Derek Toh

Founder

[Derek Toh @derektohX]

One observation when recently interviewing Malaysian influencers on Hello Mentor:

Many consider themselves to be introverts.

Connecting with people is no longer an extroverts game. The internet has changed the rules.

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Here’s a power move not many people talk about that will help Malaysians get more job offers.

One thing I’ve noticed interviewing thousands of Malaysian jobseekers… very few ask good questions in the interview. They think it’s the end of the interview… but it’s actually the most important part.

It’s usually something generic like “do you provide training”, “what is your expectation of me” etc.

Here’s what you should ask instead:

Just ask something specific based on recent news about the company, or their product/service. Or even something you read on their website or social media.

Eg “I tried using your app and noticed the functions are different from the website. I’m wondering if there’s a reason behind this?”

This one question will leave a huge positive impression on you. Shows you cared to research and you are considering the job seriously (not just one of many jobs you’re interviewing for).

Pretty sure you’ll get more job offers this way!

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AI is giving me more work to do. My “employee” returns work faster than I can give it work.

If things move faster but keeps getting stuck at a human, you don’t slow down. You hire more people to keep up.

That sounds a lot like job creation.

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@DanielPriestley This is a good take, jobs will move to small businesses

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Popular decisions VS the right decisions

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

What we've learned from LLM is that when your sample is monstrously large, induction can fool you as it becomes nearly indistinguishable from deduction.

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@pmarca They are not showing up as books. They are showing up on TV. Because people prefer watching than reading. But its way more expensive to produce a TV show/movie, so overall decrease in what fiction gets to see daylight.

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@sama What is happening

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@teamsaddiq Where is the data about under-employment from? "2x worse than 10 years ago". Would love to have a look.

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@vkhosla asian dad vibes

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@HarryStebbings Job boards and recruitment platforms

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@alvinfoo Actually they all sell status

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Be careful taking advice from someone who hasn’t personally done what they're talking about, yet is so sure they are giving you the right advice.

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@rafiziramli There is the additional challenge of founders taking their startups regional to get access to more capital. You can imagine how much focus a CEO has on innovation when they are trying to grow revenue across a fragmented SEA.

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@rafiziramli While it’s easy to say “you can do both”, in reality true innovation requires deep focus, and a distracted CEO will tend to lean to growing revenue to get more funding in future.

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@waitbutwhy Life goes fast.

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@kunalb11 Don’t thinks it’s the negativity that attracts followers. People tend to follow individuals who resonate with them and can effectively express thoughts that they themselves may struggle or hesitate to articulate.

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@PeterDiamandis A world where we can go back to a previous save point if we really screw things up.

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@blader Plot twist: we're all just GPT4 accounts interacting with each other