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Chitchat Creativity isn't part of a Sinkies' psyche
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How to be creative when we bring our kids up to just follow rules and toe the line? Parents and teachers are to blame
The SG Education System stifles SG kid's creativity. National Service kills off whatever little creativity is left in SG guys after their education in SG Schools.
PAP is killing SG
Familee value loyalty above creativity.
What is the psyche of a Sinkie animal?only PAP truly knows and understands a sinkies psyche best.PAP has created a safe and nurturing environment free of predators where sinkies can function optimally and thrive as a species.what is a sinkies psyche?it is impossible to know of a species that is invertebrate(spineless) like a jellyfish and incapable of intelligent awareness like higher functioning creatures.even the most sensitive electrodes are unable to detect the most rudimentary brainwaves in a homo singapura.
Agree absolutely, it takes absolutely no creativity to ask a stranger to donate to a charity he has never heard of.
no creativity in this thread. :p
Nonsense! Sun Ho and her husband are very talented and creative. Too bad you aren't one of them.
the ho's music career is a knockoff of shakira's. nothing creative about that.
aren dese creatif enuff? ...
2 help ze poor, u raise gst ...
2 stop rain from falling, u use onions n chillies ...
creatif fud oso got ...
They are very creative at sucking easy money, just like Trump is very creative at sucking the votes of Christian morons.
Sun Ho is far more sexy and voluptuous.
Those creative ones have left the country.. Because they are creative enough to do that.
Singapore has yet to produce a truly innovative startup. Here’s why.
Ian Tan
1:55 PM at Jul 18
It is no overstatement to say that, over the past couple of years, Web 2.0, sometimes called the “second .com boom” has changed the world. Major innovations by tech giants like Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter have pushed what was hitherto thought impossible squarely into the realm of reality.
It didn’t take long for Asia to cotton on, and we soon saw the likes of Tencent and the Alibaba Group burst onto the world stage at a scale that rivals even the biggest and best coming out of the Valley.
Singapore and Singaporean entrepreneurs didn’t take long to catch on, either. Realising that the fate of humanity on the whole is inexorably tied to that of technology’s, the government started to, and is still pumping billions of dollars into the technology industry.
Government agencies are proactively releasing public-facing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), which software developers will be able to use to gain data and provide insights into every nook and cranny of life on this tiny island, from traffic conditions to the quality of air. Local banks are betting big on fintech, the new kid on the block that promises to revolutionise an industry that, to date, still heavily relies on 1970s technology like COBOL.
Singapore yet to produce a truly innovative startup
And yet, despite stellar efforts from entrepreneurs, engineers, financiers, and both private and public institutions, it would be a bald-faced lie to say that Singapore has produced a truly innovative startup.
In my opinion, the closest we have come to doing so is Viki — and, at risk of being accused of xenophobia, it wasn’t started by a born-and-bred Singaporean. And even then, Viki’s business model so closely mirrors Netflix’s that calling it truly innovative is a long shot by any standard.
In fact, many of Singapore’s most well-funded startups are localised version of business models tested and proven on foreign shores. Grab, which has secured a whopping $680m of disclosed funding, is probably the best example of such a startup. Redmart, while providing an undoubtedly excellent service to increasingly time-starved Singaporeans, is simply doing what major supermarkets have been doing in the US and Europe since I was still an undergraduate (circa 2009).
Why so?
A million reasons have been posited for Singapore’s seeming lack of ability to get aboard the boat before it sets sail.
An oft-cited one attempts to explain away Singapore and Singaporeans’ innovative ineptitude as a function of its education system, which has for decades emphasised rote learning at the expense of creative thinking.
Others point to the overwhelmingly Confucian and East Asian cultural fabric, which prioritises staying in line above all else. As the urban saying goes, opinions are like anuses — everybody has one. The truth is, it is paradoxically due to none of the given reasons and all of them at the same time. In order to uncover the whole truth, it is necessary to undertake a study of Singapore’s history that is both broad and deep.
In a world where survival is utmost, one learns the value of safety.
Beginning from our earliest days as a nation state, Singapore had always been the runt of the litter that for some inexplicable reason, punched way above its weight. Isolated, tiny, and lacking the human and natural resources of our Southeast and, further afoot, East Asian neighbours, life here has been about survival — at any cost.
This was further exacerbated by the country’s invasion by Japan in World War II, our exile from Malaysian Federation in the 1950s, and Konfrantasi in the 1960s. Of course, this is an over-simplified summary of Singapore’s surprisingly deep historical roots, as any historian would tell you — but it serves simply to illustrate the crux of this article.
This history has bred a mentality that is a double-edged sword: Singaporeans are known the world over for their can-do, never-say-die attitudes, but also for their overwhelming sense of practicality, which, in my opinion, has been the single largest fundamental roadblock on the path of innovation.
In truth, each and every reason that has been given is a pure function of this overarching survival instinct so deeply and inextricably woven into our national psyche. In a world where survival is utmost, one learns the value of safety. One learns that even a single failed experiment could lead to catastrophic failure. Finally, one learns not to experiment at all, because the price of failure is simply too high.
How Singapore can overcome this
Yet, this article isn’t meant to be a prophecy of doom. Singapore has a place in the world, as does everything else that exists in it. Instead of lamenting our inability to innovate, and repeatedly attempting to fight a battle that isn’t ours to win, we ought to leverage on our strengths.
Instead of lamenting our inability to innovate, we ought to leverage on our strengths.
Our efficiency, our resilience, our adaptability, and above all, our uncanny knack for surviving and thriving against all odds are valuable weapons in today’s global village, where the only status quo is constant and unceasing change.
