work
Putting email into context
Do you write an email to your colleague who’s sitting right next to you? Would you rather email a person to negotiate a deal? How many times do you play email tennis until you decide to pick up the phone to call the person?
I’m an office bound worker, and my work requires me to deal [...]
Blunder blender
Ever wish you have a gadget that could just blend away the blunders that you’ve made? To be able to start over? To be given a second chance?
Sometimes, you get a second chance, sometimes, you don’t. In either case, you’ll still need to create a mental blender to shred up the blunder you’ve made, in [...]
Fatigue
I’m watching Friends, and laughing as though I haven’t seen the episode before (the one where Chandler is moving in with Monica). Friends are just such a mind relaxant. Kudos to the people who made it such a joy. And then my wife made a comment…
“You must be really stressed…”
I think she’s right, as usual.
I’m [...]
Swimming in a blue ocean strategy
I recently lent my copy of the Blue Ocean Strategy to an entrepreneur, who created a blue ocean strategy himself without realising it! I’m envious of the action he took for the theory that I only found out through books, my main hideout. I don’t want to be a two-legged bookshelf. Fortunately, I’m also practising [...]
Human slave, technology king
Deadlines. Bad project management. Bad combination. This is the time when you start to wonder why things don’t work the way they’re suppose to work, and a lot of the times, you realise that history finds its way to invade the present rather than stay in the past, just like our QWERTY keyboard.
So what happens [...]
Fear of feedback
I recently attended a “leadership” course, where you’re asked to play games in a group setting to demonstrate your leadership, or the lack of it, in a controlled environment. We navigated a small island with a “hot-from-the-oven” navigation skills and a 20-years-old topographical map.
I actually enjoyed the navigation part as it brought me out to [...]
Offsite to meet the Heroes?
Nah, our annual offsite was not a visit to the Heroes set, like the lucky bunch who gave us Google Reader. And I thought I was already quite close when I saw some of the Heroes cast here! Our offsite this year was a milder version of the Amazing Race, without the “strange things you [...]
Questions
Questions. They’re easily recognisable. It’s when a kid asks why the sky is blue, or why can’t I have that ice-cream. It’s when a tourist asks how to get to Chinatown, or when a girl asks a passer-by where are we (because guys will never ask for directions).
And then there are those that reside in [...]
A day without my phone
Late for work. Rushed out the door. 2 minutes to the next train. Rushed through the gate. Train arrives. “Mind the gap”. Board the train. Door closes. Sh!t, I forgot my phone.
That information itself gave me a strange sensation. Should I go back to get it? Do I have any urgent tasks that I had [...]
I miss writing
It has been a while since I last wrote anything creative. Most of my writings have been dull unexciting pieces of junk that passed as compliant writing at work. BOOOORING!!! I can’t imagine writing any more of that without some other outlet. I’m not saying I’m a very creative person, but I was once told [...]
