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Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: August, 2007

Qingdao Trip highlights

I’m so behind on my blog, jeez. Here’s an update from a few weeks ago that was sitting in my drafts folder I’m finally finishing up. I went to Qingdao with Christine and a few new friends (Nancy and Janne). A few highlights: We took the Tsingtao (Qingdao) museum tour. Did you know that Tsingtao [...]

Hebei trip highlights

Boy this post has been a long time coming, but I have a excuse, I’ve again been busy and tired turning out a deliverable and getting over jetlag from my trip. So last month, I completed an ethnographic field trip to the Hebei province in Northeastern China, along with a member of the client team [...]

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