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Friday, 21 February 2020

DIY Posts have shifted!!

Posts which are much MORE PRACTICAL and

LESS ACADEMIC! 

Please refer to:

       https://optimise-performance.blogspot.com

for these labelled Posts.

Thursday, 20 February 2020

University Courses ... a Career Perspective


If you're thinking of taking on a new career - be it your first or you are changing careers - 

here's a new way to look at University Courses, make sure you know what you are getting yourself in for!

Traditional University Courses in particular Medicine & Law get you to learn ALL the text books:

  • Law - there are Lecturers whom still don't use slides / textbooks etc ... make you transcribe all their lectures by hand - 
  • Medicine is similar -the only prop you have is the patient! 
  • In Pharmacy - the drug dispensary, Dentistry is similar
  • And the list goes on ... 


So worth it if you are questioning the commitment / study skills / ability etc ... you have - may be more worthwhile to look at other courses around which these days may be Private or at the very least, partially Private.

 

 

Saturday, 25 January 2020

Primary Texts vs Secondary, Tertiary Texts etc ...

Just a tip, I've found - rather than diving directly into Primary Texts (NB: Primary Texts NOT Primary Sources) such as:

  • Religious Texts e.g.
    • Bible
    • Quran
    • etc ...
  • University Textbooks 
  • etc ...



Which are all generally very hard to read (and therefore understand);
 

Look to digesting Secondary Texts such as web sites, books written by 3rd party authors etc ... you will find this much more relevant to your everyday life!

Wednesday, 1 January 2020

DIY Posts have shifted!!

 

Posts which are shorter, not as involved and

not so complicated! 

 

Please refer to:

       https://optimise-performance.blogspot.com

for these labelled Posts.

Sunday, 22 December 2019

Better examples of 'ECONOMIC GOODS' !!

For all those studying economics ...
Adding on to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goods

In terms of Private Goods - in the Australian example

LNG, Iron Ore, Rice ...

 

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Non-Rivalrous and Exclude able Goods

  • Internet Television e.g. Netflix
  • Internet Subscription Services e.g. iTunes
  • Tennis Courts

 

Common Pool Resources


  • Land fill, Public Education, etc ...




Friday, 20 December 2019

The power of Re-selling ...

Microsoft has certainly done a great job, obviously they re-sell software themselves - but active re-sellers for their products is also very powerful, more so than End - Customers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#Lowering_software_development_costs

One thing I would draw to your attention to is how they help their ecosystem Commodotise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodification arguably the most available & common way of reducing cost without reducing quality!
So this applies to Microsoft Customers as well ... for instance in the way they are able to use Office (as a basic example) -
A big advantage over Oracle where it is harder and costs are borne almost entirely by the end - customer.

That is to say Commodification is key and should always be considered - whilst the Executive doesn't really re-sell - at this point in time however a big re-seller has not really been tapped - the Legislature of the Commonwealth Government through their ability to enact laws!

That is to say we all know at a high level the Commonwealth Legislature has the ability to reduce costs without compromising quality (perhaps even taking a different approach to Commodification) even if this is still relatively untapped! 

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Just a quick point on re-selling -
Commercial Dishwashers can clean cookware squeaky clean probably due to their volume - try that in a home dishwasher! 

Thursday, 19 December 2019

Integrate the A-League around the Asian Champions League

No point having a small and (relatively) insignificant league - at least on a Global stage standing alone - the future of the A-League (or Australia - New Zealand league) is in Asia and the Asian Champions League!

To this aim the A-League (or Australia - New Zealand league) should try and centre itself around the windows for when the Asian Champions League is in session.


Sunday, 15 December 2019

A big problem with Professional Sports!

Its too simple and too much a two-sided market, zero-sum game!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game

It needs to be more of a:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win-win_game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_double_thank-you_of_capitalism

And this applies to all Professional Sports - and there's that school of thought that Sports replaces the Roman gladiators - so that people don't overthrow their Governments! ;)

They probably also need to start looking a bit wider beyond a core group of players
downstream they have a wide variety of suppliers, journalists, administrators etc ... and the key group of course the audience!

What do you think .. ?? Could you write an opinion ... ??

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