Oh, last two blogs we talked about how to make a decision, by finding ideas and how to choose the perfect one. However, there is another process that is also a good tool for making a decision, that is how to evaluate the "quality" of that idea.
I accidentally learn how to think like this in during HTE class, when we have a discussion about a business model. Business model is a schematic diagram that you draw for your company about how to get a resource, how to transform it, and who are going to pay for it. Other class calls it business value chain, it is the way that money flow. One of the most important thing for the business organization is knowing their business value and knowing how to create it. For example, at the very first years of Google under the organizing of Larry Page and Sergey Brin, even they gain millions of users but the company doesn't have that much benefit, because their is no business model there.
Once Eric Schmidt comes to Google and restructures the business model of the google by adding AdWords, a small blog of ads on google pages, this tool becomes the most powerful source of benefit of google and help google becomes one of the most biggest company (in revenue) in IT world.
Okey, now let's talk about how we can adapt the business model to evaluate our ideas.
The keywords are "input-process-output".
Input is what is the raw materials that we need for this idea. How to find it.
Output is the goal of our idea. What you get. it is equal to input+value. And value is the most important thing in this process. It is what you would earn from this idea.
Process is how you could transform input to output, including how much does it cost (in term of money, time, intention, people involved).
In my opinion, potent idea is what you can figure out three of these. It is useless to choose how to do it when you don't even "know" how to achieve it. At least you should know what you would gain from doing it, to make sure that it has a possibility to success, right?
For example, I'm thinking about production a short animation and send it to the competition during this summer break. The topic is "miss you miss you so much" which I considered it as easy (I'm so emotional), and what I would gain from winning the event is free air ticket to wherever in the world I want (US!). I might ask my friends to help me about animation technique. Now I have everything ready, emotional feeling-animation technique-free ticket.
This is qualified idea.
However, considering my priority list, friends and relationship is in the second priority. I still have tons of ideas in my mind and some of that relates to my top priority, academics. Therefore, I throw away this animation idea and move to next idea, evaluate it and consider it with my priority list. This is the way I come around with a great idea for this summer. How I make a decision.
ps. So complicated. -_-
Monday, April 25, 2011
HTE diary: Art of Decision (2)
Last blog we discussed about how to generate the idea by brainstorming. Now we have plenty of idea but we don't know how to choose the perfect one.
As God of Apple once says, "Making the decision to implement an idea is just as important as making the decision not to implement an idea" (not exact words). This is how we can illustrate the importance of making a decision.
And the most powerful method (but not the easiest one) is to set the priority.
As God of Apple once says, "Making the decision to implement an idea is just as important as making the decision not to implement an idea" (not exact words). This is how we can illustrate the importance of making a decision.
And the most powerful method (but not the easiest one) is to set the priority.
Priority is what you value in your life; studying, money, travel, friendship, relationship, work, family, reputation. It varies from people to people, from time to time.
My priority is here;
1. Study and Research
2. Friends and Relationship
I have only two levels of priority in my life. Sound simple, but actually it is one of the hardest thing in your life that you have to figure out. And I think the key of successful people is how they set the priority and do it accordingly. Some people set the priority from the internal need of themselves, for example, want to be rich, so it is money. Want to love and be loved, the priority might be relationship and friends. Other people set the priority from what is goal of their life, for example, my case, I want to be a professor, that's why I rank academics as the top priority.
How to rank it, it is not like "Okey, study is the top priority because I'm student and I have to do it.". If life is that simple, no one gonna fail in the class for sure. So I think the most effective way to figure out the priority is to look back in your past life, what have you done and gave you the most appreciation.
Then rank it as the top no matter what.
I always feel good when I do best in academics, for example, good record in transcript (I'm so proud of it). I can spend a day and a night working for my research paper without being hungry. When my paper is done, I feel even better than I have got a boyfriend or meeting a friend that I haven't met for so long. This example is pretty extreme, I intentionally make it clear to you how the academics comes to my top priority.
Having a priority list in your life is much better in the way that it would simplify your life a lot. When you come up with a dilemma or situation that requires a decision making. Look at the priority list, weight what you would earn from that action and then decide!
There is no right or wrong for the priority. My closest friend ranks her boyfriend as the top priority, family is the second, and study in the third. When I figure out this, I don't feel down anymore when she refuses us to go eat together after the class but instead heading back home immediately. I understand her. Someone even set only one priority in his life, and in my personal opinion, that's so cool.
