thoughts
That is what I keep reminding myself whenever I read some books. I grabbed this idea from some kungfu movie and it makes sense : when you forget what you read, it becomes your knowledge. Another reason is that the knowledge you gain will make you realize the gap between what
book
Notes taken while reading this interesting book What to think 'bout strategies for software companies ? * To be a product company (high margin during good time - high risk during bad time. For example Microsoft in their early days) or service company (low margin during good time - low risk
careers
Have you ever wondered * if you like to make radical changes or incremental changes ? * if you prefer scorecard/360 degree feedback or just something more simple like "you're sux" and "it's kool man" ? * if you prefer stable and friendly or free and
ownership
yesterday, some distributor head called me and asked for help since there were some issues in her site and the IT head wasn't there. I called the IT staffs and got this "hey Thong, thanks for asking, but we still can handle it, will ask for help
itinvestment
and one of them is IT investment Why ? Because its benefit is intangible and people tend not to invest in something that they can't really see how it can help them. For example * You can send and receive emails everyday, you take it for granted. You don'
gallery
get bored with the default Flickr interface or even Flickriver ? how 'bout this KOOL way ? (see below for the screenshot) there are 2 ways to have it 1. Just use this URL http://pix.plonely.com/index.php?setid=72157623397968047 and replace 7215... with the ID of your Flickr
thoughts
nice article from TechCrunch, this reminds me of Jack Neo case. He likes to explicitly insert moral lessons into his movies, and he gradually violated some. Those who create the line tend to cross it. Long ago Google unofficially abandoned the Don’t Be Evil mantra and replaced it with,
serviceoperation
I currently got some problem working with the vendors * They tend to not proactively update us on the status of technical issues * They tend to not go the extra mile * We can't change the vendor as it's the regional vendor and it seems like just their
communityservices
I occasionally think 'bout this and recently found a very interesting article. Basically, to help people make you feel happy, but it doesn't always mean that what you did made them happy. Currently I'm not into community services so occasionally doing the 1st part (to
review
You'd never know how much space you lost on your HDD for some created-once-and-forgot-to-delete kind of folders. Or you can just right click and choose "Properties" to check the size of each folders on your HDD. It is a damn tedious work. Or maybe you can
focus
you can't just do what you like. you just can't. because you're with them (family, friends, colleagues etc). and you don't want to just do what they like. because it's your damn life, right ? so, what's next ? do
bi
We recently need to solve this very interesting problem: how to effectively aggregate all the sales data across the country. * Sales data: basically, we want to know something like who buy what on when and from which sellers * Effectively: we need to get those data as fast as possible and