Taiwan has an open internet environment, but I think this does not imply Taiwaner has easy access to open information. Intuitively, to dig out information does require time and effort. To tell right from wrong is even cumbersome. Taiwaner is workholic, often working too hard to compromise life quality as a person and social affair as a country. "Lazy pack" is an interesting derivative under such environment, referring to a news summary meant for people having no spare time.
22K TWD is the monthly stipend for newbies who join the workforce in Taiwan. The number is poor considering the amount of work. A VERY conservative monthly spending can be like this:
• 7K for rent or mortgage.
• 7K for dining (or grocery, which is not very common for newbies or students ).
• 3K for insurance (such as the mandatory National Pention is about 1.2K, vehicle, house, medicare, etc)
The rest poorly 5K is the saving and investment for future generations, which is ridiculous.
My solution is to have a unified public information database, such as Google public data explorer (http://www.google.com/publicdata/directory). It has to be unified so people can friendly and easily access the information. It has to be bi-direction public: not only we read, but we write. We need the information so we know our position in this hierarchy. I think one reason that newbie does not dare to quit their job is because they don't know alternatives. Boss and media threaten, "it is hard to find a job. You should feel lucky, for you have had one!" I think this is bullshit. We need to hear successful stories from peers so we know we deserve better. We need to aware alternatives so we can change our slavery inertness. If s/he can do it, I can do it.
I am not aware any unified public information website yet. If there is one, let me know. If there is none, why don't you start? or I will.
2012年1月15日 星期日
2012年1月14日 星期六
outsource
This article arises because today gives the outcome of the presidential election in Taiwan. Discussing the gap from the election to outsourcing is beyond the scope, but I have the logic in mind, leading me to practice outsource. I have acquired the idea a while, but today is the day I make up my mind to practice it. 許文龍 said, "if you are busy enough, it is time to outsource." To me, this is a reasonable/intuitive thinking. After all, everyone has only 24 hours a day. We have to corporate. We have to work together. So we can do something big. "Make a dent in the universe!" Steve Jobs has been always saying.
My scratchy approach, yet my first move, is to outsource my research work to Barbara. The pay of doing research in universities ranges from 8 to 20 dollars an hour. In small/startup company, the pay is 20~30 dollars an hour. In industry, it could be as high as 40~50 dollars an hour. The numbers I gave are fair, because my friends and I have been in all those positions. I pay Barbara 50 dollars for a case, each of which I leverage is about a two-hour work. The work itself is whole about image co-registration. For a while, I was surprised that image co-registration exposes a need in research, which means you indeed are able to find a job by mastering the skill. Secondly, I feel sad about the 22k problem in Taiwan. Taiwaners in a word are workholic. I feel sad because they are not treated fairly and not aware to fight. For the same/less amount of work, people in US earn more and have a quality life. Thirdly, I pay 50 dollars per case because I think it is a fair deal and a double-win move. It makes me feel that I am able to release responsibility, to trust people, and to manage the process. I also hope that Barbara can appreciate its value as much as learn the skill. I am telling you that doing image co-registration is worth 25 dollars an hour, and YOU can take the job. YOU are valuable!
Why per case? Because if you can finish the work in 30 minutes, you are worth 100 dollars per working hour. This has been my style: I don't work long. I work smart.
Barbara once told me housewives are often under-appreciated. They work hard, but their contribution does not reflect on gross national product (GNP). Today's move also lets me evolve another interesting idea: Barbara and I should outsource work to each other. We put a value on tasks, so we will appreciate how we have treated each other anonymously. This indeed is 1+1>2.
Being a person who employs somebody makes me feel I start my own career. Who wants to screw up his/her own career? To me, it is very unlikely that when Barbara works for me, I myself turn to play the video game. During this two hours, we both are productive. To sum, this 50 dollar transaction produces a 4 hour productive work. I feel satisfied.
My scratchy approach, yet my first move, is to outsource my research work to Barbara. The pay of doing research in universities ranges from 8 to 20 dollars an hour. In small/startup company, the pay is 20~30 dollars an hour. In industry, it could be as high as 40~50 dollars an hour. The numbers I gave are fair, because my friends and I have been in all those positions. I pay Barbara 50 dollars for a case, each of which I leverage is about a two-hour work. The work itself is whole about image co-registration. For a while, I was surprised that image co-registration exposes a need in research, which means you indeed are able to find a job by mastering the skill. Secondly, I feel sad about the 22k problem in Taiwan. Taiwaners in a word are workholic. I feel sad because they are not treated fairly and not aware to fight. For the same/less amount of work, people in US earn more and have a quality life. Thirdly, I pay 50 dollars per case because I think it is a fair deal and a double-win move. It makes me feel that I am able to release responsibility, to trust people, and to manage the process. I also hope that Barbara can appreciate its value as much as learn the skill. I am telling you that doing image co-registration is worth 25 dollars an hour, and YOU can take the job. YOU are valuable!
Why per case? Because if you can finish the work in 30 minutes, you are worth 100 dollars per working hour. This has been my style: I don't work long. I work smart.
