all righty that clear cool okay
good afternoon everyone my name is Tim
wok and I'm the founder of trike
Malaysia's first and so far only sharing
he's with the service provider and today
I'm going to be talking about this topic
singularity and honestly when I first
started to think about it I'm struggling
to think about how to relate this topic
to my personal stories but I'll give it
a shot
and as with every good engineer the
first thing you do when you're faced
with the problem is you define it so
what is singularity
if you look at the study of gravity a
singularity is a region in space time in
which title gravitational forces become
infinite it sounds too complicated
if you look at the study of mathematics
a singularity is a point at which a
given mathematical object is not defined
or not well behaved like me if you look
at society a singularity is being alone
for ever and ever and ever
but my favorite meaning for singularity
comes from the study of systems where a
singularity is a small thing the camera
can have a very large effect given the
right initial conditions and parameters
and to help illustrate this here are two
charts showing the growth of our
universe and the growth of Google do you
see any similarities both experienced
sudden and exponential growth and within
a short period of time what seemed like
a small rate of change initially led to
an explosion of expansion but infinite
as they are they all seem to have
started from a single point in time a
single moment a single event when at
first there was nothing and suddenly
that was everything
13.8 billion years ago within a tiny
patch of space no larger than an
electron highly energetic materials
turned gravity upside down and repulsed
each other in every which way possible
and within a fraction of a second our
universe grew to 200 light years in
diameter and just like that just like
that within a second our stars our Moon
our planets and our galaxies came to be
similarly what started out as an idea
built by two guys in a garage is now and
today the world's most popular most
visited website in the world Larry Page
and Sergey Brin service has become so
popular eyes that the name of their
service has replaced the word in the
English dictionary
today people Google something 77,000
times five hundred seventy seven
thousand five hundred times a second
that translates to two point four
trillion searches per year just to help
put back put that into perspective there
are only three and a half billion people
in the world today with access to the
Internet which means there are about a
thousand searches per person per year
I don't even brush my teeth that many
times
it's amazing to think what two guys have
achieved in such a short amount of time
it's amazing to think that two guys in a
garage with the right idea at the right
time can have such a profound impact on
our world within within a single
lifetime they are a true shining example
of a singularity but while the effects
of the singularity are clear what is
less clear is the who the when the why
the how and the what are the
singularities for each of these events
what happened before the Big Bang how
did these energetic materials even come
to be where did the Google whether the
idea for Google that would change the
world come from who sparked it whether
it come from
will we ever know and even if we did we
would then ask the question where did
that come from
a wise philosopher a Roman philosopher
once said nothing can come from nothing
in other words in simpler words
something always comes from something so
for today I want to tell you a little
bit about something you may be familiar
with trike on January 15 2009 teen a
local company was incorporated and with
the support of some family friends is
Conor team and a few others the wheels
will turning for what would eventually
be the launch of the first of Malaysia's
first sharing electric scooter service
right here in a new city is Connor
poultry fast forward a few months and
trike has grown from a group of seven
prototypes in an office to a fleet of
seventy scooters and now an army of two
hundred of the rights to operate in
three cities and three universities
across Malaysia all along the way we've
had the opportunity to meet with some
amazing people from schools from
communities from the government
travelers from abroad we've had the
opportunity to make old friends and new
friends to meet robots to meet ex
politicians
and businessmen we've also had the
opportunity to meet the good the bad
both of which are in this picture and
the ugly yes that is a snake on our
handlebar and through all that we have
not yet achieved what Google is achieved
today we are nowhere near having the
same amount of impact that Google has on
the world but what we have done is
accumulated 60,000 rights over 20,000
users and a hundred and sixty-five
thousand kilometers traveled 165
thousand kilometers of carbon-free green
miles traveled that's four times that
it's enough distance to wrap around the
world four times over it's not much but
we're proud of it and there's a lot left
to do but before we move further perhaps
now is a good time to ask ourselves
where did it all start
what was our singularity what one event
single moment or point in time did try
come from well it would be 15 January
2019 right when the company was started
No maybe let's look a little bit further
back perhaps December 2018 the first
time a tri prototype was activated on
the sidewalks in one Kara no maybe a
little further back October 2018 I was
back in Malaysia after working and
studying in the US for six years and I
had to make a decision or the direction
I wanted to choose in life would I go
back to a full-time job Oh would I try
to solve a real-world problem and
perhaps build something out of it well
traffic congestion stood out and I got
to work immediately but if we go back
even further May 2018 Charlotte North
Carolina as I leave my apartment to
cross the street and buy some coffee I
noticed some shared scooters along the
street at that point in time I didn't
know what it was and so I walk up
curiously downloaded an app and within a
few seconds I was zipping through the
city on what I thought was a kid's
touring I was immediately in love
going back even further September 2017
Indianapolis Indiana as I packed my last
box in my living room and throw it into
my car I was ready for a nine-hour trip
that would take me from Indiana to North
Carolina I was bitter that I did not get
my work visa that yeah but I was hopeful
that the following year the final year
would be my chance it would be a new
destination a new environment a new
challenge but I was ready little did I
know there would be this would be the
last time I would see in the era going
back even further August 2012 Kuala
Lumpur International Airport I am
zooming away to the land of opportunity
for what would be the most challenging
three years of my life USA here I come
and if I go back even further July 15
1991 I was born into this world by the
strongest bravest woman alive and my
dear mother is completely unaware the
roller coaster ride that lay ahead do
you see where I'm going with this like
the search for the beginning of the
universe and like the search for the
number of decimals that lie behind
behind a number of high it is impossible
to find the end where we are today in
our lives and our relationships in our
careers is a combination of an endless
number of individual seemingly small
insignificant events any of them under
the right initial conditions under the
right parameters have the potential to
create monumental effects I believe that
that single special moment does not
exist just like a team is built by a
group of highly highly competent people
our lives are built by a string of
continuous connected moments and not
individual and discrete events
my biggest advice to you today is to be
aware of these moments lightning strikes
in our lives more times than we know it
and every single seemingly small or
insignificant occurrence in your life
could be an opportunity of a lifetime
every point would be just the tip of a
much much larger iceberg just waiting
for you to explore
and by being aware that doesn't mean you
have to go and do yoga go and meditate
go and get lost in some jungle to find
yourself no it's much much simpler being
aware just means to be present and
intentional in everything that you do on
a daily basis to ask yourself questions
in all of your actions because what that
does is it forces you to think and when
you think it locates you in time and
space and to hear and now ask yourself
simple questions like can it be better
can it be faster
could it be cheaper apply this to your
daily life your daily interactions your
routines and your chores and if the
answer is yes then you've taken the
first of many small steps toward what
towards what could be a potentially
large future for you and the society all
of our stories have started and just
like the flow of time it will continue
to go on with or without you whether you
like it or not each passing year month
week day hour minute second millisecond
microsecond so on and so on and so on
with the right initial conditions and
the right parameters could be the start
to an infinite future every moment of
your life could be a singularity so stop
waiting for the right moment or the
first step or the right feeling the time
is now so wake up look around ask
questions and go and do something
because something always comes from
something
thank you
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