Lifetime

Life is like a poker tournament. You would never have good cards in every single hand. So the philosophy is around how to deal with bad times so to minimize your loss; while maximizing your profit when good times come.

If the red line represents anybody’s lifetime and suppose this guy lived to 100 years old (rightmost of the line). It is indeed a pretty fruitful life. He was outstanding among his peers at 25 years old. Although the downturn at around 40 and 75 years old, he managed to quickly get up, learn his lesson, and shine again.

3 Ways To Optimize Your Memory

Everybody is capable to memorize. And, it is essential. Many say in the world of logics you don’t have to remember; I say, you still have to memorize E=mc² before applying. You think you are not good at memorizing things? I think it is just either you didn’t make effort, or you don’t know the tricks. The former has no value for discussion hence I want to share about the latter. Most of all, this is fun.

Forget The Goal & Be Happy

Recently I have come across two interesting articles: Yes, You Can Be Happy While Pushing Yourself to Success, and Forget Setting Goals. Focus on This Instead. It says, we should focus on the system (the process) rather than the goal. Once you have the plan layout and the habit built, forget about the goal and just follow the plan, focus on the daily habit.

Poker & Business Strategy

I am indulged in Poker (Texas Hold ’em) recently. Winning chips is great, but the most exciting part falls into the strategy of getting you there. the process to win chips is really interesting which requires competencies like math, strategy, psychology, and communication.

Playing poker is indeed very similar to running a business (4Ps, SWOT, PESTEL, etc). Your poker game actually starts from picking a table to play (the market you decide to compete), your playing style should be calibrated according to the bet position you are, and you must be able to gain information and read “tells” from your opponents to determine if they are bluffing. You also need to decide how much to bet so to optimize your profit from the pot.

Will Glory Embrace Liverpool FC again?

Year 2010 was a period of turbulence for Liverpool FC. New England Sports Ventures (NESV) acquired the club in October 2010. Two managers were sacked – Rafa Benitez in June 2010 and Roy Hodgson in January 2011.

History of Liverpool FC

Liverpool FC (a.k.a. LFC or the Reds) has won 18 League Champions, 5 European Cups, 7 FA Cups, 7 League Cups, and 3 UEFA Cups[i]. They are no doubt one of the most successful football clubs in the football history. However, they have never won the Premier League champion again since 1993. Will glory embrace the Reds again?

Knowledge Management of Firefighting

The Accident

I was watching Discovery Channel last night, a documentary programme about The King’s Cross Fire accident broke out in Nov 18, 1987. It killed 31 people being trapped at the King’s Cross St. Pancras station in London.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King’s_Cross_fire

A march was dropped into the crack between wooden steps (yes, escalator steps were made by wood at that time), by a passer-by smoker. It was soon reported by a passenger that he saw lights from the crack. A few wooden steps were on fire when Firemen arrived. It was concluded to be a small scale of fire.

The severity was underestimated.