Pacquiao will stop Hatton within the first half of the fight. Contrary to what many boxing enthusiasts may be expecting, I do not see Ricky Hatton using his strength and size and goin’ smokin’ in the early stage of the fight. If Hatton’s corner has no respect for the smaller guy’s punching power, then the [...]
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 [...]
The Bottom Line On the Road to 2010
January 26, 2009 By 7 Comments
All too well, everyday, and everywhere we know that the world is gripped with an economic typhoon. As Intel closes its Philippine operations, and as left and right people are let go, even from profitable companies like IBM, the world hasn’t seen this fierce challenge in decades. As much as it sounds cold and calculating, [...]
Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton Fight is back on
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The Disruptive Technology of New Media
January 17, 2009 By 10 Comments
A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation then the flask is shattered, releasing the poison which kills the cat. Quantum mechanics suggests that after a while the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, [...]
Why we blog
January 17, 2009 By 22 Comments
Paradoxically, Andrew Sullivan’s Why I blog, supposedly a testimonial for blogging as a “new and quintessentially postmodern idiom” which “heralds a golden era for journalism, has been written and published in, well, the old-fashioned polished form. As traditional a piece as it is, the article is “mannered writing” – to appropriate, if inappropriately, BrianB’s jargon [...]
Underlying simplicity
December 18, 2008 By 54 Comments
T.U.P.F. – The bases of wealth and poverty
December 11, 2008 By 24 Comments
Having explored the first layer of The Ultimate Poverty Framework™, we now move on to the three key classes of management imperatives relevant to building wealth (and extricating one’s self from poverty): :) Securing and growing our revenue base. :) Creating and increasing the value of our asset base. :) Controlling and managing our cost [...]
Hooky
December 9, 2008 By 8 Comments
High school was a time for Counterstrike. We sneaked past the guard, or even scaled the low walls surrounding the perimeter of the school, just so that we can play in one of these pang-aliw “tournaments” to determine who’s the better shot with a mouse and keyboard. Of course, when you get caught – or [...]
Give Us This Day
December 9, 2008 By 91 Comments
For a Catholic nation, apparently we don’t understand our Religion and Faith, at all. Take this campaign made by the awesome folks at Ogilvy Philippines: Ogilvy was not allowed to use the tag “Give Us This Day” on public billboards and has been asked to cease the campaign. The reason? It was Blasphemous. Seriously?
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