Industry Zero: One man’s thought on software, business and life

Looking at the Olympic medal count, it reflects the new world order.  US is no longer the super power if sport is an indication.  Even sports were used to be dominated by US such as tracks and boxing, US is no longer the powerhouse that it once was.  Yes, we can say we still have the highest medal count but if you look closely.  It is China that has the most gold modals (almost double of what US got so far).  US is getting weaker and weaker.   It is time for change.  The country has gone wrong in so many way because of our government’s bad policy.  It is time for a big and real change.  Vote for change.

Here are the three pillars of a modern society:  Energy, health and education.  We need to have sustainable renewable energy so that all of our modern industries and life can depend on.   Health and education is the basis of human capital.  We need to a healthy population and a health care system that can provide health care to all citizens.  We need to have the best education system that will continue educate his citizens throughout their life.  That means it doesn’t end at college.  If we have these three strong pillars, we can build a sustainable modern society.  That should be our priority.  Nothing else.

If you consider yourself a centrist or independent who don’t want the country go too far left or too far right, donate money for one centrist candidate in Republican party and one centrist candidate for Democrat party.    By supporting both centrist candidates from both party, you help to ensure that centrist candidates have a better chance to win.  So don’t say that you can’t vote on primary because you are independents and you complain later that the candidates from either party suck in the general election.  Start donating money to the centrist candidates and influence the outcome.

A few of guys (developers) I work with recently developed this website on their own and it generates a lot of buzz: politweets. The concept is simple but brilliant! It just listens to twitters and filter out the current presidential candidates’ names and figure out who has the most posts from twitter and rank the candidates accordingly. Here is a website that only takes a couple days to develops and can quickly generate a lot of buzz. It doesn’t have many complicated features. Just one feature but does it really well. You don’t have to spend a lot of time to figure out the requirements, design and write up a lot of tests. Just get it out the door and see if it sticks. If it does, then keep improving it. And it sure does seem it sticks based on the buzz it generates.