Articles by Cynthia Young
Google is one of the few companies that are getting it right this holiday season. They are offering free WiFi to travelers who touch ground in 47 different airports. What is the emotional reaction to …
Which came first, the temple or the restaurant? For a food-loving anthropologist, this is a very tough question! If you follow the path to enlightenment, in this case Highway 101, to the City of 10,000 …
After devouring the ready-to-use wisdom in Change By Design, I began to consider the number of industrial designers I’ve met. I asked: were they really implementing design thinking or just doing design? Sadly, most of them …
It’s easy to get addicted to fun stories. Just start with Harry Potter, then A Series of Misfortunate Events, then Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then Twilight, and soon you’re hooked on many otherworldly texts and …
What does an entrepreneur CEO or a publicly traded company CEO really own? Usually their ownership is represented in the form of company stock. So what does that stock really represent? Is it the value …
Oh the inventions and processes we humans devise in order to make life easier and to take back our time from performing tasks. But, oh the crimes we commit to make a life easier, to …
After browsing through the fashion website Deep Glamour and reading post after post about Coco Chanel, I experienced a sentiment that I do not usually associate with fashion: gratitude. So why be grateful when it comes …
Little did I know that when I succumbed to the cupcake cult of New York City that cupcakes have been taking over the hearts of many in great cities all over the world, including San …
San Francisco is a great place to connect with intelligent individuals from small tech start-ups and big tech companies alike. With plenty of panels and meet-ups to choose from, I decided to attend one all …
Lucky for me, my in-law family has no American cable….Chinese channels only! Thus, we all sat down to watch China’s 60th Anniversary Parade. Like the Olympics, this parade probably had a million people involved, with …
