Malaysian and Perakian
Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, UK
Joined June 2010
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"Vietnam plans to invest approximately US$1 billion in training 50,000 semiconductor engineers by 2030"
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Japan is seeing the rapid spread of work clothes that aim to protect against heat. The fans attached to the clothes suck outside air, evaporating sweat, thereby releasing heat through vaporization and cooling the body.
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About 90% of your early career boils down to your ability to interview.
Most young people suck at it, and it shows.
Want to be a millionaire? Master the art of interviewing.
Go undefeated by avoiding these 9 common mistakes:
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The new badly built bridge from the indigenous community Kampung Sungai Kecau, Semenyih, Selangor was destroyed for the second time by the heavy rain last night. Now school students can not go to school. Other bridge is unsafe 😢 #IndigenousPeoples #ClimateCrisis – at Kuala Lumpur City, Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory
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When people experience gratitude from their manager, they're more productive. And when teams believe that their colleagues respect and appreciate them, they perform better. hbr.org/2020/01/the-little-t…
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The Most Important Biases and Heuristics:
1. Incentive-Caused Bias - We guide people in the direction of our interest.
2. Recency Bias - We tend to put too much weight on recent events.
3. Anchoring - Our judgment is heavily screwed by the first information we are given about something.
4. Regression - We love to see cause-effect relationships where none exist.
Everything, always, regresses to its mean!
5. Hindsight Bias - In retrospect, events seem more predictable than they actually were.
6. Halo Effect - You either like or dislike everything about someone or something. Nothing in between.
7. Loss Aversion - Losses weigh twice as much as the equivalent gain.
Because of that, we reject gambles where chance would favor us.
8. Commitment Bias - We have a tendency to remain committed to our past behaviors and opinions.
Particularly when expressed publicly, even if they do not have desirable outcomes.
9. WYSIATI - What you see is all there is. You can't consider what you don’t know.
Paradoxically, knowing less also increases your confidence about being right.
10. Illusion of Skill - We regularly confuse luck with skill because we solely focus on outcomes.
11. Consistency Bias - We avoid inconsistencies and rather remain on the wrong path.
Johan Raslan retweeted
Pro tip: Document your interactions. Take notes when communicating with your boss and keep a record of your conversations. hbr.org/2020/11/ask-an-exper…
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In 1985 I wrote my MA thesis at SOAS on a pioneering Indonesian woman writer, S. Rukiah. The art collective @gudskul is now planning an exhibition on Rukiah in Jakarta in Oct 2023, and yesterday we went on a ziarah to her home village of Purwakarta blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-africa…
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An audit is like having a parent go through your financial statements – you hope they'll be proud, but deep down, you know they'll find something to nag about!
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How such Australian garbage end up in Malaysia ? How it went through our ports ? Is it legal ? Who is cooperating in importing such waste garbage into Malaysia ? @PDRMsia
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The 7 hottest days on Earth in the last 100,000+ years all happened in the last week:
July 6 ~ 17.23°C / 63.01°F
July 7 ~ 17.20°C / 62.96°F
July 4 ~ 17.18°C / 62.93°F
July 5 ~ 17.18°C / 62.92°F
July 8 ~ 17.17°C / 62.90°F
July 10 ~ 17.12°C / 62.81°F
July 9 ~ 17.11°C / 62.79°F
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According to Goldman Sachs, China will surpass the US as the largest economy by around 2036 and will stay #1 for the foreseeable future.
I think it can happen by 2030... if yuan appreciates a bit. With dedollarization around the world and petroyuan becoming a reality, it's certainly possible.
Either way, a lot of Americans are living in denial and inhaling too much copium about USA staying numba one forever or China collapsing.
There's a new world emerging. Be prepared.
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The barriers women face are a problem, but an even bigger problem may be the lack of barriers faced by mediocre men. hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-ma…
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Perak’s Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah has bestowed the title of "Seniman Diraja" or Royal Artist on famous cartoonist Datuk Mohd Nor Khalid, fondly known as Lat who he praised for highlighting multiculturalism in his caricatures.
Read more at bit.ly/3pwaCN7
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88% of HR professionals surveyed agreed that the internal culture of their firms had improved significantly since they had hired employees with disabilities. hbr.org/2023/07/disability-a…
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In November 2003 on a transatlantic flight from Liverpool, England, to Florida, 67-year-old Dorothy Fletcher was traveling with her daughter to attend her daughter’s wedding.
During the flight, she experienced chest pain accompanied by pain in the back and down the arm while finding it difficult to breathe.
She was vomiting and sweating profusely, which led her to soon collapse. Dorothy had suffered a heart attack while on the plane.
The stewardess rushed to the PA system and made an announcement asking if any doctors were onboard.
Surprisingly, the stewardess found not one but fifteen doctors who all happened to be cardiologists heading to a conference in Florida.
They stood up en masse and rushed to save Dorothy. They fed drips into her arms and used an onboard medical kit to control the life-threatening attack.
The plane was diverted to North Carolina, where Dorothy was treated in the intensive care unit.
She spent two days in the Charlotte Medical Centre after her heart attack and then managed to attend her daughter’s wedding the following week.
After the incident, Dorothy had this to say: “I couldn't believe what happened. All these people came rushing down the aircraft towards me. The doctors were wonderful. They saved my life.”
“My daughter was with me and you can imagine how she felt when all these doctors stood up. I wish I could thank them but I have no idea who they were, other than that they were going to a conference in Orlando.”
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Sanity check catch-up. No we didn’t talk about current affairs, just uncle things. Literally.
@bawalsakti
Johan Raslan retweeted
"The latest data from the World Bank show that, on aggregate learning scores, Vietnamese students outperform not only their counterparts in Malaysia and Thailand but also those in Britain and Canada, countries more than six times richer." economist.com/asia/2023/06/2…
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1. Malaysia is among the top 10 countries that lost primary forests in 2022, according to a report by the WRI’s Global Forest Watch.
Malaysia lost 71,926 hectares last year.
However, the report notes that Malaysia still saw a 57% reduction in primary forest loss as of 2022.
