Writing Feedback / The Power of Negative Thinking by Tomas Chamorro-premuzic [2]

Dr Tomas is a psychologist who carried out research or almost a decade between people's perception on their abilities and their true abilities to do something in 40 nations across the world. Interestingly, he found there were least relations between confidence and competent. He also pointed out that up to 70% of people is overconfidence. There are two personal benefits of being overconfidence based on recent psychology publications and motivation books. First, it is feel good for people to imagine themselves as an outstanding person and secondly, these misconception may useful to help others.

However, Dr Tomas revealed that there are several dire effects of overconfidence such as gamblers and people who miscalculate their ability to pay loans and mortgage. Overconfidence has also linked to several health problems such as people with obesity issue or their addiction on smoking and drinking. Thus, his solution is that people need to maintain their low confidence for the personal advantages and for other's benefit. He added that low confidence is essential factor for people to remains humble and it is also shows their willingness to accept suggestions.

Source: youtube..../watch?v=WtjSCoq8pE4&t=284s

Writing Feedback / TED Summary: The next outbreak? We're not ready [3]

Bill Gates, in his TEDtalk, pointed out that virus infection will possibly cause millions of death instead of physical threat like nuclear weapon in the future. The problem is, there are far more investment on nuclear prevention but we are lack of system to prevent epidemic.

A particular example of lack of system was Ebola outbreak sometimes ago. Initially, there was no stand-by group of epidemiologists to examine spread of the disease and the absence of medical staff. Bill identified three reasons why ebola did not expand to a larger area, it was because the ultimately great job done by number of health workers, the virus does not spread thorough the air, and it was only concentrated in rural areas. However, he warned that there may be more and more threatening virus in the future that people should worry about.

Therefore, Bill proposed a solution to integrate all instruments into one global health system such as to take advance the use of technologies, mobile phones, and sciences. For example, he hope that new drugs and vaccines will be discovered by scientists. However, He doubt about how much the expense to carry out the initiatives, but he fairly convinced that the cost is very low compared to the potential harm caused by epidemic.

Writing Feedback / Most of professions such as lawyer and doctor will see a significant change, as result of machinery [2]

TED Summary: The jobs we'll lose to machines and the ones we won't by Anthony Goldbloom

According to Anthony Goldbloom, in the next decades, most of proffessions such as lawyer and doctor will see a significant change as as result of machinery. In line to that, recently, researchers from Oxford University argues that nearly half of human's jobs are n the risk being take over by machine in the future.

Anthony describes machine learning as a most influential branch of man-made intelligence, it enables to learn from data and imitate some of people's abilities. Machine learning first used in early 1990 with fairly simple jobs , for example, to evaluate credit loan's risk and to sort mails using postcode. Over the past few years, machine learning was capable to handle a more complicated task such to give score on high school essays and to determine eye disease called retinopathy. At this point, it is clear that there is no opportunity for human to compete against machine when it comes to do a large number of tasks.

However, machine has limitation that they can only perform work than they had learned before in a large number, while people are able to cope with unfamiliar conditions. Business strategies, marketing campaigns and other creativities tasks are some of the people's capability that is likely hard to compete by machine.

Writing Feedback / Article summary: Once Sleepy Singapore Has Become Asia's World City-While Hong Kong Is Lagging [3]

Hong Kong and Singapore were considered as the greatest hub of free economy in South and South East Asia and two prominent market in the region according to Asian Journal. Over the past 40 years saw number of changes between the two cities, which according to the writer as a result of the political change.

Between 1980s and 1990s Hong Kong was stand among world's best cities for trade, for some reasons. For instance, tax rates is below the average and limited regulation, and their proximity to the rise of China. In the past few years, after Hong Kong resumed to be governed by China since about two decades ago, they became less attractive. In addition, political instability arose around the city with the massive protests in 2014 called "Umbrella Revolution and the Occupy Central Movement.

