When I started working in the railway industry, during the first few weeks, I was told that the metro system I was working on was GoA4. Alright, I thought, this is GoA4. Whatever that means. Over the years that piece of information becomes embedded and is accepted as the universal truth. One of the first…
“What do politicians want?” a speaker asked an audience once. “To get more power,” came the answer. The crowd laughed. The speaker nodded, “Yes, you can argue that. They want to be voted, to stay in power.” This memory stayed with me because at that time, I thought it was a vile thing to want,…
I was invited to give a talk recently, similar to this last year, and was tasked or asked to ‘motivate’ the speaker. To avoid boring them to death and lecturing them, I decided to give a parable. I think it’s quite interesting so I am sharing it here. There are two towers, one is more…
Recently I went for demonstration of a technical product for my company, and the audience was university students, a mixture of people that are either expert in the signalling field, or have no experience at all in it. Since the spectrum is very wide, the presentation aim to glance over almost all the aspects, including…
My daughter has a tendency to complain, a lot. Especially if she finds something to be a bit difficult and she didn’t want to do it in the first place, i.e. it was a task set either by her parents or teacher. She’ll huff and puff while complaining that it is so hard! I’ll then…
It’s been the news these days, with the turmoil and takeovers that is going on in OpenAI. Most people won’t be familiar to them, but might be instead familiar with their app/product, ChatGPT. We will see in the future how the saga unfurls. Regarding AI, people are putting a lot of hype on it. It…
Recently in my line of work, I was required to use a TPM to generate a pair of keys, which to be honest I don’t really understand how it works. So I went on the net and scoured what relevant things that can make sense. I don’t where I get this link but it explains…
A colleague is resigning soon and as I asked him why, he explained the normal reasons, except for one. He said it was due to lack of work or things to do. He was working in Asia before coming to the UK, so he said there was a very different working culture where he used…
Following my previous post on values, it occurred to me that electronic items have a very bad deprecation value. It used to be that cars are regarded as a bad asset since the value drops immediately after driven off the showroom, but I think nowadays, nothing ‘beats’ electronics. I saw an advert for the new…
A few months ago, an online post is famous about having her kitchen in almost all white and her appliances from the very expensive brand, SMEG. Among the online comments that I remember was, “How does she manages to keep her kitchen so white?”. I remember because I had the same thought. Turns out, or…
