tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81678540150836163042024-03-14T08:15:12.483+00:00@GarethWongInfrequent thoughts out loud about the world of Finance, Entertainment, TMT/Technology, Philanthropy, Academic, Art world. AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.comBlogger724125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-68236909841063406452017-10-21T15:59:00.001+01:002017-10-21T15:59:33.395+01:00My comments re: Joe Wicks: the man with the (body) plan | The Times Magazine | The TimesInteresting Infomercial<br /><br />
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<span style="color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px;"> ;-) there could have been only 3 outcomes of your venture with Joe:</span><br /><br />
<div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">1.) with your info-news promotion: the gullible that think buying such a plan would work for everyone & contribute to the possible wealth of Joe. Let's face it, with a common-sense plan, for those that are determined & with long-term grit, one could not only lose weight (some Mainly want to look great or get pecks) but also stop smoking, detox, even rehab from heroin addictions. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">2.) you try "something extraordinary" out and found that it worked and become the next guru and write a book about it, and become next Neil Strauss & or Scott Carney, sadly exercise & diet is not rocket science, it's a numbers game, need a good number of credulous public to buy the book/seminar/ or pay with their attention/mind-share/admirations; sounds to me there is no shortage of them already based on your article (I've never heard of Joe nor will I seek him out, just like Jamie the Olive.)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">3.) you get paid for your article, write something interesting (this article), and investigate about something/someone else later. OR you self-challenge (just like you mentioned nudge) and devise something great in the line of PUA or WimHof methods and be the next focus of the article (& be adored by women & be next paper millionaire) by another journalist completing the circle. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">everyone has their own challenge/journey; for those that can afford it, get someone to tell you what you need to do. For other successful people that a self-determined, its very simple a go/no-go decision= Once made, no hmm or ahhs.. and 'JUST DO IT'! </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Think we have spent enough time on Joe and my comments already. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">have a brilliant weekend. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><a href="http://twitter.com/garethwong" target="_blank">@GarethWong</a></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; font-family: TimesDigital-Regular; font-size: 16px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br /></div>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-77438706213866149092017-02-08T01:34:00.001+00:002017-02-08T01:34:52.816+00:00My comments re: The psychologist leading the backlash against self‑help | Times2 | The Times & The Sunday Times<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/self-help-books-can-turn-us-into-psychotics-n60bp77nl">The psychologist leading the backlash against self‑help | Times2 | The Times & The Sunday Times</a>:<br /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Erm, is this NOT also a 'self-help' book (although contrarian)?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I wonder how he managed NOT to navel gaze & still managed to write/edit/publish & even now make time to travel to </span>UK<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> & beyond to promote the book?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">& would his kids survive adopting his view & prosper competitively outside of welfare state of Denmark?</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Just content with status quo led world finance market to </span>credit<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> crunch (which also affect Denmark btw.). Even with mass movement like Occupy Wall Street (no need to use brain, just turn up) who dwell in the past & complain (without the intellect of devising a workable solution) meant nothing got fixed. Now Trump is aiming to even repeal the Wall street reform & Consumer protection act (also called </span>Dodd Frank<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Guess US citizen should just "read a novel" & feel "neutral about it" & practice defensive pessimism? :-)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Very curious about this but I won't join in person despite having a ticket (can't be bothered, why make an effort?) but will watch the live stream of the talk (if I feel like it when I have a moment away from "dwelling in the past").</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">However, I would </span>agreed<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> that people need to develop enough self-confidence so that he/she is not swayed by others' views/pressure/opinions, but how could one achieve that? as Daoism teaches, is to learn, practice & find the balance or WuWei 無爲 (Just be). If </span>so 道德經<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> - Dao De Jing already was encouraging this </span>waaay<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> back [Warring States (475 BC - 221 BC)], which was 100yrs+ before Zeno of Citium (c. 334 – c. 262 BC, founder of Stoicism) was born? am not Philosophy </span>major<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> though. "Dao De Jing"</span><span class="sewmwl9cs6z5bnn" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><span class="sewmwl9cs6z5bnn" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> is free here: <a href="http://ctext.org/dao-de-jing">http://ctext.org/dao-de-jing</a></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No doubt the developed western world will be better for following this book, as hard working guys & girls (no matter where they come from) can take over. Well done for your contribution, no doubt those parents who complain about too much homework for their children will be worshiping Svend soon.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Skål!</span>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-60213500405936248312016-12-23T15:30:00.003+00:002016-12-23T15:30:36.612+00:00My Comments re Stoking Tensions With China - The New York Times vs previous Chinese Emperors <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/opinion/stoking-tensions-with-china.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20161223&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=0&nlid=64803420&ref=headline&te=1">Stoking Tensions With China - The New York Times</a>: <br /><br />
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The Biggest challenge of our time is not lack of access to education (esp. 4 western world in MOOC era of EDX, Coursera etc.), it is sadly <b>Ignorance, Stupidity & the Inability to #AskTheRightQuestion</b>.<br /><br />
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In our super connected (physical+informational+digital+economical ) world, the disconnect of cultural understanding & politician's like TrumpElect's previous peddling of racial/demographic/nationalism/ xenophobic hatred whilst ignoring human's existential risk is the biggest folly.<br /><br />
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2017 will never be a zero sum era, especially if people exhibit Gorilla Silverbacks' Chest beating and ground thumping behaviour.<br /><br />
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The Real danger for our world is illustrated perfectly in the brilliant DocuFilm by John Pilger <a href="http://thecomingwarmovie.com/">http://thecomingwarmovie.com/</a>,as once Nuclear nukes flies, it will not be the end of one nation but the World! Apparently we will NOT see the sun again for 1-3yrs (10yrs for fruit to grow again). Climate changed!<br /><br />
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China will not push the button first as can be seen by the constraint shown the return of the drone. UNLIKE the USA/west, despite not having the universal form of democracy west pushing China 'to' adopt (Must Read book by Francis Fukuyama's book on why might not work).<br /><br />
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Good Chinese emperors exhibited moral duty (if they have mandate from heaven) & take cautious & long term views, with hidden threats of harsh Nine familial exterminations 誅九族 sentence by next dynasty. Sadly Trump is not afraid of anything/anyone now and world will have to sadly accept the consequencesAI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-32345759823472264872016-12-23T15:30:00.001+00:002016-12-23T15:30:35.668+00:00My Comments re Stoking Tensions With China - The New York Times vs previous Chinese Emperors <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/opinion/stoking-tensions-with-china.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ty_20161223&nl=opinion-today&nl_art=0&nlid=64803420&ref=headline&te=1">Stoking Tensions With China - The New York Times</a>: <br /><br />
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The Biggest challenge of our time is not lack of access to education (esp. 4 western world in MOOC era of EDX, Coursera etc.), it is sadly <b>Ignorance, Stupidity & the Inability to #AskTheRightQuestion</b>.<br /><br />
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In our super connected (physical+informational+digital+economical ) world, the disconnect of cultural understanding & politician's like TrumpElect's previous peddling of racial/demographic/nationalism/ xenophobic hatred whilst ignoring human's existential risk is the biggest folly.<br /><br />
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2017 will never be a zero sum era, especially if people exhibit Gorilla Silverbacks' Chest beating and ground thumping behaviour.<br /><br />
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The Real danger for our world is illustrated perfectly in the brilliant DocuFilm by John Pilger <a href="http://thecomingwarmovie.com/">http://thecomingwarmovie.com/</a>,as once Nuclear nukes flies, it will not be the end of one nation but the World! Apparently we will NOT see the sun again for 1-3yrs (10yrs for fruit to grow again). Climate changed!<br /><br />
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China will not push the button first as can be seen by the constraint shown the return of the drone. UNLIKE the USA/west, despite not having the universal form of democracy west pushing China 'to' adopt (Must Read book by Francis Fukuyama's book on why might not work).<br /><br />
