Top 100 Novel

Time’s magazine’s all-time 100 novel of 2005. Interesting, this kind of list help me to understand the world.

Top 10 New Year’s Resolution: Losing weight is more difficult than saving money

Losing weight (diet) is more difficult than saving money

Forbes 2024 list:

1. Improved fitness (48%)
2. Improved finances (38%)
3. Improved mental health (36%)
4. Lose weight (34%)
5. Improved diet (32%)
6. Make more time for loved ones (25%)
7. Stop smoking (12)
8. Learn a new skill (9%)
9. Make more time for hobbies (7%)
10. Improve worklife balance (7%)
11. Traveling more (6%)
12. Meditating regularly (5%)
13. Drinking less alcohol (3%)
14. Performing better at work (3%)

Action oriented (drink more water) vs avoidance-oriented (stop drink coffee)
The types of goals you set also matters when it comes to success. Research in PLoS One suggests action-oriented goals are more likely to result in success after a year than avoidance-oriented goals (58.9% versus 47.1% in this specific data set).

bitchesgetrices: How Saving Money Is Like Losing Weight… And How It’s Really Not

Ten most important events

In my own version is P09 of Jan 2021. P09 screams efficiency at the highest level. Some of the examples: i) The use of external folder sharing; ii) The use of paralel meeting; iii) The use of various tools; iv) The use of alternative delivery model. Its revolution basically.

Calendar (time blocking, micro visualization), Jul 2022

The 10 Most Important Moments in History (owlcation)
1.The Neolithic Revolution: The Shift From Hunting-Gathering to Farming in 10,000 B.C.
2.The End of the Western Roman Empire: September 4th, 476 CE
3.The First University Opens in 895 CE in Fez (Morocco)
4.The Renaissance (1300s in Florence, Italy)
5.The Start of the First Industrial Revolution: 1760
6.”The Shot Heard Around the World” on April 19, 1775: The Start of the American Revolution
7.The Ogé Rebellion of the Haitian Revolution: August–September 1791
8.1796 First Vaccine Invented (The Start of the Medical Revolution)
9.November 9, 1989: The Day the Berlin Wall Came Down (The End of the Cold War)
10.The Invention of the Internet, 1960s

The 10 Most Important Events of Mankind (jonnathancoleman)
1.The Discovery of Fire
2.Domestication of Dogs
3.Invention of the Wheel
4.Creation of Currency
5.Invention of the Alphabet
6.Creation of Religion
7.Advent of Timekeeping
8.Invention of the Printing Press (led to Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution)
9.The Renaissance (create the modern world)
10.Industrial Revolution (led to urbanization, workers’ rights, labor laws, the emergence of the middle class, wealth, income)

Ten most important events in the history of Indonesia

Well this is from world perspectives.

1400-1600 Late globalization
1475 Demak, First Muslim State in Java Established
1704 Javenese war of succession

1800 Late Modernization

Japan:
1868 Meiji Restoration

British:

1. 43 – The Roman Conquest of England and Wales
2. 655 – The Battle of the Winwaed (The Christianity of Britain has been one of the most important drivers of world history)
3. 1066 – The Battle of Stamford Bridge / The Battle of Hastings
4. 1248 – Oxford University granted a Royal Charter
5. 1283 – Edwardian Conquest of Wales
6. 1320 – The Declaration of Arbroath
7. 1340 / 1346 – The Battle of Sluys / The Battle of Crécy
8. 1453 – The Battle of Castillon (With the withdrawal from Europe came the realisation that Britain no longer needed a large standing army and could focus on the navy instead)
9. 1485 – The Advent of the Tudors (Under the Tudors, England began to punch its intellectual weight in the world.)
10. 1485 – The Scottish Education Act of 1494

