Typing this one up from “inside the machine” at DCBKK 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. Been trying to keep up my morning routine and write every morning, which is a real extreme challenge here as this conference is action packed from 7am to midnight! Just fortunate to have found this community and been able to stick with it for the years. …
Settling Back In China, My Long Term “Home”?
Been back in Asia now for a few days. Still catching my breath from the US. Life is a beautiful thing. Having a family is a beautiful thing. Having family spread across the globe is a complicated thing! This trip was mostly a personal trip, to have my family back home meet my son for the first time. Miles can …
Arrived in USA
Back in good old USA safe and sound. Arrived Friday morning local San Francisco time. So blessed to have arrived here safely and smoothly. Landed 9:45am local time, about 45 minutes late due to not leaving Hong Kong on time. Was told it was due to air traffic control delaying planes from leaving the runway. Have to admit, I have …
Miles is going to have a sister (or brother?) – We’re Expecting Our 2nd Baby!
Freaking out as I type this – but we’re ready to announce – we’ll be having another kid! About a month ago Wendy was feeling it and we got it checked and it’s confirmed. I am so excited, and love being a daddy. I think having another kid with Miles will be great, and they’ll be a bit less than …
Topsy – Great Tool for Twitter Search
Topsy is a realtime search engine analytical power tool. Unlike other orthodox web search engines, Topsy indexes and ranks search results based upon the most influential conversations millions of people are having every day about each specific term, topic, page or domain queried.
Sunday Morning Late August Reflections
I’ve been journaling and not sharing it online. A lot lately. Today’s I wrote and didn’t expect to share it, but about halfway through I thought this might be a good read for someone. Week Plan It is the last week of August? Or at least the last full one. Things will start to cool down. Summer is over. The …
Win Free Tickets To Shanghai, China Scrum Alliance 2015!
Win Free Tickets – My friend and Advisor Steve Forte is coming to Shanghai Sept to be a Keynote Speaker at the Scrum Alliance Gathering. Really wish I could attend myself but I’ll be traveling in USA. So, How to win? Read on, my friend! Event details can be found here Official Event Website is globalscrumgathering .hk (not online anymore) …
Launched Big Update on Written Chinese’s WCC Dictionary Mobile App
Excited to announce the company I’m part of has a product launch of a massive update for a learning Chinese app – WCC Dictionary – with a big update in the UI other features, if you’re coming to China, or in China, try it out – so many free features you can pretty much use it without ever paying! I …
Interviewed on RTHK’s Money For Nothing Radio Show
Last week (Friday morning) I was invited as a guest on RTHK’s Radio show “Money for Nothing”. Was a different experience from my time podcasting, as it is so rushed. But was an amazing experience with the professional setup right in downtown Hong Kong. What is RTHK? RTHK is Radio Television Hong Kong, it is an official network for radio …
Amazing Time at Rise Conference in Hong Kong
It’s been a couple weeks now since the Rise Conference happened here in Hong Kong. It has taken me about that much time to catch my breath – what an overwhelming time for entrepreneurs, investors, and tech enthusiasts. And a big win for the Hong Kong startup scene, finally getting some much needed exposure. Today I’m just going to randomly …
The Random Benefits From Random Blogging
The randomness of this blog is still helpful. People often ask me why I bother blogging, especially so rather open about my life and troubles. Most of that openness has been right here on this site you’re reading this. Guess that is what this is for, a place for me to put things out there – for my own satisfaction, …
Twitter Keyboard Cheat Sheet
Lot of people love to use theiry keyboard instead of playing with mouse. Thanks to Twitter, it feels their pain and has a ton of keyboard shortcuts that can have you whizzing around your tweets in no time.
DCBKK 2015 Here I Come! Dynamite Circle Annual Conference in October
I’m such a fanboy of the Dynamite Circle and Tropical MBA! I love what Dan and Ian are up to there – and am so fortunate to have been able to catch their first Tropical MBA meetup back in summer of 2011 (man how time flies!). Their conference, DCBKK (Dynamite Circle Bangkok) 2015 has grown and matured to have over …
Passed Google Analytics Course: Google Tags Fundamentals
Pretty excited I just passed the Google Analytics Tags Fundamentals course. If you take it and pass you get a nice little badge you can use – here is the link to the badge I was wondering how long it would take me to do, did it in about 2 hours on an afternoon. If you want to try it …
Hosting a China Business Workshop in Miami, Florida in September!
I’m really excited to be making a trip back to America in September! I mentioned it in a quick blog post last month on my USA trip and have been working out details. I want to do events all around the states, but seems my “home” is in Florida. It is where my parents are and I want to spend …