Some days ago, I came across an interesting site about Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. The idea is, instead of spending a lot of time and (especially) money for a real MBA program, you can get roughly the same knowledge through actual experience and reading 30-40 good books. This way, not only you can save [...]

I have just read Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. It’s a very interesting book. In his previous book – Guns, Germs, and Steel – Diamond talks about how certain societies can be more successful than others. Now in Collapse, he talks about how certain societies fails while others don’t. [...]

I love audio learning, so I subscribe to some podcasts using iTunes. Usually, I will copy those podcasts to my music player so that I can listen to them while going around and working on something else. But recently I got a problem: one of the podcasts, which is Harvard Business Review ideacast, doesn’t play [...]

I’ve just come across this post by John Richardson:
50 minutes has changed my life. The concept of working in a focused manner for 50 minutes and then taking a 10 minute break has revolutionized the way I work. I find that I am much more productive when I work in this manner. Instead of multi-tasking [...]

It’s been almost two weeks since my last post in this blog. The reason why this blog hasn’t been updated for so long is not because I had nothing to write, but because I moved it to a new hosting. I tried to “freeze” the content of the blog so that I could easily move [...]

Well, I think this is one important principle to optimize our life. And for one simple reason: our close friends have great influence on us. If we gather around bad friends, who carry bad habits with them, then soon or later we will absorb the bad habits and become bad ourself. On the opposite, if [...]