I doubt if resident politico-socio-economic “expert” Abe Margallo has had the experience of going out for the night to pick up chicks. Because if he did, he’d probably appreciate the notion that you don’t get the good ones by using lines like “please hang out with me ma’am, it’s for a good cause”, or “please [...]
The Chicken and The Egg Paradox
May 2, 2009 By 35 Comments
Manny Pacquiao is a singularity. Even before this Pacquiao-Hatton fight, we can feel Pacquiao’s event horizon pull everything in. Philippine Government business in Congress now stands still as Las Vegas becomes the center of the Philippine universe. And when the bell is rung in Las Vegas and Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton trade blows, the [...]
Thoughts On Philippine Education, Intelligence and Creativity
April 22, 2009 By 34 Comments
Most certainly like clockwork, questions on how our education system works, broken school buildings and textbooks and questions on what language to use will come out. My question is this: are we thinking too shallow, too small?
Driving down an unentrepreneurial road
October 31, 2008 By 46 Comments
In a few hours I shall be setting off and driving north towards my wife’s home province of Pangasinan, my adopted province since an unfortunate idiosyncrasy of my life is that I could trace seven generations back to Manila-dwellers beyond which I’ll have to go to China. But I digress — the two hundred kilometer [...]
Building ‘Solar Valley’ in the Philippines
September 9, 2008 By 23 Comments
In a four-part feature in BusinessWorld, Technology columnist Dennis Posadas (who blogs at Ricebowlandchips) advocates building a Philippine Solar Valley which would be to Renewable Energy what Silicon Valley is to Information Technology. In Part One, Posadas explains the timeliness of such an initiative especially given the recent opportunities we can build on, in particular, [...]
Filipinos and entrepreneurship: What’s the real score?
July 18, 2008 By 16 Comments
The result of the GEM Philippines 2006-2007 National Report, as cited by CVJ, is baffling, to say the least. In the study, GEM Philippines states that the distribution of entrepreneurs by socio-economic status is as follows: Class ABC+ 7%, Class C- 19%, Class D 54%, Class E 20%. Results show that four out of 10 [...]
The Dark Side of Positive Thinking
July 18, 2008 By 14 Comments
For book readers out there, i don’t know if your experience is the same, but i remember when i was young, my own reading interests tended to go by phases, i.e. clustering around a particular subject matter for a specific period of time. First it was books on the Occult, then Bible Stories and eventually, [...]
Rocking a small boat
June 17, 2008 By 10 Comments
It cannot be — and has never been — said that the Philippines is lacking in resources. Abundance has always been a primary aspect of the irony that is the Philippines. Ben Kritz’s latest article “Busy-ness Does not Equal Business: The Fatal Flaw in the Philippines’ Small Business Initiatives” explores the bureaucratic challenges that face [...]
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