PMXI pool

Sanusi, Rafizi, Hamzah + JAG wildcard ... we have not had any serious technocrats, and JAG is about as close as it gets.

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Hot take : I would vote for this :

PM : Sanusi

DPM : KJ

Also this :

PM : Abang Jo

DPM : Akmal Saleh

Why? Because I almost never do things if I feel the outcome is easy to predict. 

conditioning inadequancies

Adequate physical conditioning ends with inability to stand.

Adequate mental conditioning ends with inability to think. 

Adequate social conditioning ends with inability to speak? 

Haha

My approach to the Ivory tower

Since I was a child, business done by ordinary people has seemed trivial. I thought, all of us can do it, and it is not something to be considered hard. At 43, I still have this view.

But around the age of 16, I developed an appreciation for cultural anthropology. This arose from recognising that communication is hard, and that its hardness is structural, but rarely impermeable. In college, I considered a traditionally academic life, but I found my peers and professors all to be ... insufficiently ivory ... too commercial, perhaps. So, I made a point to practice anthropology by living with them, while attempting to be ... ivory enough ... in my spare time. It was a period which I have always been grateful for. I considered stopping halfway through the program, but decided to finish it for convenience.

Then around 22 I turned my attention to collecting commercial experience, which I viewed as necessary, in order to be credible in such society, even though I did not find such society intrinsically interesting. I lived among them until I was around 39, taking only about a year out of 17 to be uncommerciably academic. 

Now, attempting a decade of academia, I am not sure that I do a clever thing. But I am rarely sure that any of the things I do, are clever. TBF mainly they are simply interesting.