Two-time Noble laureate Linus Pauling encapsulated the process of innovation when he said, “The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw out the bad ones.” It’s a process full of blind alleys and dead ends. As a result, as Nathan Myhrvold told me, “When people say failure is not an option, it means they are either lying to themselves or doing something boring. When you try to solve an …
Remember we are all human beings going through own own trajectory in life, at a particular stage of development, and are managing our own challenges in our lives at the moment, and do not know everything. Remember that kindness takes longer but is more lasting than a harsh demand; is often in short supply; and costs us nothing to be kind. Do unto others as we would have them do unto us. But if they …
My good friend Shan and I were once at a post-hearing meal in the company of a very senior and well known lawyer. Shop talk was inevitable since we were lawyers; inevitably, I suppose, we got around to the topic of legal consultation fees. “If they cannot pay my consultation fee, I will not advise them. I will not even see them. That is a rule won from hard experience,” the senior lawyer said before …
I was asked this question once by a polite young Malay male student when I was on my smoke break when I was in University Sultan Zainal Abidin, UniSZA, as they call themselves, for a task that required me to stay overnight in Kuala Terengganu to complete. That happened on the first evening I was there. It was around the time after the transgender case I was involved with erupted in the media after the …
When deciding something critical, project myself to the distant future then look back at this present moment and ask myself, what would I like to have happen or assuming I have tentatively decided one way, what about that decision would I like to change now that I am in the future?