Part Two

1. 1659 – The Failure of the Commonwealth
2. 1688 – The Glorious Revolution
3. 1707 – The Act of Union
4. 1807 – The Slave Trade Act
5. 1815 – The Battle of Waterloo
6. 1855 – The Bessemer Process
7. 1914 – 1918 – The First World War
8. 1939 – 1945 – The Second World War
9. 1945 – The Foundation of the Welfare State
10. 1997 – The Election of New Labour

Dutch:
12 BC The Roman conquest
754 Conversion to Christianity

The Era of Anglo-Dutch Wars
The First Anglo-Dutch War (1652–54)
The Second Anglo-Dutch War of (1665–67)
The Third Anglo-Dutch War (1672–74)
The republic was never able to assemble a proper fleet for combat, however. When the war ended in May 1784, the Dutch were at the nadir of their power and prestige

Netherlands regained independence (1813)

Spain:
1.Ferdinand and Isabella Unite Spain 1479–1516
2.Wars of the French Revolution 1793–1808
3.War against Napoleon 1808–1813

French:

1. 481 – 511: The Reign of Clovis
2. 800: Charlemagne Becomes Holy Roman Emperor
3. 843: Signing of the Treaty of Verdun
4. 1461-1483: The Reign of Louis XI
5. 1661 Centralisation of Power in France by Louis XIV
6. 1789: The French Revolution
7. 1789: Declaration of the Rights of the Man and of the Citizen of 1789

36 Turning points in Middle East History Timeline

Title: Ten most important event in Islamic World History

Let just simplified, good flowers don’t always come, good times don’t come often.

1. 622 Prophet Muhammad
2. 711 Andalusia
3. 813 Islamic Golden Age
4. 1099 Crusaders capture Jerusalem (1090 Al Ghazali)
5. 1250 Egyptian Mamluk (1258 Mongol Sack Baghdad)
6. 1299 Ottoman rises
7. 1453 Ottoman seize Constantinople (1492 fall of Granada)
8. 1744 Saud Wahhab Pact (1798 Napoleon Egypt)
9. 1869 Suez Canal
10. 1908 Discovery of Oil

Ten most important events in the history of Indonesia

Well its actually five most important event. I would start with the first globalization 1511-1711, second globalization 1711-1911, and third globalization 1911-present. In the first globalization there are two important event, in Europe, Portugese defeat Malaca in 1511, Protestant begin rapid economic growth, the technology that we used is only sail and gunpowder, the commodity only spice and rice. However in second globalization 1711-1911, the growth accelerated, the technology is coal steam, the commodity is textile. Interesting.

1500s
1511 Portugese: Capture of Malacca
1517 Protestant, Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther

1600s
1611 Dutch: Batavia
1602 Dutch: VOC, 1628 Failed siege of batavia

1700s
1715 Death of Louis XIV, end of Absolut Monarch, begin of Enlightenment
1704 First Javanese War of Succession, 1755 Third Javanase War of Succession, 1760 Industrial Revolution, 1789 French Revolution

1800s
1811 British Invasion
Textile most important trade item in VOC, Anyer Panarukan Great Post Road, Waterloo
1807 Slavery is illegal in British Empire, 1850 Second Industrial Revolution, end of Age of Sail 1873

1900s
1911 World War
1945 Indonesia Independence

2011 Information Revolution

Historical Economy Crisis

Routledge handbook of major events in economic history 2013

Part I Beginning

• 1791-1811 Symmetry and repetition: patterns in the history of the Bank of the US
• 1873 The banking panic of 1873
• 1870s Gold resumption and the deflation of the 1870s
• 1898-1902 The Great Merger Wave 1898–1902
• 1893 The Panic of 1893
• 1907 The Panic of 1907
• 1913 The founding of the Federal Reserve System
• 1914-1918 World War I
• The classical gold standard

Part II World War

• The 1920s
• The 1929 stock market crash
• 1931 Britain’s withdrawal from the gold standard: the end of an epoch
• 1929-1939 The Great Depression
• The microeconomics of the New Deal during the Great Depression
• The macroeconomic impact of the New Deal
• Monetary policy during the Great Depression
• World War II