2. Friends and Relationship
I have only two levels of priority in my life. Sound simple, but actually it is one of the hardest thing in your life that you have to figure out. And I think the key of successful people is how they set the priority and do it accordingly. Some people set the priority from the internal need of themselves, for example, want to be rich, so it is money. Want to love and be loved, the priority might be relationship and friends. Other people set the priority from what is goal of their life, for example, my case, I want to be a professor, that's why I rank academics as the top priority.
How to rank it, it is not like "Okey, study is the top priority because I'm student and I have to do it.". If life is that simple, no one gonna fail in the class for sure. So I think the most effective way to figure out the priority is to look back in your past life, what have you done and gave you the most appreciation.
Then rank it as the top no matter what.
I always feel good when I do best in academics, for example, good record in transcript (I'm so proud of it). I can spend a day and a night working for my research paper without being hungry. When my paper is done, I feel even better than I have got a boyfriend or meeting a friend that I haven't met for so long. This example is pretty extreme, I intentionally make it clear to you how the academics comes to my top priority.
Having a priority list in your life is much better in the way that it would simplify your life a lot. When you come up with a dilemma or situation that requires a decision making. Look at the priority list, weight what you would earn from that action and then decide!
There is no right or wrong for the priority. My closest friend ranks her boyfriend as the top priority, family is the second, and study in the third. When I figure out this, I don't feel down anymore when she refuses us to go eat together after the class but instead heading back home immediately. I understand her. Someone even set only one priority in his life, and in my personal opinion, that's so cool.
Sunday, April 24, 2011
HTE diary: Art of Decision (1)
Engineerings teaches you how to solve the problem--to find the exact solution, but in the reality, situation is different. There is no wrong or right answers, and this is the way it is, making a decision.
I always have a plan to my life, and prefer to have a short term goal. First summer, I decided to focus on my debate club together with doing some research at my university. Next summer is at National Lab. My third summer is internship time and now it is going to be my forth summer, after I graduate, I catch doubt what I shall do.
It is not hard to come up with idea what to do. For the people who always have a trouble with "I don't know what to do.", I can give you an easy keyword;
Watching
This is pretty similar to "how the idea is created" model in my HTE class, what to do is to watching what's going on with other people, for example, your role model is not bad idea. I go doing research during my first summer because my professor once went to internship during his summer time.
More important person to watch, yourself.
Continue the activity or project that you have done previously is also a good consideration. Sometimes, you might have a such a great idea during the school semester and you are such a busy until you can't do it. Think, now you have free time.
However, no matter ideas that come up to your mind, you should have a solid, clear goal there. This is very important because the success of your decision comes when you can achieve your goal.
Now you have tons of idea coming to your head, without evaluation the possibility or the value gain at all. The next step is to select the target idea, yeah, this one is much more cruel than the first step.
Every idea seems to be the best, but you couldn't do all of them no matter what--time, money, skill, or laziness are always involved in human life (I won't talk about robot-like person, he did everything perfect in his perfect life). When I first come up with the this problem with my dad, he told me the way to evaluate it.
And we would talk about it in next blog.
I always have a plan to my life, and prefer to have a short term goal. First summer, I decided to focus on my debate club together with doing some research at my university. Next summer is at National Lab. My third summer is internship time and now it is going to be my forth summer, after I graduate, I catch doubt what I shall do.
It is not hard to come up with idea what to do. For the people who always have a trouble with "I don't know what to do.", I can give you an easy keyword;
Watching
This is pretty similar to "how the idea is created" model in my HTE class, what to do is to watching what's going on with other people, for example, your role model is not bad idea. I go doing research during my first summer because my professor once went to internship during his summer time.
More important person to watch, yourself.
Continue the activity or project that you have done previously is also a good consideration. Sometimes, you might have a such a great idea during the school semester and you are such a busy until you can't do it. Think, now you have free time.
However, no matter ideas that come up to your mind, you should have a solid, clear goal there. This is very important because the success of your decision comes when you can achieve your goal.
Now you have tons of idea coming to your head, without evaluation the possibility or the value gain at all. The next step is to select the target idea, yeah, this one is much more cruel than the first step.
