關於 face of fact ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped.

Taiwanese author, poet and art historian Chiang Xun (蒋勳) described the wrap as a sort of invisibility cloak, rendering the monument a seemingly sudden and temporary disappearance. This vanishing has in actual fact, significantly highlighted the impact of the relationship between our environment and us.

The Mayor of Paris (Anne Hidalgo) saw it as a tribute to creation and artistic freedom. This is a country that demonstrates great commitment to artists and their #contemporaryart.

Each interpretation is legitimate. The result is that living here, we are hence “forced” to contemplate on the ephemerality and fluidity of time.

As I admire Christo and Jeanne-Claude Official ‘s art in the rain and wind, evidently all the more ignorant and small in the face of nature and artistry. There is nothing left for me to do but dance.

@arcdetriomphe_paris le Centre des monuments nationaux
#christoandjeanneclaude #arcdetriomphewrapped

⭐️#最後倒數把握時間進行島嶼壯遊
⭐️#颱風天就是要島嶼壯遊啊 😎🌀

奧地利林茲電子藝術節進入最後倒數囉！展期將在9/12結束
先進入👉🏻台北/福爾摩沙花園:島嶼壯遊（ http://garden2021.metarealitylab.com/ ）暢遊吧！

本次展出的「行動啟程 」展區(Action Tour ）邀請台灣優秀團隊#台北大數據中心、MINIWIZ 小智研發、Peppercorns 黑川互動媒體藝術 以及Roboenter 樂飛特 ，實踐以設計力與數位資訊的方式，進而改變社會的行動計畫，當中更首度以數位跨界的合作方式，創作出新的行動藝術計畫！此外，「行動啟程 」展區(Action Tour ）也受邀登上奧地利林茲電子藝術節官方線上節目Home Delivery，由奧地利電子藝術節總監Chritl Baur親自介紹唷！
片段重點已經幫大家準備好，一鍵播放觀看起來 ⏯ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YVC0mF5vAE&t=177s
🔹🔸

2021 ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL Garden Taipei/ Formosa
2021 奧地利林茲電子藝術節台灣展區「台北/福爾摩沙花園：島嶼壯遊」
展區 ✨ 【行動啟程 】(Action Tour )

To cope with the impact of Covid-19, a scientific and efficient action in the digital world must be taken. The Taipei Urban Intelligence Center has developed a digital system that can quickly respond to the risk landscape, people flow, and medial resources across different parts of Taipei by integrating live streaming and data instantly. It also informs the policies of the government. The digitized action on the ground helps us build a more secured environment.
In the face of the rapid development of the digital world, people immersed in the VR environment seem to ignore the depletion of resources in our reality. As a result, we need to take real actions and devote ourselves to reuse the discarded resources to make an environment of circularity and sustainability through digital technology. MINIWIZ, a start-up company from Taiwan, committed to developing technology for recycling that turns industrial and household wastes into materials with purposes and aesthetics.
During the tour, a new performance art project is inspired by the digital cross-field cooperation for the first time. The Taipei Urban Intelligence Center will join hands with new media artist Chin-Hsiang Hu and the founder of Roboenter Ghung-I Hung, to create a new media artwork “The Weight of Data” by integrating both virtual and physical materials from different domains and sharing data resources.
Finally, it is in fact not the end for “Taiwan Grand Tour.” Instead, the “Action Tour” program unveils the journey to come, constantly connecting the digital world with our society. A link for a time-limited viewing of the details of action plans for this program as well as the joint art project will be available.