Part III Post World War

• 1948 The Marshall Plan
• 1960s The riots of the 1960s
• 1970s The great inflation of the 1970s
• 1973 Historical oil shocks
• 1970s: the decade the Phillips Curve died
• 1971 The rise and fall of the Bretton Woods System
• 1979–1982 Disinflation
• 1978 The rise of China
• 1991 The rise of India
• 1990 The bubble burst and stagnation of Japan
• 1991 The demise of the Soviet Union
• Development of trade institutions and advent of globalization

Part IV

• World hyperinflations
• The financial crisis of 2007–2009
• Monetary policy in 2008 and beyond
• Retail innovations in American economic history
• Government bailouts
• Government debt, entitlements, and the economy

History: Most Important Turning Points

A. Science (Industrialization) is the turning points
In Environment Science, 1750 usually used as baseline of pre-industrial era world temparature. And, 1850 usually used as baseline, because it begin to use “Instrumental Temperature Record”. It also can be attributed to the first world fair of 1851 in London (which next 1889 in Paris, Eiffel Tower), England was most urbanised country in Europe, London is the biggest city at 1850.

B. Money is the turning points
“In the sixteenth century, England was a laggard economy and least urbanised countries in Europe. In Tudor times (1485-1603) when an attempt was made to create a new mining or industrial venture it frequently involved attracting expert advice and craftsmen from the continent. Financial expertise in London did not compare with that in Italy or the Low Countries” (Wrigley 2010, Energy and the English Industrial Revolution)

“Johann Gutenberg invented modern press in 1440 To finance his experiments he had borrowed 1,600 guilders from Johann Fust, a local banker, between 1450 and 1452” (Davies 2002, A History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day)

What Wrigley mention is correct. In 1602 Amsterdam Stock Exchange was established by VOC -the same that funded VOC business in Indonesia. It is also illustrated by Davies that even in 1400s European banking is more advance than British banking. However, the face of modern banking is start to shape in British due to industrial revolution.

C. No specific turning points, it all related
However, other opinion might argue that there is no such things as turning points in the history, its a phenomenon that can not be separated. Linked each other, just like “Chicken and Egg”.

For example, in the latest era. In 1986, the Big Bang Financial Markets due to effect of Margaret Thatcher Neoliberalism, it began the sudden deregulation of financial markets, that lead London as the capital of world financial market (Pwc 2014, London is #1, while Jakarta is #29 not bad in the report Cities of Opportunity)

My personal notes: there is a dozen research on industrial revolution, be very careful, must be work efficiently. Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref, Ref,

Philosophy, The Greatest Philosophers of All Time

Philosophy, the greatest philosophers of all time. My first effort to understand philosophy.

