I think people get very passionate about Great Humans and find it hard to separate their emotional connection with what they have seen with the silent evidence of what they have not seen. At its heart, the great man fallacy is this– we do not know who would have risen to the occasion. Her biography […]

Some thoughts: 1. Singapore has to remain competitive to survive 2. One of the ways we competed in the past was by having a more compliant, safe, obedient, reliable workforce 3. That isn’t enough anymore because good, cheap labor is flooding the international marketplace 4. To compete in the future we have to be smarter […]

(This is a work in progress) Also see: https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/3phket/i_got_really_annoyed_seeing_the_same_stories_in/  Articles about Singapore Unsorted: Would Singaporeans just learn how to behave [2011] In defense of smokers [2011] Maid carry backpack big deal [2011] Singapore needs to encourage bad behavior [2012] Old shoes and duckweed [2016] Singapore Is So Exotic, Prosperous, Sterile, Creepy… Sandy Sandfort – The Intelligent Island [1993] […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzGzBm9FME8 1: Raffles Little Child 200 years ago, jungle (1800?) 200 years later- economic giant? no natural resources land is infertile. (Location is a resource!) “Mangrove to metropolis.” The LKY oversimplification: That LKY singlehandedly built Singapore. “Unless you know where you came from, what your ancestors have been though, you have no reference point. What […]