Articles in category 'Learning'

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), August 31, 2010

I’ve got one new favorite book: On Writing by Stephen King. It was a great experience reading it. Not only did I learn a lot from the book, but also I love the writing style. I wish I could write like that!
Moreover, I found that many lessons from the book are applicable not just to [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), August 6, 2010

One year from now, I don’t want to be the same person as I am today. I want to grow. I want to become better and better.
One way to do that, I realize, is by expanding my personal capacity. Expanding my capacity means being able to do things I wasn’t capable of before. It [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), July 22, 2010

Do you love to read? I definitely do, especially non-fiction. I don’t read as much as I want but I enjoy my reading time. It’s great to learn about new things in the world and new ways to improve my life.
When it comes to reading, one important problem is how to find good books to [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), June 14, 2010

Do you have idle potentials that you don’t develop? I have one: coding.
I remember that when I was in high school I often spent time coding just for fun. At that time, I had a 80386 computer with 4 MB memory (it’s amazing how people could live with just 4 MB memory back then – [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), June 7, 2010

Do you want to boost your knowledge? There is one way that has become a new favorite of mine: listening to lectures. Among others, doing that has allowed me to write a post on overconfidence.
I’ve been a fan of audio learning for a long time, but in the past I mostly used the time to [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter), April 19, 2010

In the post 4 Lessons on How to Get Things Done, there is an interesting comment by Mark Foo:
Bill Gates once remarked that the key to succeed in business is to innovate and make yourself obsolete. If you don’t make yourself obsolete, your competitors will make you obsolete.
I agree completely. We live in a fast-changing [...]