Life-changing ideas
When I was a kid, my mother used to read stories before I went to sleep. In those fairy-tales and fables, she read to me that I can be whatever I want to be. In those stories of innocent love and brave adventures, I seemed to understand, for the first time, the meaning of opportunity [...]
It’s been a long time since I blogged last time. Life has been extremely busy and tough for me, but fortunately I recovered. For some reason, this phrase keeps surfacing in my mind, so much so that I think it warrants a post about it–”intangible values”.
To start with, here is a question for though: [...]
It’s that huge recruitment season again. UBC Career Services have been sending invitations to networking events, career fairs, info sessions and so on non-stop over these few weeks. I have been to a few and on one occasion AIESEC UBC recruited new members for this year, I had the privilege of interviewing many candidates. So I thought [...]
One thing I as an economics student get asked most is: why do economists think people are rational? Surely people don’t do calculations or complicated logical reasoning before they act?
On the second question, I completely agree because I don’t have a lovely formula in my head that tells me what [...]
I was browsing random pages and chatting with random friends earlier on, and two terms grasped my attention: futurology and prediction market.
Futurology is pretty self-explanatory: study of the future. It was a hot topic many many years ago, but not so much right now. Anybody who says he or she is a futurologist or [...]
I didn’t notice the new layout of Facebook has changed until last night. One reason is that I use Tweetdeck and that gives me few reason to ever open the Facebook page. The other one is that I set my language to by English UK. So when my friends started complaining about the new layout, [...]
Well well well, here I am. In the middle of the night just done with one item out of maybe dozens on my to-do list. So typically me.
Oh, you ask who is this “me”? Graphically speaking, I’m exactly what you see in my avatar–a panda with red scarf. What does that mean exactly? Well, [...]
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