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Good Chinese emperors exhibited moral duty (if they have mandate from heaven) & take cautious & long term views, with hidden threats of harsh Nine familial exterminations 誅九族 sentence by next dynasty. Sadly Trump is not afraid of anything/anyone now and world will have to sadly accept the consequencesAI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-79395347103220264252016-12-05T15:46:00.001+00:002016-12-06T01:56:33.845+00:00My comments re #SelfChallenge #TakeResponsiblity & #AskTheRightQuestion, re Google, democracy and the truth about internet search | Technology | The Guardian<br />
Interesting Article on Guardian: <br />
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RT @M_Heffernan Time 4 Bing?? @carolecadwalla<a href="http://stfi.re/okwnabp"> #TruthAboutSearch </a>@martinjemoore @d1gi @dannysullivan <br />
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My comments <a href="https://discussion.theguardian.com/comment-permalink/88858477">on Guardian</a>:<br />
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Well pointed out indeed.<br />
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Internet however is still a tool, if search engines like Google proposes inappropriate 'nudges', and promote bad 'results' that influence people's thought/habit formation, it will bring about Brexit & Trumps (or worst help ISIS to recruit new members).<br />
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However, people will also have to take personal responsibility (or take heed of good guidance from parents/guardians), where if people were to 'ask' the right question, they would not be persuaded by the 'nudge' by Google's auto-fill question, nor would they be stupidly trusting any answers that come through the first search results page.<br />
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IMHO, your good article raising the fact, but solution might lies with people taking on a #SelfChallenge to #Self-Educate so they would #AskTheRightQuestion (like how to fix the world, rather than only changing it or how to hate others), and be able to discern the right answers from fake info. And maybe, a few of them will take the appropriate answer(s) and translate them into actions that will bring about positive impact and meaningful co-existence.<br />
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Sadly majority of the Brexit & Trump voters are not avid readers (if the allegations of the press is correct), therefore, your article & our comments are just another coexisting but distinct echo-chamber. We need everyone to be mobilised towards a directional & concrete goals, wonder whom might be the catalyst to bring that positive change? Do anyone know?<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Very much so, Just to clarify, I also agree that this is a HUGE & the Fundamental problem of our world, people not care, or care about the wrong thing, or worst don't think for themselves & choose to be influenced readily as it is the 'easier' option.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">It is sadly the wicked problem of individualism, putting unchecked greed, lack of ethics/family value, blinded democracy & neoliberalism as ultimate panacea, the consequence?: we now have an empowered potentially Alt-Right nationalistic nuclear warhead holding president elect Trump that might still do deals to benefit his own empire.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe in 15 years, the apparently previously bad guy of China might be the best 'model' that might be able to take leadership (especially re aspect of investing in renewable energy that might help delay climate change effect).</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The world IMHO need a new movement that will be even more expansive (but with a direction & goal) than #OccupyWallStreet, and indeed, likes of Facebook, Google, Apple can and MUST all play a major role in aiding people to #AskTheRightQuestion (& hopefully #DoTheRightThing) individually, if everyone take a small step in the right direction, we can then all play a major role in fixing our world's wicked problem!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">NB: do not forget, a community movement that fixed major long term problems of Central Park New York may provide a blue print of a bipartisan way of Fixing a systemic problem as long as the movement has the right 'goal' & right people/business/entities engaged, see <a href="http://stfi.re/zzwodok">http://stfi.re/zzwodok</a></span>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-60989784144179863742016-10-03T20:33:00.001+01:002016-10-03T20:33:09.787+01:00My Comments re Colombia’s Brexit moment as politicians misjudge popular anger at Farc amnesty | World news | The Guardian<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/03/colombias-peace-further-away-is-further-away-but-it-may-still#comment-84574200">Colombia’s Brexit moment as politicians misjudge popular anger at Farc amnesty | World news | The Guardian</a>: <br /><br />
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we must design better ways of running a country especially in a democracy which has been pushed by the west as the 'gold standard', which I hope is the case, but given Brexit, PossibleTrumpfGate and now 'democratic rejection of FARC' agreement, maybe most of us might not be asking the right question.<br /><br />
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Could the right question be, we must empower and HOLD personally accountable the politicians for their actions focusing on delivering:<br /><br />
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1.) Rule of law/Peace not war<br /><br />
2.) Safe & Secure Home<br /><br />
3.) enough food<br /><br />
4.) ways for populations to work hard to improve their lives and protecting their fruits of labour<br /><br />
5.) deliver appropriate regulations/punishments/enforcement for those that disrupt/threaten 1-4 above.<br /><br />
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Agreement with FARC is sadly the only first step and sadly when framed incorrectly, by government that people might not have best trust, I guess we cannot blame the people to 'vote' NO..<br /><br />
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Lets send our good wishes for the populations of Columbia, at least maybe in a tragic way, they are fairing much better than in Syria?<br /><br />
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AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-34882206226074552982016-05-13T01:53:00.001+01:002016-05-13T01:53:51.799+01:00My short comments on Cracks are appearing in fintech lenders — FT.com<a href="https://next.ft.com/content/028be304-1759-11e6-b197-a4af20d5575e#comments">Cracks are appearing in fintech lenders — FT.com</a>: <br /><br />
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<div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"> IMHO, it is very difficult and dangerous to 'band' all FinTech firms together as a single category.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Features of the "Elephant in the room" are these: </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">1.) no agreed definitions of 'FinTech' from P2P to Bitcoin (or latest 'hot cake' of Blockchain disciples)</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">2.) ALL FinTech firms claims to be doing something better/different, indeed, most try, but ALL still use banks other financial institutions (major to small players) to 'empower' them to 'disrupt' the industry</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">3.) almost all have been created with an exit in mind (to be bought in 3/5yrs or less, or exit via IPOs and become Unicorn)</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">4.) most investors/VCs and even Hedge-funds are friendly lambs with habit of shifting into Bison herding behaviour </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">5.) due to competition & scarcity of good deals, cross investments by star investors/VC firms means most firms, FinTech especially are likely to be me-too variety and none are created to truly fix nor disrupt anything, let alone the key plumbings of Finance. </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">If the above statements are true, then I can totally understand why Larry Fink created the annual CEO letter tradition as he is crying out for more good firms so he can invest in them (not only for those BlackRock already owns).</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">In short, we will keep on having these discussions (next will be about blockchain investments in 1-2yrs time), unless and until someone with true firepower dare to truly disrupt and fix finance. </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">My analogy for my senior C-level friends (from all industry) is this, Roman and Mongol Empire might have had the best 'Tech' of the day (Roman's had armour, spears, chariots, Mongols were great riders on fast horses,with special blades) but they had become great because they developed the right ecosystem & business model (new roads/infrastructure from Rome to all conquered countries, coins/currency to unify Roman empire economically, or adopt a counter-intuitive "Religiously Tolerant", Multi-faith stance across the Mongol empire despite Genghis Khan allegedly killed 40million people as he created the largest contiguous land empire in history).</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Therefore, question is not about whether cracks are forming in FinTech. We should take a step back & #AskTheRightQuestion, namely is the present FinTech a new 'Gold-Rush'? If so, maybe it is by design, that it is suppose to attract everyone, and once the rush takes hold, those that pivoted well and moved from "selling shuffles" to become speculators will all be making money. (a good piece on gold mine here: <a href="http://priceonomics.com/how-epic-fortunes-were-created-during-the/">http://priceonomics.com/how-epic-fortunes-were-created-during-the/</a> ) No doubt however many will fall on the wayside and lose from money/job to repulations (hopefully not their lives like in the old days).</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">Given how connected our world is so far, and our many billionaires world, I would like to take a more optimistic view, maybe it is time we all should #AskTheRightQuestion & thus #DoTheRightThing, why not challenge the top guys like Paypal Mafia to work together and develop a viable solution? (see my long blog post in 2014: <a href="http://garethcxo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/asktherightquestion-my-challenge-to.html">http://garethcxo.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/asktherightquestion-my-challenge-to.html</a> )</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">we can only hope. </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">BR</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">@GarethWong </div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: BentonSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">PS: Don't listen to me, if you are fellow City/Cass MBA Alumni, you are welcome to join our next non profit E/MBA club 27May free of charge (30th since started in 2005) focusing on "Truth of FinTech" with Samee Zafar of Edgar Dunn & Co. ( <a href="http://embaclubq2.eventbrite.co.uk/">http://embaclubq2.eventbrite.co.uk</a> )</div>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-5165634477189488622016-05-08T13:34:00.001+01:002016-05-08T13:34:42.506+01:00MY short comments on men should #Engage, find #Purpose #Mission and #SelfChallenge How to be a 21st-century caveman | The Sunday Times Magazine | The Times & The Sunday Times<a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/magazine/the-sunday-times-magazine/how-to-be-a-21st-century-caveman-p902pg93g">How to be a 21st-century caveman | The Sunday Times Magazine | The Times & The Sunday Times</a>: <br /><br />
