The ultimate failure of imagination is the way Philippine society consumes (rather than capitalises on) what is now its greatest resource – its people. Having all but depleted its forests and commoditised its minerals and farm produce, Philippine society is now turning to burning human capital. Like Romblon marble and our forests of decades past [...]
Museum of bad taste
October 20, 2008 By 3 Comments
I am with Marck in his lament that “our opinions (yes, even blog entries) take the character of McDonald’s meals: efficient, calculable, predictable, controlling”. The same can be observed for most things. As production is industrialised, products and their design become less varied, have less character, and therefore are less differentiated. I was once walking [...]
“Recession” is relative
October 13, 2008 By 5 Comments
I consider myself a lucky guy. I was a general management consultant back in the funny days of the Dot Com boom and watched bemused as all the Baan, PeopleSoft, Siebel, Ariba, Vignette, and Web consultants, among others, suddenly found themselves on the bench doing “Admin” work (and quite a number of even more unlucky [...]
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