What are your biggest fears

This blog started off as some sort of a venture which faltered. and then it became my pet for my ideas..and then it turned into a market commentary site..and now I gona deviate part of it back to its origin – more of an idea site..do you still remember what were your ambitions while you were in primary education? I do..I wished to be scientist. wished to be entrepreneur..wished to be an inventor…Well, I am not in any now..but the silver lining is, i still retain the inquisitiveness in me, the entrepreneurial spirit(to my VC friend, I will be back) and thoughts, and finally, the Creating Mind(ala Five MInds for the Future)which mixes disparate ideas into something different. Recently, I have started to firing salvos at a few different areas, putting ideals into motions. As I realized that I do not have to be the owner of the end solution/product/result, I need to contribute the idea, the prototype, or the impetus of a workable solution only. I have been to a few occasions recently, I can see the sparkles in the inventor’s eye. If compared to a lot of dead walking zombies on the road, it is really between heaven and earth. I can feel the enthusiasm of a 1st year undergrads (Woot!) versus the bland expression of someone who has been working for years. I don’t ever want to be like the next guy/girl in the talks/seminars, where nothing is done aftermath and life goes on. If this long winded article lights up a chord in you or you have been slugging it out despite all odds, get in touch =)

Creativity

We live in an age when the most valuable asset any economy can have is the ability to be creative - to spark and imagine new ideas, be they Broadway tunes, great books, iPads or new cancer drugs. And where does creativity comes from?

"To be creative requires divergent thinking (generating many unique ideas) and then convergent thinking (combining those ideas into the best result).  It comes from being exposed to divergent ideas and cultures and peoples and intellectual disciplines. One thing we must know about creativity is that it typically occurs when people who have mastered two or more quite different fields use the framework in one to think afresh about the other(rojak, in my own terms =) )

Leonardo da Vinci was a great blah blah and blah, eane(and) each specialty nourished the other. He was a great lateral thinker. But if you spend your whole life in one silo, you will never have either the knowledge or the mental agility to do the synthesis, connect the dots, which is usually where the great breakthrough is found




Thomas Friedman

Gandhian Innovation - Bharti Airtel

Read an article in HBR recently titled “Gandhian Innovation” by C.K. Prahalad and R.A. Mashelkar What captured my eyeballs was that the paragraph talking about how Bharti Airtel was losing money until it decided to change tact from looking at profit margin to looking at revenue as key business ratio. I am suspecting Singtel learnt from their partner, Bharti Airtel and brought it over to Singapore. First with its prepaid business since few years ago(you can note this by looking at Singtel’s  prepaid users net adds  per quarter or looking at ARPU that keep making new lows.) and now expanding the same strategy to mio TV line of business as well.  Starhub looks increasingly fragile to me. Bharti Airtel, 1 cent per min in India…hmmmm

The ant cluster(yizu)

It refers to young people with a high level of education who work low-paid jobs and live together in crowded apartments or dorms, usually on the edge of big cities. They’re similar to ants in that they’re intelligent, weak, and live in groups,