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The definition of insanity

It's doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.

By that standard, most of us are insane, but not at the same time.

And on that basis we trust, but can this way of life endure if more and more are insane at the same time? It becomes as Gordon said "systemic" like cancer, what happens then. Like I said,  the mother of all bubbles was the Cambrian explosion,  and it happen by chance over 500 million years ago. Scientists will tell you it was unprecedented, it happened in a flash. And from it,  suddenly the world had millions of new species.

From that, was born us.  The human race.  Now in that sense, bubbles are evolutionary. They lean out the herd. But they never die. They just come back in different forms. When burst,  they give birth to a new day. Always creating change.

From Movie "Wall Street, Money never sleep"

It was first posted on facebook on May 29th 2011

Tailor Ed and his 3 sons

Old Tailor Ed has 3 sons, Adam, Bobby and Chris,

One day, he assigned a client for each of his son, and asked them to make a suit for them.

So, the sons went ahead start to work on their project with their clients.

3 months passed, Chris try to show his customer the unfinished product. But the customer told him that he changed mind and decided not to buy the suit.

During the dinner time, Chris told his father and 2 brothers about the customer backing out. Bobby picked it up by say, “Chris, actually I did not make much progress, maybe it is better if I give up what I have been doing and take over the suit  you made for your customer and make it fit to my customer. The old Ed was not happy but accepted the fact that Bobby did not make much progress and maybe taking over Chris’s unfinished product is not a bad idea.

Another month passed, when Adam went to his customer to show the finished product. The customer conducted a very good third party review and come out with a long list. The family worked together for weeks and came out with a list of strategies for each of the findings. When that was presented to the customer, the customer said “No, I am not going to accept it. If you can come out with something good, I can wait.”

At the dinner table, the situation was discussed in length. Bobby suggested to Adam, why not you also join me for the work I am working for my customer, and when I am done, you make a copy of it and make some changes then make it for your customer. And this time we will do it in different way; we use a tailor factory to do it. We just tell the tailor factory what we want; the factory will do the work…

The old Ed did not understand fully what Bobby was talking about, but find he did not have better idea… any way, he is quite old… so Ed said to his sons, okay, you guys give it a try, but this time make sure you deliver.

to be continued

it was first posted on facebook on October 10, 2011

skinny bird (Omnivore) and chicken

A folk of skinny birds was in the jangle.

One day, they came across to a farmer’s house at the edge of the jangle.

They found lots of food, and they enjoy their feast there… at the end of the day, when others decide to go back to Jangle. A couple found it was too comfort to go. so they decided to take the farmer’s house as their home, the other birds said good bye and off they flew away.

Day by day, month by month, this couple enjoys good life in the farmer’s house, they produced lots offspring’s. Because the good food, and there is no need to fly around to look for food, because there is no danger to fly away from, they started putting on weight without noticing it…

From time to time, when they see their old skinny friends busy looking for food in the fields, they said to their friends “why you guys work so hard, you should come and join us to enjoy the good life at the farm.

It was all good until one day, the farmer came to their nest ( did not noticed when it became a cage) with a knife in his hand, the chicken tried to fly away but their bodies are too heavy and their wings are too weak to fly. I bet you know what’s next: one of them became a dish for the night at the farmer's dinner table …

What about you, are you a skinny bird in the wild or a fat chicken in the cage? Can you fly when you need to?

It was first posted on September 27, 2011

Too good to be true.

As a professional, you are offered a stable job with high pay, less stress.

As normal young man from a normal family, you found that a beautiful and very smart lady from a high profile family fall in love with you.

As an investor, you are approached with an investment opportunity with very low risk but high return…

As a software developer, you are told there is a magic software tool, which will write 90% of the code, all you need to do is writing the rest of 10% of the code and do some testing.

Are these familiar to you, hear me out this “if it is too good to be true, probably it is, let’s talk about it”

it was first posted on facebook on September 27th 2011

when you are not doing well in casinos

you will skip homework before you bet (cut corners, shortcut quality)

You will try to cover the loss as long as you can (cover up bad decisions, cover up bad judgments)

You will blame others. (Blame bad luck, blame clients, blames ones work for you)

You will borrow money (buy time)  by promising “bright future” (big words, empty words for future)

But in most of cases,  situation turns from bad to worse. that is what Nick Leeson did to Barnings Bank. A better approach in this situation would be to be honest and cut loss when you can.


it was first posted on March 5th 2012

Do not handle garbage (exceptions)?

A house is occupied by a bunch of youngsters.

Everyone are told to create garbage, but are told not to handle them.

All garbage goes to somewhere under the rug (log)

do you like to be in the house?