The Future of Ideas – Lawrence Lessig I “found” this book in my bookshelf. Yes, “found” because I didn’t remember receiving the book which is autographed by Lessig. I think Lessig send me this book because I made a donation to Creative Commons a couple of months ago when he made an appeal on his […]
Category: Random Musing
Bad placement
An advertisment for Windows appearing next to an article about Windows causing 800 planes pile-up. Hahaha (via MrBrown).
Principle of Bureaucracy
James Seng’s Principle of Bureaucracy #1 : Any problem left unsolved long enough will eventually disappear on its own. I quote this to Antoin who was ichat’ed me about a recent policy by Irish regulator (Commision for Communications) : Protecting Phone Users from Internet Dialer Scam. You know, those programs you can download that promises […]
The problem with networking session…
…is you meet too many people in a 2-3hrs session. And you dont have the time to pause and reflect who just spoke to you. After receiving x numbers of name cards with ‘VP’ or ‘CEO’, everyone looks the same to you. Case in point, at one of the evening receiptions last week, I have […]
Busy week
It has been a busy with with APEC TEL 30 hosted by IDA/Singapore. For those who don’t know about APEC TEL, it is a group that meets once every quarter and reports to the TELMIN, a gathering of APEC IT Ministers. It has 4 steering committees looking at technology, business, liberalization and human resource development. […]
Radicals and Extremists
Radicals and Extremists are always a bad news, even if they are on your side. It is okay to have strong views and argue sensible. And it is also important to recongize different people will have different views. And even people on the same side may comes in different shades of greys. But when you […]
Chinese Names
Paul Hoffman send me an email a couple of weeks ago asking me how Chinese choose their name, esp. their English names which prompted me to write this entry. Background1 Chinese has a Family name followed by a Given name and no Middle name. Family names are typically one chinese ideograph although there are some […]
The Maverick & The Elegant Universe
How to think like Leonardo…
How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci (via Dewayne-Net): In business, it’s important to employ ambidextrous employees — people who have business and technology skills. For they can imagine the future. If you don’t employ multi-talented professionals, you lose out on business oportunities that cannot be imagined by the linear worker. Yep, how true! It […]
Seoul Day 3 – Korea IT 8-3-9 Strategy
I arrived in Seoul last night and catch dinner with dda. Ah, Korean BBQ, how I missed it! Then we went over to Bar 66 for beer with Anthony (the Strategic Director of Lucent whom I met on plane on the way here). Great fun and dda, thanks for putting up with me at your […]