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Back in Hong Kong, whenever it was dragon boat festival, I knew what lunch would be for the next few days – zong! There are so many variations – savoury like the one I made, or sweet with red bean dipped in sugar (which reminds me of my dad because he loves dipping zong in sugar). The history As you may have gathered by now, food is a big part of celebrating Chinese holidays so obviously there is a reason we eat zong in dragon boat festival! The story goes that a minister and poet, Qu Yuan, was a faithful...

Back in Hong Kong, whenever it was dragon boat festival, I knew what lunch would be for the next few days – zong! There are so many variations – savoury like the one I made, or sweet with red bean dipped in sugar (which reminds me of my dad because he loves dipping zong in sugar). The history As you may have gathered by now, food is a big part of celebrating Chinese holidays so obviously there is a reason we eat zong in dragon boat festival! The story goes that a minister and poet, Qu Yuan, was a faithful...

How internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind I’ve written before about my time at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 1990s, working on a disastrous incentive program to build Alpha workstations. This one is another tale of Digital, but for it we need to go back a decade earlier. Back to 1986 when I joined the company, fresh out of college. I grew up in the late 70s/early 80s, idolizing DEC. It was the cool computer tech company that had produced the PDP-8 mini, which I learned to program on, and later the VAX 11/780, which...

How internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind I’ve written before about my time at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 1990s, working on a disastrous incentive program to build Alpha workstations. This one is another tale of Digital, but for it we need to go back a decade earlier. Back to 1986 when I joined the company, fresh out of college. I grew up in the late 70s/early 80s, idolizing DEC. It was the cool computer tech company that had produced the PDP-8 mini, which I learned to program on, and later the VAX 11/780, which...

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