2019 Recap

Views Expressed

Stuff Done

Government Concerns Curiosity: Housing Economics - Buyers' or Sellers' Market? Observation: Foreign Worker Visa Statuses in Malaysia Comment: Malaysia's Ancient Employment Act & the Gig Economy Comment: Parental Leave Benefits in Malaysia - we need a single-payer system Comment: on getting people to buy "local" goods and services Maternity Allowance - Employment Act Malaysia 1955 Comment: Public Policy & Mental Health JKDPN Submission (recap of old points) Commerce (general) True Story: Heaven and Hell in the Workplace Comment: R&D in Labour Process Optimisation Comment: on Building to Flip versus Building to Own Comment: Burn-outs should be Always Possible, Never Mandatory Reflection: making Tough Decisions on Mental Health Concerns Reflection: on the Organisation of Talent Comment: on Entrepreneurs and Deaths Opinion: Four Concerns for New Ghost Kitchens Comment: on how to Value a Company On Social Enterprise What Good Strategy Implementation Looks Like Reasons to say 'Startup' Comment: Why you might Hide Earnings Before an IPO Comment: What it Means, to Question Capitalism Comment: on the Supportive Venture Capitalist Delivery Drivers should Own the Last-mile, and the Customer (opinion) The six co-working space business models: Sharing Economy Companies Commerce (personal) Reflection: how I actually spend Time on Internet Marketing Reflection: on Raising Capital as a Slow-growth Technology Investee Business Development Note: What are our main areas of Research and Development? Business Development Note: What is our Unique Selling Point? Reflections on the Value of the Industry I work in Why My Startup may Never Scale Operational Challenges: personal reflections Throwback: Personal Finances in 2009 Answer: 'What have you done to save thousands of dollars?' Economic Adjustments Forum Mamak chit-chat... In Journaled Style Technology Decoupling Web Application Eventing from the DOM My Limited Experiences in Machine Computation / FFWD: Web Dev in 2019 Svelte.dev's Approach to Runtime Libraries TL;DR: Javascript has matured. What shall next, be born? Gender and Sex: The Landscape of Debates Forum-linking Meme-expressions Physical & Mental Conditioning Reflection: Mapping Neurotransmitter Effects to a Model of Phenomenology Do Invite Me to Legal Suicides - I will try to make it Caffeine and Breathe Regulation Human Process Engineering Important Note - Mental Conditioning Ordinary Days (Briefly Celebrated) Expenses, Costs, and Investments: on the "high cost of dating" The Essence of Speech (a model of computation, and scientific inquiry) Social Conditioning Thesis: on Friendship Christmas Presence Reflection: on Limits of Speech, Sensitive Demographics, and Safe Spaces Reflection: on Engagements between Social and Semantic Activists Comment: on the Struggle of Socialising Political Activism: reflections Classism Among Poor Humans, and Rich Humans A Model of Pain: a context for locating empathy Motivations for Undergraduate PPE Programs: the co…cial value of interdisciplinary bachelors degrees Instructional Design: the underlying thought process Diatribes Season's Greetings Dreams are not Goals, but they can be Useful Distractions I Believe in Inequality Towards a World Without Empathy Boredom is My Dominant Emotion 'Coffee Golf' - #coffeegolf Random Conversations Comment: on the Calibration of Discipline Comment: 'Nihilism' Considered Ambiguous Miscellany Yawn 57 Yawn: 56 Yawn 55 Yawn 54 Yawn 53 Yawn 52 Yawn 51 Yawn 50 Yawn 49 Yawn 48 Yawn 47 Yawn 46 Yawn 45

Hardware got into HVAC got into energy recovery tech Software got back into web technologies got back into OTP got back into programmatic math Wetware improved swimming Commerce did not lose money this year did not lose most staff this year staff efficiency increased this year no shareholder revolts this year car demolished by drunk driver; walked through entire report-claims-demolition paper trail Society met up with old friend for once in four+ years improved relationship with best friend began good working relationship with domestic partner ran one networking party