Rule of thumb:
Tim, pls find time to read Great ideas!
Saturday, February 24, 2007
24-2-2006 讀報
10:28 AM
New year resolution:
Save $$ on books - limit spending each month to HKD$800
Finished: (3 books in 1 day)
The Change Function Pip Coburn / Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (June 22, 2006)
Making Innovation Work Tony Davila / Publisher: Wharton Publishing (January 2006)
Seeing What's Next Clayton M. Christensen / Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (May 2004)
Seeing What's Next is the sequel of Innovator's dilemma and Innovator's solution by Christensen, explaining the framework used to forecast the trend and the next big thing, some ideas are overlapped with Fast Second. (Actually all books share similar ideas when you come with a few hundreds.)
New:
Small is the new big Seth Godin / Publisher: Portfolio Hardcover (August 17, 2006)
Special:
一生一定要有的八個朋友 / Vital Friends：The People You Can，t Afford to Live Without
Not very long ago, I have recommended it to others, it is worth to see and dont take much time.
女生贏大錢幸運還是不幸？ 2007-02-24, 星島日報, A05, 港聞, 社評
THE ORIGAMI LAB - Why a physicist dropped everything for paper folding 2007-02-19, The New Yorker, SUSAN ORLEAN
An idea a day:
77. For interior design software, add a Feng Shui index for reference to customer.
As all people in HK care so much on Feng Shui, people are willing to pay much for feng shui masters to give advice on the setting and decoration in interior design, why software cant?
As all masters argue Feng Shui is scientific, like all science, are based on logic, this could make it alright to formulate a theory, pluging all assumptions and variable into software, forming a Feng Shiu index/rating.
The index logarithms can be setted according to various Feng Shui theories, advice from Feng Shui masters, and a constant stream of examples of highly Feng Shui rated decoration. The examples are for statistical purpose of calculating index.
Simple calculations can be done like this:
1. Enter the date of birth/sex of all residents of the apartment
2. Enter the location, external features/ environmental features, chinese/english name of the apartment
3. Then calculation on the matchness of apartment to residents could then be known from Feng Shui point of view
4. For internal design, as there are tons of examples in market for reference and calibration, just calculate the degree of similarity between examples and yours, then a score (of similarity) could be known
5. Modification of internal design could be made to maximize the score to obtain a Feng Shui house
This could made the design software other than for designing in aesthetics way, it take into account the conventional wisdom of accent chinese, on environmental metaphysics and psychology.
Comments:
Feng Shui is now very hot in US!
posted by 
@ Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 7:05:00 PM GMT+8
@ Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 7:05:00 PM GMT+8Steve,
Have you handled any interesting web2.0 startup?
posted by @ Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:33:00 PM GMT+8
@ Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 10:33:00 PM GMT+8Yes, but all feature are similar, spinning ideas around social networking, crowd sourcing/funding, online sharing of video, photo, messages, idea etc.
All the different is the fund they are seeking.
posted by @ Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 12:53:00 PM GMT+8
@ Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 12:53:00 PM GMT+8