Entries from March 2009

March 22, 2009

Singapore Population’s Dilemma: A Game Theoretic view

MM Lee reflected on Singapore population challenge, which is how to coax Singaporeans to have more kids, during NUSS dialogue 20 March 2009.  I would like to offer a possible explanation, based on Game Theory, to Singapore population’s dilemma. Please refer to below diagram:
The numbers indicate the descending order of desirability (1 is most desirable).
I [...]

March 15, 2009

My MindMap

I’m trying out mind map technique, using free software called Freemind. Mind map is invented by Tony Buzan, and it is a great tool to boost your memory. For more information about how to mind map, you can click here.
or, you can listen to Tony Buzan himself.

Here is my first attempt [...]

March 8, 2009

The Curious Stress of NTU residents

I graduated from NTU with masters degree last year. When I was at NTU, I did not feel the pressure cooker environment highlighted in the media due to recent stabbing incident by an Indonesian-chinese student (David Hartanto Widjaja). However, when I looked back in the past two years, there are some shocking incidents:

NTU don found [...]

March 8, 2009

Why Most Significant Stories (MSC) is better tool to analyse culture than Archetypes

Dave Snowden needs to play mediator recently, due to argument between Graham durant-law and Patrick Lambe about the usefulness of archetypes. Graham proposed that archetypes don’t matter because they oversimplify complex matters such as corporate culture. While Patrick Lambe viewed archetypes as communication tools and nothing more.  (Note: this is based on my understanding after [...]