Taking Quotes/Keywords

Parenting

  • Quora: Questions for (to identify) primary caretaker
    – Who is your child’s best friend?
    – Have you met this friend’s parents?
    – What size clothes does your child wear?
    – What is your child’s teacher’s name?
    – Have you met him/her?
    – Did you attend your child’s last parent/teacher conference?
    – What is your child’s favorite subject in school?
    – Who stays home with the children when they are sick?
    – Who is your child’s doctor? When did you last talk to him/ her?Mom in general knows better about the child’s medical history.

Career

  • Quora: Content creation
    (+)
    – need to be resourceful
    – can generate real income
    – attaining a set of skills in great demand in the workplace
    – may do own editing, taping & construction videos
    – learn the planning of a production
    – learn idea generation, marketing, maintaining content standard
    – learn organizational skill
    – learn team work skills & management (e.g., if collaborating with others – share some of the work)
    – learn time management (e.g., if producing on specific days at specific time)
    – learn technology about video production & mass communication(-) compared to regular paid job:
    – not a stable income
    > one slip: viewers can flee & income disappear
    > one slip: platform (e.g., Google) can demonitize vid, revenue stream taken away
    > video may become stale and boring
    – views dip, income falls, faces a mental block on what to create next

US Healthcare

  • Quora: US outrageous hospital bill
    Case: 19 years old fell off her bicycle and hit her head
    Treatment: CT Scan, OTC pain medication
    Bill: $29,000 (after insurance paid) + Physician bill $500
    [USD 29,000 equivalent with 428万 JPY, around 428 mil IDR]
    Complaint:
    “At the time of service we were never given an estimate; we were never at any point given an itemized list of what the charges were for.”
    Case development:
    Eventually was invited to apply for assistance with the bill.