為了抵禦疫情的衝擊，我們需要在數位世界中採取科學且有效率的行動，台北大數據中心(Taipei Urban Intelligence Center)即研發了一套數位系統，透過即時的串流連結與數據整合，可以快速的反應台北各個地區的疫情風險趨勢、人流狀況與醫療資源的狀態，也可提供政府作為政策的判斷依據，數位化的實質行動，讓我們可以得到更安全的防護。
在面對數位世界的快速發展之下，沉浸於虛擬環境的我們，似乎忘卻了對於現實世界資源的消耗，因此我們需要真正的採取行動，運用數位科技的方式，重新利用我們廢棄的資源，讓環境可以永久的循環，為我們的環境盡一份心力。而小智研發(MINIWIZ)是一間來自台灣的新創公司，致力於回收材料研發科技，將工業用與家庭用的廢料，透過設計賦予它機能與美感。
而在此展區中，也首度以數位跨界的合作方式，刺激出新的行動藝術計畫，臺北市大數據中心將與新媒體藝術家胡縉祥)、樂飛特公司創辦人洪仲儀合作，進行跨域的虛實整合及數據資源共享，一同創作新媒體藝術作品《The Weight of Data》。
最終，觀者在此並不是「島嶼壯遊」的不是真正的終點，而藉由行動之旅(Action Tour)的展區開啟下一段旅程，數位世界與我們的社會持續串聯。
本展區詳細的行動計劃，與藝術聯名計劃將提供限時觀看的網址連結。

💬線上展覽時間為2021年9月8日至12日！更多精彩內容直接進入官方網站🤩 http://garden2021.metarealitylab.com/

:::::::各展區介紹大全::::::

✔️【食壤計畫】 https://youtu.be/nl80hcdI_jY

✔️【沉浸之旅】https://youtu.be/6TvpTQIYWaw

✔️【動畫之旅】https://youtu.be/6SSXdiKl2oM

✔️【新媒體之旅 】https://youtu.be/movZlI2pPQQ

✔️台北/福爾摩沙花園:島嶼壯遊預告片
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opZLSEh_L14

👉🏻奧地利電子藝術節台北/福爾摩沙花園
https://ars.electronica.art/newdigitaldeal/de/formosa-grand-tour/

#奧地利林茲電子藝術節
​#arselectronica21 #gardentaipeiformosa
#newdigitaldeal

【一切的失敗和不足，都是最美好的安排】
All Failures & Lacks Are The Best Things to Happen to Us

三個月前，收到來自台灣客人的這封電郵時，開心和心酸交織著在心裡。

開心，因為這是一年前通過Zoom視訊的客人。他居然在我們看八字的一週年，特地寫了封感謝函給我，真有心！

心酸，因為他寫在電郵裡的低落心情，我完完全全明白。

他的經歷，是我的曾經。我當初也是很難，很久才能走出來。

有一回，我為一位芳華正茂的女子批八字時，她很用心的寫下我說的話。

論寫筆記的完整，她是我客人當中的佼佼者。

寫到一半，我注意到她的右手開始微微顫抖。我以為是空調的風太大了，冷到她，便問她要不要披巾。

她說，是她的焦慮症發作。

「我沒在兇你，也沒對你嚴厲，你為何突然焦慮？」

「我.....打從今年疫情打亂了我的計畫，我就一直很焦慮。我覺得我很沒用，同學們都前進了，只有我現在什麼都不是，亂糟糟的。我就一直很緊張，萬一我一直都是這樣，怎麼辦？」

說著，她眼眶一紅，眼淚像斷了線的珍珠鏈似的灑下來。

我的媽呀！是我的樣子長得很催淚，還是我的聲音聽起來很虐心？怎麼客人，不分男女老少，東南西北，看到我好像都很容易哭？

我抓起一張紙巾遞給她。

「所以，我不是來了嗎？你來找我，就是要問個明路，而你很幸運那麼快就看到我啦！你看你的筆記寫得多工整，多齊全。我很多客人都不如你啊！我今天的工作，就是來給你答案的。我沒有把握，也不會接你這份差事。我接了，就代表還可以補救。你照著我的指示去做，一定柳暗花明又一村。」

