my beloved dead Russian authors to living and non-Russian writers. This took me directly to Haruki...

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Payment Sent to Emmanuel Goldstein

Today, I decided to buy something from the UK, some clothing specifically. After checkout, I received a PayPal receipt from Emmanuel Goldstein to confirm receiving payment from me. The hated Emmanuel...

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Ding Ding Dong with your Vietnamese Coffee receipe

The Atlantic Monthly shared a video on how to make Vietnamese Coffee, but what struck me was the music. Check it out below. How To Make Vietnamese Coffee from High Beam Media on Vimeo. The [...]

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Intermission: Lana Del Rey

I’ve been too busy to post, so here’s this: If you’re confused and feel there’s something “too polished” or “too perfect” about her voice, her style, and her video, well there’s plenty of discussion...

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Reading List: Fast Food Orders & Technology as Job-Killers

While Occupy Wall Street goes global and sometimes violent (see Oakland), how much of the income disparity in the United States is due to technology hollowing out the American middle class? What has...

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China says Europe encourages “sloth, indolence.” Meanwhile in Singapore…

Perhaps the old Conservative (and now Tea Party) concern about the “welfare state” has found a new friend…in China? Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili recently interviewed Jin Liqun, the supervising chairman...

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Mini-Review: Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife

I’m a little behind my book reviews for The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin by Leonid Solovyov and The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. To catch-up, I’ll start on the latest book: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa...

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40 Years of Scenario Planning

We’re All Thinking About Design Thinking For the past five years, I’ve had a keen interest on innovation processes, such as “designing thinking.” These days the “innovation” and proceses that support...

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Mini-Review: Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife

I’m a little behind my book reviews for The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin by Leonid Solovyov and The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. To catch-up, I’ll start on the latest book: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa...

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40 Years of Scenario Planning

Google Trends: “Design Thinking” Searches We’re All Thinking About Design Thinking For the past five years, I’ve had a keen interest on innovation processes, such as “designing thinking.” These days...

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About DanielRiveong.com

This website is a compilation of four of my blogs beginning since 2004. Parivartin Emergence Media StrategyUnit DJPR

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Grumpy Futurists and Singularity Humour

A few weeks ago Noad Raford (scenario planning dude extraordinary and advisor to the UAE) opened up the “Alternatives to the Singularity” presentation on Google Docs for all disgruntled futurist to...

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Start-Up Culture: Gender, Real Work, and the Death of Techies

Back in November, there was a fantastic discussion on Facebook on the issue of “Genderification of Technology Work“. The essence is that the the tech start-up world often re-term and re-genderfy terms:...

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Book Review: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asian by Kevin Kwan was a fantastic contrast to my last read How to Get Filthy Rich in Raising Asia by Mohsin Hamid. Crazy Rich Asian is a quick, breezy superficial yet fun read.  While it...

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Book Review: Piercing by Ryu Murakami

Ryu Murakami (not Haruki Murakami with the talking cat) writes about two thoroughly damaged souls in Tokyo where they accidentally seek and meet each other in a story that’s somewhere between horror...

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Robots & Algorithms: Long Term Threats to Developing Countries?

Software substitution, whether it’s for drivers or waiters or nurses … it’s progressing… 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have...

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Daniel’s 2015 Sabbatical

Daniel’s 2015 Sabbatical: Study Time! After four years of helping build and lead the Asia office of estorm, I’m taking sabbatical journey for a few months. I’ll still be doing some side projects – more...

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