In the winter of 910, a stretch of road outside a village near present-day Hangzhou was transformed overnight. …
Mikel Davis
Mikel Davis
Mikel serves as editor and sometime writer for Nspirement. He’s willing to tackle any assignment, really, but prefers editing. Writing can take you anywhere and is a little unpredictable (or maybe it’s just his writing). Take this bio for instance. When he started writing, the goal was clear: make it fun and interesting. “Interesting” is no problem. He’s worked on a farm, owned a bakery and worked in healthcare. He’s lived on the Navajo reservation in Arizona as well as in Vienna, Austria. And boy, has he traveled! He’s been to Italy and France, Spain and Portugal, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. He loves foreign cultures and foreign places. He’s interested in renewable energy and dreams of buying an electric vehicle some day when there are more charging stations around. He cares about his work and hopes it can impact others so they have a better life, or at least a better day. But “fun”? Does the liberal use of parenthetical phrases count as fun? (Say “yes” or else he might start typing a “Dad” joke!)
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A few years ago, I put one of my subordinates in charge of a cross-departmental project to improve …
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WisdomEditor's Pick
When Water Is Too Clear, There Are No Fish: An Ancient Chinese Lesson on Wisdom
by Mikel DavisThe well-known Chinese saying, “When water is too clear, there are no fish; when a person scrutinizes too …
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During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), a woman surnamed Zhang lived in Luojiang, in what is now the Deyang …
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In April 2026, the U.S. military mounted an extraordinary operation inside Iran to rescue a missing F-15E crew …
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“Heaven has no favorites, yet it always stands with the good.” This ancient saying, often quoted as an …
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Insights & StoriesFeatured
How a Simple Business Principle Led to Success After Bankruptcy
by Mikel DavisA Taiwanese builder named Lin Zheng-jia was known in his younger years as intelligent, capable, and shrewd in …
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Elon Musk’s work in electric vehicles, rockets, satellite communications, and artificial intelligence has repeatedly challenged convention. But a …
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ChinaEditor's Pick
Forcing Monks and Nuns to Marry, Sending Monks to War: Inside the CCP’s Religious Purges
by Mikel DavisThe Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, prophesied in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra that after his parinirvana, demon kings would reincarnate as …
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Mainland China and Taiwan share deep roots in Chinese culture, yet the educational philosophies expressed in their laws …