Saturday Readings

On Sociability

Going for a walk to find some noisier people than the ones I usually hang out with. I drive to a mall and walk around. Bored, I decide to head to some other iconic neighbourhoods. But I run into a traffic jam somewhere near KL city, and I decide to quit wasting petrol, so I head home instead. It is time for tea and sympathy. And perhaps some hacking. Making efforts to empty my mind of the people around me... couldn't really do without all this extra noise. I need to stop obsessing over how annoying the people around me are, and start ignoring them. Ebbs and flows - but I hope my life doesn't suffer if I start retracting this overcorrection. "you need to show some compassion" / "you can go **** yourself :P The case in point is to stop being as compassionate as I am, and to hone in for a while on my own interests."

On Physiological Maintenance

Caught up on sleep for the week. Afternoon run. I have only one question for myself at the moment. Bahkuteh? Later, I go for the second short run of the day. Orange juice and tea have kept things somewhat balanced. Perhaps a bit more fibre, however, is required.

On Organisational Structures

A modern company should have only a Strategy unit and a Risk Management unit. Outsourcing these functions however, is just balmy. #trite

On Readings

Orthogonality and sparse voxel octrees. Studying the Citric Acid Cycle. Finally... after skipping Form 6 biology and Organic Chemistry 202, and Biochemistry 301, 302 etc. in college.

On Investments

I invest in people. Most of the time however, I invest in my own person. Moving into the realm of material data analyses - perhaps its time to write a real time market screener, simply on an xAMP stack leeching data from Yahoo. Then, it may be time to dive into econometrics just for shits and giggles. Downloading the Erlang OTP for Windows. I tend to be too lazy to keep flipping OSes. Watching movie trailers and thinking of playing guitar - this feels like college. Once installed, it is 2am, and I can't find it in me to lurch into coding. Refer to section on clearing of thoughts. More clearing required.

On Social Media

It turns out that my favourite use of LinkedIn is for recommendations of readings. Trying out Google+ apps on the iPad. May have to write an app that pulls into APIs for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and now this... grrrrr. I hate fragmentation. Everything should target browser platforms. We may however wish to study iOS and Android in order to hack those to target the Web GUIs.

On the Adprentice Copy

I concur, the advertising in dustry seems full of people seeking to be cool. I've known a few coolhunters, some well, some for a long time. They all seem to be looking for something, in the work. All I can say is myself, I am a bean counter. If it's not going to make money for the client, at some point you've got to lose it.