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Some might not want to move, literally, if so, even standing would help. why no try 'standing like a tree' TaiJi /TaiChi #KungFu. YUP! no need to move.. believe me, it is a challenge, especially if you dare to stand for 60minutes plus! (HealthWarning: its recommended that you only start with few minutes or 10/15min max, please check with your doctor first!)</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">don't worry about not belonging to tribes as once you started a true hobby (especially martial arts) you will have many reasons (& peer pressure) to join the pack, mini-big-tribe activities (family is a must for sure!). </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">And find your personal mission so that collecting #WeeklySpears will become a doddle.. </div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;">For those that likes a challenge, I would like to refer you a rare long blog post I made on <a href="http://tiny.cc/1lesson" target="_blank">1 common lesson we can learn from</a><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://tiny.cc/1lesson" target="_blank"> Jim Marshall, Charles Darwin, Sir Winston Churchill , US presidents like JFK & FDR</a>.</span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">What do others think? </span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://twitter.com/GarethWong" target="_blank">@GarethWong</a></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; padding: 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></span></div>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-4969139843489911592016-03-20T04:53:00.001+00:002016-03-20T04:53:45.637+00:00My comments re Berkshire's Disintermediation: Warren Buffett's New Managerial Model …<a href="http://www.slideshare.net/aquamarine/berkshires-disintermediation-warren-buffetts-new-managerial-model-by-lawrence-cunningham">Berkshire's Disintermediation: Warren Buffett's New Managerial Model …</a>: <br /><br />
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Well spotted & shared, many thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/gspier" target="_blank">Guy</a>!<br /><br />
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yes, indeed. Brilliant & must read paper by Prof Lawrence Cunningham <a href="http://twitter.com/cunninghamprof" target="_blank">@cunninghamprof</a>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This Berkshire kingdom status quo will persists until there is a true alternative that promote long term profitable (not profiteering) firms that can truly bridge B2B & B2C client's trust. this can only be arrived when there is a better way to be rated, audited and listed, </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Sage of Omaha use of insurance float & deferred tax for cross financing is legendary but many family offices/Asian dynasties also adopt variations of the strategies mentioned. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Key difference is Warren's Berkshire shares are traded and not most of the Asian dynasties' holdings. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It would hopefully be many more years to come that Warren & Charlie will be our world's Sage (fingers crossed), question is, why is there not many other that 'truly emulate' them? </div><div><br /></div>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-20190151824001654282016-03-15T23:23:00.001+00:002016-03-16T00:16:16.130+00:00My Short blog on: Ideas Help No One on a Shelf. Take Them to the World. - The New York Times<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/dont-just-solve-a-problem-go-tell-the-world/?_r=0">Ideas Help No One on a Shelf. Take Them to the World. - The New York Times</a>: <br />
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Distribution of rubbish solution is also dangerous. Give people a well that they don't use or give solution to Diarrhea but not fixing the cause is also not good.<br />
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Our world is so connected & challenges we individually faced with are already overwhelming, reading this article or this comment of mine is already a lot for most, let alone investing time & effort to understand & 'truly' fix anything (esp those on our personal To-Do list).<br />
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We need therefore something stupid simple for EVERYONE to take part, I suggest people use 20% of their own leisure time to #SelfChallenge to do anything (ideally not stupid running on the spot or marathon watching kardashian's behind).<br />
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The more important you are, take on a bigger challenge (especially if you have influence, wealth, or followings), and coordinate with others, or challenge your peers to do more, please don't just donate to charity.. unless the charity's aim is to make itself redundant with a definite time-frame (10/20years?).<br />
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What we need is a call to action that will lead key people towards the right direction, in 2016, maybe it is time to adopt #FixTheWorld instead of non directional ChangeTheWorld which sadly has not fixed much so far?<br />
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I would recommend watching the video about philanthropy by 3 Buffetts on my blog post on LinkedIn: Tomorrowland Today.Must take opportunity to #Activate & #FixTheWorld ! <a href="http://bit.ly/24OlYaD">http://bit.ly/24OlYaD</a> *<br />
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My 2013 Short blog re challenge between Billionaires! <a href="http://bit.ly/1MlhOvx">http://bit.ly/1MlhOvx</a>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-51176133508390929762016-03-09T16:53:00.001+00:002016-03-09T16:53:44.274+00:00My comments on Green faces £80m BHS pensions bill | The Sunday Times#MustRead:<br /><br />
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Philip the Toga King & family is not great business people/retailer after all (except for their own family and offshore Monaco account)? </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial !important; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial !important; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">we must be missing something or is it that simple? selling it for £1 was indeed a brilliant magic trick! </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial !important; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial !important; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #4d4d4d; font-family: arial !important; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><br style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /></div>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-65990751196161606062016-02-21T13:50:00.001+00:002016-02-21T13:50:19.932+00:00My comments re Hong Kong’s old school entertainers clash with younger generation over political views | South China Morning Post<a href="http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-entertainment/article/1913450/hong-kongs-old-school-entertainers-clash-younger">Hong Kong’s old school entertainers clash with younger generation over political views | South China Morning Post</a>: <br /><br />
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If I was an alien from out of space, looking at how China run one of the biggest country of Earth in a disciplined & measured, orderly fashion of people's congress, compare to the sandals flying, punching & shouting parliaments of Taiwan and even United Kingdom, I would know what I prefer to watch just for the pure drama.<br /><br />
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<b>Youngsters & artists should help make hong kong better not only for hong kong people.</b><br /><br />
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Hong Kong has been great is because NOT only of its free speech, but Rule of Law, hard working ethics of the TRUE indigenous Hong Kong like myself, who grew up at council estates that has ONLY public toilet & bathrooms (think of the scenes of Stephen Chow's fantastic comedic but culturally accurate caricature film "Kung Fu Hustle" but in council estate blocks).<br /><br />
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I'm sadden to hear and observed that new generations of so called indigenous hong kong who do not focus on working hard or working out & proposing viable solution but adopting the militant ways that are likely to affect the rule of law and safety of all, which ultimately will start chain reactions that negatively affect Hong Kong's competitiveness from tourism to international trade and relations with China (who has many other problems to deal with).<br /><br />
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<b>We should not focus on solely buying flats or being rich as reported but focus on working hard, self improve and create better opportunities without using violence.</b><br /><br />
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#MustWATCH classics by Sam Hui 許冠傑: 應該要自愛 https://youtu.be/DLp6eIEzq3Y 搵野做 + 学生哥+父母恩<br /><br />
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It maybe time that stars of HongKongWood, to Bollywood and even Hollywood should help get people to think right and ask the right questions... I've been told by Prof Luigi Zingales' insights, the wider world (esp. popular culture and celebrities) could help by producing something useful, insightful, like the Margot Robbie's bubble bath scene that explains sub-prime:<br /><br />
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Night clubs has bouncers to keep out the unruly customers, most would agree that is a good rule?<br />
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Elon acting as bouncer himself IMHO could be the most respect he could give to what he considers as unruly customer.
