{"id":1553,"date":"2011-02-26T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T08:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visaisahero.wordpress.com\/?p=1553"},"modified":"2024-02-29T05:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T05:28:23","slug":"potential-blog-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2011\/02\/26\/potential-blog-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential Blog Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Cigarette-smoking model of action<\/li>\n<li>Personal responsibility &amp; falling sick<\/li>\n<li>What I learnt from Save vs Smile<\/li>\n<li>Heat model of change<\/li>\n<li>Tipping Point<\/li>\n<li>Evolution of Co-operation<\/li>\n<li>Sleep &amp; Water<\/li>\n<li>My drawings<\/li>\n<li>My journaling<\/li>\n<li>Going &#8220;meta&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Show, don&#8217;t tell<\/li>\n<li>Give up your seat<\/li>\n<li>Vision<\/li>\n<li>Asymmetrical Warfare<\/li>\n<li>Resourcefulness<\/li>\n<li>EQ<\/li>\n<li>Mutually Beneficial Outcomes<\/li>\n<li>Phase-Cycling<\/li>\n<li>Consolidate all existing posts<\/li>\n<li>80\/20 Principle<\/li>\n<li>Intelligent Problem Resolution<\/li>\n<li>Talking about Game<\/li>\n<li>Sketch of sketches<\/li>\n<li>Memoirs<\/li>\n<li>Summaries<\/li>\n<li>Value of Research (medicine, lives of a cell)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Taking requests!<\/p>\n<p>I feel like I have a lot on my mind and that it would be a good idea to just write as much as I can without thinking too much so that I get as much of it out.<\/p>\n<p>SEVEN SINS:<\/p>\n<p>I want to complete my Hacking The Seven Deadly Sins series. I&#8217;ve already done Lust, Vanity, Wrath, Greed and Sloth- I still need to do Envy and Gluttony. After that I&#8217;ll do a summary post, perhaps entitled &#8220;General Principles of Sin-Hacking&#8221;. I would then like to write a book, or perhaps an e-book, on the subject of hacking the 7 Sins- it will be more well-researched, thorough and in-depth than the blog posts, providing historical and modern examples of how they work as well as clear direct applications to day-to-day life.<\/p>\n<p>Envy<br \/>\nGluttony<br \/>\nSummary<br \/>\nBook<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>LEGION OF HEROES: what I want to do after I&#8217;m done with the 7 sins- a study of ideas of heroism, drawing parallels between mythology, literature, video games, sociology and other fun stuff.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>GAME MECHANICS: What I want to do after Legion of Heroes. I&#8217;ll describe this at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>AUTOBIOGRAPHY\/MEMOIRS: I&#8217;ve been meaning to do a sort of autobiography, the memoirs of my life so far. Part of this will be vital in helping both my readers and I understand me better. I expect I should serendipitously derive value from that deeper understanding- I should develop a more clear understanding of what I ought to be doing with my time, and my life. I&#8217;d like to do a series of &#8220;reviews&#8221; of things that I believe have shaped my life and thinking so far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>STUDY OF JC RETAINEES AND DROPOUTS: I repeated a year in JC and that was quite a life-changing experience for me. I suspect that there are insights to be gleaned here that nobody has really done very much about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>WRITING FICTION: I&#8217;d like to write a &#8220;Great Singaporean Novel&#8221;- it&#8217;s hard to find any local writers that really resonate with me, that effectively describe the condition of the young Singaporean of the new millennium- so I&#8217;d like to start work on writing that. Of course, that&#8217;s a rather huge undertaking. I need to get to reading more local authors. I must start by doing short stories and brief sketches of people and ideas. I will use my Creative Writing category to begin this.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(2024 update: In 2017 I sketched out the draft of a book titled Make Some Noise, which was a start. I&#8217;d still like to return to this eventually when the time is right.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>BOOK REVIEWS. I own hundreds of books. Really, like at least 300 by now. I want to digest them properly, distill the good stuff and share them with others. My books cover a remarkably broad range of topics so I&#8217;d like to share them with others. I believe that doing this will help me further my understanding of what I need to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>MUSIC. It&#8217;s a big part of my life. I have a few fragments of songs that I&#8217;ve written here and there over the years. I&#8217;d like to consolidate them and record a proper album, which I will then sell online. I will use this venture to demonstrate (what I believe to be) an effective way of marketing and selling music online. I&#8217;m planning to give bass and guitar lessons- contact me if you&#8217;re interested! I also plan to do a series of covers of all the songs that have meant something to me in my life, especially those of local bands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I think University is going to be a waste of money. I need to explain why. I want to build a syllabus for myself that&#8217;s crafted specifically for me to develop the skills, connections and other good things that people expect to get from paying for a university education, and then ace it- and by doing so effectively prove that University isn&#8217;t anywhere nearly as important as we make it out to be- or if it is, then it won&#8217;t be for very long in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>FINANCES, EMOTIONS: I want to write posts on financial and emotional management. Perhaps I might study these, do blog posts, eventually write books and maybe give courses on the matter. If I am no qualified yet, I aim to be. This ties in quite nicely with the DIY university idea. Things that they don&#8217;t teach you in school that you really ought to learn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>SOCIAL MEDIA\/MARKETING: I want to build this blog into a sort of living, organic\/dynamic portfolio and resume. I have already made a couple of friends through it. I aim to have 1,000 twitter followers and 200 tumblr followers and 100 Facebook Likes by the end of the year, without having to spend too much time on it. I plan to become a sort of consultant on social media marketing, at least among my peer group and community.<\/p>\n<p><em>2014 Update: It took me longer than epected, but I have over 1,000 twitter followers, almost 300 tumblr followers and about 600+ FB Likes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(2024 update: 80,000+ twitter followers)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>FITNESS. I&#8217;d like to weigh 70kg by the end of the year, and 80kg by the end of the next- to build enough muscle mass to feel strong, confident and powerful. This will eliminate one of the oldest thorns in my side- a deep-rooted insecurity that I have carried with me since my childhood that I would be very glad to eliminate. I also want to learn to swim- yeah, I never bothered learning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Precise end goals, but unclear how exactly I was going to get there.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>(2024 update: Am currently 93kg, aiming for 100kg, and feeling great about it. Still haven&#8217;t learned to swim and look forward to addressing that)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>DECLUTTER. I need to get rid of the clothes that I don&#8217;t ever plan to wear again and the books that I don&#8217;t need. I&#8217;ll throw away what needs discarding and give away what others may want.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Should&#8217;ve been more precise. 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