I Gave Myself 6 months to put things in order before trying the Startup route again, this time not as an employee but as founder. The scars from the last startup haven’t healed completely but can’t sulk forever.
I know its a longshot but when I have finally done something/anything I think I’m gonna cold call/email [...]
This hit home because my sister was telling me of the recent moves to abolish the BS Education as a recognized course in the Philippines, meaning that people who want to become teachers of Preschool/Elementary/Highschool must have an Education degree and pass a National Certification Exam known as (LET - Licensure Exam for Teachers).
It seems [...]
NOTE: This was what I was thinking of writing before my previous post turned into another musings post.
Just got a raise, Its not big but in the high inflationary environment we are in coupled with the growing pains of adulthood I’ll take what I can.
I’ve been very vocal with my urging of friends to not [...]
Relics like lectures have to give way to the advances in cognitive sciences specifically, we must account for the fact that we know a whole lot more on how we learn (ok, not that much but enough). This means that we must have more interactive classes, more lab and less lectures. The sad thing is [...]
We call them hero but let them fly in not air safe 50 year old planes (maybe more), knowing that the fleet is not safe but because of a lack of anything to replace them insisting they fly to their deaths. We must stop this We call them heroes but we let them die over [...]
A recession bound USA offers probably more opportunities for enrichment than our small country the Philippines. Sad but there are tens of thousands of teachers from the Philippines without work. I remember a conversation I had with the Filipino Couple we had met on the hotel in Thailand a couple of years back. They had [...]
This does not bode well. Judging from the effect of the non decriminalization of squatting in creating a mass of people who are said to be professional squatters (which is just another form of extortion) It’s scary the that the Supreme Court is busying itself with things really beyond its grasp instead of dealing with [...]
(March 19, 2008)
I’ve been recently going around call centers recently trying to polish my interview skills.
Because of this I’ve been to a lot of websites, local sites and job fairs where call centers have booths.
A welcome trend is emerging. The trend is the constant trickle of jobs to places outside of the Makati Central Business [...]
from the new yorker here
Mikhail Gromov, the Russian geometer, said that he understood Perelman’s logic: “To do great work, you have to have a pure mind. You can think only about the mathematics. Everything else is human weakness. Accepting prizes is showing weakness.” Others might view Perelman’s refusal to accept a Fields as arrogant, Gromov [...]
Think that people should face up to the harsh realities that act as game changers. This is for Music Executives, Oil Company Heads, Newspaper Editors and the like. There are some things that
“You have to attack the future before it attacks you,” said James Hankla, one of the visiting port officials.
from here the Curious [...]
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