Write more and think more!

I need to write more and think more and write more! For now, I would like to think more first :-)

How I wish....

Oh...how I wish I am much better equip to battle the arguments and false statements. How I wish I am more well verse on the matter in hand and he able to present the argument more consistently and coherently. 

How I wish...so many things...

Exploits!

Exploitation is a neutral word. It can carry positive and negative meaning. Depending on the intent and what are the outcomes we are hoping for, we can always exploits things within and around us. Yes, material things must be exploit to the utmost in order to satisfy our needs. We, certainly, have many shades of needs. Some may be to insignificant to others, while some may be looked upon as something which is a must, and there is no two way about it. We should exploit things in order to bring benefits to others.

Exploitation is being creative and being bold in trying!

Things that we do not know...

I know what I do not know. Yes. I view this as an important marker of maturity. A measure of one can evaluate life and its surrounding is to be aware and conscious of one's weaknesses. Being aware of what we know is also important. But, the reverse is also true so that we do not overestimate on the things that we think we can do or deliver.

Well, are you aware of things that you do not know?

Go and find out!

Whatsapp mate?

The advent of new social media platform such as Whatsapp, Telegram etc has opened up different for people to communicate and share information. Rightly or wrongly, information are being share at a rapid pace that one may not want to spend sufficient time to properly evaluate the validity and soundness of the information or news. There is an unannounced competition on who can update the fastest on certain hot issue. This race in sharing and informing others is quite noble in that it pushes new information to the masses at a breathtaking rate. The drawback is that some, if not all of the information shared are just speculations and guess-work. One has no need to verify and confirmed the validity of the information before it is spread and shared on so many social media platform. 

This is really unhealthy. How can we tolerate spreading speculations which can hurt a lot of people in so many ways. The onus is on the each individual who was given a piece of information. By right, the "news" should be share unless it is confirmed to be the truth. But then,the whole purpose of digital communication platform such as Whatsapp and Telegram is to mirror typical human communication. When we are talking among friends, we always speculate on things, and this habit is an interesting habit. It adds colour to a typically boring and dull discussions. The act of translating all spoken words into some form of coded text has now changed the behaviour and its implications.

What being said and what being written have now fused into one muddle of communication platform. This is weird, and we must learn to manage it the soonest.

About stock assessment!

Yesterday I've attended a meeting with a government-related research agency. Basically, they have been given a significant amount of funding to conduct an assessment based or study on the effectiveness of some previously implemented strategy to solve the problem of dwindling marine resources. The federal and state governments have spent millions into executing the proposed solutions to the problem. Now, the grant or funding providers have started to question the effectiveness of the previous projects. What are the outcomes? Have they truly fulfilled their intended purposes? Now, this why the research agency has invited me for the meeting. They are trying to figure out how to answer the effectiveness of the stock abundance improvement that have costed millions. 

I am here trying to understand and propose some forms of potential approaches to them. It is not easy since even the research problems were not properly and clearly formulated. They got the money and now has to show some results. How effective was the previous investments? What are the ROIs? All these are difficult questions to answer. I wish they had written just a simple and clear cut proposal, and they would not be in this mess, today.

The point is to make the research problems or questions clearer. And with this, maybe just maybe, we can try to figure out how to measure the effectiveness or the impact of the previous projects.

May God help us all!

Sharing and giving...

I think its time to get rid of selfishness. I have some things which I think will benefit some other people, but I'm a bit reluctant to let go. Probably worrying that I will lose my innovative advantage. And, this will lead to losing one's position or status quo. This is an unfounded skepticism. This is an assumption towards the behavior of others which is based on thin air. People will always appreciate non-solicited assistance from a supposedly more established sources. We value sacrifices and unselfish act of kindness. Yes, why not share and help others. In truth, we are helping to improve ourselves. By giving, we will be granted more, insyALlah. In giving lies the meaning of real living.

Yes, why not we share more and encourage more collaborations and co-operations. This is the way forward, and we need to be focus on this.