Archive - July 2010

You’ll like this if you watched Inception and liked Inception like how you like this.

“Managers looking to strengthen their authority are wise not to hire overqualified workers … An overqualified person may be difficult to maintain authority over. They can have a bad attitude that’s infectious.”

I never knew they cared so much.

“I think that the manicured walks mirror our schooling system. We have a centrally planned curriculum that … relies largely on the model of decontextualized delivery. It is efficient and predictable. But it is so embedded in our culture that most teachers, parents and students know no other way.”

The dangers of posting TMI on the Web.

Now if only Malaysia could loan us Johor for a bit…

I feel very strongly about this issue because I am someone who has been excluded from the public housing market because of the astronomical prices.

To hell with Inception… This is THE must-watch movie of the year!

A paper which suggests that it’s good for universities to hire PhD graduates who have not been trained by the same university so as to encourage diversity in thought, cross-fertilisation of ideas, etc.

Am posting this up because I remember having this conversation with someone back in NUS about this policy – NUS seldom (or never) hires faculty who have NUS graduate degrees.

How is this distorted or misleading?

BYU produces a stunningly good parody of the recent Old Spice ad.

Why the future won’t the same – or as scary – with the advent of technology.