I recently came across the (wonderful) essays of Paul Graham while searching for entrepreneurship material. Paul Graham (co-founder of Viaweb (aka Yahoo! Store), essayist, programmer and more) is a big believer in the idea of rapid application development (or at least a variant of it) (it's also known in is abbreviated form, RAD). He often... Continue Reading →
Will You Marry Me?
"What are you doing?" she asks, after being ignored for the past ten minutes. "Doing up a photo," I say. "Of Arsene?" (Arsene's my cat.) "Nope, I'm just doing up a photo." And she leaves it at that, letting me be for what seems like five minutes. Then she hears the clickety-click of the keyboard.... Continue Reading →
Living the Life Others Never Will
Don't bother thinking too much about whether or not you're living the life that you should be living, whether you're doing "the best you can" or whether you're "living the best life possible" -- there is no such thing. But if only it were that easy to stop thinking: what if there is?
Do you really want that promotion?
Have you ever asked yourself if you really wanted to move up the career ladder? I had always thought I certainly did; that is, until I chanced upon some interesting commentary on moving up the corporate ladder in the book Everyone's Business on Getting Ahead by Gorden Wells You work will have become your Life.... Continue Reading →
Bing Donn Lee’s Star
You ask yourself if having a domain name, specifically edonn.com, actually creates more stress than necessary. Didn’t you just go to bing.com to do a search on "donn lee" realise that it didn’t contain any results linking to your webpage? And didn't this little thing cause you to start feeling a little flustered, a little... Continue Reading →
Knowing the Full Story
Our meeting was at 2.30pm. Literally seconds before I was going to go over she called, and told me that she had to postpone. "I have one more quote to do," she told me in a harried voice, "give me thirty minutes." This meeting had gone off to a bad start, I thought. This was... Continue Reading →
Clutter: The Beauty of Less
Stuff I didn't need nor use lay strewn across my room, on my table, floor, and shelves: books I hadn't read in ages and some I hadn't read at all; souvenirs from a trip that wasn't particularly interesting, and that I didn't even go; exercise equipment I didn't use; keys to unknown locks; and other... Continue Reading →
My Work Life
I suppose it hasn't really been kosher for me to have avoided talk about my work life thus far. Most of you probably don't even know what I'm working as or where I'm working at. Well, I'm currently working as a business analyst for an electronic components distributor. The job largely entails the generation of... Continue Reading →
A Lack of Creativity
I've been reading too much lately. It's making my brain lazy, I think. Every time I think that I'd finally write something here, I'd retreat back to the comfort of my books -- it's so much easier that way.
The 28th of June
Do you know what day it is? It's LiShya's birthday! Happy Birthday ger ger! And do you know what other day it is? It's our monthlysary! Yay!
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