The Long Tail

 

 Well, Pareto optimality has been turned upside down from 80/20 to 98/2!
98% comes from 2% of work!!!

Previous landscape  below the water is now emerging as the watermark line goes lower!

New business previously ignored because of cost factors is now being made available because the cost has been driven down low enough!

New niches is now new market!



Is your business model ready to capture this new market? Like Amazon, Netflix, Rhapsody?

Eg (1) Music ......ITunes...


















(2) Books...
















(3).Toys?




(4) Charity...




(5)...Cancer

 


(6) Broadcasting...

I used to Know That : World History

This is an abridged version of the World History ... a bit of everything in a timeline.... short and sweet, and not too overpowering.

Good for  quick reference...

And the difference between :

Dark Ages : after the fall of Rome in 476 ( 500-1000 ), but the Chinese Tang Dynasty flourished ( circa 800)
Middle Ages : the Crusades ( 1000-1200)
Renaissance ( Re-birth ) : arts, Michelangelo ( 1200-1400)
Discovery : Columbus ( America 1492)
Reason and Republics : Magna Carta ( 1215)
Revolution : American ( 1776) , French (1789), Chinese Russian (1911) , Russian ( 1917)
Agrarian
Industrial
Information

10 Minute Primer QIGONG

 












This book gives an overall view of the Chinese concept of QI... a life force that is present in all living beings.

The main aim of QiGong is to direct the qi to nourish all the meridian points (72,000 0f them)... thus making the body , mind and soul a well tuned machine.

The are mant overlaps with some of the yoga's poses ; namely the Archer pose... and with other types of Qigong , eg the concluding exercise of raising the heels.

I suppose all Qigong works  ... and many of the techniques overlap because it is being taught by so many masters over the course of time.

Here is a summary of the BaDuanJin poses... ( looks like the ones found in Shaolin movies... inscribed on walls of caves,eh?) ...

BaDuanJin, as found in the book...

Here is one I found in an old book on Pelvic Exercises...

Better By Mistake

The American Way... Success, success...
The Eastern Way ... Failure ----> lesson---> Success

This is the fundamental difference between Eastern and western approaches...

Learn about :
(1) Above vs below water Mistakes
(2) Mistakes vs Error
(3) Intentional Mistakes
(4) Checklist : lesson from Doctors and Pilots

Yoga

 



















This book gives a history and the philosophy behing yoga.

What we normally hear of yoga is the :
(1) poses ( asana)
(2) breathing ( pranayama )

But there a a total of 8 aspects of yoga called the 8 limbs of yoga ...

(1) ( yama ) Dealing with the outside world : do not kill, steal , lie, ... moderation, non-covetness
(2) ( niyama ) Dealing with oneself : purity , awareness, contentment, self-discipline ,higher being
(3) ( asana) Poses
(4) ( pranayama ) Breathing
(5) Dealing with 5 senses . Shutting off, turning in. Stimuli-filter- response.
(6) Concentration : power of NOW. Live in the PRESENT.
(7) Meditation
(8) Actualisation

If you are not too religious , tend the poses and breathing techniques has a calming effect.
The concentration allows you to still your mind, and perhaps lower your stress level.

 








 

Swing Trading

 


The golden Rules in Swing Trading :

(1) Identify Pivots
(2) Buy retracements in Uptrends
(3) Sell Rallies in Downtrends

Simple. Yet Powerful .

Just like the other Golden Rules of Trading .
(1) Cut your Losses
(2) Let your Profit Run

Or George Soros' rule :
.. it is how much you win when you win, and how little you lose when you lose.

Or ..
Identify the Trend ( Up, Down Sideways)
Identify the Stage ( Early, Mid, Late)
Apply the Suitable Strategy ( Entry & Exit, Position Size, Trail, Add, Reversal)

Here is my summary...

Kuasa Minda _ Separa Sedar ( Power of the Subconscious Mind)

This is a Malay Language book that touches on :
(1) Subconscious Mind
(2) Yogic breathing
(3) Telekinetics
(4) Chakras

I am very intrigued with the Mind Revs :
(1) beta : 14-30 rounds per second
(2) alpha : 8-12 r/sec
(3) theta : 4-7 r/sec
(4) delta : 1-3 r/sec

Conscious mind runs at beta level, using the 5 senses. Type 1 thinking. Reason.

When we slow down our minds ( just before sleep stage ) , we are running at alpha level. This is where we use our 6th sense. Type 2 thinking. Intuition. Automatic.

Spiritual persons with deep practice can reach theta level, perhaps reaching affinity with the Creator.

When we are asleep, we run at delta level. Here, repair and rejuvenation occurs. REM also happens at blocks 0f 90 minutes. When we do not get enough sleep ( minimum 5 blocks of 90 minutes ie 7 1/2 hours) , we feel groggy the next day.

Autosuggestions , affirmations can be made  just before we sleep ( from Theta to delta). The subconscious is an efficient and powerful machine but it cannot make the differentiation between bad and good. Only the conscious mind can discern. Hence the principle of GIGO comes in . Feed garbage into your subconscious mind, garbage will come out ( Garbage In , Garbage Out). Feed good stuff in, good stuff will come out!