The value of stuff is overrated

by | Jan 25, 2010 | Post

As long as we live in the cities, we might want stuff, but do not need them. I live in Taipei, a modestly-sized city with around 3 million population. Here we can live a modern urban life  (that means we do not have to, like, grow grapevines out of the balcony to...

Ebooks and the true potential of the PowerPoint format

by | Jan 24, 2010 | Post

I was enjoying reading an e-book from Riverfork Consulting titled A Brief Guide to Change by Design, which talks about implementing a series changes in our life by acquiring the "just do it" attitude and reframing (=redesigning) our habits. Sounds...

Being freelance: we will be treated the way we treated others

by | Jan 23, 2010 | Post

Many of us think about going freelance one time or another, especially in economic downturns. Thousands of people have done so, and for some reason all of them want to recommend others to follow suit. Some even establish their freelance life by teaching how to be a...

Information anxiety leads to winner takes it all

by | Jan 22, 2010 | Post

I wanted to know whether to say "overcharge customers" or "overcharge for customers" so I turned to our everlasting frienemy Google. As a good adviser, it encouraged me to add the word definition so that queries from online dictionaries would come...

Case study: rubbing salt in the wounds – Palm

by | Jan 21, 2010 | Post

Palm is the inventor of PDA (Personal Digital Assistant). I feel obliged to spell out PDA; it's been that long since its entire market had disappeared. But their position in the history as one of the godfathers of smartphone–the other the Newton from...