17NOV2021-19DEC2021
17 Nov
TIL : it is easy to fool someone into thinking their laptop is physically locked, when it is not.
Skill is an abstraction over achievements. Achievements happen regardless of goals. Goals can only be defined in advance in terms of strategy. Goals defined locally are referred to as tactical objectives.
So between
- skill
- achievement
- strategic goals
- tactical goals
Your subset of 2 which is against 4, can be used to evaluate 1, but you can't forecast 4. So your forecasts and KPIs must include mainly 3, only.
18 Nov
As of today, it's official. I started thinking of the median hipster cafe's attempt to make "western food" ... as roughly equivalent to the mee goreng I grew up thinking of as too common.
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Hm. Interesting study. So, as one is trained to be subconsciously analytical of data, in order to facilitate rest one can reduce data diversity to reduce subconscious fatigue. For example by dimming lighting environments, and applying monochrome filters.
19 Nov :
Back to the bushfires.
Friday nights as a salaryman : same dinner, go home, do laundry, stiff drink. I know the point of a salary is that it gets spent at some point, but what if there isn't much to spend it on in this town? 🤔 Then we have to build it? At least I'm half caught-up on sleep today - better than nothing. I guess I could see Carnage.
Indisciplined, and late to bed. Nothing much has changed in a coupla decades ... back then it was magazines and TV, now it's Instagram : work is generally less boring ...
20 Nov :
Apparently sleeping with music on needs to happen more often for stimulus. Managed to schedule two coffee meets with different business developers on different subjects. Probably should spend the rest of the day on talent management designs.
1830h too much procrastination. Back to work. But first, let us buy cucumbers.
1919h waiting for laundry to dry. Wondering about opportunity cost in terms of productive hours per alcohol unit consumed. Probably about five working hours. Hmm. Oh look, also, it's already past my bedtime, and I did no official work today.
Probably time to enforce reflection until the sheets dry.
2255h after some emergency work, and a bit of skimming articles on physics, plus catching up on documentation about the flat purchase, the laundry is mostly dry, and I should put myself to bed.
I must work harder on finding new friends, so I gotta work that top of the funnel.
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Wondering if the Special Branch is bothering to hunt down all the antivax clubs. LOL
I think it's a major motivation to work harder just being reminded about the existence of these people and the probability of their programs including falsification of vaccine records used for public transit etc.
I mean part of the complication is that you probably have antivax sympathisers in the SB itself.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not inherently opposed to antivaxxers - but I do tend to be opposed to weak enforcement of public policies.
21 Nov
0854h evaluation of sleep. Perhaps a more focused set of alarms per day.
0933h I think more air-conditioning counts as a labour optimisation that I can benefit from pay for.
1037h time to feed; much to do
I just realised that I only worry about myself, when I empathise with people who worry about me. In conclusion, I really need to be less empathetic despite recommendations to be more so. Lol. Pests : throw'em out.
Afternoon :
A coffee meet.
Evening :
Dinner.
Sauvignon blanc and squid roe. I've never had cuttlefish roe before. At a mamak shop!
Also I was very happy today to drive by Kota Raya, seeing the masses of normal people out there, back at it. I live among eggo supremacists for the most part.
Some work was done after dinner. After supper more work was done. Buit a leaderboard signal detection sheet for colleagues to reduce manual work - rudimentary, but we have to start somewhere.
Midnight traffic is awesome. From clock-out, lock-up, walk-down, autopay, Midvalley to Mayang Jaya, stepping up to the grill door, was 26 minutes.
22nov
Time to learn MySQL.
23nov
The risk management department is an extension of the finance department. Both are concerned with gambling. For example if the probability of getting fined for littering is 50%, and the fine is $1,000, and if there is a clear P&L impact of making or saving $501 including any reputational costs from littering, then the RMD basically greenlights the littering. Of course this is a cartoon example, and RMDs will be more conservative than that, but you get the picture.
24nov
Job A : starting to feel like biweekly cell group meeting.
Job B : starting to feel like daily morning chapel, and one weekly service.
Lmao #rituals #socialconditioning
I don't think I've done this much group work since 2000.
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Completing a brief study of regex before bed. Not super work related so can't do it at the office.
25 nov
Hm. Still sleeping too late, but at least this week I turn the lights off earlier.
Reviewing the list of things I do mainly for social conditioning bimbotics :
199x Chinese, school, history, Christian leadership
200x college, shirts, shoes, corporations, talent management, bars, hospitality
201x long pants, hoodies, vacations, fine dining, investment, entrepreneurship, social media
202x probably revisiting computer games I suppose, and other consumer and corporate finance things
Hm.
Time to feed.
26nov
Office noise conditions:
1. Working automated solution is to use double barriers, and sometimes double ANC. (ANC earbuds under ANC headphones).
2. Meditative/manual solution is to take more breaks, review all memories from past period (several minutes to an hour), prune out irrelevant background conversations, then re-commit pruned data to memory.
Good learning experiences!
Past11pm
Done with biz networking for the day. Complete with performative arguing over payment with the server. Tapping notes in the car. Standing by for a coupla shifts to try and move the odds of work getting done in my favour. Meanwhile probably just going to swipe through my quotas and crash.
27nov
Past noon. Awake. Affording a little contemplation. Pruning memories from the past week of business activities. Networking is logged so it can be deleted, mostly. Large obligations still require more care, so I should attend to those shortly. Smaller obligations still in chaos. I could improve the precision of my inputs significantly, with a little more effort.
