way of thinking

  • Praise and Praiseworthy

    My daughter was doing her homework today, online on the school website, and got one answer wrong. So she got 50% mark. She was a bit upset and told me about it. “That’s okay,” I said, and highlighted that what is important is that she did the work. I remember a study that says children…

  • AI Songs

    Yeah another post about AI. I got a free trial of Youtube Music and was enjoying myself listening to some French songs that I don’t understand, when I thought “Hey, this song is good – who is the singer?”. I then went to the ‘artist’ page and there’s no description about the singer, only a…

  • AI Makes You Lazy

    My previous lecturer posted on Linkedin of how people completed a task in designing a transport system for an airport, without even reading the resources he attached with his assignment. He asked if people were too quick on arriving to a conclusion (which is a big no-no in Systems Engineering thinking). I think he’s wrong;…

  • Why Do We Push Ourselves

    My daughter recently came back with a very long book, about 100 pages long. For context, she is 6 years old and normally only reads books that are 10 to 20 pages long, and even those are in big fonts. Recently her teacher let her choose her own books to read, and that is the…

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    Just Get It Done

    I am getting old and older and I am now becoming more comfortable with the concept to just get the things done. I used to spend hours customising my phone or PC background, but nowadays I just use the default ones. While doing my work recently, I must say I ‘submit’ a very shitty work…

  • Is Climate Change Real?

    Of course it is, don’t answer that. It is a rhetorical question after all, one that sometimes crept around the back of my mind when some anti-green post lays down their fact. For all my pompousness of being analytical, I have stopped to bother checking the facts laid out by people who claim that it…

  • Wisdom In Tooth

    I’ve been having toothache since a few weeks now, and today I finally decided to call and make an appointment. At the appointment, the dentist checked and said I have the option of doing a filling or pulling my bad tooth off. I chose the latter. There’s a few reasons but one of them is…

  • Better Finish

    I’ve not updated this website for a while as I have been busy with work mostly. And what made me update today is my gripe recently where my work was reviewed with some slightly strong remarks. It bothered me more than I would like. The reason I guess because I feel that I had done…

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    Cybersecurity and Aikido

    Disclaimer: I am neither a cybersecurity expert nor an Aikido practitioner so apologies in advance for any faux pas or false facts. I was watching this video recently where it interviews an Aikido masters and he talked about Iai (Iaido), where one is always prepared to draw their sword due to sudden attack, which relates…

  • Value of Time and Money

    My daughter came home recently and asked whether she could join a music lesson, which costs £49 a month. I’ve seen it before and I was ready to say no, but she added that the lesson was done during class and her friend(s?) who joined it had to skip class. I was horrified! She calmed…