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5 people that I most respect and thus become my role model : Part 2 : Andrew Carniege - From rags to Millionare

2012-01-12T02:24:00.000-08:00

For those who don't have any clue who is Andrew Carniege : Andrew Carniege is a self made millionare who worked as hard labor and slow but sure rise up and ended up a the world riches man in the world in the 1900's

I've searched and compiled his timeline and make comments, read it slowly and let your self be amaze by this man tired less effort in actualizing him self, compare his age and your age, compare his educational background and yours, and same as I, we will be humble by this man achievement in the world of horses and carriages and not Facebook and tablet as we live in

I'm humble by this man life story, and I've learn alot, and i'll fight as hard as Andrew Carniege has!

timeline source : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/timeline/timeline2.html

How to be creative and apply creativity as a science and not as “dumb luck”

2012-01-12T01:31:00.000-08:00

Lots of people perceive I’m a creative person, some say I’m a smart person, honestly I feel very far from those “title” that people put on my forehead using their “virtual-yellow-post-it”, there are times I feel really dumm and there are lots of time when I’m lost in the middle of an activity or a conversation, and sometimes I just don’t have any ideas, but still despite all of that people still consider me as a creative person.

Being considered as a creative person can sometimes “drive up” your nerves, all that constant questions towards you, those silly challenges as if I was a big walking encyclopedia that has all the answer or this walking-talking problem solving computer, although I have to admit there are moments when I enjoy myself being ask silly questions and I felt so “pleased” when I manage to give an alternate solution but still.. c’moonn.

So enough me: spilling over my un-important- narcissistic -self-pity-emotion, I want to share how I get those ideas – some people call it creativity- to solve those problems:

1.    Look for Patterns
I always look for patterns in an event, something that keep recurring or that is always there when things went wrong, or some action or thing that other company keep using, or what are the similarity of those successful person/company.
Whatever the problem is, I always look for patterns, what have we done in the past, how is it done now, when and where it went wrong.

2.    Look for benchmark (cheat answer by imitating n modifying what other people has done)
I’m no genius I don’t even consider myself creative or smart, so to answer those questions, to solve problems, I go to my trusted “GOOGLE” you just Google it, and patiently click through the URLs, read through articles, and again look for patterns in those articles, find the best practices that is applied elsewhere, note that best practice, try to imitate it, if you can imitate it, modify it and applied, it works all the times.

3.    Create a big elaborate stories and all the component must linked up to each other
When you have the patterns and have best practices from various sources, it’s time to do some association in your head, make up a stories that you can re-tell to other person without reading or cheating, make sure you have all the stories correct and connected, so when people ask you questions and challenges your ideas, you have a story to tell, and people always relate better to stories than just plain facts.

4.    Stay curious
Never ever hold yourself back from being curious, when you have a questions pop-up in your mind, write it down and when you have time look for the answer, it triggers your curiosity it help you learn more and it will build your confident.
At one moment I have a question that people say I’m silly to ask, but no one can answer it, the question is:

How digital projectors can shows black font? digital projector use very bright light to project the object, but how can they project black font, black is the condition without light ? Have you ever thought of that? It took me 5 minutes to come up with an answer, which I won’t reveal it here, how long does it take you to answer that question?

5.    Keep adding that stories
My head filled with stories and with each experience I had from my life, from answering questions, solving problem I added another chapter on that small stories I have in my head, I have many small-short stories that tie up to 1 big story, that is how I can recollect my memories in a short period of time.

6.    Do step 1 over again
Like a vicious cycle of virtue, so does creativity, to apply creativity as a science you have to duplicate the process and re-do them over and over again, being creative is not a “dumb-luck” it’s an exact flow process, even you don’t have that “AHA” moment if you follow the process you’ll have a “spark of genius” – money back guarantee-

The end to my narcissistic blog

ARCADE game VS REAL TIME STRATEGY

2011-11-24T00:19:00.001-08:00

So something has just popped in my head, if i was a game developer which type of game should I be making ? off course i want to have a very successfull game...

Let's say I only know 2 types of game.. Arcade (tetris, zuma, etc) and RTS (Real Time Strategy) such as Farmville, cityville, etc

So.. which game perform better in the market, so i've done a little research by my self and the result is :

observe the above chart i've searched the MAU (Monthly Active User) of 3 arcade game ZUMA BLITZ, BEJEWELED BLITZ and TETRIS BATTLE and compare them with 2 RTS game : CITYVILLE and FARMVILLE

i also searched for the percentage of DAU/MAU = Daily Active User divided by Monthly Active User - for me this indicate the user loyalty, the higher the DAU/MAU the higher the loyalty, imagine 100% all registered member play the game, this will make the DAU/MAU = 100%

so observe carefully, you can see that the Cityville is having difficulty in acquisition, and farmville is having the life of their time, with such high acquisition, same with Bejeweled and Tetris battle.

now, observe the DAU/MAU chart.. the RTS on average DAU/MAU = 21-27% while Arcade DAU/MAU is 22-36%, so Aracade game is slightly higher..