28 Nov
Rev-matching on a torque converter : works better when the tachometer works, or when I'm not wearing ANC; and at lower gear ratios, not like ... 3rd gear at 110kmph.
Generally, I don't remember having heat problems with the 659cc Kancil. Maybe I was driving slower. But the 847cc Kancil seems to overheat under direct sunlight, with the AC on (meaning increased power drain, and increased radiator air intake temperature), somewhere between 100 and 110 kmph, which I guess is around 4000 to 5500 RPM, since my tacho is wonky. But the 847cc certainly seems more fuel-efficient
2123h
Two hours past bed time.
Reviewing risk factors across HR, finance, supply chain, vendors, governance, IT, and new ventures.
Hm.
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I watched a few episodes of that controversial Cowboy Bebop adaptation. I found the bug. The director did not manage enunciation and body language well, so resultingly many actors are throwing their voices like they would be in a live theatrical performance - while their full-body expressions remain stilted. This is particularly jarring with the two male leads who seem to be in character only about 40% of the time.
You can argue that this was an attempt to match the hyperbole of the source material ... but that simply brings us back to the issue of over-acted vocals, and under-acted expressions. It comes off like a high-school adaptation of Shakespeare which tries to hew closely to the script, at the expense of fluidity.
What do you think?
Like altered carbon
29 Nov
Hello, my muse seems to have updated her website. I'm so illigitimately proud of her self-actualisation. As always.
30 Nov
She : food allowances are non-taxable
Me : but they have to be regular
She : we get quarterly buffets ...
Me : omg totally explains the phenomenon of annual fucking dinners
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The most common lie is, "I'm OK."
Interestingly enough, many people are taught to do this by idiot trainers.
1 Dec
I'm generally most productive working 18 hours at a time, and sleeping at a 5:12 ratio. As a result, I avoid trying to be efficient within normal business hours. Normal business hours are basically spent waiting for other people go be free to cowork. Of course, the nature of various jobs pays you to cowork, not to work independently, so on with it. The only added complexity of late is that restaurants are mostly closed until normal business hours due to lockdown hangover. So for people who do not have a kitchen, we have food supply issues rolled-in for good measure lol. Therefore, protein powder remains the useful ration.
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Industrial education for top talent isn't about helping fresh graduates make $24,000 instead of $12,000. It's closer to letting them know that in KL the max professional fee (employee, not owner) is around $50,000 ... and letting the student figure out where they want to be in the food chain.
This moves up to around $90,000 for mid-20-somethings.
$192,000 for people hitting 30.
Etc.
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2 Dec
On time travel : It's simply because what we call "time" and "consciousness" are probably a tautology. You get down to the level of quantum phenomena and you peer behind the veil a little bit because whatever the hell consciousness is it isn't actually equipped to function in its macroscopic way at the microscopic scale.
Also, many smart people live in this ridiculous myth that ordered systems ala Marie Kondo and the artistry of that which is designed are the measure of progress to be aspired to. But by definition all aspirations to civilisation are weird and unsustainable. The normal thing is an eventual return to chaos. Civilisational progress in general is a singular accident which we happen to observe due to the properties of consciousness. Of course you can posit that the future singularity is causally antecedent in an antitime fashion, and for some reason consciousness is defined by the antitimetic decay of the singularity being observed by itself in reverse. Not a new idea in terms of time, as various traditions speak of the end of time (the beginning of antitime) as a definitive locus in the field of observed spaces.
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A coconut themed bar called Cybernut. Where the fruit are cut like Cybertrucks. Cough cough. #todaysconcept
4 Dec
Time for a break. Let's see how it takes to prep for work.
2021-12-04-1643
Ended up spending half of break talking shop with colleagues.
2021-12-05
Maru full-auto espresso machines are the best. You can calibrate your shot! Lol
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Spaghetti streets of KL:
KL "inner ring" road names :
- Jalan Istana
- Jalan Damansara
- Lebuhraya Sultan Iskandar
- Jalan Tun Razak
- Jalan Yew (not a highway wtf ... the highway circuit goes haywire at this point)
- (loopback)
Next "outer ring" :
- KESAS
- DUKE
- Selayang-Kepong Highway
- LDP (doesn't end here but you can get on the KESAS here ...)
- (loopback)
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Back to accounting for the old partnership.
2021-12-06
0028h ready for audit submission FY2021 ... I think.
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If you don't understand NFTs, it probably means you don't understand the art market. Start with a clear historical precedent. That's how big NFTs are - the art market unbound.
There's not much else they appear to be good for at this point ...
5 Dec
Confidence is a bitch. It doesn't make you more capable. It paints a target on your back. And then masses of trepidatious zombies will turn up to eat what's left of yourself in any event. So it is better not to confident, if you have a choice about it. 🤔
7 Dec
Doing LinkedIn interviews for the first time. Best experience ever - it's fast, if everyone's awake, and the quality of candidates is quite high.
36-hours from posting - I'll be taking three candidates for a campus tour already.
The return on time is so much better than Tinder ...
7 Dec
Safety note : was threatened with a punch in the face. So if anything weird happens to me, please check my emails and inquire with the audit signatories at my partnership. Thx lol.
9 Dec
Hm. I should schedule memory resets every three hours or so. Easier to remember at right angles ...
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TIR, after about 18 years of sporadic thinking about it, cybernetics is not "control + communication", rather it is "control ≡ communication".
