Kendala Bahasa, tidak sekedar Kendala Budaya

Walau saya suka menulis, menulis dalam konteks curhat. Tapi saya meyakini untuk bisa menulis maka harus punya skill yang baik. Vocabulary, misalnya. Mungkin pada dasarnya kemampuan berbahasa saya kurang baik. Tapi sekarang saya mencoba membuat tulisan dengan lebih mendalam maknanya, paling tidak dalam selain bahasa Indonesia, contoh bahasa Jawa: e.g ewuh pakewuh.

Contoh semantic menjadi kajian yang menarik dalam sebuah tulisan, sebagai contoh perulangan kata:

• Falah 40x

Belajar Jargon

Setiap hari adalah hal baru, maka belajar menjadi sebuah keharusan. Konsep baru itu akan outdated (basi) dalam waktu sangat cepat. Contoh, PDCA-nya Deming itu sudah outdated sekali sebenarnya, seiring dengan ISO 9001 (1987, 1994, 2000, 2008, 2015) di Indonesia yang sebenarnya baru mulai populer di versi 1994.

Management Consulting / Traditional Approach
Wave 1: ISO Standard 9001 / PDCA tahun 1995-an
Peter Drucker’s Management, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy

Wave 2: Strategic Management tahun 2000-an
Michael Porter’s competitive advantage, value chain, strategic management

Wave 3: Disruptive Technology tahun 2005-an
Clayton Christensen’s Innovation, Rogers Diffusion of Innovations (1962)

Finance Consulting / Modern Approach
Financial Crisis

ESG / Woke (Black Lives Matter 2020 George Floyd protests)

2014 Sharing Economy, Digital
2020 COVID

Rationality

All cars are pieces of shit

Stranger than Fiction

“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”

― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

Berusaha memahami apa yang terjadi belakangan ini, sepertinya realita itu aneh sekali, karena sangat random, sangat unpredictable.

Superiority: Lewis Capaldi

I think, for many reasons, that only he get a beautiful voice, the background story is also very strong. This is an example of superiority. Lewis Capaldi (b1996).

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (2019) – Mengapa menjadi generalis tidak buruk

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World (David Epstein 2019) ini sederhana saja. Ada juga kok professional athlete yang banting setir di tengah jalan -sekilas dicontohkan adalah Tiger Wood dan Roger Federer -kurang menangkap juga dimana aspek generalis-nya, tapi sepertinya orang tuanya ya. Kalau mau di Indonesia, contoh yang sering di dengar sepertinya Ade Rai ya. Ade Rai ini setahu saya memulainya dari bulu tangkis.

Correlation: Sleep

Ini temuan yang menarik. Tidur nyenyak tidak ada hubungannya dengan kondisi mental (mental health). Saya menemukan bahwa tidur nyenyak justru lebih terkait dengan kondisi fisik (fatigue/lelah, travel, kebanyakan makan). Faktor yang paling signifikan menurut saya adalah aging. Semakin tua, semakin terganggu tidurnya -bukan karena kebanyakan pikiran. Kalau sama-sama usianya, bisa jadi faktor pikiran akan signifikan dampaknya.

Reading:

• Time will tell: a retrospective study investigating the relationship between insomnia and objectively defined punctuality (2011)
• ScienceShot: Insomnia Linked to Punctuality

English Idiom

https://id.quora.com/Apa-saja-istilah-idioms-bahasa-Inggris-yang-umum-digunakan

Interesting, idiom is so difficult to learn

https://www.powerthesaurus.org/you_get_what_you_give/synonyms

Anatomy of Crime: Cyber Crime, Cyber Fraud

I start to learn about human behavior, which I found very interesting, knowing that smart people are more likely to get scammed -and not only once. However this is super scary, knowing most of us is vulnerable.

For me its July 2022, its a Tax Office Auction (Penipuan Lelang Online). I get scammed for around 3 minutes via phone. Which is super scary at that time considering:
1.The way they speak very authority
“Pak Anjar, apakabar, masih kenal saya? kok lupa sih, kan terakhir ketemu”
I get tricked, because that is they way my client talk to me. I am waiting for the client call. And I am afraid that I might lose some money. This is the same thing as greed fear -fear will loosing the money.

2.It will not be a lie
At that time I saved -get back to reality after I realized it is scripted. This is credited to some event in 2005/2006 where my friend trick me with recorded audio in the phone pretending someone angry to me. My logic at that time saying, this will not be prank, as this is a phone call -I never thought that it was recorded message.

Anatomy:
1.Profession: appealing to authority or respected (doctors, lawyers, law enforcement)

2.Act: Acting to according to the social norms (help a sick child, to the desire for a romantic partnership, and someone wouldn’t purposely lie)

Vulnerable Victim:
1.Naiveté, overconfidence in one’s intelligence or abilities, an overly optimistic expectation of immediate success in life, or a desire to feel good about helping others.

Notes: some people viewed responding to a scam as a long-odds gamble

Forbes: Why Sophisticated People Are More Likely To Be Scammed
JSTOR: Why Do We Fall for Scams?
JSTOR: The Life Changing Linguistics of… Nigerian Scam Emails

Innovation, Reading and Consistency

Fun facts:
1.Do you know that “We like the taste of salt innately because salt is a signal of protein in nature,” says Rachel Herz, an adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University and author of Why You Eat What You Eat.

Bread and butter, salt and peper

In the United Kingdom, the emergence of the breadwinner norm coincided with and helped to facilitate the removal of children from the workforce. In 1821, approximately 49% of the nation’s workforce was under the age of 20.

Interesting, Slavery and Feminism