Author: gojasminelow@gmail.com
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Do the right thing
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Who’s a Spike Lee fan here? In the 1980s, a film of the same title was released by one of America’s most revered film directors. In my research, I was quite surprised to read that they actually produced the film for a budget of US$6 million! That’s quite a hefty…
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What the world’s top five media say about Fortnite Grand Finals, and then there’s the sixth!
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Here’s a compilation of headlines reported by the world’s top five media companies today after the Fortnite Grand Finals buzz during the weekend in New York City. In cheeky comparison, I also found an article from a year ago giving a totally different perspective. And more. Headline 1. Wired UK The…
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Women on Boards
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Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index aims to get 20% of women on boards by the year 2020. Find out what you can do…
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Can the GIG economy rise above a “fiver”?
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Will the gig economy favour the giggers or the customers – shouldn’t it favour both sides as equally as it can be since we’re redesigning this new economy?
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Self. Less.
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Sephora, Sephora, Sephora! According to Wikipedia, Sephora is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH as of 1997. The Sephora logo is a white “S”-shaped flame against a black background. The name comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah (Greek: Σεπφώρα, Sepphōra), wife of Moses. In November 2018, Sephora and Google released and shared this case…
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Spending a Saturday with WordPress devs
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Today is just another Saturday in rainy November in Kuala Lumpur. Two months back, our junior developer Jinny informed me about WordCamp KL and asked if I would sponsor her to attend. I said yes, paid the RM70 (A$30) and as a result became a volunteer myself and wrote the…
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In the USA, I’d be kneeling with Kaepernick but I’m in Malaysia so I’ll kneel with the Temiars and LGBTQs
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This post is about our humanity. It’s another one of those long public holiday weekends in Malaysia – we have many, and I was reading this article written by Ciara Linnane / Market Watch and found it quite comprehensive in grabbing all of the relevant quotes from the Nike/Kaepernick campaign.…
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Future Shock predicted Grab Uber Asia merger?
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Future Shock! In a meeting few mornings ago, our Deputy Chairman Zin Dahari mentioned a book that blew his mind as a teenager. Published in 1970, Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock gave an idea of what the future would look like. Written together with his wife Heidi, the Tofflers conjured ideas like “underwater…
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Protected: How to apply for Media Accreditation
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Currently reading…
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Thanks to my university buddy, Eva, I received a copy of Simon Sinek’s ‘Start with Why’ two Christmases ago and it remained in my bag for in-between destination reads. I’d like to highlight an idea from the book on how Pioneerism lost to Commercialism. Apple’s iPOD had led the way as a leader…