Let's Get It On
I'm going to start a series of blogs about my life in Stanford University's Sloan Fellow Program. When I was in Beijing for the past 4.5 years, I wrote mostly in Chinese for the Chinese audience.
Confession of a Stanford Sloan Fellow Series EP04
I'm going to start a series of blogs about my life in Stanford University's Sloan Fellow Program. When I was in Beijing for the past 4.5 years, I wrote mostly in Chinese for the Chinese audience. Due to the nature of my job, I could not write freely about business at large. Also as I was involved in quite a few different projects at different stages of my life in Beijing, there was limitation as to what I could share among my many different circles of friends. Those limitations are not there anymore.
Writing on my own website is a good way to keep my friends and family members posted on what's going on with my life in the Bay area. During the last few years my life in Beijing was on full display on Sina Weibo (China's largest micro-blogging site), where I've left quite an illustrious trail. However, the best days of Weibo are over and Weibo is inevitably becoming the next Kaixin001.com and people in general are much more quiet now (I know, what is there to talk about when I'm not there?). Facebook on the other hand has been booming and every mom in America is now on it, but it's blocked in China (being blocked by China is a badge of honor for the most successful social-network companies in America. If you're not blocked yet, you're not quite there yet) and it's too troublesome to teach everyone I care to climb over the wall to get on Facebook.
Ultimately we have to control our own contents otherwise we'll always be at the mercy of major Internet service providers (Google, Apple, Facebook, Sina, Flickr... etc). That goes back to the very original reason why I wanted to build this website in the first place.
The structure of this series will probably follow this: there will be a weekly write-up to summarize up some of the highlights from the study/life in Stanford Sloan. This is meant for people who are interested in this program and curious to follow the journey of someone of my background (and I have a fairly unique background so I don't expect a large audience for this series). I will not attempt to make this an exhaustive list of contents from school. Rather, I will only write about things that interest me. So this series will be highly idiosyncratic and probably useless to most people (which is consistent with the theme of this website overall).
From time to time I will insert some shorter pieces as "appendix" that are related to life in Stanford Sloan in general but interesting enough on their own.
So, let's get it on.