The power of the (fashion forward) network
How did I end up at a fashion show, wearing a shirt by an award-winning, rising star designer–and no, I wasn’t on the runway? True story: my networkes led me right onto what could have been the ‘pièce de résistance’ of the collection. by the hand, literally. and that is my off-line network.
Shine the floor, Teresa!
So, it turns out that while we in Cuba were being brought up on Soviet apple sauce and shown socialist-block cartoons (a.k.a “munequitos rusos”), in India they were also watching movies from the USSR and, surprise surprise, Cuba.
Disconnection Anxiety
Hi, my name is Hiram and I have disconnection anxiety. I get nervous when the bars on my cell are scarce and when there’s no open network available. I check my Treo (yes, Blackberry’s navigation system gives me the creeps) every few minutes and respond to incoming communications promptly. This behavior does not stop when I’m on vacation.
