Tag: Mark

Big Tech, under pressure from dwindling profits and falling stock prices, is seeking some of that old startup magic. Meta, the parent of Facebook, recently became the latest of the industry’s dominant players to lay off thousands of employees, particularly middle manager...

Here are five reasons why you should rewrite your meeting agenda as questions: 1. Stimulate Curiosity for Active Engagement Conventional agendas fall short of capturing attention and driving active participation. However, questions trigger curiosity, inviting individuals to explore. Curiosity ...

When I stopped being the one investing all the effort into relationships and started matching their energy, my “friends” disappeared. Now I’m like the new kid on the playground, wondering if there’s a spot for her at the monkey bars. To build new connections, I created ...

WhatsApp announced through Mark Zuckerberg a major change. It is about the introduction of a long-awaited feature by a large part of users. Photo by AARN GIRI on Unsplash WhatsApp, the most popular communication app, takes another step towards modernization and adds the feature of recordin...

Mark Rothko’s artistic journey was a route to the genesis of Expressionism, in an almost existential quest that wanted to go further than anyone else. The Latvian-born American painter was a product of his time, a 20th century characterized by the avant-garde of its first decades and the most ...

If you look at painting and wonder — “I could do better,” or “My child could paint that,” you are missing the point. Very likely this reaction is caused by some kind of misunderstanding which moves you away from the opportunity to enjoy art. I’m not talking about ...

Some part of me is glad Mary Ellen Mark did not live to see Encounters, her first comprehensive retrospective on view at C/O Berlin through early 2024. This isn’t because I have some vendetta against her, but because the retrospective is so starkly removed from the contemporary zeitgeist ...

Well, that is what happened to one family who was under the protection of the Hong Kong police. Gunned down set on fire and blown to pieces. Jason Chan (Yuen Biao- Mr. Vampire II & Dragons Forever) witnessing the attack on his mentor plus the above-mentioned atrocities is driven to take matters ...

I’ve lost my way from time to time. In life more often than on the trails. It’s usually part of the process. Things happen, and regardless of stress and anxiety, it seems to bring me to the edge of my ability. Nothing else matters at that moment. It’s mindfulness outside of the yog...

OnDecember 18, 2003, Mark Fregia was driving his ex-girlfriend Erin Weaver and her two young children — one, his biological son, Daelen — from the Bay Area suburb of Vallejo to San Francisco, ostensibly to buy them Christmas presents. As they passed the exit to Pinole, still twenty miles...

The process of fossilization is a patient work of nature, slowly transforming living beings into fossilized stones, preserving their unique characteristics. It begins with the death of an organism in an environment conducive to fossilization, such as sediments of a lake, ...

I was walking through my neighborhood in Venice, California, while speaking to an investor on the phone. As I looked down, I noticed the grass pulsating and moving. I had been having these visual distortions for months at this point, and they seemed to be getting more frequent. I wasn’t sure w...

While it would be fun to write about the different accents of languages in general, I am going to focus instead on accents among speakers of the English Language, and the assumptions we hold with regard to what constitute as the ‘native’ speech. As someone who was brought up with Engl...

End of 2023, I had a chance to revisit the National Gallery of Art in D.C. after my initial visit more than ten years ago. With more art education in the past decade, I felt more free to roam around the museum and find artworks I could connect with. This time, I found Mark Rothko’s work v...