Every idea seems to be the best, but you couldn't do all of them no matter what--time, money, skill, or laziness are always involved in human life (I won't talk about robot-like person, he did everything perfect in his perfect life). When I first come up with the this problem with my dad, he told me the way to evaluate it.
And we would talk about it in next blog.
Friday, April 22, 2011
It is unexplainable by Science
I'm science-oriented person, but please listen to the story that JUST happened to me today. It is something that unexplainable, thing that you called coincidence, or whatever, it is so amazing and already happened to me.
During a nice morning under damn hot sunshine of Bangkok, I walk to the school as usual. Accidentally, a random guy comes to greet me by his Indian accent English. I don't know who he is. Maybe he is just a foreign who lost his way.
"Your face is pretty, but you concern too much on friendship, or relationship. And it doesn't really matter to you."
.......What?........No clue what he's talking about. It's true that I'm kinda over thinking person but does he read it from my face?
"Umm, I'm thinking about my work." Truthfully, I'm thinking about my research project report.
"Oh..oh...you do. Do you know the (some name of the Indian God, not sure). He told me that you are going to get a good news within two-three days or within a week."
...And I'm going to have a final exam next week, such a good news...
"Please, come with me and have a seat. I can tell you more about the good news that gonna happen to you."
At this point I decide that this random guy has already crossed my safety line so I politely refuse him and leave as fast as possible. I meet my friend at the school and we discuss about this guy. Nothing important.
Until I come back home, and check my email inbox as always.
The Letter of Acceptance from the graduate school that I'm waiting for tooooooo long lies there!
It is already four months since I flew the application. Some universities, include Berkeley, already send me a mean regret letter a month ago. But now I've got it!
A good news comes, not three or four days, but within an hour.
Something that is Science fails to explain already happened to me, whatever it is, today is such a memorized day.
During a nice morning under damn hot sunshine of Bangkok, I walk to the school as usual. Accidentally, a random guy comes to greet me by his Indian accent English. I don't know who he is. Maybe he is just a foreign who lost his way.
"Your face is pretty, but you concern too much on friendship, or relationship. And it doesn't really matter to you."
.......What?........No clue what he's talking about. It's true that I'm kinda over thinking person but does he read it from my face?
"Umm, I'm thinking about my work." Truthfully, I'm thinking about my research project report.
"Oh..oh...you do. Do you know the (some name of the Indian God, not sure). He told me that you are going to get a good news within two-three days or within a week."
...And I'm going to have a final exam next week, such a good news...
"Please, come with me and have a seat. I can tell you more about the good news that gonna happen to you."
At this point I decide that this random guy has already crossed my safety line so I politely refuse him and leave as fast as possible. I meet my friend at the school and we discuss about this guy. Nothing important.
Until I come back home, and check my email inbox as always.
The Letter of Acceptance from the graduate school that I'm waiting for tooooooo long lies there!
It is already four months since I flew the application. Some universities, include Berkeley, already send me a mean regret letter a month ago. But now I've got it!
A good news comes, not three or four days, but within an hour.
Something that is Science fails to explain already happened to me, whatever it is, today is such a memorized day.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Go Crazy: Jazz Dance
Just recently my friend (Nikki) has posted the clip from "So You Think You Can Dance" Season7. I am not a big fan of this TV show--most of the time I just watch youtube when they used the song that I like, such as this;
I really like the way they convey the content of the song (meaning, feeling, and emotion) via the choreography. First time I have listened to "Jason Duerulo's Whatcha Says", it is just a sadness, disappointment, and so gloomy. But watching this dance, it is not only the blue feelings, but also the beauty of it.
I thought it is season 6, I went through other shows in the same style, only the hip-hop is good, and other are pretty disappointing.
Now I'm looking through a new coming season, and I got this;
OMG!!!! I recognize some of this choreograph! It is Jazz Dance! Even the word "Jazz" might make someone confused with the modern Jazz, or Jazz song, but I could say what I mean is kinda different form--it is Jass in Latin ballroom dance.
Damnit, I almost forget a Latin ballroom dance class when I was at grade 7.
Until now, you might scream out loud, this is not your Latin Jazz, see, it is Cha-Cha! Okey, this might be my false. At the first sight it seems like Latin Jazz choreograph, but later I figure that the rhythm is Cha-Cha. Sometimes the Latin Jazz choreograph could be used here.......
