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...

Cram schools help create less xenophobical future 2/2

by | Jan 20, 2010 | Post

So in the last entry I wrote how the Asian students fleeing overseas will do a favor to almost everybody involved in the process. Cram schools can proudly show their achievements off to attract more income generators (parents). The students themselves start enjoying...

Cram schools help create less xenophobical future 1/2

by | Jan 19, 2010 | Post

It looks like sending kids to schools which start when the schools end is required by law in all Asian countries. Kids releasing their evening energies in cram schools are one of the cultural connections that unite East-Asian countries like Taiwan, China, Korea, and...