Should we really be pouring billions into vain attempts at challenging China and the United States at creating the next Facebook or Alibaba? I think not.
Finding our place in the new world order is not going to be a simple one. There will be struggles, unhappiness, displacement, and possibly fighting in the sea change that is inevitably coming. One plan of attack would be to leverage our strengths as facilitators rather than creators, something that we have in fact been doing as an unlikely world power in oil refining and maritime services.
There are many other paths we could take, all of which would be better than forcing a round peg into a square hole. Most importantly, the tech community in Singapore needs to come to consensus by means of dialogue, discussion, and cooperation — because it is only through our best efforts that we will be able to meet the long road ahead with success.
Ian Tan
1:55 PM at Jul 18
It is no overstatement to say that, over the past couple of years, Web 2.0, sometimes called the “second .com boom” has changed the world. Major innovations by tech giants like Google, Facebook, Netflix, and Twitter have pushed what was hitherto thought impossible squarely into the realm of reality.
It didn’t take long for Asia to cotton on, and we soon saw the likes of Tencent and the Alibaba Group burst onto the world stage at a scale that rivals even the biggest and best coming out of the Valley.
Singapore and Singaporean entrepreneurs didn’t take long to catch on, either. Realising that the fate of humanity on the whole is inexorably tied to that of technology’s, the government started to, and is still pumping billions of dollars into the technology industry.
Government agencies are proactively releasing public-facing APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), which software developers will be able to use to gain data and provide insights into every nook and cranny of life on this tiny island, from traffic conditions to the quality of air. Local banks are betting big on fintech, the new kid on the block that promises to revolutionise an industry that, to date, still heavily relies on 1970s technology like COBOL.
Singapore yet to produce a truly innovative startup
And yet, despite stellar efforts from entrepreneurs, engineers, financiers, and both private and public institutions, it would be a bald-faced lie to say that Singapore has produced a truly innovative startup.
In my opinion, the closest we have come to doing so is Viki — and, at risk of being accused of xenophobia, it wasn’t started by a born-and-bred Singaporean. And even then, Viki’s business model so closely mirrors Netflix’s that calling it truly innovative is a long shot by any standard.
In fact, many of Singapore’s most well-funded startups are localised version of business models tested and proven on foreign shores. Grab, which has secured a whopping $680m of disclosed funding, is probably the best example of such a startup. Redmart, while providing an undoubtedly excellent service to increasingly time-starved Singaporeans, is simply doing what major supermarkets have been doing in the US and Europe since I was still an undergraduate (circa 2009).
Why so?
A million reasons have been posited for Singapore’s seeming lack of ability to get aboard the boat before it sets sail.
An oft-cited one attempts to explain away Singapore and Singaporeans’ innovative ineptitude as a function of its education system, which has for decades emphasised rote learning at the expense of creative thinking.
Others point to the overwhelmingly Confucian and East Asian cultural fabric, which prioritises staying in line above all else. As the urban saying goes, opinions are like anuses — everybody has one. The truth is, it is paradoxically due to none of the given reasons and all of them at the same time. In order to uncover the whole truth, it is necessary to undertake a study of Singapore’s history that is both broad and deep.
In a world where survival is utmost, one learns the value of safety.
Beginning from our earliest days as a nation state, Singapore had always been the runt of the litter that for some inexplicable reason, punched way above its weight. Isolated, tiny, and lacking the human and natural resources of our Southeast and, further afoot, East Asian neighbours, life here has been about survival — at any cost.
This was further exacerbated by the country’s invasion by Japan in World War II, our exile from Malaysian Federation in the 1950s, and Konfrantasi in the 1960s. Of course, this is an over-simplified summary of Singapore’s surprisingly deep historical roots, as any historian would tell you — but it serves simply to illustrate the crux of this article.
This history has bred a mentality that is a double-edged sword: Singaporeans are known the world over for their can-do, never-say-die attitudes, but also for their overwhelming sense of practicality, which, in my opinion, has been the single largest fundamental roadblock on the path of innovation.
In truth, each and every reason that has been given is a pure function of this overarching survival instinct so deeply and inextricably woven into our national psyche. In a world where survival is utmost, one learns the value of safety. One learns that even a single failed experiment could lead to catastrophic failure. Finally, one learns not to experiment at all, because the price of failure is simply too high.
How Singapore can overcome this
Yet, this article isn’t meant to be a prophecy of doom. Singapore has a place in the world, as does everything else that exists in it. Instead of lamenting our inability to innovate, and repeatedly attempting to fight a battle that isn’t ours to win, we ought to leverage on our strengths.
Instead of lamenting our inability to innovate, we ought to leverage on our strengths.
Our efficiency, our resilience, our adaptability, and above all, our uncanny knack for surviving and thriving against all odds are valuable weapons in today’s global village, where the only status quo is constant and unceasing change.
Should we really be pouring billions into vain attempts at challenging China and the United States at creating the next Facebook or Alibaba? I think not.
Finding our place in the new world order is not going to be a simple one. There will be struggles, unhappiness, displacement, and possibly fighting in the sea change that is inevitably coming. One plan of attack would be to leverage our strengths as facilitators rather than creators, something that we have in fact been doing as an unlikely world power in oil refining and maritime services.
There are many other paths we could take, all of which would be better than forcing a round peg into a square hole. Most importantly, the tech community in Singapore needs to come to consensus by means of dialogue, discussion, and cooperation — because it is only through our best efforts that we will be able to meet the long road ahead with success.
Speak for yourself fuckface
Ball-lessness is.
I'm an ordinary Sinkie sheep, you see.
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