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What’s Your Dawn Wall?
It was still dark when Alex Honnold stepped out of his van dressed in his favourite red t-shirt and cutoff nylon pants. He slipped on a pair of sticky soled climbing shoes, fastened a small bag of chalk around his waist, found his first toehold, and at 5.32am on that early Saturday June 3rd morning, began inching his way up toward climbing history. At 9.28am – a mere 3 hours 56 minutes later - he pulled himself over the rocky summit of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park and became the first solo climber to scale the 914m vertical granite wall without ropes or any safety harness. A feat known as free solo climbing.
Products have no loyalty
There is no loyalty in products. We might think that a creatively original feature or perhaps some revolutionary technology would be needed to attract such a large number of users to a medium or platform. “Extraordinary achievements require extraordinary effort” is the principle we default to. In the digital media ecosystem, there isn’t a structure that prevents the mass movement of users between different mediums. Computers and mobile phones can store hundreds of apps which can be downloaded within seconds over high-speed internet. There is virtually no barrier for users to use multiple apps or migrate to a new medium altogether.
A concerted effort to address youth unemployment
A concerted effort to address youth unemployment Articles • May, 2017 Globally, youth unemployment remains a concern with youth unemployment rates surpassing national unemployment rates. In the ASEAN region, the trend is similar and Malaysia is no different. While Malaysia’s [...]