Question lies in whether like night clubs if he has set the rules of what is acceptable and what is unruly. This article could have asked a better question, rather than using sensationalism regarding wealth and rudeness?<br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/ElonMusk" target="_blank">@ElonMusk</a> is brave, brilliant, but may have wrong goals in spending billions in sending people to Mars, when he could have spent the money and intelligent to help save our Earth, but that is another question altogether.<br />
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(I think Elon rightly consider that the blogger is rather influential and most people would not read further than the headline, because apparently <a href="http://mashable.com/2016/02/03/tesla-refuses-rude-customer/#xsxGRpunoiqo" target="_blank">"His post ends up with praise for Tesla and its Model X"</a>. )<br />
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How about keeping it stupid simple..? just like dogs fouling, fine the dog's owners.. but in case of plastic bottles & packaging (as seen in <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/19/more-plastic-than-fish-in-the-sea-by-2050-warns-ellen-macarthur#comment-67088569" target="_blank">picture in the above article on guardian</a>) fine the brand producers of the bottles/packaging locally?<br />
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<b>PS: don't forget, we won't have coral probably by 2050!</b> (Coral Reefs May Be Gone By 2050: Study <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/25/coral-reefs-may-be-gone-b_n_827709.html">www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/25/coral-reefs-may-be-gone-b_n_827709.html</a> )<br />
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<br />AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-88353090830531859792015-12-22T12:35:00.001+00:002015-12-22T12:36:46.919+00:00My short comments, lets not be juvenile & be responsible Adults!? Amazon’s Bezos taunts Musk over SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landing<a href="http://www.cnbc.com/2015/12/22/amazons-bezos-taunts-musk-over-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-landing.html">Amazon’s Bezos taunts Musk over SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landing</a>: <br />
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Congrat to both, lets not be juvenile. both have done well! but to what end? go die on Mars? Why spend so much on the noah' ark to the pink desert, and try to save our own green but greying planet??<br />
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We need to challenge the top guys to work on a solution together.. maybe to adopt #FixTheWorld narrative in 2016!? instead of non-directional #ChangeTheWorld ?? <br />
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We must carry on, unite and be strong... France Strong. Vive la France!</div>
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/vive-la-france-stylianos-antalis">Vive la France!</a>: <br />
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For sure. Our prayers are with all of our family & friends in Paris. As my sister-in-law says it best (in French), I'm paraphrasing here: "We must live normally & not live in fear." Vive La France indeed!<br />
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Be Strong and hopefully by 2016, we can all spare 10-20% of our spare time (lets ditch the trash TV) to help figure out ways to help #FixTheWorld, our present 21st century easy narrative of only "changing the world" & help the disadvantaged is sadly NOT working (very fine line between haves & have nots). <br />
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WE together must create some grass root activities to form some kind of 'Good-had' (reach those lost youths before they get brainwashed).<br />
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ISIS is winning with their Jihad "Engagement4destruction+hate", we must counter that somehow & create an Engagement4Good movement, what I called "Good R US" or "<a href="http://twitter.com/Be_champion" target="_blank">Be Champion</a>". (for my CXO leaders/ family foundation friends who can make this a reality, please give me a shout!)<br />
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As it may only take the potentially lost people to challenge themselves physically (in martial art like Tai-chi or Parkour),or read a book like Dale Carnegie's "How to win friends... " or read/listen:<br />
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1.) @BBCNews Can psychology help solve long-running conflicts? <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-34670525">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-34670525</a> or BBC podcast: Analysis, Will They Always Hate Us? http://bbc.in/1WHd0VD<br />
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2.) RT @GarethWong #MustRead Need2FindSolution @danroth .@CassSunstein updates his famous essay on #RootsOfTerrorism: #WhyTheyHateUs. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-hate-us-cass-sunstein">https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-hate-us-cass-sunstein</a><br />
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Be strong, but hope people will be inspired to take appropriate actions if only initially to find out/investigate what are our world's "Wicked problems" and devise likely solutions that we all can collaborate on.<br />
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Hopefully we can together prevent further atrocities & massacres by building a stronger cohesive positive community worldwide.AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-74168261034736895612015-11-01T01:39:00.001+00:002015-11-02T14:27:12.574+00:00My comments on great LinkedIn post by Fred Destin on "How we can thrive in a world of Chaos", re possible "Flow Addiction", & success due to Seemingly Unachievable Mission#MustRead Linkedin post by Fred Destin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-we-can-thrive-world-chaos-fred-destin">How we can thrive in a world of Chaos</a>: <br />
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(Great talk/video below, but parental advisory re some language used.)<br />
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/107346726">Fred Destin – You need to embrace chaos to succeed</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/mindtheproduct">MindTheProduct</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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Well said Fred Destin <a href="http://twitter.com/fdestin" target="_blank">@fdestin</a><br />
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great thought leaders mentioned, also elaborated by authors like Steve Kotler on his book called Superhuman etc. curious though that no one talk about the likelihood of and danger of 'addiction' to the adrenalin and Flow state, as Csikszentmihalyi (in Boniwell, 2008: 28) was aware of the dangers of flow and wrote 'enjoyable activities that produce flow have a potentially negative effect: while they are capable of improving the quality of existence by creating order in the mind, they can become addictive, at which point the self becomes captive of a certain kind of order, and is then unwilling to cope with the ambiguities of life.'<br />
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Parental advise for some language, a good podcast with Steven Kotler on addictiveness of flow state:<br />
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Separately, I was particularly impressed with your last comment about parenting, in order for kids to have/gain Grit & determinations, it means parents must have courage to empower them to challenge themselves & their children.. sadly most parents are too protective or prefer to take easier paths (why force the kids!?)... as Parents, do you dare to ban/limit your kids from Technology? Steve did! (<a href="http://nyti.ms/1qGOkkg" target="_blank">Steve Jobs Was a Low-Tech Parent</a> on NYTimes )<br />
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Pre-requisite is that parents & kids themselves have to DECIDE they wanted to gain (& willing to work for) grit though, everyone must #SelfChallenge : (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxkUv5PKano" target="_blank">see video: Angela Duckworth | What Is Grit and How Can You Learn It?</a> )<br />
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IMHO, I would like to argue that same analogy should also be extended to how entrepreneurs create and setup firms, in my proposed theory of <a href="http://twitter.com/CorpParent" target="_blank">@CorpParent</a> (<a href="http://www.corporateparenthood.org/">www.CorporateParenthood.org</a> keen to have yours and others' feedback ) most firms would take 8 to 10years to become an independent, value adding and hopefully profitable firm, but sadly most do not survive past 18years of age. <br />
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Good firms need great entrepreneurs to create the right culture/goals/missions for not only the founders but also the followers, look at Steve, Tony & Jeff etc.<br />
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In our age of endemic short-term-ism, thinking along the line of parenthood might just be a better way of re-defining CSR/ESGs going forward, as we are faced with daily challenges as parents and as business leaders.<br />
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Greatest firms of our time however cannot be formed only by 'Clear, ambitious but attainable goals' only though, as goal of creating iPad as Steve perceived even before 80s.. (<a href="http://lifelibertytech.com/2012/10/02/the-lost-steve-jobs-speech-from-1983-foreshadowing-wireless-networking-the-ipad-and-the-app-store/" target="_blank">see The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wifi, the iPad, & the App Store</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/marcelbrown" target="_blank">@marcelbrown </a>)<br />
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I would argue that his vision back then was akin to the <a href="http://tiny.cc/1lesson" target="_blank">Seemingly Unachievable Mission I described on my first Linkedin post</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://twitter.com/GarethWong" target="_blank">@GarethWong</a>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-9555764182811695282015-08-13T03:26:00.001+01:002015-08-13T03:39:24.247+01:00My comments for this thought provoking post: Is the New Google More Like Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric or AT&T? - The New York Times<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/12/upshot/is-the-new-google-more-like-berkshire-hathaway-general-electric-or-att.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&abt=0002&abg=1&_r=0">Is the New Google More Like Berkshire Hathaway, General Electric or AT&T? - The New York Times</a>: <br />
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Its a thought provoking post, but thats because we might be comparing apple, oranges and other fruits that we do not know name of yet... thought provoking all the same.<br />
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Google is profitable (in search), as its the only game in town now that delivers (so far). so, can't blame them for restructuring for the future.. as their future could easily be taken away by something disruptive (e.g. a firm that only takes money when transaction is done, rather than eyeballs/click through).. I certainly hope they can do more to help #FixTheWorld rather than only trying to change it!<br />
