At today’s 4-Man in Hong Kong: I had a Malaysian from London living in Australia; a German, a Scotsman and guy from Liverpool living in Thailand; an American living in …
I'm A Dad Again: Day 7!
We got Zoe exactly one week ago today.
After lunch last Sunday, the director of the orphanage came to our hotel and brought Zoe to us.
Wow. So here’s our new daughter!
China Pollution: Normal Day vs. Good Day
The picture below is a normal day in Nanchang China – view from my hotel room:
Orphan Story, Adoption Story
Snow White’s mother the queen says, “Oh, how I wish that I had a daughter that had skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony”.
Soon after that, the queen gives birth to a baby girl who has skin white as snow, lips red as blood, and hair black as ebony. They name her Princess Snow White. As soon as the child is born, her mother the queen dies.
Orphan story.
A glimpse at the most beautiful place on earth
There’s a road in Shangri-La that winds through narrow mountain passes from the city of Lijiang to the very first bend on Yangtze river. The Yangtze is the 4th longest river in the world, dividing China north and south. This bend a place you can see from the moon, or on any world map.
Kids Playing with Needles, Tiananmen Square & Raging Capitalism
Ever see the famous 1989 picture of the student in China standing off against four tanks? That’s Beijing’s Tiananmen square. We went there yesterday. It’s vast, big enough for literally a million people.
The 1989 incident is just one of many reasons for the “Great Firewall of China,” the massive content filter manned by the Chinese government.
Subscriber Liz Parrish posted this on my blog the other day:
First Day in Beijing
My youngest, “Z-Man” who’s 7 years old, was so excited, every 30 minutes he’d get out of his seat with mom, walk up the aisle to my seat and say, “Dad, how long before we get to China?”
A Tootsie Pop for your customer's inner child AND inner bean counter
Every great B2B offer you make should be a Tootsie Pop:
The entrepreneurs nobody knows how to kill
Did your mother ever say this to you?
“Bundle up today, it’s cold outside and if you’re not careful you’ll come down with something.”
Who likes Planet Perry & who doesn't
There’s a vast initiation ritual, akin to fraternity hazing, in which entrepreneur wannabe’s are stripped of their wallets and ID’s, forced to drink pints of vodka while spinning on merry-go-rounds. They’re fed sandwiches made of spam and fantasy lunch meat, and stripped of their self-respect and self-confidence one dollar at a time, before finally being released to re-learn everything they thought they knew in the school of hard knocks.
The name of this ritual is “Business Opportunity.” Marketing insiders refer to it as “Bizop.”