Victor Fernando R. Ocampo

Here's an interesting FB video on the original Limits of Growth study. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Kib...

Happy International Women's Day!

When a distant war hits home Most Filipinos are used to thinking of war in the Middle East as tragic but distant – something that dominates the news cycle for a few days and then fades behind local politics, traffic and the...

Just sharing my analysis of the socio-economic effects of the latest war in the Middle East on the Philippines - www.philstar.com/opinion/2026...

A $100,000 dollar US missile, launched by a $20 million plane that flies at a cost of $6,000 dollars/hour to kill people who live on less than $3 a day in Iran.

What’s one data point or on-the-ground signal in the Philippines that you’re seeing (in your company or city) that tells you that the country is moving toward — or away from — real productivity-led growth?

The Philippines and the Limits of Growth More than fifty years ago, a team of MIT scientists published The Limits to Growth, a systems study commissioned by the Club of Rome. Using a computer model called World3, they simulated the interacti...

My latest LinkedIn post -

What if the Philippines’ growth story is quietly approaching its ecological limits — and the real challenge of the 2020s is not accelerating faster, but stabilizing before overshoot turns progress into decline?
www.linkedin.com/pulse/philip...

Happy Chinese New Year!

Absolutely dangerous fool.

So say we all.

This is what our world sorely needs.

“Know your parasites.”
Ticks. Worms. Billionaires.
Different problems, different treatments. 🦠💸

New in London UK!

Trump‘s execs run up MASSIVE expenses at the Kennedy Center while artists and staff panic over their jobs. New receipts show senior MAGA-installed executives running up thousands of dollars ìn fine dining and luxury hotels as attendance craters and the institution slid toward chaos.

Yup.

Please do not show this movie on a plane or any manner of moving vehicle.

I really do not recognize the US these days. This is not the place I had wanted to be a part of, and where so much of my extended family lives.

Release the Epstein files now.

There is no other word to describe this but "genocide".

"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who do nothing about it. "
--- Albert Einstein

Impeach him now.

Best in show?

So true... (by Jonathan Strahan)

Happy 2026 everyone. Here are my thoughts about what could be a very turbulent but momentous Year. www.linkedin.com/posts/vrocam...

I truly love this old quote.

Season's greetings to all, especially those experiencing the following:

Please respect the importance of the TBR pile...

Ndlovu Youth Choir - Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Music Video) isiZulu version YouTube video by Ndlovu Youth Choir

This is magnificent. The Ndlovu Youth Choir stated that their intention was to imagine what the song may have sounded like had Zanzibar-born Queen frontman Freddie Mercury never left Africa. Check it out - youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?...

So sad to hear about the passing of John Varley. His Gaea trilogy was one of my favourite book series as a youth.

Google CEO Says We're All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper Sundar Pichai recently claimed that no job is safe, not even his own, fretting that we'll have to suffer through AI whether we like it or not.

IMHO, instead of leaning into simple rhetoric, leaders should instead focus on evidence-based planning, worker upskilling, and responsible deployment, not vague predictions that amplify fear without offering concrete solutions.
futurism.com/artificial-i...

Maybe it's not too late?

Yup.

Taxing people for reading s a really stupid move.

Another reason to buy coffee from small, local stores.