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Walking, Riding Subways Puts You Right Into the Culture

Posted in social media, society, travel, tagged , , , , on May 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Traveling with me can be a pain or quite adventurous, depending on your perspective. Generally, I like riding local public transportation, especially the subways. I also like to walk. I only ride taxi’s out of necessity. Why would I want to be in a car with just the driver when there’s a whole new environment [...]

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Life A Continuous String of Events of People Impacting People

Posted in People, business, tagged , , on November 30, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Looking back on one’s life, you quickly realize that it was other people who brought you to your current place in life. The way of the world is meeting people through other people. You impact people’s lives and people impact yours — sometimes even in ways you don’t realize. Here’s one personal string of events [...]

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Designate a “Single-Task Day”

Posted in business, tagged , , , on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Multi-tasking, in many ways, is over-rated. Engaging in a second task while your computer is running a large query definitely makes sense. But there are many scenarios where multi-tasking leads to poor quality work or just less productive output. Whenever I’m behind a car that is driving dangerously below the speed limit on the freeway, [...]

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Social Media Blogs to be Posted on Lift9 Website

Posted in Uncategorized on October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

For those who read this blog for insights on social media, I’ll be posting such topics on Lift9′s blog page moving forward. MeetJohnSong will continue to be a personal blog about personal insights and topics around company building. Thank you for your interest.

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How Do Your Friends Affect Your Life?

Posted in society, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As a parent, I often worried about the kind of friends my children kept. It’s a major concern for most parents of pre-teen and teenage children. Group mentality is powerful among the youth as they crave a sense of belonging and identity outside the home. But what about adults? We are all social creatures by [...]

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Susan Boyle’s Got Talent and So Much More

Posted in society, tagged , , on April 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Meet Susan Boyle. She’s taking the world by storm with her fairy tale story. Susan is a contestant on Britain’s Got Talent and quite possibly the best reality television story ever. Susan, you see, is blessed with a generous sense of humor, great moral character. Yet, she is a 47-years-old sinister who has never been kissed. [...]

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Caffe Umbria Can Offer More Than A Cup Of Cappuccino

Posted in People, personal stories, tagged , , on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

    It’s just 30 minutes of refuge during a work day. But it makes the whole day better. Around 4pm, three of us from the office walk across the street to a brick square framed by art galleries, and our favorite caffe, Umbria. We score a table on the patio, and the sun massages [...]

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We’re Smarter in Year 2060, or Are We?

Posted in society, tagged , , , , on November 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Meet My Vision of the Year 2060:    A recent study has reported that the humans of today in 2060 are in fact “smarter” than those who were living during the initial advent and adoption of the internet at the turn of the 21st century.  Now, more than three generations since the internet changed the [...]

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