Your Self-Study Way to MBA
Some days ago, I came across an interesting site about Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. The idea is, instead of spending a lot of time and (especially) money for a real MBA program, you can get roughly the same knowledge…
Month November 2006
How Not to Experience a Personal Collapse
I have just read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. It’s a very interesting book. In his previous book – Guns, Germs, and Steel – Diamond talks about how certain societies can be more successful…
Converting M4A Podcasts to MP3
I love audio learning, so I subscribe to some podcasts using iTunes. Usually, I will copy those podcasts to my music player so that I can listen to them while going around and working on something else. But recently I…
Experimenting with 50 Minutes Rule
I’ve just come across this post by John Richardson: 50 minutes has changed my life. The concept of working in a focused manner for 50 minutes and then taking a 10 minute break has revolutionized the way I work. I…
Moving to New Hosting
It’s been almost two weeks since my last post in this blog. The reason why this blog hasn’t been updated for so long is not because I had nothing to write, but because I moved it to a new hosting.…
Choose Your Close Friends Carefully
Well, I think this is one important principle to optimize our life. And for one simple reason: our close friends have great influence on us. If we gather around bad friends, who carry bad habits with them, then soon or…
The Importance of Physical Health
While I talked about life optimization in this blog, there is something I miss: physical health. I usually just talked about learning, thinking, time management, and things like that. All those things are important of course, but still we do…
links for 2006-11-04
102 Personal Finance Tips Your Professor Never Taught You A few (say, 102) simple rules can help get your financial life (back) on the right track. (tags: finance)
Firefox 2 with GTDGmail
I’ve just upgraded to Firefox 2 tonight. Well, I know it’s a bit late since Firefox 2 has been around for a while, but I chose to wait since I want to make sure that most of my extensions can…
links for 2006-11-03
How to Create an Information Product the Quick and Easy Way | Tubetorial (tags: tubetorial video tutorial)