Create

I always have a knack to create something. I strongly believe my parents had great influence on this knack. My first toys, that I could remember, was a set of wooden building block. Then it was Lego time! So since the beginning of my brain activity I was introduced with "building attitude".

That's why I chose Architecture for my undergraduate school, well - it's not 100% true tho, my first choice was Computer Science but hey, it's also "building something", right? Create softwares? So it was not so offshot then.

So it's really bother me to read or hear about people who think "create" is a waste of time. Huh? Well, you've seen those people everyday, mate. The very good example is how Indonesian businessmen are doing their business. If you notice there are not too many Indonesian company invested in "Research and Development" - most of them are just your typical 'seller'. Buy things from somewhere, mark them up with profits and sell them quick - sometimes without support.

Well, there you have it. The way Indonesian are doing business - most of the time. No invention, no idea, just buy, sell and profit. So there is no wonder we have so little innovative start-up.

In my business field, Internet service, software development and stuffs, it was common that so-called 'web developer' and 'software development' are nothing but some bunchs of 'template modifier or beautifier' than innovative, technology aware, future thinking company. Currently I run my own Information Architecture and User Experience Design consultancy and to my amazement there are lots of so-called web development company here in Indonesia which never heard about my kind of consultancy. Imagine that. Web or software development without IA or UX... Can you imagine their product. I rather not because it will make me cringe with pain.

So there you have it, why many Indonesian web or software developer company are not so successful, because they are just follower... or worse, they are just seller and at the end of the day, they are running out of option because they are just can not compete with competitors because what they are offered are not different than their competitors.

Such a shame...