Anwar made me believe in something
“Go listen to Anwar speak at a ceramah, and I guarantee you’ll be convinced,” my friend told me almost 10 years ago. Even in a crowd of hundreds of thousands, Anwar has the magical ability…
Category: Business
The economy is depressed
The government and I live in different worlds. For the government, it is always party time. The Covid-19 pandemic and the Emergency declaration hasn’t affected the government’s optimism – we shall still grow at 6.5% to 7.5%,…
The death of Malaysian small businesses
There is a small economy rice stall I go to for lunch. With the MCO, there are unsurprisingly fewer people visiting here. Usually busy, the owner is much freer now, treating every customer like royalty. She scooped in more rice…
The radical idea of giving everyone a job
There is a new radical idea in town. It goes like this: Government should give everyone jobless person a job. It is called the “federal job guarantee” scheme. The basic promise is what you suspect…
Small businesses are dying off and a million people lost their jobs – but nobody cares
We are the lucky ones. When other developed countries still debate about how to “flatten the curve”, we are one of the few countries that had done so successfully. With this, we can reopen our…
How not to interview a candidate
One of the hardest things I’ve encountered since I started working was hiring the right people. A good hire makes a lot of difference in not just doing the work better but also giving you…