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Steps Towards Malaysian Knowledge Economy

2005-10-18T06:00:33Z

From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]
Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2005 5:11 PM
To: 'act-km@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: RE: [act-km] Rules and what is really important
Ron,
>Bala
>On preserving wealth - is it a myth or are their other cultures which have decided >that since "real" property (land, buildings, stock, money etc) can always be >made worthless by others, the only wealth one can always retain is what one >knows?
Heaps more a myth than reality in Asia and amongst first generation Asians in the West. Though at the margins, the problem is at the very early bud-stage of beginning to be talked about (the worst of denial appears over).

Strategy Vs Tactics: What's the difference? Images

2005-08-31T08:04:44Z

Tactics = more busyness, less purposeStrategy = less busyness, more purposeTactics --> the view by a treeStrategy --> the view from above a forestSoldiers --> tacticiansGenerals --> strategists

The bigger ripple that encircles the smaller NEP ripple: The making of Khairy?

2005-10-18T06:04:52Z

-----Original Message-----From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net] Sent: Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:47 PMTo: 'Sangkancil' sangkancil@lists.malaysia.netSubject: What might the biggest enemy of the Malays be? Haterade?
Dear all,
My view: the deepest take on the NEP debate is taking place at http://www.malaysia-today.net/guest-columnists/2005/07/malay-today.html#comments

money, happiness and problems

2005-11-09T01:28:09Z

From: cyfranogi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cyfranogi@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bala PillaiSent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:11 PMTo: dina@malaysiakini.comCc: 'sangkancil'; artisproactiv@yahoogroups.com; malaysiaindians@yahoogroups.comSubject: [cyfranogi] RE: [sangkancil] Money And Happiness
Dina,
>i want money. i like money. money money money.
Money is:-
a) a fluid conduit for exchanging value andb) one store of value
Which means if you solved a problem [1] whereby
1) you properly perceived the problem

Why We Must Speak More in Full Sentences

2005-06-01T06:46:17Z

One of the first questions I ask when I am Instant Messaging someone who only responds with single words (which is like 99% of Asians on IM) is, "Can you speak in full sentences?". Why? I have found that those who do not prioritise speaking in full sentences are much less likely to realise how important grasping and reinforcing the common sense notion of causality is. And the consequences and consequences of consequences of not doing so. They are much less likely to grasp, without it being pointed out, that there is a reason why Man invented sentences and paragraphs.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/opinion/31fish.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

Lever Metrics

2005-05-20T10:01:41Z

Archimedes said, "give me long enough of a lever, and a place to stand and I'll single-handedly lift the earth".There are numerous levers out there. But they are only available to about 5% of the minds on Earth, because the rest are not imaginative.See "lever: what 2 lines are responsible for US$350 of the US$400 million of Hotmail's value"Here I'd like to expand on lever metrics.Will start off with some questions and sculpt the thoughts as we go along.Some rules-of--thumb1. The higher up the food chain the lever is, the higher its value

Question: Blogosphere Metrics

2005-04-27T07:13:08Z

Have you seen any good sites/sources on blogosphere metrics? I want to understand them. 1. Imagine a human network cluster diagram -- eg see bottom of http://myadda.com2. Imagine that those who blog profusely have their nodes to be proportionately brighter.3. Imagine that those who seem to be opinion leaders (i.e. they seem to be the source of many emerging memes in their swarming space) have their dot to be proportionately larger.So how can we using http://www.technorati.com , http://www.blogpulse.com , http://www.furl.net and http://del.icio.us get the best sense of who is the "boss" for what and how it spreads.

Europe-Southeast Asia Acumen Bridges

2005-05-30T02:31:56Z

Check out the rather creative bunch at https://www.openbc.com/net/between/We're organising bridges for acumen flow from Europe to Southeast Asia there.Objective: Accelerate our roadmap towards making Malaysia.Net etc into *the* Knowledge Economy brands/mind colonies. See roadmap at http://www.ryze.com/go/balaParticular focus areas: aspects of mind colonies like citizen-ownership structures, partnerships to accelerate blended-media, capital raising and complementary currency.

Turning Brains Into Cash: Complementary Currency

2005-04-12T08:20:38Z

The Worldwide Help Desk for Complementary Currency Systems, an initiative of the Strohalm Foundation, is located at:http://www.complementarycurrency.org/helpdesk.html .Â We invite you to visit this website to see the services that we offer to individuals and groups who are working to implement, or better manage their complementary currency system.In addition to a Frequently Asked Questions file, and a number of practical

Creativity Techniques

2005-04-03T10:52:19Z

Forwarded from:-http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/Creativity TechniquesBelow are listed a number of creativity techniques to help with creative thinking. Like most tools these creativity techniques all have their good and bad points. I like to think of these creativity techniques as tools in a toolbox in much the same way as my toolbox at home for DIY. It has a saw, spanner, hammer, knife and all sorts of other things in it, they are all very useful, but you have to pick the right tool (creativity technique) for each job. We will try and provide a little guidance along with each tool to let you know whether it's best used for cutting paper or putting in nails.

Turning Problems Into Money: How?

2005-03-25T05:18:49Z

Low hanging fruits & Monetising ProblemsBy Bala Pillai, SydneyWhat is the criteria?Given that the harder a problem, the greater the reward, the lesser thecompetition, the more uncertain resourcing for it is ANDThe easier a problem, the lesser the reward, the greater the competition andthe more certain resourcing isLow hanging fruits would lie in the sweetspot between "too hard a problem" and "too easy a problem". Not too hard such that the resourcing is so uncertain.Not too easy such that the rewards make it so unworthwhile.By resourcing I mean human resourcing. Why? Because astute humans organise all other resources, money included.Monetising ProblemsHow do you monetise problems?First of all realise that default problems are opportunities. And defaultopportunities are monetisable.And be prepared to imagine that some of the most surprising problems are monetisable. For example, how do you monetise the problem of unhappiness? Answer: Bottle happiness -- that is basically what Coca-Cola has done. It has bottled glee.How do you monetise value? Attach a currency value to it. And osmosis the value.How do you monetise views? Create exchanges. That's what stock exchanges and foreign exchange dealers do. You sell your view on where a stock or currency's price is headed.Can we monetise our views on which script-director-actor combination will do well and which we think won't? You bet -- create an exchange for the buying and selling of these views.What blurs whether money can be made from doing this?1. Absence of imagination and habitual perception that the solution will be executed weakly.