Thanks to Stanford Business School’s unique class offering called Critical Analytical Thinking, I ended up reading a book that I wouldn’t read if it wasn’t for the class: Ghost Map by Steven Johnson. It is a greak book about a major cholera outbreak in Victorian London, but in its essence, it is full of gems that [...]

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One thing I was passionate to pursue in Stanford during the last few months was an up-and-coming gaming start-up. Through our S356 Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities course, uniquely offered by Stanford among other business schools, I joined a team of Stanford CS, EE, and business school students to execute on the idea of a flash gaming [...]

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I stumbled upon two of Intel’s new advertising campaign while watching Hulu today. It was interesting that Intel started reaching out to end-users after a few years. Yet, I think they had some rusty consumer marketing cabinets that prevented them to think carefully about the messages they are communicating to customers.
Here are two [...]

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Strategy was one of my favorite classes in Stanford’s first-year MBA program. In general, the entrepreneurial-minded students in Stanford GSB (who are in majority), thinks the strategy class is highly impractical, and in real world, what matters most is the novelity of the core idea. Some people quote strategy professors contradicting themselves in some consequent [...]

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Last week, I saw first screenshots of WolframAlpha distributed via a few leading tech blogs. The idea, as far as I can understand from what is being said and shown, is really great. As great as what Mathematica did a decade earlier. I wasn’t excited that much for a while. Yet, just like Mathematica, only [...]

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