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Three Innovator Lessons from Larry Wall

Today I want to share the three attributes of innovators, inspired by Larry Wall as he is mentioned and described in the book Learning Perl, by Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix, & brian d foy

[ More ] June 29th, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in The Engineer, The Leader |

Three Life Lessons From My Room

As I just renewed my room rental contract, I thought this is a good time to get me new furniture and rearrange my room. And more than a new room, the experience taught me a number of lessons. I’ll share three of them in this post.

[ More ] June 18th, 2009 | 7 Comments | Posted in The Engineer, The Human |

Three “Less” for More Productivity

Why only three? Okay, it seems to be much fewer than many list of productivity in the blogosphere. I can always come out with more but a list article has not always been my favorite. And more than that it’s exactly relevant to the first point I want to share…

[ More ] June 11th, 2009 | 7 Comments | Posted in The Blogger, The Engineer |

Go Put Your Strengths to Work by Marcus Buckingham

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More than identifying our strength, this book also helps you in busting the myths around strength and weaknesses, making the most of what strengthens you, cutting out what weakens you, speaking up to let our strengths shine, and building strong habits to put our strengths into practice.

[ More ] January 31st, 2009 | 6 Comments | Posted in Book, The Engineer |

Journaling To Done (Getting things done with Journaling)

Regret on the mistakes you made? Forget about things to do? Decision to keep track of? Or simply a place to put the information you need? Start journaling, but end it with actions, that’s how you can get things done with journaling.

[ More ] November 27th, 2008 | 15 Comments | Posted in Featured, Habit, The Engineer, Writing |

Making Work Work for HSP by Barrie S. Jaeger

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How can you turn your work into calling?
Yes, this book is targeted to help certain category of people, which is called the Highly Sensitive Person, or referred as HSP. Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D. has written another book that describes fully on the definition. On the contrary, this book shares the perspective of working to the [...]

[ More ] November 17th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in Book, The Engineer |

If only your life is a Wordpress project

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Do you dare to make your life an open source project?
Imagine your life is an open source project… Let’s say a Wordpress project!
People will be able to download it from internet, check out your PHP source codes, modifying it with all sorts of plugins and themes, and making it a custom-made [...]

[ More ] August 9th, 2008 | 27 Comments | Posted in Featured, The Engineer |

Five things that you should never ever postpone

Do you enjoy where you are right now? Even when you are far from reaching your dream?
Few days ago, my COO brought me to a networking event. It was quite a surprise for me. He didn’t mention that it is a networking event until I was there. It is held by another company who invited [...]

[ More ] June 20th, 2008 | 17 Comments | Posted in The Engineer |

Do you make these mistakes in learning?

“I want pay increase!” I was asking for some pay increment. The statement is not that direct, but I did request that from my boss. I am confident enough on the experience that I have gained from the past one year on my previous job. I have also taken few IT certifications that I thought [...]

[ More ] June 10th, 2008 | 18 Comments | Posted in The Engineer |

The three secrets to limitless possibilities

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What do you dream of? Is that successful career, business, financial, marriage, relationship, or many others? It is easy to dream, but do you know what it takes to reach them? We can do all thing, is that true? We can reach our dream and vision, is that also true? All of [...]

[ More ] May 20th, 2008 | 4 Comments | Posted in The Engineer |