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Warren's BH is also only game in town (in finance), but its a cash-flow and trust arbitrage, it is not even a conglomerate (as Warren is very hands-off as mentioned), so, it is trading for long term but mostly to prop up the share price of Berkshire Hathaway, as he can shift Cash-flow/Debt/Derivatives instruments to make sure everything goes well.. I'm told that just the news of Warren's investment itself is a market making event.. brilliant position to be in.. that is as long as the ratings and auditing markets continues not to deliver.<br />
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Conglomerates like "The old GE" does not exist much now (except family dynasties and family offices) as "church of new finance" <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/10082397545" title=""Church of new finance" slide, by Prof Clayton Christensen, IMG_0181"><img alt=""Church of new finance" slide, by Prof Clayton Christensen, IMG_0181" height="214" src="https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3702/10082397545_fde01806bd_n.jpg" width="320" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> of neo liberal economics meant maximising "Return on Investment"(keeping Debt as high as possible), "Share price" and return for shareholders takes priority over long term future of the company itself, hence the demise of major conglomerates like GEC/Marconi etc. That said, Jack Welch who presided over downsizing GE from hundreds of subsidiaries to 15. Jack might be a millionaire and celebrities now but some argue that he destroyed GE (The Man Who Destroyed GE <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/the-man-who-destroyed-ge-2009-3">http://www.businessinsider.com/the-man-who-destroyed-ge-2009-3</a> ) It took Jeff Immelt years to sort out GE ( <a href="https://hbr.org/2015/04/selling-ge-capital-was-both-a-brave-and-a-good-idea">https://hbr.org/2015/04/selling-ge-capital-was-both-a-brave-and-a-good-idea</a> )<br />
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[Of course thats why the rich are not keen to reinvest due to this Capitalist's dilemma: <a data-flickr-embed="true" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/9716319428" title="Brilliant analysis by Prof Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School on world's economic engine, from empowering innovation to sustaining & efficiency innovations.. why world awash with "cash" but no job creation! "Capitalist's Dilemma" IMG_0208"><img alt="Brilliant analysis by Prof Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School on world's economic engine, from empowering innovation to sustaining & efficiency innovations.. why world awash with "cash" but no job creation! "Capitalist's Dilemma" IMG_0208" height="188" src="https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5536/9716319428_10d71bc9c7_n.jpg" width="320" /></a><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js"></script> which I have a solution of course, do ping me a message if you want to hear more or think you can help].<br />
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Sadly not many senior executives are given the long time horizon and ownership that Jeff Immelt afford, therefore, I totally appreciate and respect what Larry & Sergei is doing structure wise.<br />
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In summary, all these are too intricately linked.. as long as Google/alpahbet is investing for the future and truly do no evil and focus on helping to #FixOurWorld .. the more the merrier, I say!?<br />
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<br />AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-32943492923526900272015-07-23T22:47:00.001+01:002015-07-23T22:47:59.620+01:00My comments re people need to be challenged, Lets aim for Trilicon that do good? re Can we build an Alibaba in Europe? | Davor Hebel | LinkedIn<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-we-build-alibaba-europe-davor-hebel?trk=hp-feed-article-title-like">Can we build an Alibaba in Europe? | Davor Hebel | LinkedIn</a>: <br /><br />
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Many congratulations Davor Hebel, its been years since we met briefly in 2007, you've achieved much! ;-)<br /><br />
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Indeed, the ecosystem in Europe (particularly UK has improved dramatically) given all the great works many others initiatives from privately hosted functions like mine to Brent Hoberman 's Founders Forum etc. We can certainly do more, but maybe not only have initiatives or gatherings, but entrepreneurs and VCs/PEs/Family foundations all should challenge themselves more.<br /><br />
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(especially for those exited, I would say a good % of them would become tax exile and given the anonymity afforded, they would only engage within their comfort zone, thus less could be achieved. of course, vice versa, in the valley given the hugely competitive nature, everyone is investing into the limited supply of good companies, & thus we have either group think/lemmings behaviour or "Lets invest in 150firms this year" approach).<br /><br />
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IMHO, it might not be Alibaba of Europe that we all are looking for, nor are we looking for the great Unicorns only (think coined by our friend Dan Primack & Erin Griffith)..<br /><br />
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In order to learn why Alibaba become successful, I would recommend you & others to watch the eloquent Jack Ma explaining his personal & business ethos (馬雲與青年有約: HKG <a href="https://youtu.be/AMzeQgCxQfE">https://youtu.be/AMzeQgCxQfE</a> Taiwan: <a href="https://youtu.be/_dUZzcoCcuk">https://youtu.be/_dUZzcoCcuk</a> ) you can see that potential reasons for his success so far (its rather philosophical, sounds very normal & poetic in mandarin, not pretentious at all): paraphrasing: 1.) having the right goal/mission, 2.) challenge self 3.) play long term game and do something. Particularly he explains how DataTechnology 利他 (differentiated from IT 利自) becomes key & for people to take full responsibility, transparency & fixing specific social issues of the market (hence unless he can elaborate that in English and audience resonates... Alibaba might not be able to gain similar success in the western world).<br /><br />
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It is certainly great to have all these buzz about FinTech, Ed/AdTech and unicorn talks.. but unless we challenge ourselves and aim a lot higher, we would sadly still end up with the so so me-too products/services.. (that might still be unicorn)<br /><br />
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Case in point, given the accounting scandal of Toshiba/Tesco, any startup fixing that? <br /><br />
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As Jack elude to, future great companies might be coming from firms that truly fix our world's problems ... and maybe those that are not created for valuations and good multiples in exits.. they would probably be forming in intersection of social/behavioural/responsible and business+tech..<br /><br />
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Maybe it is time that we aim for having a few Trilicon (trillion dollar cash, not valuation) that fix our worlds' systemic problems/challenges? Your £150m could become the thought leader..! ;-)<br /><br />
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AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-30618794730714744222015-07-21T07:41:00.001+01:002015-07-21T07:41:28.823+01:00Tomorrowland Today.Must take opportunity to #Activate & #FixTheWorld ! | Gareth Wong | LinkedIn<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tomorrowland-todaymust-take-opportunity-activate-fixtheworld-wong">Tomorrowland Today.Must take opportunity to #Activate & #FixTheWorld ! | Gareth Wong | LinkedIn</a>: <br /><br />
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(reposting from my LinkedIn pulse post. Lets see which one takes more traffic!?)<br /><br />
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Despite some mixed reviews, I would recommend you to watch the new film Tomorrowland, but I would suggest you to have a think about the thoughts of this article and comment below to see if you agree with me.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For me, goal of this post is one of engagment: I would rather 100% of people that read this article would make time to read/internalise, and engage with the thoughts/challenges I am highlighlighting (like having a chat/coffee with me). Rather than this post becoming viral and no one cares, kind of a pay per click model, which most are bots and and no one really transacts? ;-) </div><h3 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">My main comment, with the reach of Disney, mind-share/engagement of this film Tomorrowland and future releases: <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I would implore Damon Lindelof, Brad Bird, Jeffrey Chernov to do more, maybe director's cut of this film. Or create another new format/story that <span class="underline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;">propose </span></strong></em><span class="underline" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">people with "Clear", "Actionable" challenges and "impactful goals" for all</strong></em>.</span> Let me explain: </h3><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Other than Forrest Gump, "The Incredibles" has always been one of my most favourite film of all time. Love the feel good sentiments and acting of Tom Hanks in Gump (& great animations & storyline of The Incredibles), common to both are the simple messages, entertaining and for all ages!</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I think Damon & Brad had their goals in the right place, as explained in their talk at Google (most might not have seen/aware of the key messages though, wonder if you noticed!? if you have seen the film?): </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; 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background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, I would like to argue that ontop of great entertainment & having a good time (love that for sure!), more can be done in terms of "Call to Action" and how best to leverage media/entertainment power of Disney (& other studios) for good:</div><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">#FixTheWorld</strong> by [<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEEMA</strong>] Challenge → Engagement → Entertaining → Memborable → "Actionable" </h2><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In 2015, almost all of the problems the world faced with are very intrinsically linked and interdependent, see the World Economic Forum's Global Risk 2015 report (<a href="http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Global_Risks_2015_Report15.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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vertical-align: baseline;">We have so many great documentaries (1yr ago: <a href="http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">YearsOfLivingDangerously </a><a href="https://youtu.be/brvhCnYvxQQ" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Video</a> to even in China this year: <a href="https://youtu.be/xbK4KeD2ajI" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">柴静雾霾调查:穹顶之下</a> ), TED talks and films talking about climate change, carbon/water/land footprint, economy and political challenges of our world.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">All of the programs mentioned serve to inform (but majority of people are not able to interpret the answers, let alone understand or identify with /or take action re best solution). I would like to submit that great films should not only be entertaining, emotive but also play a role in providing viable goals to help #FixingOurWorld<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(#ChangeTheWorld is so passé, as everyone can observed by scanning the news/researches that #ChangeTheWorld movement has failed, no!?!) </em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Therefore, I humbly submit that in order to start first steps of #FixingOurWorld, likes of Damon & Brad and other creatives can play major #WorldSaving role.</strong> </em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They can easily help by raising awareness of big issues of the world (from how to bring up children to how to stay healthy or lose weight to fixing Climate change), but it is important that they play a role in encouraging people to care enough (or <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">be challenged</strong></em>or <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">self-challenge</em></strong>) to <em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">make time</strong> </em>to </div><ol style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4f51; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Engage (possibly via active learning/research) by entertainment (ART/media/literature)</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Learn & Internalise (key issues & possible solutions): insights need to be assimilated (memorable entertainment/ fact based documentary!?) </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Action: viable, and clear "call-to-action" (self-created after actions 1+2, or suggested by great films that people want to engage with)</li>
