This an interesting article I found online regarding the Chinese, Chinese culture and business in China.
With more and more business trying to get into the China market, understand the people and culture becomes an important subject of discourse.
When even a Chinese myself finds it difficult to understand the mainland Chinese people, it is not a […]
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This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy.
– Kerry Gleeson
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
– Henry Bergson
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible
T.E Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Paul Graham, from The Power of the Marginal:
“Rising up through the hierarchy of the average big company demands an attention to politics few thoughtful people could spare… I think that’s one reason big companies are so often blindsided by startups. People at big companies don’t realize the extent to which they live in an environment […]
The life that conquers is the life that moves with
a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those
who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense
importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time. - WJ Davison
Very nice quote from a friend’s email. Search result attributes it to W.J. Davison but […]
Fear is a stronger motivator than greed.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
- Benjamin Franklin
When on this topic, I think the portfolio theory of investment applies to knowledge investment as well. My current current problem is getting the portfolio mix right. As […]
Much of a software product’s life is spent in specification, design and maintenance, and not in programming.
Can’t remember where I saw this but I was reminded of it again when recently a bad design backfired. One of the clients decided to do things fast by cutting back on design time. I’m not sure the time […]
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler
Going through such a stage now having to learn, unlearn, relearn.
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