sounding like my parents.
Last Friday someone gave me a 45-minute SPIEL of his company after I bought him chamomile tea. I filled up 10 pages of my notebook listening and wrote down all…
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Focusing on HSK 2 Exam.
So I’m discontinuing my Profiles of BizIT and Others to focus more on my HSK 2 exam preparation. Lately I’ve felt that I’ve forgotten a lot of words. My HSK…
Read more →Organizational Mental Models : Dunbar Number
Interestingly is a Useful Mental Model to explain the ability to maintain social relationships. It also syncs with the Memory Models I use (conditioning and Spaced Repetition and memory degradation).…
Read more →Health and studying
For me to study I need to wake up at around 5am, it seems. For me to wake up at 5am and not get sick I need to be in…
Read more →recent lessons learned about aircon
1) to guess the labor just check the number of man days the installer says. You will ask how long the work will be and how many people will work…
Read more →Incoterms Anki
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/453158095 Based on the Incoterms Anki Article, (about an HOUR to make these) created a deck for work. We encounter this because of Planning for Projects and Extrapolating the Costs.…
Read more →mapping all the Free Downloans (most Password Locked) in PMI
190623 Justin Downloading the Following Files all Free with the 150usd membership per year PMBOK 6E AGILE Practice Guide PRACTICE STANDARDS AND FRAMEWORKS The Practice Standard for Scheduling 3e Practice…
Read more →Lessons Learned: Joining Project Management Institute (150usd a year) and Researching MBA
So I joined PMI. It ended up costing about 8000php a year. I spent most of the afternoon downloading all the Books and Reading the Site. I realized I can…
Read more →How I turn into the Enemy, Let People Grow and Go
I had to open write as part of a PRO (Cons and Pro) the Status Bias of the company. I was discussing Solution Engineering/Architects and basically What PRESALES does. They…
Read more →Filling my Calendar: Making TIME, why I hate sudden changes to my itinerary
Consciously Filling my Calendar is one of the Hardest Actions for me to do. What makes it hard is the Conscious Effort to reviewing my Priorities and the Many Mental…
Read more →Recent Readings: Philippine Contractors Accreditation Board
So the Company is Renewing its PCAB (philippine Contractors accreditations boards) and I had the AMO (authorized Management office) Training. PCAB is a sub-group of the Construction Industry Authority of…
Read more →Social Actions – Character Options in Social problems in your games part 2 of 2
What is the Social Equivalent of Flanking? Options in Combat engage us by giving us Power over the situation. I believe that the thrill of Combat is in the Thrill…
Read more →Do you like exploring Status and Wealth – Social problems in your games? part 1 of 2
Status and Wealth in TRPGs give a framework about seeing Social Issues in Action. Especially when the setting is NEAR modern. Of course it helps to have a LOT of…
Read more →Leadership is Influence through Behavior
So my recent model of Leadership is that Its an Influence Skill – through Behavior or Through Signaling (See Signalling Theory) in Behavior. Most influence skills use Communication – information…
Read more →Old People getting angry at “Milennials”
every one learns differently. so the sales have low morale. they are fresh grads and get easily frustrated. So I offered to accompany them. This is not the first time…
Read more →More experience gives use the ability to appreciate nuance
What is actionable is that if we want to appreciate something more we need to experience more of it.
Read more →190426 Finding Time vs Making time
Finding vs Making time Boils down to: 1) Prioritization – Choosing One Item over another, and taking that loss – accepting what we cannot have. 2) Accepting limited abilities and…
Read more →Finished Pimsleur mandarin 1 (17.5 hours)
I just finished Pimsleur 1 mandarin. I hope I can finish the second one and apply for HSK 1 exam. More importantly I hope to find a group to practice…
Read more →Mechanics that focus on Prioritization and Agile Thinking
As a gamer, when i see an attempt to do something I think about “rolling to do something”. Now that I know the default of even a skilled task i…
Read more →Arrived in LA and las Vagas
I miss my family My motion Sickness is getting worse as I get older. I need a lot of motion sickness meds. How would we manage a 3 year old…
Read more →Vegas Conference, Work Update,
i’m the one other person who has a US Visa and passport that is up to date that can go to Vegas for a Conference of a prominent supplier. I…
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2019-04-06
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First Convention: PCTA
This is my first Convention where I was part of the Planning and Execution (Jose Ramo and Harold did most of the Work on our Side). I want to summarize…
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2019-04-04
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It doesn’t get easier, you just have misleading hope it does
It’s interesting when concepts I learned about in my 30s from books took 10 or so years to mature into usable algorithms after that much trial and error. While I…
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2019-03-26
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Cult of Personality – Ego in the Games
BJ Recio and I had chance upon each other in BGC recently and I got to catch up on what he’s doing with #Manilaencouters and all the other things I…
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2019-03-22
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Not to Correct Authority
One of the strangest lessons I’ve had with my mentor is when not to correct authority. I know its a strange way to look at it. It is basically in…
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2019-03-17
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Quality Management: The ability to Delegate
Quality Management Unlocks a lot of Capabilties. The ability to Inspect and Review work or actions. The ability to define details and critical elements in actions The ability to create…
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2019-03-16
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Minor Habit: Guessing the Time this Call will take
So lately ive been trying to guess how long the call would take: “Hi Mary, i’m calling to ask about something that may take 2 minutes.” They would say Yes…
Read more →Sleep: Self Care conflicting with Work Capacity
Waste Clearance of the Brain and Rearrangement/Consolidation of Memories. I have a guess that when we sleep the way our brain consolidates our memories is the way you would consolidates…
Read more →Tracking Pain and Discomfort
In the Great Courses, there was a CBT Lecture by Professor James Satterfield and one instance they used a FITBIT as part of therapy. This is old news to me,…
Read more →The dillemma of Healthcare Technology: Society vs Profitability
i sat in for a Pitch of a clinic management system. Its great but… i saw the problem of the Enterep – too many places to fix when it comes…
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