又另一回，一位四十多歲的媽媽請我看兒子的八字。

我在批著八字時，這位媽媽點頭認同，然後就聲淚俱下。

我轉頭看著她沈默不語的先生。我說錯了什麼嗎？太太哭成淚人，你怎麼連紙巾也不拿給她啊？

「我是個沒有用的母親，很不稱職的母親。我沒有辦法教好孩子。我很愛他，可是很多時候我都不知道要怎麼做，我就會對他發脾氣，說狠話，過後我又後悔。我忍下來，可是後來還是會一樣！」

我沒打斷她，等她的哭聲逐漸小聲後，我柔柔的說：「我來啦！我坐在你前面了。你已經看到我，就是有辦法了。你知道你自己不行，會去找辦法，就代表你願意去學習做個好媽媽啊！」

我把紙巾遞給她，再說：「不要哭了，要不然，別人看了以為是我不要借你錢，才把你弄得那麼傷心。」

曾幾何時，我們都會以外在所擁有的，來定義自己的人生是否值得自己喜歡。

從原生家庭、樣貌、健康、身型、智力、天賦等，到後來的學歷、友情、事業、財富、婚姻、子女......

哪一樣沒有，而偏偏是我們最想要的，我們就會認定自己失敗的一塌糊塗。

我認為這就是普通教育最大的問題所在。父母老師都是這樣把我們「分門別類」的。值不值得父母疼愛或向親朋戚友炫耀，也離不開那幾點。

久而久之，我們也只會以「成功」來定義自己是否有價值，甚至來衡量自己是否有活下去的勇氣。

我比較喜歡佛法的定義。我們每個人都是一尊佛，六道眾生皆有佛性，只因一時的迷，因此墮落在苦輪不停的輪迴。

可正因為我們有佛性，我們都有無窮無盡的可能。每個人的內在有著很強大的力量，等著我們遇到明師後，去發掘、探索和了解。

而這天生俱來的力量，就是你改命立命的資本。

如果人生順風順水，我們永遠不會想要出離，誤把人間當極樂，所以一定要有苦，我們才會意識到，為什麼我們會在這鬼地方？要怎麼樣才可以離開這鬼地方去到極樂？

反過來，我們都應該感恩自己遇到的挫折，因為從這些苦中，我們才能生出智慧。

沒有一個八字是完美的。一切的失敗和不足，都是最美好的安排，如此你才會有出離心，返本歸源。

_______________________

3 months ago, when I received this email from my Taiwan client, there was this feeling of bittersweetness.

I was happy because this was the client I did a Zoom consultation last June. He sent me this email on the one-year anniversary date of our Zoom call, to express his gratitude. How sweet!

On the other hand, I could relate to the emotional turmoil he felt at that point in his life.

His experience was my past. It also took me a very long time to walk out from my gloominess.

Once, I analysed the Bazi of a very young lady. She was meticulously jotting down notes as I spoke.

Her detailed note-taking skills easily took the top place among my clients.

Halfway through, I noticed her right hand was trembling slightly. I thought it was due to the cold draft from the air conditioning, so I asked if she needed a shawl.

She replied that it was her anxiety disorder acting up.

“I was not fierce or strict with you. What caused your sudden anxiety?”

“I…ever since the pandemic disrupted my plans, I have been in this state of anxiety. I kept feeling useless. All my classmates are progressing expect me. I have nothing to show for and my life is in a mess. I am very anxious. What if I continue to be like this? What am I going to do?”

As she spoke, her eyes turned red and tears started rolling down like a broken strand of pearl necklace scattering onto the ground.

Oh dear! I am beginning to wonder if I have a tear-jerker face or a heart-tormenting voice. Why do my clients, regardless of gender and age, North South or East West, seem to cry easily when they see me?

I grabbed a piece of tissue and handed it to her.

“Ain’t I here already? You came to me for a roadmap and you are very lucky to see me so soon. Look at how precise and neat your notes are! Many of my clients aren’t even on par with you. My job today is to give you answers. If I didn’t have the confidence, I would not have taken up your request. Now that I did, that means there is still hope. If you follow my instructions, you will see things looking up very soon.”

On another occasion, a mother in her forties came to me for her son’s Bazi consultation.

