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 I was teaching at the SP Jain School of Global Management in Sydney, Australia. The curriculum was devoted, almost entirely, to international business management. I was teaching international business strategy and international business to MBA students. The students were predominantly from India.  One of the main attractions of the program was that the students spent a semester at each of the three SP Jain campuses in Sydney, Dubai, and Singapore. Almost all of the students were from India. Many of the MBA students were very young.

It is the Jewish New Year. On Rosh Hashanah, it is written on Yom Kippur it is sealed who will live and who will die. There is no consensus in the Jewish religion with respect to the existence of heaven or hell. Some believe in a forthcoming Messianic period. 

Many people are climate skeptics. They do not understand the science/mythology. But Climate Change is real!

Garden of Eden

A colleague asked an important question with respect to "momentous changes." I was unable to discover specific literature with respect to "momentous changes." However, I identified Black Swan events and Creative Destruction as proxies. A brief description follows.

117 billion humans have existed in total.

Schopenhauer

I have always been interested in how things work. When I started to study business management, I learned that this is called, amongst other things, the value proposition. As a result, I have never been bored. Whether in a donut shop or doing a training session in Sri Lanka, I always ask the same question: What is the value proposition, what makes this work/ or not work?

John:

Sadly, this poem about the Battle of Balaclava, from the Crimean War of 1853-56, seems all too current once again. Plus ca change …

The Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

This post, and the one above, seem to show that ‘everything that is old is new again’. For Constantinople (Istanbul) substitute the contemporary Ukranian city of your choice. (Only the men, ships, and money seem to be absent).

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‘Vous n’avez pas de pain. Vous pouver manger de la brioche’
(Hat-tip to Marie Antoinette, up-dated for 2022. Note that the words ‘des gateaux’ do not
actually appear anywhere)