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My post about My Ideas about the Future of Gaming  has gotten the Highest rating I have ever had, a +3. That's a big deal for me. First surprise was Jay Dugger liked it enough to plug it. Then there is also the fact Nyranth plugged my post! Mr. Atomic Rocket himself.  Its a long post so i'm surprised people liked it. Its not giving me ideas about writing as a living, I know very well that my real life work problems and challenges are the inspiration of my writing. So much am I inspired by frustration that I want a Personal Assistant to help me record and develop all my ideas for my own personal wiki. I want to formularize and process all that input and make a learning tool, for the people part of my team.  Its kinda dangerous amount of information, its all these tricks and techniques I've accumulated but I know I forget as much as I learn everyday THAT I don't take time to document it, drill it in mentally, and further improve on it. Again like my blog post, RPGs

A Client/Business Partner betrayed us. tried to bribe IT to access OUR server. Among other things, we caught them lying too often to that the recorded bribe was just crossing the line. It meant that we can never trust them, that we can never turn our backs and that we can never sleep well.  I value my sanity, and value my family, and sleep helps me maintain all that. So, my mom's recommendation is kick them out and let them pay us for the troubles.  One they will pay for the recruitment, training and transfer all the agents, allowing them to keep their jobs (unfortunately under new and really crappy management) Second they will pay WITH CONSIDERATION for all the equipment, modifications (and payment to dismantle all the modifications).  and for all our trouble a sizable margin in consideration for the mess they made.  It would be more profitable to let them stay IN ONE PERSPECTIVE, but its HELL watching your back all the time. Get rid of them, and never worry about the

I want to hire a personal assistant, and I'm looking at the Laws and Taxes governing it. I found the basic daily cost . Its basically php426 a day. assuming 21.66 (52weeks/12mo. x 5working days a week) working days a month, that's around Php9,230 to 9,691 after 2012 inflation, rounded off to Php9,750. Using the BIR calculator there is about Php333.3 due to SSS (deducted from the salary), Php666 contribution from me, the employer, Php195 Pag-ibig (Home Mutual Development Fund) and Php112.5Phil-Health, the person has to file BIR taxes of Php578. His/her take home is Php8,549. As an employer I would be paying Php9750 and Php667 for SSS contribution. There may be more in terms of transportation (Php90* a day = Php1950), meal (1 meal a day, Php45 = Php975), and communication's allowance (Php 330 per month, unlimited to my no.).  Now it totals about Php13,671.7. Where am i going to get that kind of money? I have to kill my personal allowance: my books purchases, airsoft, gas

I'm working to leverage Openware and Analysis tools to create an AGILE research process that can be replicated and streamlined so that there is a skill set to research before doing anything quickly and effectively. Including the costing, time, training and custom software for such. We are using it for Internal reporting at work, to scan quickly biz health, we plan to sell it to other companies (the training and infrastructure for AGILE analysis) but the biggest company that can benefit is the Philippine Gov't. Anyone in charge of a lot politician always needs a Staff, but there is no standardization or optimization of the staff. usually its cronie-ism and nepotism that makes up the staff. No real critical thinkers and analysts steeped in finance, technology, law, social engineering, strategy and critical thinking.  A staff of such has Standard Level Agreements that keep it lean and mean, munch through data like a monster and empower the person it informs. Its powerful and it

Just finished Fullmetal Alchemist Movie, Star of Milos. Damn, the main guy reminds me of my brother Joe. I keep wondering how Joe would be if he worked with us in this situation in the family biz. Well things are not going so bad. Its bad, I'll say its still red. I'm learned a lot and the challenge is not so bad as the same time last year. The strategy we are planning to get out of the situation we are in is ambitious: we work towards being one of the few companies in the Philippines that really develops technology. We can do it, and its not like some Einstein level break through. Its basically hacks to do stuff other more powerful companies already do but with our own way and meeting the SLAs our own non-copyright/patent infringing way. A lot of this is done by take advantage of the tech level up of crowd sourcing and open source. Value is really distorted because of Marketing. A lot of free stuff are awesome, its just that people have to much going on to learn to use su

Taking command and acting like a boss. Because normally people do what i say because of my positions but not when i exert my authority. My moms situation is putting me in situations where i have draw my authority, in a polite way. I act in the strategy and methods of my mother, which is why people love doing buisness with her. It is soft power, but i learned to add more mettle into it because of our coo. The reason he is compulsive in analysis, calculation and theoreticals is that haunting experience of being blind sided. I understand that, as a woman you can pull out thebig guns with situations which can make a man look heartless and evil, as a man you are allowed to be a little ruthless because men have little to fall back to. Threats make people defensive, and you cannot wash it out with diplomacy that easily especially when emotions are clearly running high. I was surprised by the desperation in the voice. Making one client pay for all other expenses was strange. Even when our c

I learned a lot again But i dont have time to write it down. - campaigns are everything, once you have a captured market that is the only time you consider moving forward with cou ting the cost. - innovations are only made AFTER you get back to the black. While in the red, you have no time to improve yourself or your system - which is different from correcting mistakes. In the red, you stop what your doing and do something SURE to get you back on the black. When your in the black, then you work on innovating. Innovation is something you dont do when you're bleeding, because it gives you tunnel vision. It makes you expect something you have no idea WHEN it is going to come. When you stop bleeding, the innovations are given a time budget so that people can turn back and minimize losses. - AGILE methodology is very different from what my mentor does, but more perfectly suited in the way my family does buisness. I'll document when i'm more free to write. As I get better, half o

Not smart enough I am a very late bloomer. That is something that made my childhood difficult. Im ok now and i did find my talents but it was very difficult given my genetic and social dispostion. I repeated grade two, i had trouble reading even till high school, i could not write without making mistakes almost every other word. As i look at my son, and consider the progression of his mental development i see all the suffering, difficulty, frustration and misunderstanding that lies before him. How my parents could not understand me, and how that might manifest in a much greater factor or in a much more unpredictable manner in him. I need to understand him, to communicate even when he cant seem to learn to do so. I might be making mountains out of mole hills, but it has crossed my mind how difficult and misguided i was. If he takes after me, who takes after my mother, i hope i will have a greater amount of patience and coping skill that my mother had with me when i was younger. I hope t