</ol><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[ I firmly believe people can become great but need to self-challenge, see my previous<a href="http://tiny.cc/1lesson" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Linkedin post on why and how Jim Marshall, Darwin, Sir Winston Churchill, even Presidents like JFK & FDR became successful, by using the rule "Forti-SUM-Love</a>". ] </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://pix.garethwong.com/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="center" data-loading-tracked="true" height="392" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAKDAAAAJDY2MDg4ZTQ5LWVkZTQtNGU2ZC04ZjZiLTU1YjZhNjI0MzE5MA.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="588" /></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">E.g. We cannot get a better Motto/One-liner in a great uplifting Forrest Gump: "<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are gonna get!"</em></strong> (guess we can interpret the motto as just be "focus", run and and work hard!?)</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Idea and premise of Tomorrowland is brilliant, I would however like to see more CEEMA and get people to #AskTheRightQuestion and hope to choose to act and #DoTheRightThing.. but maybe it was an impossible task to achieve in two hours!?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lNzukD8pS_s?wmode=transparent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dreamers fails (without hardwork+grit)</h2><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lets be realistic, if Brad, Damon & Jeffrey didn't work hard, we would not have had the pleasure of seeing The Incredibles, Lost and new StarTrek..</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They have explained in the google talk above is to encourage people to dream and take control and go out to create.. not sure if the masses would get that message as clearly Frank was a genius (& sadly I am not!).</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If I may, Dreamers that have no grit is like Tiger without teeth, useless and will starve to death (unless there is a good welfare state)</em></strong>. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indeed, we must stress that <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">our world needs more dreamers that dare to dream<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and work hard</em></strong>, but IMHO, we ideally should increase the dreamers' gene pool, challenge everyone to challenge themselves to be more meaningful and impactful.. (<a href="http://www.bechampion.org%20/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">www.BeChampion.org </a>) thus we can have a bigger target audience for Athena 2.0 to pick to help #FixTheWorld? (those of you that have not seen the movie yet will understand once you have seen the movie).</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If Brad, Damon & Jeffrey, you are reading this and interested, I have already devised a great story "<strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The True Shangri-la vs Mind War</strong>" (could be adapted to The Incredibles Chapter 2) that should help this cause! we need to engage with behaviourial+ +economists+psychologists+scientists to devise best story line (based on solid researches) to aide the goal of #FixingTheWorld. </em></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I would implore all creatives worldwide from singers songwriters, to authors and Captain of the industries (CXOs) and even politicians and True Philanthropists to challenge themselves to be better & more Impactful, but in a coordinated fashion, as per discussion by the 3 Buffetts (even billionaires who signed the giving pledge need to communicate & coordinate their efforts much more.) [Excerpt embedded below, but <a href="http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/warren-buffett-howard-g-buffett-howard-w-buffett-tom-brokaw-0" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">I recommend the full video here</a>. ]</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AjvNPXuA7as?wmode=transparent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[<a href="http://www.nypl.org/audiovideo/warren-buffett-howard-g-buffett-howard-w-buffett-tom-brokaw-0" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Full video explains much better here</a>.]</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In our world where a lot of charities that has more cash/endowment than governments, why do most still fixate on raising more money and not focus on truly fixing the issues/problems and thus make themselves redundant? </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Context & Scale is therefore also key question to ask, as William Shawcross, present chair of UK's Charity commission mentioned that in one of <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/lord-mayors-charity-leadership-programme-william-shawcross" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">his speech</a> people donate twice to animal causes than to help the homeless. Can we blame people if they did not know what question to ask? Paramount then that we all should learn to #AskTheRightQuestion, entertainment industry should be able to help!</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WE have too many initiatives now (from new forms of capitalism to charitable foundations). Tech market analogy: worst thing our society need is thousands of startups that focus on creating for good valuations and exits, as best tools and initiatives could be used wrongly /to achieve wrong goals.. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://flic.kr/p/hCF1nA" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="center" data-loading-tracked="true" height="353" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAMaAAAAJDFhZDM0ZDMxLWM0MGYtNDU0Ni1iZjM5LWE5ZGIzMGQwYjdiZA.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="588" /></a></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have seen many community leaders and business leaders spent time (& resources) in supporting charity in exotic locations but neglecting to help those in need close by (who might have to resort to crime for food/shelter in the future?). It is common sense that people to first want to care, engage, search for, get to know and contribute via great initiatives like <a href="https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the Giving what we can initiative</strong></em></a> which aid finding the most efficient way to find the best charity to offer their assistance for the most impact. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only then can we start looking at bigger question & world issues like Inequalities, & devise possible solutions. As mentioned by the WEF report above, world problems are not insulated any longer. For example, when the western world focused on "Fixing Iraq" by removing Saddam, they would not have know Camp Bucca could incubate the present ISIS. Some might argue that given western society did not promote core family values or society cohesion (President Lee of Singapore was right to have 1/3 racial rules!), the youth of the fringe are much more likely to sought out the 'ideal' society, and are easily enticed by messages of ISIS?</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Surely with mind-share power of likes of Disney+other creatives, it is about time to energise youths and adults alike to find good + challenge/nurture themselves, the creation & promotion of a '<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Goodhad Movement' </strong></em>might be the right thing to do in 2015 to secure a safe and sustainable future for future generations? (not Arabic speaker myself but what might be the positive word of "reverse of Jihad"?)</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Given all the great minds of our world (all disciplines), we should mobilise them and challenge each other to find Solutions <a href="http://tiny.cc/ToLast" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">ToLast</a> as Prof Jeffrey Sachs explain, the solution might come from Social (not the Arab Spring type though as they have succeed by wrong KPI I was told). </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cwY3GI8lPEc?wmode=transparent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Real issues and problems of our world is in fact money and capital market (ontop of political & policies), as all the billions/trillions which are systemically linked. It must be fixed. I shall expand more in the coming post. </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(A couple of great lectures included below as bonus for those of you that cared & want to make time to understand more.. I would like to argue that our world need truly cross disciplines viable solutions yesterday!).</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Si4iyyJDa7c?wmode=transparent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">If we can</div><ol style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4d4f51; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">truly rely on governments (who can think, act and implement long term policies), </li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ensure corporations cannot use trade deals (to be signed TTIP & TPP & ISDS) to bypass national laws and/or</li>
<li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">find viable solutions to fix "Transfer Pricing",</li>