As I was analysing, the mother nodded her head in agreement. The next thing I know, she started weeping loudly.

I turned to look at her husband, who had been silent all along. Did I say something wrong? And hello, your wife was crying. Why weren’t you gentleman enough to give her a tissue paper?

“I am a useless mother. I am incompetent. I do not know how to teach my son well. I love my son very much. But many times, I do not know what to do and thus I flare up at him and speak harshly. I always regret afterwards. I tried enduring but it still ends badly!”

I did not interrupt her and waited for her cries to soften, before speaking gently, “I’m here! I’m already sitting in front of you. You are looking at me now and that means help is here. You know that you are incompetent, so you went looking for solutions. That means you are willing to learn how to be a better mother!”

I handed a piece of tissue and said, “Don’t cry anymore, otherwise, other patrons will think that it’s because I refuse to lend you money.”

Since young, we have been using external possessions to define whether our lives are worth liking.

The family we are born into, our looks, health, body shape, intellect, talents, and then we move on to compare our academics, friendships, career, wealth, marriage and children.

If we are lacking in the area we covet most, we grade our lives as a failure.

I think this is the biggest problem in societal education. Our parents and teachers categorized us that way. Whether we as children are worthy of their love and bragging, depends on the few points above too.

Thus over time, we can only use the term “success” to determine whether we are of value, for some people, whether they should live on to take their next breath.

I very much prefer the definition in Buddhism. We are all Buddhas. Each and every sentient being in the six realms has a Buddha nature in them. But they got lost momentarily and fell into the endless wheel of reincarnation.

Yet, because of our Buddha nature, we have an unlimited source of potential. Every one of us has a very powerful strength inside us. It is just waiting for us to meet an accomplished teacher, so that we have the tools to explore and understand it:

And this strength that we are born with is the capital for us to transform and establish our own destiny.

If life is smooth-sailing, we would never want to leave and would mistake this mortal realm for Pureland. Thus, we all need sufferings, to realise that we should break out of this hell of a place. There has to be a better world somewhere. So how we get there?

We should, in fact, be grateful for all the setbacks and failures we have. Because it is from these sufferings, our wisdom arise:

No single Bazi is perfect. Every failure and lack we experience is the best arrangement for us, so that the heart of renunciation will arise in us and we will return to where we came from.

哈佛知識分享: 做生意，七大困難選擇! 

七條策略問題 Seven Strategy Questions《第七: What Strategic Uncertainties Keep You Awake At Night? 公司有什麼變數令你夜晚瞓唔著呢?》

Everybody watches what the boss watches. 老闆䀹實乜，同事們就䀹實乜! 你應該䀹實乜呢?

Business is about making tough choices. 上六集就講咗 Who is your primary customer?  公司股東、顧客、員工，邊個行先? 追數，應追邊三條數? 公司應有邊「十誡」? 如何令員工在適當壓力下發揮創意? 同埋同事們之間有幾願意互相幫助? 

今集我會同你探討第七個策略問題，亦都係最後一個: What Strategic Uncertainties Keep You Awake At Night? 公司有什麼變數令你夜晚瞓唔著呢?

根據哈佛教授 Bob Simons 呢本書 Seven Strategy Questions，only three things in life are certain: (1) death, (2) taxes, and (3) the fact that today's strategy won't work tomorrow. 三樣嘢肯定: 死亡、交稅、及做生意策略要隨著時間改變。

你公司提供嘅產品/服務，如果永遠一成不變，無論現在點好，遲早會畀人淘汰。  道瓊斯 工業平均指數成分股有30隻，25年前後，超過一半成份股都已經被剔除。

當中一隻嘅股份依然非常成功，就係強生，Johnson & Johnson。 第二集同你講過，佢哋 Credo 教義，係 Customers Come First 嘅公司。 Credo 最後一句: "When we operate according to these principles, the stockholders should realize a fair return." 

