One of thefundamental things we really love in cities is order. Order meansbalance, symmetry (对称)andrepetition: the same thing happening again and again, and the leftside matching the right side. Order isone of the reasons why so many people love Paris. But most cities area complete mess...
Six years as a space reporter taught me that chaos rules everything. Nothing is completely predictable or controlled. I have watched enough go wrong to know that no view of a celestial(天空的) event is ever truly promised to us 41 on the earth. So when my mother and I decided to ...
Epstein knows how others see him, and he's self-aware enough to both understand his reputation and mock it. His friends are always baffled at his image as a cold exploiter of markets and inferior systems. One night this summer, the owner of the team, Tom Ricketts, held court at a char...
Sun Tzu said: In the operations of war, where there are in the field a thousand swift chariots, as many heavy chariots, and a hundred thousand mail-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand li...
He wasn’t doing well in his school, and I knew the best thing for him was to 23 to another learning environment to complete his study. But my heart hurt a little that he would not walk the same graduation 24 th...
Instead of several standalone databases with an endless inventory of disconnected spreadsheets, ERP systems bring order to chaos so that all users—from the CEO to accounts payable clerks—can create, store, and use the same data derived through common processes. With a secure and centralized ...
The home is the most sacred of places: it is the first temple wherein the family creates the cosmos from chaos and experiences the fullness of life: birth, sex, flourishing, love, laughter, pain, and death.” He recreated his own home to have “a sacramental identity with its stylized ...
Retail management refers to the different processes that help customers get their desired products. Learn everything a retail manager needs to know in this article.
Client: The party that makes the request Server: The party that fulfills the request API: The intermediary that connects the two in a well-documented, predictable way Think about a restaurant. If customers all walked into the kitchen to order their favorite dishes, chaos would ensue. In this...
Through non-action, everything is governed. 第四章道冲,而用之或不盈。 The Tao is like an empty vessel; it can never be emptied and yet is always being filled. 渊兮似万物之宗。 It is the deep source of all things. 挫其锐,解其纷,和其光,同其尘。