</ol><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">then probably the proposed 15 points solutions by Prof Tony Atkinson (embedded below) would work (I am probably wrong as I have not yet read his new book yet.): </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/KhKcjzz2Myg?wmode=transparent" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="560"></iframe></div><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 34px; margin: 0px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Timing</h2><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"It has taken less than eight months for humanity to use up nature’s entire budget for the year and go into ecological overshoot, according to data from Global Footprint Network, an international sustainability think tank with offices in North America, Europe and Asia." see <a href="http://www.footprintnetwork.org/images/article_uploads/EarthOvershootDay_2014_PR_General.pdf" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rest of PR</a>.</div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="center" data-loading-tracked="true" height="318" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAMgAAAAJDc0MGZhMzE0LTVlYmEtNGNlNy04N2E1LTFiZTM5MTBmZDNlMw.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="588" />We don't have a lot time, as in 3months (August) we would used up more than our world's resources (overshoot). </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">WE need solution yesterday, only dreaming is not good enough anymore, the world need the right Coordinated Actions in 2015! </div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/earth_overshoot_day/" rel="nofollow" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #96999c; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><img alt="" class="center" data-loading-tracked="true" height="454" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_800_800/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAL6AAAAJGY1MTY0Mzk1LWVjZjAtNGM3Yi1iNzRjLTBmZTY1ZDViMjU0Mw.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 15px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="588" /></a></div><h2 style="background-attachment: initial; 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background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Question:</strong> Mr & Ms Creatives, you dare to have a <strong style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CEEMA </strong>Year!? 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background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #232629; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="left" data-loading-tracked="true" height="275" src="https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/shrinknp_400_400/p/3/005/0a5/2cc/216a120.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: auto; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 30px 15px 0px; max-width: 100%; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="183" />Gareth Wong is Founder of GamBond®, arguably the only firm worldwide that aims to fix the financial market for good by creating a long term focused financial ecosystem (an alternative for mid-market+ firms to be rated, audited & listed). Ultimately GamBond® is creating nearly "risk-free" alternative & sustainable financial instruments, could be better than even government issued Treasury bonds. Our financial instruments are comparatively insulated by market volatility and true systemic market risks. 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The internet is the answer to all the questions of our time | Technology | The Guardian<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/15/internet-answer-questions-of-our-time">The internet is the answer to all the questions of our time | Technology | The Guardian</a>: <br />
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Yes agree</div>
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1) internet is used as a tool<br />
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3) engage with all (not only those that could afford it)</div>
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People still need to #SelfChallenge to decide what they want in their lives thus use the Internet or other tools to achieve their chosen goals.</div>
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You can ask those big questions you mentioned re Climate/capitalism etc. Even to key guys at #COP21 or bankers/finance professors.. you still need the knowledge+insights+wider understanding to interpret the reply based on your personal backgrounds + experiences.. (believe me, I've met many!)</div>
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Internet by itself sadly won't solve this, there is no easy solution but only one with some efforts required.</div>
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Namely, people sadly will have to #challenge themselves and use the Internet to absorb wider knowledge (Not from only one source like the extremists) and try to fllow curated knowledge or self-curated knowledge thus insights and hopefully adopt the correct Actions (or for those action oriented: insights by doing). </div>
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It's time to adopt some lifetime goals by being "self aware" thus seeking the right knowledge+goals+actions.. Internet is the perfect platform to empower that, don't forget even Steve Jobs had studied (he dropped out to save parents money but stayed for 18mths to learn what he thought was good by not paying! Respect for him doing what's righ, namely getting knowledge for minimum price without stealing!).<br />
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Question is why those in-need at present (from unemployed to those addicted to Reality shows like Kadasians/STARSuckers) challenge themselves to be next steve jobs (don't pay and learn) if they have access to internet, great courses on EDX/Coursera/HavardX etc.? </div>
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So, goals + #SelfChallenge is more key.. Internet is only secondary in comparison. One must #SelfNudge4Good !? See <a href="http://twitter.com/Be_champion" target="_blank">@Be_Champion</a> </div>
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What do you think Cory!?</div>
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<a href="http://twitter.com/GarethWong" target="_blank">@GarethWong</a></div>
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or see my post of same comments on Cory's site: <i><a href="http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/the-internet-may-not-be-the-question-but-its-the-answer/59643">http://bbs.boingboing.net/t/the-internet-may-not-be-the-question-but-its-the-answer/59643</a> </i><br />
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MY 1st LinkedIn Post: #SimpleIdea2015: 1 Lesson from Jim Marshall, Darwin, Sir Winston Churchill, Presidents JFK & FDR <a href="http://tiny.cc/1lesson">http://tiny.cc/1lesson</a><br />
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My 2nd LinkedIn Post: Tomorrowland Today.Media+Entertainment sectors Must take opportunity to #Activate & #FixTheWorld ! <a href="http://tiny.cc/2morrow">http://tiny.cc/2morrow</a> </div>
AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-70206162989620002832015-05-31T13:41:00.001+01:002015-06-01T12:35:57.882+01:00My Challenge for the luminaries: Hunting for next Google | The Sunday Times<br />
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It has appointed Simon Calver, who led the film rental service Lovefilm until its sale to Amazon in 2011, to run the fund alongside Balderton Capital investor Harry Briggs, and Rory Stirling from MMC Ventures. Cheques between £500,000 and £5m will be handed out from the autumn."</div>
for more, must read: <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/Tech_and_Media/article1562470.ece">Hunting for next Google | The Sunday Times</a>:<br />
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Its a good sign.. step towards the right direction..</div>
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I may be wrong in predicting end of Facebook by 2019 (five years from 2013) </div>
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IMHO biggest opportunities in tech are still:<br />
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1) End to End trust and security ecosystem </div>
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2) "Reverse of search" (yup: antithesis of google) are the future, sadly limited of firms are in that space!</div>
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Would £200m be enough? Can London/UK dare to do that? </div>
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Fact of the matter is that we need more competitions and collaborations between all VCs/Angels and HNWs towards the right goals/ecosystems. Trying to make similar apps and P2P fintech that still use the same banking backbones just not ambitious enough.. (which is the firm that are fixing the financial market's systemic risks at the billion/trillion level?)</div>
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Learning from Charity/Philanthropy sector: Its like focusing on FundRaising, rather than fixing the problems/cause... UK is now making enough noises and creating enough news about funds and Tech-City etc., now might be the time to pick a direction/goals that all can be measured against.. </div>
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Title of this post is a good one. lets aim to create a better model that spells end of /better version of Google? </div>
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My slight challenge to the luminaries in Tech, Do we/anybody dare? </div>
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PS: Tech industry alone cannot fix everything, it must be done in conjunction/collaboration with other industries like media/entertainment & disciplines like behaviour science+humanities, see my challenge for those industry+thought leaders re Tomorrowland Today: <a href="http://tiny.cc/2morrow">http://tiny.cc/2morrow</a></div>
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Everyone should challenge themselves first and foremost, see my last blog on #SimpleIdea2015: 1 Lesson from Jim Marshall,Darwin,Churchill,JFK & FDR <a href="http://tiny.cc/1lesson">http://tiny.cc/1lesson</a>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167854015083616304.post-36421948084832066452015-02-27T13:09:00.001+00:002015-02-28T02:14:24.808+00:00My comments to support @BBCDragonsDen & Challenge for Enterpreneurs to #ChallengeYourself Welcome to the Dragons' Den of broken dreams - Telegraph<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/festival-of-business/11425274/Welcome-to-the-Dragons-Den-of-broken-dreams.html">Welcome to the Dragons' Den of broken dreams - Telegraph</a>: <br />
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1.) Dragons Den is mainly an entertainment program that chase ratings (as pointed out) viewers should not consider it anything else</div>
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2.) When it was first put together, the max investment proposed was £25,000. (yes I was approached) which shows they focus on half baked lifestyle businesses, so, really NOT in the VC territories and it still shows</div>
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3.) true & good operators in the Angel/VC/family office worlds would avoid publicity and just focus on their present job which has hundreds of good deal flows anyway</div>
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4.) Some dragons are better than others, I have not met any of the present dragons (not followed much since 1st series, love Duncan's new hair though!) but I met some previous ones, and a lot of UK business people who are much richer would understandably avoid the program like a plague</div>
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5.) due to 1.) + 2.) as this great article and Dan of Tiger mobile pointed out, they would invariably select not so great entrepreneurs /companies</div>
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6.) due to 4.) invariably they would select most entrepreneurs who are not as clever as the stars of dragon's Den. </div>
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Truth is that @BBCDragonsDen is a light entertainment program through and through: that mostly been designed to humiliate (sadly) not ready entrepreneurs (get good viewership) and sometimes educate non business viewers.</div>
