I took a walk after dinner as usual in the neighborhood. I walked pass a garden while a man was working behind the vine with his wife standing by. I gave them a big smile and said hello (as I normally do with people) and complimented on their flourishing tomato, lettuce, etc. When I walked …
Category Archives: Kindness
Story Worth Telling
I came across SheNYC Arts, showcasing women writers and theater artists across the country, out of curiosity and love/ support of art, I got the All-Access Pass. My first show is Fort Huachuca which featured five African American women enlisted in the army to train as nurses. Simple story with complex issues of racism and …
Step Back to Move Forward
We had a survey discussion with community management (CM) team. We’d like to have the application survey to be independent to get more in-depth feedback with targeted users while the CM team preferred keeping the application part of the larger general partner pulse survey. Nobody could stop us from doing the survey yet is it …
Generosity is Good Deed and Business
2 weeks ago, I came across a small café, Spot Café, and ordered an Italian Cannelloni (roll of pasta filled with cheese, meat, and tomato sauce). The chef, grandpa-like figure came out and said ‘I gave you some bread with it’. I love bread and thank him. I sat down at a nearby park and …
Freedom with Consideration
Happy Independence Day to America! I heard from radio that Surgeon General Adam encouraged people to wear facing covering…”…if more wear them, we’ll have MORE freedom to go out*…” He is right and I think it’d be even better to add that it’s not only to exercise and promote our own freedom but to respect …
Try it
My roommate and I received an angry text from the leasing agent that he didn’t want to share the wifi anymore and asked us to get our own. He said I complained for the bumpy service (interrupted important work meetings) while he couldn’t come to re-boot the server and we didn’t pay. My roommate usually …
Signs of Hope
I saw the display (image) in the neighborhood. It made me smile. What a great idea to spread hope and love. I like the honor system, you choose a sign and put money in the box. 100% profit will go to small businesses that are impacted by Covid-19. I don’t know if the honor system …
Big Name
A (consultant) friend is presenting, along with representatives from 6 other consulting firms, to a well-known university’s* advanced degree students. Each presenter has 8min to share about his/her firm, experience, and projects. The representatives from McKinsey were the first up and to my surprise, had no slides, neither preparation. The guy, a PhD himself and …
Do Well & Good
I watched Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge Global Final College competition. Incredible creativity and energy from students in 30 universities and 17 countries to achieve UN SDG 17 Goals from #BiomilQ to replicate the nutrition of breast milk, #BrailleEazy to support the blinds better communicate, #SunlightU to support rape/ trauma consoling, #Dr.Nanoxa to improve the …
Perception
We all know perception is not fair, neither real yet it’s hard to recognize and reject it. Especially when we’re dealing with perceived-difficult people, it’s hard to ‘really’ listen; yet when we do or reflect later, we’d realize that, no matter how the person is, he/ she has provided valid points or good suggestions, at …