No	Philosopher	Google	AM	BBC	BN	LR	CT	DailyMail	TR	Period	Impact
1	Thomas Aquinas	3		7		10		9	6	1225-1274
2	William of Occam							10		1288-1348
3	Niccolo Machiavelli		10							1469-1527	1513 The Prince
4	Francis Bacon	11								1561-1626
5	Thomas Hobbes	16			19	15				1588-1679
6	Rene Descartes	6	2		12	5			4	1596-1650	Modern Philosophy Father
7	Baruch Spinoza	10			14	13				1632-1677
8	John Locke	9			9	8			10	1632-1704	1st British Empirist
9	Isaac Newton				4					1643-1727
10	Gottfried Leibniz					12		2		1646-1716
11	David Hume	14		2	5	4		6		1711-1776	British Empiricists
12	JJ Rousseau		5			20				1712-1778
13	Immanuel Kant	5		6	1	3		5		1724-1804
14	GWF Hegel	12			17	11				1770-1831
15	Arthur Schopenhauer				16					1788-1860
16	John Stuart Mill	18				14		1		1806-1873	Classical Liberalism
17	Soren Kierkegaard				7	19				1813-1855	Existentialism Father
18	Karl Marx	7	3	1	13	17				1818-1883
19	Charles Peirce				18					1839-1914	Pragmatism Father
20	Friedrich Nietzsche	4	4	4	10	18				1844-1900
21	Frege					9				1848-1925
22	Edmund Husserl				3					1859-1938	Phenomenology
23	Bertrand Russel	13								1872-1970
24	Ludwig Wittgenstein	8		3	8	7				1889-1951
25	Martin Heidegger				2					1889-1976	Existential Phenomenology
26	Karl Popper			10	6			4		1902-1994
27	Jean-Paul Sartre		9		11					1905-1980	Existentialism
28	Maurice Merleau-Ponty				15					1908-1961
29	Donald Davidson							7		1917-2003
30	John Rawls							8		1921-2002
31	Michel Foucault		8		20					1926-1884
32	Hilary Putnam						10			1926-3000
33	Jurgen Habermas						1			1929-3000
34	Jacques Derrida	17								1930-2004
35	John Searle						4			1932-3000
36	Thomas Nagel						8			1937-3000
37	Saul Kripke						3			1940-3000
38	Derek Parfit						9			1942-3000
39	John McDowell						7			1942-3000
40	Daniel Dennett						2			1942-3000
41	Marth Nussbaum						5			1947-3000
42	David Chalmers						6			1966-3000
43	Avicenna								7	980-1037
44	Augustine of Hippo	20				16				354-430
45	Paul of Tarsus								3	5-067
46	Zeno of Citium								8	BC 336-265	Stoic
47	Epicurus								9	BC 341-270
48	Aristotle	1	1	9		2		3	1	BC 384-322
49	Plato	2		5		1			2	BC 429-347
50	Socrates	19	6	8		6				BC 469-399
51	Confucius	15	7						5	BC 551-479

Code:

1. AM (askmen)
2. BN (bryannelson)
3. LR (leiterreports)
4. CT (theculturetrip)
5. TR (therichest)
6. DM (dailymail)
7. BB-V (bbc)
8. GS Google: List of Philosopher

Revisited 2 Apr 2024: the classic list

25 Most Influential Business Management Books (Time 2011)

Well 10 year after Elsevier 2001 list of influental management book, updated one from Time Magazine. The main difference is Time more on popular view and with the latest trend in 2010s. Let see

1. The Age of Unreason (1989), by Charles Handy
2. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (1994), by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
3. Competing for the Future (1996), by Gary Hamel and C.K. Prahalad
4. Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (1980), by Michael E. Porter
5. Emotional Intelligence (1995), by Daniel Goleman
6. The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Business Don’t Work and What to Do about It (1985), by Michael E. Gerber
7. The Essential Drucker (2001), by Peter Drucker
8. The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990), by Peter Senge
9. First, Break All the Rules (1999), by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
10. The Goal (1984), by Eliyahu Goldratt
11. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap … and Others Don’t (2001), by Jim Collins
12. Guerilla Marketing (1984), by Jay Conrad Levinson
13. How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936), by Dale Carnegie
14. The Human Side of Enterprise (1960), by Douglas McGregor
15. The Innovator’s Dilemma (1997), by Clayton Christensen
16. Leading Change (1996), by John P. Kotter
17. On Becoming a Leader (1989), by Warren Bennis
18. Out of the Crisis (1982), by W. Edwards Deming
19. My Years with General Motors (1964), by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
20. The One Minute Manager (1982), by Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
21. Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (1993), by James Champy and Michael Hammer
22. The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People (1989), by Stephen R. Covey
23. The Six Sigma Way: How GE, Motorola and other Top Companies are Honing Their Performance (2000), by Peter S. Pande, Robert P. Neuman and Roland R. Cavanagh
24. Toyota Production System (1988), by Taiichi Ohno
25. Who Moved My Cheese? (1998), by Spencer Johnson