Barbara once told me housewives are often under-appreciated. They work hard, but their contribution does not reflect on gross national product (GNP). Today's move also lets me evolve another interesting idea: Barbara and I should outsource work to each other. We put a value on tasks, so we will appreciate how we have treated each other anonymously. This indeed is 1+1>2.
Being a person who employs somebody makes me feel I start my own career. Who wants to screw up his/her own career? To me, it is very unlikely that when Barbara works for me, I myself turn to play the video game. During this two hours, we both are productive. To sum, this 50 dollar transaction produces a 4 hour productive work. I feel satisfied.
2012年1月7日 星期六
方向與執行力
有創新的想法是比較常聽到的聲音，但是有決心毅力實現執行也同樣重要。我的比方是，提供想法的是學界、把想法做完美的是業界。難怪通常是業界在辦比賽徵求idea。乘大環境之風加上執行力我覺得就會成功。Apple的三個motto: empathy, focus, and impute。其中對focus的解釋我很佩服：You have to so focus to let go unimportant opportunities。即使是機會，如果不是很重要，那我也不要。實例：Steve Jobs曾說：「不要再浪費時間在快死的Apple 2了，快放下你手上的工作。」Jobs看清了產品的生命週期，在舊產品尚未完全淘汰前，就要搶先開發新的產品，他甚至在開發未來。
有強力的馬達，但方向錯誤怎麼辦？我的總結：一是快速修正、二是喜相逢、三是沒有所謂錯的方向。沒有所謂錯的方向就可以再舉Steve Jobs的例子，「教育消費者」是他獨到之處，不做市場調查，而是像宗教一樣告訴消費者你們需要什麼。平板電腦並不新(2000年就有了)，直到2010年才蔚為風潮，由Apple領銜。對於這個事實，我的解釋就是真的沒有所謂錯的方向。同理我對李敖的看法也是如此，雖然他能引經據典咄咄逼人，但歷史畢竟只是指出曾經有人如何、結果如何，其實正反例都找得到：我選擇獨善其身、而你決定兼善天下。公說公有理、婆說婆有理。辯論因此可以好玩。
方向是由熱愛與信仰決定的，謂之心悅誠服。因為熱愛，所以會傾注心血了解大局，自己處在什麼位置，下一步怎麼走，謂之快速修正。如果一個老闆是為賺錢而不是夢想或公司的長久經營著想，那我覺得他沒有熱愛，即使賺錢了心靈也空虛。因此好老闆、有夢想的老闆必定對他所制定出來的藍路心悅誠服，如果連自己都說服不了，如何說服下屬？上位者可以不獨裁、但不能說：「I have no idea」。
下屬跟老闆的角色是互補的，像頭與手腳的關係，百工斯為備。老闆既謂老闆就要有老闆的樣，君君、臣臣、父父、子子。當老闆就是要有擔當，要照顧好下屬。老闆的權力就是定方向，下屬同心執行。結果不好是老闆不好，就像身體著涼你不會怪你自己的手腳，時機好、時機不好，把下屬照顧得一樣好，有樂同享有難同當，謂之喜相逢。
小遊戲大人生，跟大家推薦elona。
有強力的馬達，但方向錯誤怎麼辦？我的總結：一是快速修正、二是喜相逢、三是沒有所謂錯的方向。沒有所謂錯的方向就可以再舉Steve Jobs的例子，「教育消費者」是他獨到之處，不做市場調查，而是像宗教一樣告訴消費者你們需要什麼。平板電腦並不新(2000年就有了)，直到2010年才蔚為風潮，由Apple領銜。對於這個事實，我的解釋就是真的沒有所謂錯的方向。同理我對李敖的看法也是如此，雖然他能引經據典咄咄逼人，但歷史畢竟只是指出曾經有人如何、結果如何，其實正反例都找得到：我選擇獨善其身、而你決定兼善天下。公說公有理、婆說婆有理。辯論因此可以好玩。
方向是由熱愛與信仰決定的，謂之心悅誠服。因為熱愛，所以會傾注心血了解大局，自己處在什麼位置，下一步怎麼走，謂之快速修正。如果一個老闆是為賺錢而不是夢想或公司的長久經營著想，那我覺得他沒有熱愛，即使賺錢了心靈也空虛。因此好老闆、有夢想的老闆必定對他所制定出來的藍路心悅誠服，如果連自己都說服不了，如何說服下屬？上位者可以不獨裁、但不能說：「I have no idea」。
下屬跟老闆的角色是互補的，像頭與手腳的關係，百工斯為備。老闆既謂老闆就要有老闆的樣，君君、臣臣、父父、子子。當老闆就是要有擔當，要照顧好下屬。老闆的權力就是定方向，下屬同心執行。結果不好是老闆不好，就像身體著涼你不會怪你自己的手腳，時機好、時機不好，把下屬照顧得一樣好，有樂同享有難同當，謂之喜相逢。
小遊戲大人生，跟大家推薦elona。
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