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If people want to truly learn about ideas, business, how to grow, expand, I would recommend watching many other programs or engage with offline events, from other great BBC Stables like Peter Day's World of Business, Evan Davis' other program The Bottom Line, to <a href="http://twitter.com/nesta_uk" target="_blank">@Nesta_UK</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/TheRSAOrg" target="_blank">@TheRSAOrg</a> or even online courses from major universities <a href="http://twitter.com/edXOnline" target="_blank">@EdX</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/Coursera" target="_blank">@Coursera</a> etc. some selected good programmes I have been are listed on my public twitter feed <a href="http://twitter.com/CXOEurope" target="_blank">@CXOEurope</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/CXOAsia" target="_blank">@CXOAsia</a> and especially good ones on <a href="http://twitter.com/Be_Champion" target="_blank">@Be_Champion</a> </div>
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BBC Dragon's Den is a successful program, and I would think it serves its purpose to engage with people who do not think much about business. We do need however other business programs to tackle the key issues of how to do better business, and #AskTheRightQuestions and #DoTheRightThing </div>
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Following same rules to target major new markets, IMHO some dragons might not even make it by themselves, hence understandably, it is much easier for them to "invest" and get a piece with other people's work at the same time become a TV star and get even more invites to functions. </div>
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<a href="http://shar.es/1mj01v" target="_blank">Redefining capitalism</a></h1>
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<a href="http://shar.es/1mj01v" target="_blank">Despite its ability to generate prosperity, capitalism is under attack. By shaking up our long-held assumptions about how and why the system works, we can improve it.</a></h2>
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My comments added to this thread: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/nhome/updates?topic=activity%3A5926382521540452352&activity=activity%3A5927042686782574592&start=0&count=10&paginationToken=f3f07af4d89babb2413accecabda9518">Network Update Discussion | LinkedIn</a>:<br />
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Rory Sutherland Will Novosedlik there is not any easy answer, as I have done an executive MBA in finance, and now claim to have contacts (& even few friends) in senior positions in Banking/investment banking/ insurance/ stock markets/regulators/brokers/pension funds/family wealth/HNW/UHNW/billionaires to family dynasties to ultra poor and middle class people.. everyone has their own view of good/bad capitalism.. of course, John Kay <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="150" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/8411772818/in/photolist-dPjwZQ-dPaJ9W-dP5a42/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="150"></iframe> as quoted by Rory is one of the best guy. but none encapsulate better than Clayton Christensen in his church of new finance slide: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="150" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/10082397545/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="150"></iframe> capitalist dilemma/economic engine or lack of that makes like of Koch brothers richer,capitalist dilemma/economic engine or lack of, and encourage the rich in keeping the money (over re-investing) : <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="150" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/9716319428/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="150"></iframe><br />
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I have also read most of Peter Thiel's book and listen to his talk: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="150" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/15360003942/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="150"></iframe> I am all for his idea of investing in and creating new monopolies (that fixes things), but surely if his comment that night (I'm paraphrasing here) that he kept 3/4 of his net-worth in Silicon valley as he does not trust the treasury bond bubbles.. read into that! I would have thought with his billions, he could take the plunge and try to fix the treasury bond bubbles!?<br />
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Dominic Barton has given many great speeches worldwide <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="150" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/8749487618/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="150"></iframe>. I totally agree with Dominic that we need to focus on fixing energy food and water problems of our world.. (see his speech via his picture above)<br />
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Fact of the matter is, there are a lot of talks (not much actions sadly!) about fixing capital market with multitude of "new terminology" from "Inclusive Capitalism" to "Intelligent Governance" etc. sadly no one talks about the fundamental problems, namely (across the board, from companies to governments) too much focus on creating unnecessarily and trading of debt (corporate to personal), glad we have finally the book of #HouseOfDebt by 2Profs Atif Mian and Amir Sufi: <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="150" mozallowfullscreen="" msallowfullscreen="" oallowfullscreen="" src="https://www.flickr.com/photos/garethwong/15317892277/in/photolist-pkAcGZ-p5DpkX-doAhrw-9gW2UH-oNhDRq-fHLWxi-dAJzc7-dAJzdo-dAD6E8-mEiuqk/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="150"></iframe> #MustListen<a href="http://twitter.com/garethwong" target="_blank"> @GarethWong </a><a href="http://twitter.com/BBCRadioCA" target="_blank">@BBCRadioCA</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/Peston" target="_blank">@peston</a> w <a href="http://twitter.com/AtifRMian" target="_blank">@AtifRMian</a> & <a href="http://twitter.com/Profsufi" target="_blank">@profsufi</a> #HouseOfDebt <a href="http://t.co/MZ1HNPofhi">http://t.co/MZ1HNPofhi</a> Cash&Equity<br />
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see: Where #HouseofDebt meets wealth inequality: a fabulous chart from Saez and <a href="http://twitter.com/gabriel_zucman" target="_blank">@gabriel_zucman</a> showing saving rates<br />
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Our whole world from news to governments are now driven by this endless "Growth at all cost" (as mentioned in the article, GDP is not a good nor ONLY measurement, but we need solution! See Diane Coyle's book <span class="screen-name" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #66757f; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;"><a class="pretty-link js-nav" data-send-impression-cookie="true" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/diane1859" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3b88c3; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">@diane1859</a></span>, summary here on <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2014/03/pdf/book2.pdf" target="_blank">IMF website's "The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing"</a>.), and our world is not rewarding people/firms that make value and punish those that destroy value. CSR AND how we measure/reward the performance data will all need to be redefined.<br />
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Even if capital market is fixed (I have not touched on any solution as yet!), if people do not share the a common goal across different verticals, the whole system will still fail! (as it is much easier to have the status quo of "them and us" mindset and make as much money as one can and retire and become tax exile! nothing wrong with that!?)<br />
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I propose that we need something more than the CSR. As implementation of CSR is not fundamental enough, not much emotional/dedication/self-less inspired to ensure people/firms are on the same page (share the same goal), therefore, I propose we need a new way of looking at CSR, as explained to Rory before at our lunch, it is called <a href="http://www.corporateparenthood.org/" target="_blank">Corporate Parenthood</a> (it is a form of ideology/application of what we know best, family value but applied to business. I need help/constructive feedback though, from Professors to story teller, and even film makers to make it happen & #FixTheWorld).<br />
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However, biggest problems for our generation and the the millennial are just engagement with the right thing, they are engaged but sadly with the wrong thing (snapchat!?), how can googlebox be a "thing"? we need to have everyone engaged, but they can only engaged if they challenge themselves.. and sadly me included, not challenged enough! I have solution for that, it is called non profit <a href="http://twitter.com/Be_champion" target="_blank">@Be_Champion</a> Movement (would be great to have some great minds' constructive feedback/help to make it a reality)<br />
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That must be the reason why Jean Tirole won his Nobel Prize!<br />
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(RT <a href="http://twitter.com/GarethWong" target="_blank">@GarethWong</a> great summary <a href="http://twitter.com/titonka" target="_blank">@titonka</a> Understand the research that just won <a href="http://twitter.com/Jean_Tirole" target="_blank">@Jean_Tirole</a> the economics Nobel Prize <a href="http://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6967383/jean-tirole-nobel-economics-2014?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=article-share-top" target="_blank">on Vox</a> via <a href="http://twitter.com/voxdotcom" target="_blank">@voxdotcom</a>), we need to measure firms and industry differently, create a new financial ecosystem from ground up.. The solution would be worth a book, or a series of blog post.. not sure if I have time to write it. .. would be great to hear your thoughts.<br />
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Talking about Peter Thiel, with is Paypal mafia's help, it would be just lifting the fingers if they wanted to fix the capital market worldwide (OR just capitalism), I would like to challenge them to do so, would they like to accept? <br />
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Before they do that though, they must #AskTheRightQuestion! For example, is Cow worst to our environment than Cars?<br />
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pls see: RT <a href="http://twitter.com/cxoasia" target="_blank">@cxoasia</a>: <a href="http://twitter.com/RupertSoskin" target="_blank">@RupertSoskin</a><a href="http://twitter.com/creesfoundation" target="_blank"> @creesfoundation</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/chamiltonjames" target="_blank">@chamiltonjames</a> I referred to "Cow vs Car" which is worst for the environment <a href="http://t.co/AE8CBOHyq0">http://t.co/AE8CBOHyq0</a> by <a href="http://twitter.com/davetrott" target="_blank">@davetrott</a><br />
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+#AskRightQ RT <a href="http://twitter.com/GarethWong" target="_blank">@GarethWong</a> <a href="http://t.co/SMgyH61WlM">http://t.co/SMgyH61WlM</a> in respond to <a href="http://twitter.com/skottr" target="_blank">@skottr</a>'s post discussing the state of philanthropy in the Silicon Valley. <a href="http://t.co/FESj9Ctzcb">http://t.co/FESj9Ctzcb</a>AI Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12854317820351017773noreply@blogger.com0