So far from this very short and shallow data i can say if i'm a game developer I'll develop some simple to understand and fun to play arcade game - since its user loyalty are higher.. but if we are talking monetization i'm not quite sure, unfortunately i was unable to find revenue's data for those 5 games - so i cant say much

But i have a hunch or a very strong busines instinct.. do you guys remember how heavy Farmville and Cityville campaign at facebook ? those 2 game ads kept popping on my right hand side screen, but do you ever saw any tetris battel ads ? i havent seen any tetris battle ads.. yet tetris battle has 7 mio Monthly Active User.. it's a big number.. so tetris must have a very good viral feature.. actually the name tetris battle comes from you can play tetris up to 6 person online and battle your score, i guess this kind of gameplay really boost up their member registration number, so i would presume Tetris battle might have larger revenue margin than Farmville or Cittyville but I do think Cityville and Farmville absolute number is still much bigger than the rest, since they have huge number of subscription.

In a game as complicated as RTS i would suggest all game developer insert some arcade game in it, in order to entertain those bored and tired RTS user with something light,easy and fun, so a hybrid model game will be nice.. Hey if you are smart enough to develop a RTS game i'm sure it's easy for you to develop an Aracade game :) - that is if you agree with an asian mind like my self .. do all the things you can do as much as you can ;p -

Panggil saya : Instruktur Sapi Terbang

2011-11-14T04:37:00.001-08:00

Eng ing eng.. Instruktur Sapi Terbang... mmmmoooooooo...... he he he he.. image seekor sapi pake kaca hitam n melenguh dan mengepak-ngepakkan sayap selalu menghibur gw,.. and mengangkat semangat gw :D

Instruktur Sapi Terbang adalah analogi yg gw ciptakan buat diri gw sendiri, gw adalah instruktur sapi terbang, pekerjaan gw adalah membuat sapi terbang :D

Sapi adalah hewan yang sangat berat dan termasuk lamban namun potensi yang ada didalam diri sapi tersebut sangat banyak, dari kekuatannya, susu-nya, dagingnya sampai penampilan fisiknya yang sering dijadikan icon, it's very usefull, bayangkan kalau mahluk serba guna seperti itu bisa terbang, pasti lebih memukau lagi.. apalagi kalau sapinya ungu dan pake kacamata hitam...

That's me.. the person who teaches cows to fly with style (using rayban glasses)

Sapi adalah analogi potensi besar yang sangat masif dan lamban, namun kalo segenap potensi itu bisa di "ignite" maka akan mengeluarkan ledakan yang amazing sekali n pada akhirnya akan memukau kita semua, that is my personal goal..to train, to share, to harness, and to open the pandora box of every hidden massive opportunity, making things happen in a great way !!!

Akulah Instruktur Sapi Terbang ? mau sapimu bisa terbang ? call me.. I'll make your purple cow fly so high with style.. people will go.. WOW !!! and wonder whose cow is that :D.. dont worry I'll stay in the background, you can have your moment, for me it's enough when i see your cow fly high :D

Akulah Instruktur Sapi Terbang.. eng ing eng... moooooooooooo.....

5 people that I most respect and thus become my role model : Part 1 : Sergei Korolev

2011-11-02T05:48:00.000-07:00

5 people that I most respect and thus become my role model :

Part 1 : Sergei Korolev

Short brief :

He was destined by the Soviet Government to became acarpenter but he refuse to be a carpenter and he taught him self how to build anairplane, and thus he became a airplane designer and than become a leadingperson in Soviet Rocket research, when Stalin came to power, he was jailed inSiberia sentence to do 10 years hard labor. After the German defeated by SovietHe was called to service to imitate German V2 rocket and from there he becamethe first man to put a satellite in space, to launch the first dog to space,launch the first man to space, launch the first woman to space and many more,he was a man told to be a carpenter and went to become the “Chief Designer” ofSoviet Space Race.

More on Sergei Korolev can be found at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev

And this is Why I respect him :

a. Educate your self to achieve your dream !

As a soviet boy his future is sealed by the job predetermined by theSoviet Government – he was destined by The Soviet Government to be a carpenteryet he managed to study his way out and become Soviet number 1 Rocket Designerand bare the title “Chief Designer”

b. Stop complaining and look to the future

He put a side the past behind him and look towards the future – He wasprisoned, threatened at gun point by his own Government , yet he see it all asa challenge and not an obstacle, he kept working with his heart and not withhis vengeance.

c. Nothing is impossible just do – Keep persistencenothing is impossible

Hework with tight schedule and impossible condition, Sergei was the leading manin Rocket technology he works with limited technology to create new tools toput man in space, what was impossible became possible.