GRC this, GRC that

IN CONCLUSION :

GRC is longhand for "what the BOD is responsible for", including both traditional scopes delegated to the CEO and IA.

What did I miss?

Commercial Jargon (nothing new)

Etymology : Business Domain ... it's quite interesting to see how there are literal sources of authority for jargon and terminology ... and that over time the pronunciations of these bodies changes what words people use to describe what sort of behaviour. A sort of forward guidance over the history of language.

Particular example I'm researching right now "corporate performance management" ... arbitrary set of words strung together ... given a particular meaning in 2001. Ungiven that meaning in 2017, and split into a bunch of (new words). "Authority" : Gartner

Of course, this has been going on and on forever ... McKinsey and "talent management" whatnot.

Grocery Home Delivery Report : Lotus's Malaysia 2022-07-30

Reason to test vendor : good variety of selections online ( however, this is false advertising - see details )

Time to delivery : under 24 hours ( good )

Price of picking, packing, and delivery : 8 MYR ( $1.80 )

Comms. trail : 

• Initial online order
• Phone call from driver upon arriving at premise gate

Issues encountered : 

• not all items advertised, and ordered, were delivered
• some missing items were arbitrarily replaced with other items at the vendor's discretion
• incomplete packaging : while there is an option to purchase packaging, there is no estimate from the vendor of how much packaging is enough, and so some items ( in my case, the majority ) will arrive without packaging ... groceries were placed on the floor 

Proposed system upgrades :

• tighten JIT stock-in to meet stock-out forecasts based on orders
• provide customers an option to select "do not arbitrarily swap SKUs"
• provide customers an option to cancel entire order if some items are out-of-stock
• provide packaging estimate to customers, to facilitate correct packaging order
• provide customers an option to allow vendor to make ad hoc decisions on packaging quantity, based on quality of packing (e.g. bag only raw items / bag all items / double bag all items , with automatically adjusted billing
• provide real-time driver location update on app

The Line

The Line is a great idea - I'm all about district level infrastructure, since I discovered how redundant all these little air-conditioners are. But 500H 200W 170,000L metres is not economically reasonable at this time.

I want to see developers test out something like 50H 20W 1,700L metres. If it works, wunderbar ... double a couple of dimensions. Hope the whole earth is full of these eventually. 

Filial Piety and Me

Same date : we were comparing alignments with chink filial piety - I am generally not aligned, probably because people who believed in this lifestyle were a constant source of irritation to me in my youth.

I mean, you may observe that I am nice to my parents from time to time, but I think that is more of matter of civil society. Recently I had to eulogise my mother, so in this context I thought about how I'd eulogise my father if he passed away today. I think it would go something like this :

"Well I have mixed feelings about this. When mom passed on, her eulogy was prepared in a way that wouldn't hurt dad's feelings. Now that both of them are physically incapable of having their feelings hurt anymore, I guess it's quite a relief." 

Dad's generally been a sort of fragile creature, and so handling that sort of person is where I come from. :) In general I've come to hate timid people. It turns out however, that this skillset is rather marketable, having paid the bills for many years of my boring life.

Revision of Language : ambition

Reflections on how I describe myself, based on conversations from a date. I used to say I am a generally unambitious and uncompetitive person, but that is not as accurate as : I think we each have broad ambitions, but a key difference is mine require near zero external validation.

It's just part of my risk management model, having plenty of regrets from listening to advice. Haha

Home Economics Check

- a round trip to the super is 20km, or 8 MYR based on my car's total cost of operation

- if I buy a comfortable 3 pots of meat, it lasts 3-7 days depending on how much I eat at home; that's 2.7 MYR/(pot or day) in logistical cost, regardless of how you slice it

- a round trip is a conservative 90 MYR in time, meaning 30 MYR/(pot or day) ... however the quality and quantity of food is superior to what is obtained from cooked food vendors; we haven't factored in mises time - which is reasonably low at 5-10 minutes/(pot or day) i.e. 8-15 MYR/(pot or day)

- active measures :

- aim to triple meat loads per supertrip to 9 pots, which should drop COG/day from (materials + 48) to (materials + 28 )

- aggressively determine all cooked food vendors offering competitive alternatives to (material costs + 28) MYR/day as supplementary food sources

- shift procurement from supertrips to local minitrips