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Why aren’t there Javanese entrepreneurs in southern China?

I finished reading Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers – The Story of Success. One part that struck me was this Chinese proverb: No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich. Gladwell … Continue reading

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A Game of Chess in the Forest

This past weekend I visited Bandung and the surrounding areas of Wayang Windu in West Java. I was also lucky enough to get a tour of a soon-to-be operational geothermal power station, which operates off steam generated from the areas … Continue reading

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