咁佢股價表現如何? 如果你1944年買咗強生1股，當年強生 IPO 上市，招股價是$37.5 美金。如果你由1944年揸一股到呢本書出版嘅時候 (即2010年)， 期間再 reinvest 你收到的股息去買多啲強生股票，你所收的股息連同股價升幅，到這本書出版，合共累積收到超過90萬元美金。Yes! 由1944年嘅$37.5美金，至2010年收到合共90萬元美金。等如65年間，年化增長17%。 Grow 17% every year for 65 years! Wow! 

佢點做? 睇下呢個 Johnson & Jonson(強生) 嘅table， 每年嘅 profit planning 由 functional, company, group VP 至 executive level 逐層逐層上， 一年上四次，revisit and revise continously. 

2013年就做定2014年同埋15年嘅 profit plan, 再做多額外5年，10年嘅projection，即2020及2025年。

2014就做定2015及2016年嘅 profit plan, 再 revisit 上年做過嘅5年10年計劃，即重溫2020及2025年嘅 projection，睇呢幅圖， 如此類推。

如果數字同當初預期有所出入， 會 face -to-face 問下屬: 
(1) What has changed? 
(2) Why? 
最重要，(3) What are you going to do about it? 

Keep it simple. Johnson & Johnson, 就係因為不斷地問這三條問題，過去幾十年都能夠 就住市場適應改變。

唔好講到大公司咁複雜， 即是你係個屋村入面做間茶餐廳，What Strategic Uncertainties Are Keeping You Awake At Night? 有乜風險令你夜晚瞓唔著? 

怕你個廚師走咗去? 怕你個業主大幅加租? 怕突然間一大批你啲食客食物中毒? 怕你條村啲人口味變化， 鍾意食日本餐，唔再食茶餐廳? 怕翠華/太興開入來你邊村，咁你就無得爭?   Whatever it is! 除咗怕，你打算點應對? 點樣能夠做到兩手準備? 

如果有日，你盤生意條數唔靚，我問你: 
(1) What has changed? 有乜改變咗? 
(2) Why? 點解? 
And (3) What are you going to do about it? 咁你打算點做? 

你會點回答我? 

我做商舖基金，都有好多嘢怕。 經歷過社運/肺炎， 連舖王鄧成波都話唔係「百年一遇」，係「百年不遇」。 我都好怕個市大上大落。 我亦都好怕個個 shopping online 以後街上無晒人行街。我更加怕以後社會動盪，冇曬遊客來港。 我亦都怕中原/美聯/長實/新鴻基會搞個商舖基金同我直接對撼。但怕有用咩，最緊要能夠做兩手準備。 我爸爸教我: 「永遠要作最壞的打算!」

2021 今年我公司目標要買入港幣五億街舖，沽出兩億，對外集資起碼每季港幣6000萬， 基金派息六七八厘，及年回報達至10%。 每季度我同公司管理層都會 review 以上數字， 稍有偏差，就會問自己以上三個問題: 

(1) What has changed? 
(2) Why? 
(3) What are we going to do about it? 

有乜改變、點解、同我們點辦? 

你盤生意呢? What's keep you awake at night? 

今次一連七集同你分享咗我係哈佛學到嘅 Seven Strategy Questions 七條策略問題: 

(1) Who is your primary customer?  誰是你首要顧客? 
(2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? 你的核心價值，公司股東、員工、顧客、邊個行先? 
(3) What critical performance variables are you tracking? 追數，應追邊三條數? 
(4) What strategic boundaries have you set? 公司應有邊「十誡」? 
(5) How are you generating creative tension? 如何令員工在適當壓力下更有創意? 
(6) How committed are your employees to helping each other? 同事們之間有幾願意互相幫助? 
(7) What strategic uncertainties keep you awake at night? 公司有什麼變數令你夜晚瞓唔著呢?

我營運自己全間嘅商舖基金公司都係 based on 以上七條問題辦事，Really! Every single one of them. 希望一連七集，以上七條問題亦對你點做生意有所啟發。

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