Sleep: Sleep Deprivation Isn’t a Badge of Honor

Developer David Heinemeier Hansson says that sleep deprivation isn’t a badge of honor that shows how hard you work—it just makes you dumb and miserable.

Forgoing sleep is like borrowing from a loan shark.

in the tech industry (especially young startups) and in college, people
often brag about staying up all night to get work done, but in the end
it just keeps you from performing at peak levels

In a world where millions of things shout for your attention, there will never be enough money to buy all the things that suit your fancy, or the time to do all the things you want to experience.

The key is to focus and prioritize.

For years, I scouted around for the latest in time management and organization to-do list software. But more and more, I see myself falling behind. WE cannot just list off the things we want to do , and tick them off one by one, because any list will most likely get added to faster than you can do them.

Initially, we think we are keeping time because we most likely do the easier

I started to accept that the way to go is to do the Important things first.

In the company, there is the same problem. when you assign tasks, employees take time to do it, because they also have their own task list to do. If you have people who know how to prioritize, and whose priorities jives with yours, you are lucky. but most likely, you face the regular prospect of employees not doing the important things because they got caught up with things they want to do first.

It may be that these things are easier to do, or not really important at all.

I am starting to think that when you head an organization, the matter of success is directly correlated not only on how capable your members are, but how your priorities and focus jive ad gets done. What do you think?

I think e-books time has come.

And if it really is that big, I guess authors has to start being serious about putting their content into that format.

It has always been a chicken and egg situation - should I release my movie in blu Ray or HD format? let’s see if the platform succeeds first. Should i release a Mac version of my software. let’s see if the OS succeeds first.

Should i release my content in e-book form? Maybe its about time.

Analyst: Amazon.com’s Kindle to generate $750 million by 2010 | Tech news blog - CNET News.com

Calling it the iPod of the book business, CitiGroup analyst Mark Mahaney says the Kindle e-book reader will generate three-quarters of a billion dollars for Amazon.com in less than two years.

That should account for up to 3 percent of Amazon’s business.

Many of my colleagues pride themselves on their ‘busyness’. They always show me how full they are - instead of showing me how they are prioritizing, and what are the results of their efforts.

Nothing gets done because the person is just ‘busy’, trying to tick his tasks off the list rather than prioritizing, and ignoring the less important tasks.

We are all so busy because everyday, more and more people and tasks scream for your attention. No matter how fast you are, if you cannot ignore these, you will be overwhelmed.

Tick Tock: Tips for Allocating Your Time | The View from Harvard Business | BNET.com

Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No.

Whether you are a CEO or front-line manager, we all squander our most valuable resource — time — like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our time to create real value for the organization gets chipped away by everything from having to answer trivial e-mail to putting out petty corporate fires.

This is a positive news. I have heard Jeff several times, and he is undoubtedly one of the visible Microsoft executives. Having him in the foundation means that he will less likely be hired by competitors, and moreover, a foundation, especially the size of the Gates Foundation needs a good CEO.

It is as hard to give money effectively as it is to earn money….

I hope in my lifetime, I will have time to retire and probably put some years into giving back to community full time.

Microsoft exec Jeff Raikes to run Gates Foundation - Yahoo! News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Monday that Microsoft Corp. executive Jeff Raikes will take over in September as chief executive of the world’s largest charitable foundation.

According to the population world clock, the world population should pass 6,666,666,666 this month.

In 1930, the world population was only about 2 billion.

World POPClock Projection

I’ve been playing around with netvibes of which their mission is to make it easy to Remix the web.

Its really cool, and you can create a virtually complete website by just playing around with RSS feeds and some ready made widgets.

In this new website, I was able to put in all my blogs, my RSS, my facebook, my cartoons, my websearch, some few games, and some news ( as well as some Diggs and twits) into one site.

check out my site, and would appreciate if you could give me your comments. and what’s more, you could easily do it too!

LinkedIn is reportedly valued at $1 billion.

Why? because of the quality of its members.

While facebook or MySpace has multiples more, LinkedIn’s members reportedly are the executive jet set — average age of 41k years old, and average income of $110,000.

So, Linkedin charges ads at $75 per thousand impressions which is scores higher than anywhere. But advertisers pay for that kind of money to get that kind of audience.

So it can be quality, over quantity.

This is an explanation not only of what made Microsoft deal for Yahoo difficult, but how you may use strategy to help a competitor.

As they say - the enemy of your enemy can be your friend.

How Google’s Checkbook Stymied Microsoft - New York Times Blog

Shortly after Microsoft announced its hostile bid for Yahoo, Google objected and raised the prospect that it would lobby government regulators to block any merger.

As it turned out, Google was very much the spoiler in the deal. But its most effective weapon was not threats or coercion, but its very effective, and unconventional, use of its own checkbook.

Google has agreed to sell some search advertising for Yahoo. And since Google earns far more on every search than its rivals do, this will mean an immediate increase in Yahoo’s profits.

I am pleased that very soon, my second humor book will be coming out.

The first book has a subtitle ” Business is a Joke, and we can prove
it”. Our second book subtitle is ” Technology Creates Morons, and we
can Powerpoint it.”

Look forward to the same irreverent humor in the workplace.