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Personal Development

Amateurish Vs. Amateurlike

December 21, 2011

There’s a difference between two. Amateurlike makes a great performer; Amateurish creates scenes. Amateurlike brings a fresh view to programming problems; Amateurish delivers something other than agreed scope. Amateurlike has conquered her fears and is internally strong; Amateurish is irritating. Amateurlike investigates with a pure intent; Amateurish doesn’t even know what she doesn’t. Choose to [...]

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You Don’t Need Your Own Business to Become an Entrepreneur

December 19, 2011

You started your own business few months ago to become your own boss. Your thoughts were similar to: Your pay will NOT reach top 1% if you continue doing your job; You will NOT able to hire and fire people based on your worldview of them; Working for someone else is NOT hip; You will [...]

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On Personal Betterment 33

December 16, 2011

Believe that you can get better; Just start getting better. Even tiny dosage of betterment is fine. Start with simplifying. Ask: do you have a personal betterment plan? Yes or no. If no, develop one; if yes, move forward. Get clear on your chief goals; Chief goals which are aligned with your personal betterment vision. [...]

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Stop Talking

December 8, 2011

Stop talking nonsense, at least. The problem with talkers is that they rarely go into the greater depth of the details. The programmer who replies, “We must go with MVVM pattern for this application because of (concrete) X, Y and Z reasonings, here’s the demo application that I created last week…” will be respected more [...]

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Dumb Vs. Clueless

December 7, 2011

Your crucifying client or your difficult programmer… probably are not dumb, probably just clueless. There’s a distinction between two. Every person takes actions based on their climate of opinions and the information at hand. If two people have the same climate of opinions and the same information, they’ll take same action, every time, given they’re [...]

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