Saturday, April 23, 2011

Ok...so there goes my grand plan of updating this once a year. I've decided to start this again for a coupld of reasons.

First off, I think I need to do more self reflection so there's going to be more well, reflection (duh?) and not just reporting. Would insights be a better word to use? Anyway, it all started with a conversation with the girlfriend and she was asking me what I really want out of life and I couldn't answer her. Saying that I just want to be happy just isn't going to cut it. So that got me thinking that I haven't been thinking about stuff like that for a really long time which is odd considering that I'm doing my MBA now and an immediate concern is what the hell I'm going to do after I graduate.

Speaking of which, I'm doing my MBA at Nanyang Technological University. The girlfriend decided to keep working while I do my MBA so I had to stay in Singapore to do it. I was planning to apply for INSEAD but the NTU deadline was sooner so I applied for that first and the next thing I knew, I was in. Didn't even get round to filling in the INSEAD application.

This brings us to the next reason why I'm doing this. There was a subject in school called Value-Based Innovation taught by this great Isreali professor, Shlomo Maital and in that course, he spoke about having an innovation toolbox. I had to write a short paper on my own personal toolbox. There was an example of keeping a notebook handy to take down any ideas at any time and to keep interesting articles etc and looking through that notebook to get ideas or inspiration for innovation. This was a few months ago so I'm a little hazy on the details.

Anyway, I'm going to just dump any ideas and links to interesting articles or videos here especially all the stuff that people share on facebook. Some might be quite interesting and thought provoking but some are just plain funny. Whatever catches my fancy..not that anyone's reading this anyway.

I'll try to update this at least once a week...or at least post something new.