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Phoenix

Run to the rescue with love / and peace will follow – River Phoenix

What a speech, the best of humanity. It felt like it was the Joker giving the speech on that stage; the awkwardness, the sadness, and the final part where he turned to walk away while the last syllable was still in the air. What an amazing actor. Reminded me of a scene in Hotel Rwanda where Joaquin played a videographer, Jack. When the Europeans were being evacuated, it was raining, and a bell boy held up an umbrella for Jack. He pushed it away and said, please no, we don’t deserve it.

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First Flight, 2020

Missed air travel. First flight in 2020 to visit the Searchspring office in Denver.

Forgot all the rituals for getting through airport security and ended up leaving my belt at the airport. Oh well. Glad that I am taking flight again.

Missed seeing colleagues in person and having live debates in front of whiteboard. Joined Searchspring since May and finally seeing some of them in person for the first time.

Missed being able to interact with the world without feeling the world is closing in. Everyone is wearing mask, taking reasonable precautions, trying to function and live in a world shadowed by the pandemic.

The world is burning. Flying over Denver, all I see is the layer of haze from the smoke from Portland.

It’s really sad seeing the world like this. How did we ended up like this?

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What the customers want

HBR Ideacast Every business can be a subscription business
Gym membership is subscription to a healthy life style. That is, it is not the membership for owning the treadmill or gym equipment. What gym members really want is to be fit. For company selling boilers, instead of adding subscription for the maintenance and repair of the boilers, how about the subscription for hot water? If the equipment needs to be updated, we update the equipment. Hot water at the turn of the faucet is what the customers really want.

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Endeavour

While the world is burning, a new milestone in space travel was achieved today. Crew Dragon Endeavour docked with ISS at 10:29 ET on May 31, 2020.

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Class Divide

The financial cost of lock down vs the potential cost of death. Why lower class workers are more eager to reopen while people earning higher wage are more willing to stay lock in. Also the difference in the type of work. Lower wager work are more likely to require physical presence while higher wage works are more likely to carry out remotely.

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Liberalism

How far will we go for liberalism. How much are we willing to tolerate for liberty. We want to do whatever we want as long as what we do doesn’t affect other people’s life. Without respect and empathy this mind set is sending us down a distructive path.

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Fiction

Researchers found several mutated strains of 武漢病毒 (SARS-CoV-2) since the start of the epidemic. It appeared that the earlier strain in 武漢 infected only Caucasian. The outbreak in 武漢 started after the virus had mutated to infect Asian population. The epidemic spread to Europe before reaching the U.S. and became a global pandemic that raged across the world for months to come. It showed that how nature always finds a way. Even a virus can find a way to maximize its own survivor rate.

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Auto caption / transcript

With the world on working from home mode, we are doing more video conferences and need the ability to take notes with all the meetings we are conducting. An automated captioning system like Otter.ai can help create captions and taking meeting notes at real time. Such a system can be useful when we need to mute a conference, or give a hearing impaired participant ability to “listen in” visually. It can also help create asynchronous meetings where other participants can read the transcripts at their leisure.

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Reopen

As the world is getting tired of shelter in place and pushing for reopening, what are the measures we should consider to put us on the path to recovery? All this attention with the number of confirmed case seems that we only care about the acceptable fatality rate. As if, it would all be fine as long as the fatality rate is low enough, not caring about the life already lost.

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Herd

Weird dream. Trying to create herd immunity on an island started with a single infected patient.

So, exactly what is herd immunity and how does it work. In summary, it means in a closed system, the majority of the inhabitants are immune from a sickness which prevented the sickness from spreading across the entire population. Here, majority means 90 to 95% of the total population.

The immunity are achieved by nature cause or vaccination. That is, without vaccinations, immunity can be result of anti-body from existing immune system or generated by host body after getting infected. In any case, the immunity may or may not be permanent, thus why certain vaccines need to be administered once every few years.

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