Recruitments

Yes, we can build a Google or an SAP in Singapore.

Yes, we will build it the way Konosuke Matsushita founded Panasonic, the way Ingvar Kamprad founded IKEA. Organically, financing our growth by our retained eranings.

I have done the scouting: around, out and through, end to end.
But during this second journey, We NEED YOU (provided that you like us and you qualify.)

Why would you like this? What is in it for you, what benefits, what cost for you? What are we doing for short term and long term? Our visions and goals, our capabilities?

What kind of people do we want: abilities, tasks, character, values, vision?

Long-term Goals

1. 3-5 years: process improvements for Learning and Education


2. 5-10 years: individualized instruction for Learning and Education, A class-of-one!


3. 10-15 years: Hard problems in AI, well actually, no so hard ones e.g. text mining

Short-term Goals

1. Web apps to help teachers plan their lessons more effectively


2. Web apps to help students retain their learning more effectively


3. Web apps to help pre-university students write


4. Anything that appeals direct to consumers, that can be developed on a low-budget, that is easy to sell, and that leaves us some margins

Tasks and Roles for Now

1. Set up development environment(that is, install and maintain OS, programming languages, frameworks, DB, appserver, web server, mesage server etc), version control, build, deploy, monitor. Does this suggest a sys admin?



2. Write, test, refactor, extend, maintain code. So, 1 or 2 developers, right?

About 6 hours per week of your time, we need. All contributors are equal: notions of "part time," "full time," "freelance" etc don't apply here.

What's In It For You?

No salary, no fixed pay yet.
We have a revenue-sharing plan for all team members.
You can also have stock options, which are rather conservative.

Again, I have done the scouting end to end. Team members, probably, YOU stand to gain from my decade-long arduous research.

Join us, help us. YOU stand to gain.

YOU stand to lose (How I wish I were the Employee No 5,6,7 of Creative Technology or even Hyflux).

Now you get the chance I missed. Decide in your best interests.

leadership : timeless basics

(1) What is leadership?

James Kilts, former CEO of Gillette, answers: seeing targets and mobilizing people to hit them. No wonder, Warrent Buffet said of him as one of the buisnessmen who gave him "No baloney."


(2) What if your targets are wrong? What if you dont see so clearly?
Deng Xiopeng suggests ad-hoc solutions and "groping the stones to cross the stream"


(3) Caring
Mao when he was still good, was caring. He said good-humoredly of his troops: The Red Army soldiers are good at running.


Myanmar history has also taught us that leadership is all about clarity, options and risk management.

Avove all, keep in mind the 6 qualities of a Leader ('Na Ya Ka') by Lord Buddha:
'hta-kywa' = energetic, energizing
'noe-kyar' = vigilance
'tha-nar' = mercy
and so on.

My Visions

"(1) Extract information and create knowledge from unstructured data.

(2) Represent human beings in computer/virtual worlds, all in terms of BDI (beliefs, desires, intentions), model/world-views, and approaches."

These are my long-lost visions, the visions I started my IT career with, in the middle of the 1990s.

They may look too academic, disembodied, decontextualized, too broad, too general, too out of touch with real lives, real users, real problems, and real money.

They may also look too big, too grand, too large, too deep as if I am setting up myself and my team for failure.

First, we can divide each to dozens of small products/ services/ applications. How many man-month are needed for such a web application? Are such resources beyond our means?

Second, each such application solves some real problems of some real users. Like, blogging, tweeting, searching. We are not doing them, I show them as examples only.

Third, if we go viral, how large a budget do wee need for marketing, promoting our app?

Fourth, how many applications do we need to sacrifice, let others copy, before we make money, get bigh enough to fight back?

We will get there.