I am still in awe at how informative and valuable these business meetings have been here in Beijing. I never thought that someone with as high a rank as James Boyken would be the one giving us a rundown of how IBM fit into the Chinese model. It was very insightful to learn about how much successful companies needed to adapt in order to survive in the Chinese market. An interesting I noted about IBM is that although its primary business had been mainframes and h...

Today's visit to the Great Wall of China reminded me of how rich and full China's history is compared to the United States. The United States has only been established for a few hundred years, whereas China has been around dynasties spanning longer than the entire history of the US. It felt surreal to be walking on one of the seven man-made wonders of the world. I can't fanthom how many individual people must've died constructing the Great Wall to protect the gre...

I am proud to report that we finally made it to Beijing after a billion hours of travel. At the PDX airport, I was approached by my friend Mario to buy a neck pillow. They had an awesome two for twenty deal going on that was only valid if you bought two pillows. It sounded like a great idea at the time, but I soon realized that the cheap neck pillow was cheap for a reason. It provided horrible ergonomics and was barely usable on the plane. At the Seattle airpo...