Hello all! Hope some of you have been vaccinated na ka. I’ll have to wait and see how things go this week ka.
I just read one new book in Thai entitled, ‘The Great Remake สู่โลกใหม่’ by Dr. Santitarn Sathirathai (Dr. Surakiat’s son), and really enjoyed it ka.
When I heard his interview about the book on a podcast program, I pre-ordered right away because it sounded easy enough for me to understand ka…not too much about economic terms and jargons. More importantly, he touched on universities and people ka!
Here’re some of the things I’d like to share from a non-econ person na ka:
1. The huge waves driven even faster by COVID-19 that we need to be aware of and get prepared to handle the changes effectively. They consist of 6D: Debt, Divided, Deglobalization, Divergence, Digitalization, and Degradation of Environment. I think all the 6D’s are obvious when mobility is limited and tech advances have helped shape different ways of work and life and on the other end, have left quite a number behind and have harmed environment. Asia, basically through China and Vietnam have performed well recovering their economies.
2. The world economy will be reformed by these three factors: Finance (พี่ใหญ่), Digital (พี่รอง), and DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology and Blockchain is one best known- น้องเล็ก). Each has a different character from highly careful and risk taking/innovative to advanced capabilities to develop DeFi (Decentralized Finance—no need for intermediary body to do transactions ka)
3. We must learn how to survive Covid19 (อยู่รอด), how to stay amid existing and other possible risks (อยู่เป็น), and how to be sustainable (อยู่ยืน)
4. My focus is on the last chapter which is about human development ka. Throughout all the chapters, repeated keywords are digital and data-driven. Yet, after all, it’s our own mindsets and qualities that matter most ka. From what’s left in my mind are these “How’s” ka:
- How universities could find their ‘souls’, what exactly they and only they can offer.
- How to shape our people young and old to have empathy and humility; to develop growth mindsets and keep learning; to respect and benefit from diversity; to have endless creativity without feeling scared to express or put into experiments; to be resilient; and to link what is learned with their work.
- How to create Social Learning and aim for Collective Intelligence.
- How to adapt (ธาตุน้ำ) with drive to be competitive (ธาตุไฟ) while tending to the disadvantaged (ธาตุดิน) so as to become sustainable (ธาตุไม้)….all with the need for appropriate data/ management (ธาตุลม) ka.
There’re lots more in the book which is a good read ka.
Enjoy your Monday ka.
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