The logic behind defensiveness doesn’t stack up. If we’re wrong, do we really want to defend a bad idea or position? If we’re right, will being defensive increase or decrease the strength of our position? Will it hurt or help the odds that others.
Topics: Books, Culture, Manners, Sociology

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Pardon the title. As crime rises and gets more sophisticated, one must keep the new and innovative thinking of preventing and surviving from it. In Malaysia, where snatch theft case has doubled and is the biggest jump in the crime categories, the police..
Topics: Malaysia, Safety

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The world record for speed clicking may be 15.5 clicks per second, but no one beats average Singaporeans in speed clicking the close button in elevators. And the clicking rate gets faster when they see someone walking towards the elevator... I must be...
Topics: Culture, Ethics, Manners, Singapore, Stupidity

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This is the period where people forgive each other - though we should do so everyday, every moment of our life. To forgive, or to ask for forgiveness, in a way is like corrective maintenance. You know, we correct or replace what is wrong. The better way..
Topics: Culture, Ethics, Events, Indonesia, Manners

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Stock market has been performing badly. Wall Street goes banana. It was the banks. Bear Stearns collapsed, Merril Lynch is about to be acquired, and Lehman filed for bankruptcy. And now it's the insurers. AIG needs a savior. Investing looks bleak....
Topics: Business, Entertainment, Investing, Money

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