Everybody wants to have an optimized life. In fact, there are hundreds of books, seminars, and trainings devoted to this topic. Nevertheless, there is actually one simple thing you can do to optimize your life: do what you love. Sounds…
To continously optimize yourself, there is no other way but by being a lifelong learner. Fortunately, there are so many learning resources available for free on the Internet. Eliteskills.com puts a list of those free resources in Massive Resource List…
To use your time in a day effectively, I think it’s a good idea to divide your time into two parts: thinking time and doing time. Thinking time is the time for you to plan your day. You spend this…
There are many tools which can be used for Personal Knowledge Management (PKM), but for me Microsoft OneNote is one of the main tools. Of course, I also use other tools such as Google Desktop (desktop search), Google Reader (RSS)…
In the end-of-year service of my local church, my pastor said that his vision for year 2007 is the year of opportunity. He said that so often people don’t realize how precious their life and time is. As such, they…
I’ve written about how keyboard shortcuts can boost your productivity when working with computers. The next step is – of course – putting it into action. Most (if not all) popular applications have keyboard shortcuts to help you use them…
In this information age, computers have been a big part of our life. In fact, many people spend much – if not most – of their time working with computers. As such, there is a simple way to improve your…
This vacation, a friend of mine asks me to write a small-scale business software for him. Though I’ve learned computing for years and am now a graduate student in it, it’s been about two years since I wrote my last…
Time runs so fast, and suddenly it’s another December 31. As with many other people, the end of the year is the perfect time for me to review my life. I review how my life has done this year and…
At last I can update this blog. For several days, my Internet connection here in Indonesia was down due to an earthquake in Taiwan. Not fully down actually; I could still access local websites. But since this blog’s server is…