However, Singapore appeared to be less oppressive under current regime, governed by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Local press in Singapore is also slightly stronger than decades ago. In the business field, the country was stand out in number of rating agencies such as rank as second place on 'least miserably country' by Bloomberg and referred to world's most liveable city for foreign workers in Asia according to ECA International's version. All in all, these could be the advantages of Singapore over Hong Kong when it comes to appealing place for live and work.

source: time.com/4513089/singapore-hong-kong/?xid=homepage

Writing Feedback / Article Review: Zuckerberg and Chan Promise $3 Billion to Cure Every Disease [2]

Up to $3 billions will be invested by Facebook Founder, Mark Zukeberg and his spouse Priscilla Chan to fight against all children's diseases in the next 10-years. About a year ago, after welcoming their first baby, Max, the couple announced 45 billions financial endowment named "Chan Zukeberg Initiative". Moreover, there are several world billionaires such as Bill Gates, Pierre Omidyar, Marc Benioff have donated to the organisation. Although there is no much information how the fund will go, they have invested in tech education startups in number of developing regions like India and Africa.

According to Zuckerberg, one of the plans is to create $600 million "BioHub" to in San Francisco, a collaborative projects, where researchers from Stanford, UCSF, UC Berkeley able to work together. He added his organisation's mission is concentrated on curing diseases so that people do not sick. In contrast, community focus on spends fifty times more investing in treating people who are sick.

Writing Feedback / TED Summary: A life lesson from a volunteer firefighter by Mark Bezos [2]

Firefighter is consider to be one of dangerous jobs in the world, but Mark Bezos, an assistant captain volunteer in fire company presented his TED talk in a funny way. It was in the middle of the night and under pouring rain when he got into initial fire assignment. A volunteer who arrived five seconds before him was asked to save home-owner's dog. So when his turn came, captain of the volunteer said that Bezos need to got inside the house, pass the fire and got the home-owner a pair of shoes to wear. When he got out from the house, it turned out that his friend who save the dog got more attention that him! At that time, he feel that he is not a hero.

However, through his volunteer role as a firefighter, he learnt about the act of generosity and kindness as well to learnt about grace and courage a long the way. He advised if people want to help their surrounding, they need to start now. It does not to be somethings big. For example, serve food at a soup kitchen, clean up neighborhoods park or be a mentor. At last, Bezos gave an inspiring words to close his speech with " not every day is going to offer a chance to save somebody's life but every day offer an opportunity to affect one".

Writing Feedback / Think about something you want to add and try in the next 30 days [5]

TED Summary - Try something new for 30 days by Matt Cutts

In this TED talk, Matt Cutts tried to share his joyful experiences about "try something new for 30 days challenges", inspired by American well-known Philosopher Morgan Spurlock. Matt's 30 days challenges has been ranging from simple tasks like took pictures, wrote novel to even bigger target such as climbed the highest mountain in Africa, Kilimanjaro. To start it, firstly, think about something you want to add in your life or things you want to try in the next 30 days. Another tips is, focus on a more small changes, based on his own experiences it would be more likely sustain compare to big changes. There are number of reasons why people should consider the challenge. For instance, time is much more memorable, self-confident improved, even be more adventurous like Matt did in Africa.

Writing Feedback / TED Summary: Forget Multitasking, try monotasking by Paolo Cardini [2]

According to merriam webster dictionary, multitasking is the ability to do several things at the same time. Paolo Cardini, as a multitasker person himself, questioned how really efficient multitasking is, in his TED video. He gave example on his recent multitasking activities, where he answered phone,wrote SMS, uploaded photos while he was cooking. It caused him nothing but a burned barbeque.

Paolo mentioned that he is currently working on monotask project and urge the audiences to do so. For example, down grade smartphone into a very basic function or enjoy beautiful Venice using monocompas rather than retrieving lots of information from GPS. In extreme ways, we can also consider to turn off our digital life completely.

To close his speech, Paolo emphasis that in a world that multitasking provide lot of possibilities, he encourage the audiences to find their own monotask.