Category: Et Cetera
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2017 Reading List aka Unbounded Ambitions
Daniel’s 2017 Reading List In 2016, I’ve learned that doing graduate program and pursuing an aggressive extracurricular reading list is an overly ambitious task. Luckily, it’s 2017 and I am still going to give it another shot. I’m stubborn. New Socio-Economic Systems Part of my foresight interest is researching new economic systems. When it comes […]
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Studying the Future(s) as Strategy
We’re all “Moving at the Speed of Change” right? From the World Economic Forum to the halls of Silicon Valley, business leaders are required to issue platitudes about “moving at the speed of change” or the need for “agile organizations.” It’s all about faster and flatter – at all levels: We need our employees to […]
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Indonesia’s First Data Science Bootcamp
Hello Everyone! I’m proudly announcing that after over six months of work at Ventura Labs, we have launched the first data science bootcamp in Indonesia. With out fantastic partners at Data Science Indonesia, we are providing an innovative program that will be the blue print for preparing Indonesians for the Creative Economy. Here’s a run […]
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Daniel’s 2015 Sabbatical
Daniel’s 2015 Sabbatical: Study Time! After four years of helping build and lead the Asia office of estorm, I’m taking sabbatical journey for a few months. I’ll still be doing some side projects – more on that for another post. I’ll be committing myself to some scholarly activities like reading up about Sufism in Indonesia, […]
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Book Review: Piercing by Ryu Murakami
Ryu Murakami (not Haruki Murakami with the talking cat) writes about two thoroughly damaged souls in Tokyo where they accidentally seek and meet each other in a story that’s somewhere between horror and dark humour. The plot is shallow, but you’re here mostly for the quick ride across a disturbing psychological landscape. The story makes […]
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Book Review: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Crazy Rich Asian by Kevin Kwan was a fantastic contrast to my last read How to Get Filthy Rich in Raising Asia by Mohsin Hamid. Crazy Rich Asian is a quick, breezy superficial yet fun read. While it may try to be satire, Crazy Rich Asians seems more like a balance between parody and voyeurism […]
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Start-Up Culture: Gender, Real Work, and the Death of Techies
Back in November, there was a fantastic discussion on Facebook on the issue of “Genderification of Technology Work“. The essence is that the the tech start-up world often re-term and re-genderfy terms: “When women do it, it’s community management. When men do it, it’s technical evangelism. …When women do it, it’s marketing. When men do […]
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40 Years of Scenario Planning
We’re All Thinking About Design Thinking For the past five years, I’ve had a keen interest on innovation processes, such as “designing thinking.” These days the “innovation” and proceses that support innovation like “design thinking” are the buzzwords de jure. The Google Trends chart above shows a skyrocketing increase in “design thinking” search from 2007 […]
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Mini-Review: Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife
I’m a little behind my book reviews for The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin by Leonid Solovyov and The Hunger Games by Suzanna Collins. To catch-up, I’ll start on the latest book: The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht. I have read fiction of the Balkans before – none of them happy, but each sad in their own way. […]
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China says Europe encourages “sloth, indolence.” Meanwhile in Singapore…
Perhaps the old Conservative (and now Tea Party) concern about the “welfare state” has found a new friend…in China? Al Jazeera’s Teymoor Nabili recently interviewed Jin Liqun, the supervising chairman of China Investment Corporation, China’s $400bn sovereign wealth fund. Jin had this to say about Europe’s labour laws and welfare society: “If you look at […]