#deathbypartials. Today’s class reignited my now never-ending love-hate relationship with calculus; you see, I’ve never taken partials before (much has changed since I was in undergrad because undergrads do partials now) even back in MaSci where calculus came standard. I just don’t recall whether it was actually taught and I never truly just listened in class back then. 🤣 and now, the need to learn it fast and apply it directly on economic analysis is imperative and increasingly becoming more urgent each day. (And it doesn’t help that part of the exercise is putting those partial derivatives in matrices!). So anyways, I love-hate you, indeed, Calculus. 💔❤️ #phdlife
An awesome surprise movie treat to take a break off math this weekend. I truly enjoyed “A Star Is Born”. I consider it an elevation of Bradley Cooper’s performance on screen in a role that demanded more from a glossy and typical Hollywood franchised flick. There was a lot of emotion and his eyes acted so well that you could distinguish real joy whenever he was with Ally (Lady Gaga) and anguish when he was not (not because of Ally, or maybe partly so due to her surging rise to the top). His vocal performances were also on point. He isn’t the same Bradly Cooper we know from the usual action franchises he is known for. I just wish they articulated more the struggle with alcoholism and the textured narrative of that situation in terms of their marriage. At some point the film focused a whole lot more on the music, which was technically great, but made strong human stories become secondary. I have a strong feeling that his Director’s Cut might have more material with stronger narratives about alcoholism, depression and suicide which in the end might have been cut to give way to more music. Lady Gaga’s casting could not have been better; her acting and performances were spotless and gave soul to the music that wove the entire story together. Overall, a refreshing film that is not glossy from otherwise quite glossy talent. Treatment and direction reminded me of those European slice of life films but the difference being that the premise of this was ambition and talent in entertainment. Thanks a lot moitie @rhexryan for the movie date! 🍿 🌟 🍼
Fingers crossed, WEAI Tokyo! 🤞 I thank Dr. Dacuycuy for believing in my human capital theoretical paper, “A Lifetime of Learning and Earning: The search for a unified human capital model for the 21st-century industry” which I am very humbled to also be able to present at the Philippine Economic Society annual conference next month.
Human capital is one of the reasons why I got into Economics at a time when my career in marketing and digital seemed to have secretly pointed to a lifelong advocacy for inclusive growth which is only possible with the requisite upgrading of human capital in the face of automation, digitalisation and further disruption by continued innovation across all aspects of daily life.
I am also excited to present my other paper, "An ASEAN Digital Single Market: Boosting the aspiration for a Single Market in the digital era" at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Federation of ASEAN Economic Associations next month.
I am very glad to be on this journey that I know will be a journey of a lifetime. What’s more exciting is that clearly that journey has just started for me. I have so much to learn and face knowing that I do not know much or even nothing at all. I like that everything is new once again and there’s a universe out there waiting to be learnt, discovered and re-created. 🙏
#PMProadtoPhD #phdlife
