A very nice article on focusing on the experience rather than your performance. Gives context to a lot of life's choices -- when nervousness and anxiety threatens to derail your plans, just take it in stride and concentrate on the fact that no matter what happens, you've won yourself a new experience.
Why you need to learn MS Excel
Just five years ago Microsoft Excel was as alien to me as table manners is to a two-year-old child. Then during my university summer break in 2007 I got a job at a bank that changed all that. I learned that Excel makes calculations of complex formulas easy; Excel works great as a basic reporting... Continue Reading →
How to make better decisions using Opportunity Cost
The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Opportunity cost can help you make better decisions because it helps put your decisions in context. Costs and benefits are framed in terms of what is most important to you at the time of the decision. Every time we make... Continue Reading →
Why I am not an entrepreneur
The thing about entrepreneurship is that you probably want to live in the world of the people who you want to buy your products or services. How else would you be able to determine what your customers want or need? Or might want or need? And I think that’s where I fall short. I live... Continue Reading →
Normal People Look for Causality
From the book Be Unreasonable by Paul Lemberg: Freedom comes from responsibility. Be completely responsible for your actions and your results. Normal people look for causality, something or someone to blame for the way things turned out. Unreasonably lay claim to every miracle or debacle within your sphere of influence; make them all yours, for that's the only... Continue Reading →
Regrets at not living a fuller life
Imagine you’re 80-years-old, on your rocking chair, looking at your grandchildren running along in the large garden of your beautiful house, acquired almost 40 years ago. At that time, the house cost you a “small fortune” and (at least according to the stories you’d tell anyone who’d cared to listen), though you’re able to afford... Continue Reading →
Doing great customer service or: Returning stinky poo with sweet smelling roses
Today, I received an angry e-mail from a disgruntled recipient of a reports I’m helping to generate. Turns out the data on the wasn’t all that up-to-date, and she wanted to know why. The first reaction I had was that of defending myself: you read the report wrong; it’s the system’s fault; (and) you’re an... Continue Reading →
Learning to think like the experts
Learning to think like the experts is not easy to do. But what's even more difficult is learning to think like the experts while simultaneously making sure that you're not caught in the type of thinking that keep experts locked in their "idea-shell", where creativity falls prey to "how it should be done".
How to Make Wealth
I revisited my old friend StumbleUpon yesterday. As always, that old friend had a serendipitous article for me stroking my entrepreneurial ambition, striking so many chords I felt like an old guitar. The article was by Paul Graham, one of the founders of Y Combinator (a Yahoo! company focusing on helping startups), called How to... Continue Reading →
Dvorak Keyboard Layout Sucks
I hoped the header grabbed your attention because it'd sure as hell grab mine. I just read a (really long) article on how the studies/reports behind the Dvorak keyboard layout could just be all part of one hell of a marketing gimmick to help dear old Mr. Dvorak sell his keyboard layout (for the uninitiated,... Continue Reading →
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