Wednesday, 11 August 2010

The PM said I'm a good fit for the organization at the end of the interview.
I'm kinda excited. This is after all my first proper grad position interview.

Putting the interview aside, assuming that I am offered a position and I accepted, it means that I'll deviate from what I want to built years down the road. Of course, the job will offer heaps of opportunities and possibilities. But is this really what I want.
There are just people whom you can't trust despite being close.
My fault entirely for trusting. Indeed.
Its not my first time having things like this to happen to me.
Alas, do learn your lesson.
The only person you can trust is you yourself.

Monday, 2 August 2010

The Tipping Point

Author: Malcolm Gladwell

The Three Rules of Epidemics:
Characteristic of Epidemics: Contagious, little causes can have big effects, change happens not gradually but at one dramatic movement.

1. The Law of the Few: Connectors, Mavens and Salesmen
... looked at the kinds of people who are critical in spreading information.

... your resources ought to be solely concentrated on those three groups.
2. The Stickiness Factor
... suggesting that in order to be capable of sparking epidemics, ideas have to be memorable and move us to action.
3. The Power of Context: (and the magic number 150)
Epidemics are sensitive to the conditions and circumstances of the times and places in which they occur.
... that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.
Conclusion
Starting epidemics requires concentrating resources on a few key areas.
The world does not accord with our intuition. Those who are successful at creating social epidemics do not just do what they think is right. They deliberately test their intuitions.