Okey, this is my very old knowledge and I don't think it is 100% precise.
End this half entertain-half educated blog with this;
I really like the way they convey the content of the song (meaning, feeling, and emotion) via the choreography. First time I have listened to "Jason Duerulo's Whatcha Says", it is just a sadness, disappointment, and so gloomy. But watching this dance, it is not only the blue feelings, but also the beauty of it.
I thought it is season 6, I went through other shows in the same style, only the hip-hop is good, and other are pretty disappointing.
Now I'm looking through a new coming season, and I got this;
OMG!!!! I recognize some of this choreograph! It is Jazz Dance! Even the word "Jazz" might make someone confused with the modern Jazz, or Jazz song, but I could say what I mean is kinda different form--it is Jass in Latin ballroom dance.
Damnit, I almost forget a Latin ballroom dance class when I was at grade 7.
Until now, you might scream out loud, this is not your Latin Jazz, see, it is Cha-Cha! Okey, this might be my false. At the first sight it seems like Latin Jazz choreograph, but later I figure that the rhythm is Cha-Cha. Sometimes the Latin Jazz choreograph could be used here.......
Okey, this is my very old knowledge and I don't think it is 100% precise.
End this half entertain-half educated blog with this;
Loren is crazy hot!
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Absurdity 2: English
The first English book I have read is so call General Chemistry textbook by Raymon Zhang when I was in grade 10. The second one is Atkin's Physical Chemistry textbook at grade 11. After that I always use English textbooks for study all the time.
Surprisingly, I haven't finished any English literatures in my life.
Vampire Twilight: I started with two pages, and never read it again.
Harry Potter: around 13 pages until the limit.
Some random business book: within five pages.
So I figure out, maybe I have to choose the topic relevant to what I'm interested. So I end up with John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
Haha, relationship.
And I finished it within 3 weeks, speak precisely, around 5 nights, excluding the time for Business Plan and Senior Project.
I like this book because of the atmosphere of love and intimacy in this book. I like the way the writer conveys the peace of love and power of understanding the different people. It could be used to explain not only the couple's relationship, but to understand your friends, your family, and general people.
And the most important thing is, I learn more about myself.
One thing to notice, the way of relationship in Western world is kinda different from that in Eastern. I can't definitely spot the difference, but it is nice to better understand.
Surprisingly, I haven't finished any English literatures in my life.
Vampire Twilight: I started with two pages, and never read it again.
Harry Potter: around 13 pages until the limit.
Some random business book: within five pages.
So I figure out, maybe I have to choose the topic relevant to what I'm interested. So I end up with John Gray's Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.
Haha, relationship.
And I finished it within 3 weeks, speak precisely, around 5 nights, excluding the time for Business Plan and Senior Project.
I like this book because of the atmosphere of love and intimacy in this book. I like the way the writer conveys the peace of love and power of understanding the different people. It could be used to explain not only the couple's relationship, but to understand your friends, your family, and general people.
And the most important thing is, I learn more about myself.
One thing to notice, the way of relationship in Western world is kinda different from that in Eastern. I can't definitely spot the difference, but it is nice to better understand.
Monday, April 4, 2011
While human is emotionless as robot and robot try to be emotional as human.
Hanson Robotics, found by David Hanson, tries to build humanlike robots. Not only the face expression and movement, he aims to mimic human's feeling, emotion, and dream....While some people are emotionless as robot, there are also people who want to make a robot feels like human. HAHA
Dinsaw the Robot, housed by CTAsia Robotics Corp. (Thailand). They just launched 100 robots in one of the top famous suki restaurants, MK.Chulalongkorn University produces high quality robotic engineers every year, unfortunately, most of them went to work abroad or go to business field. Therefore, Mr.Chalermpol Punnotok, CEOs of CTAsia try to attract those brains to work with him, and create the robots with the strategy of playing with human's emotion, for example, making Dinsaw have the big charming eyes.
Getting to know Engineering Innovator Club, Chulalongkorn University. The undergraduate student's club which focusing on making a robot. We joined Robocup Small Size League since 2003 and won the first prize in 2008 (Plasma-Z). Now we moved to humanoid, and qualified for Thailand's champion league in 2011 (This year).
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