I'm apt to read and consider. Increasingly, spending time on watching movies and TV isn't my cup of tea.

The contagion of provincialism should be avoided by some Canadian companies.

For instance, if RIM were in constant contact with the Silicon Valley, then probably it wouldn't have failed like this, at least not so fast.

There are two famous people who are named 'Carnegie' in the American history. And they are not related at all.

One is Andrew Carnegie, a historic biz tycoon and philanthropist, and the other Dale Carnegie, a famous inspirational speaker.

What are the moments of truth for a childcare centre?

I don't quite understand why the modern Western medicine has nearly entirely abandoned simples.

On the contrary, the usage of natural medicinal plants are still largely alive in the traditional Chinese medicine, which has remained widely and strongly popular in China.

In life, people often think that if you have a dream or a goal, you have to meet or achieve certain conditions in order to fulfill it.

In certain cases, it is true. For example, you must be healthy, if you want not to ultimately fail in your entrepreneurial endeavor, or if you want to manage your biz and make it survive and prosper.

But, this is a big but, in most cases, the above thought is NOT true. Realizing dreams or goals does NOT need conditions. For instance, some people are fond of traveling the world, and they think they cannot do it until they become millionaires. Look, that's NOT truly conditional. Most of them will not become millionaires. But they always can go around the world by working temporary jobs along the itinerary of their dream travelling.

So it is critical to be able to discern between the truly conditionals and the falsely conditionals. That is, to discern causation, correlation, and the spectrum between them.

As a personal example though, I always think that mastering English is truly conditional for an individual to competing well and collaborating well in Canada and in the setting of a globalized economy.