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After thoughts from Facebook’s F8

By cathyma On September 23, 2011 · 1 Comment

Just a quick summary (by no means conclusive) on the key findings from yesterday’s facebook product announcements in the simplest humanly readable format:

Facebook’s Timeline will become the key focus of the Facebook profile experience.  They are trying to make all of your historical data on facebook lots more accessible (eventually you will see [...]

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The story about the four wives

By cathyma On September 11, 2011 · 1 Comment

The priest stood up and told us a story about the man and his 4 wives.

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We Chinese have a lot of stories to tell.  Handy metaphors.  Stories that make you think.

This one starts with a man who married his childhood sweetheart.  He loved her dearly, unfortunately she was very fragile and was [...]

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What really matters

By cathyma On May 28, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Many times I am asked, what is social media?

It’s funny how just 3 years ago my tech friends would literally shudder when they heard the term; as too often marketing terms get spinned around and completely lose their real meaning.  Think of terms like ‘Web 2.0‘, ‘taxonomy‘, ‘the cloud‘.

But there’s [...]

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A letter to the clever hacker

By cathyma On May 21, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Dear Mr Hacker,

In the past couple of months I’ve noticed that my blog has been unfortunately ‘hacked’. And quite cleverly so.

Some one injected search-engine-viewable keywords that are not visible to the human eyes.  As  a result when you search my name, my blog appears as a really rich repository of useful herbal medicine [...]

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Looking for Good Developers for IPC Meda

By cathyma On March 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment

My dear friends, we’re hiring developers!  Here’s the job spec.

We care about our developers and want the best for them.  We recognise you are as good as people you work with when you’re in a team.  Our developers are also our consultants, we look up to them and count on them to ship [...]

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It’s harder to be kind than clever

By cathyma On March 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment

‘It’s harder to be kind than clever.  [...]  Cleverness is a gift.  Kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy, they are given after all.  Choices can be hard.  You can seduce yourself with your gift if you’re not careful.’

Founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos

(Talk starts at 6:26)

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What makes a First-Class Tester

By cathyma On February 22, 2011 · 3 Comments

Note: This blog post is more for the techkies.  Please skip if you’re not interested in product management or agile…

Been reading Manage It!, a product management book highly recommended by Phobeo (thanks!  love it!)  and I was particularly inspired by the roles of a first-class tester.  Page 266 and paraphasing here.  [...]

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The greatest strength is complete vulnerability

By cathyma On January 26, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Photo credit to Leo Reynolds

Just came back from a special talk at the Foundling Museum that really blew my mind away.

I have always been very interested in the attachment theory, in terms of the way we bonded as children affects the way we relate to others as we grow [...]

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Lessons from the wisemen, 2010

By cathyma On January 5, 2011 · 1 Comment

Some of you who followed my blog may notice that I tend to write a reflective piece (like this and this) towards the end/beginning of the year.  Every year I was surprised by much learning/people/inspiration that came into my life; for that, I thank you.  Here is my list for 2010,

1.  A [...]

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Profoundly moved..

By cathyma On December 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment

by Liu XiaoBo’s speech in accepting the Nobel Peace Prize 2010, with exerpts below (more about Liu),

On ‘I have no enemies’,

“Hatred can rot away at a person’s intelligence and conscience. Enemy mentality will poison the spirit of a nation, incite cruel mortal struggles, destroy a society’s tolerance and humanity, and hinder [...]

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