The latest book that I finished reading was the 22 Immutable Laws Of Marketing by Al Ries and Jack Trout. Not only these laws are essential to success, not following them is a sure path to failure. Following are the laws and a short description of them. I actually had to read the book (listen [...]
January 2009
I am a coffee shop person. I do most of my working, studying, and meetings at coffee shops. Even though a coffee shop is more crowded and louder than my house I am a lot more productive there (and at libraries). When I sit beside ther people who seem productive, I tend to work harder [...]
Purdue University recently (in 2008) went under some website updates and redesigns. The previous website was absolutely terrible. It was outdated, unattractive, and nothing even close to represent Purdue’s quality and place among well known universities around the world. The new design is much better and is done in DIV and CSS instead of the [...]
One of the most important parts of your website/online business is having a good and reliable web hosting. There are many advantages to having a reliable hosting (ex. not frustrating your visitors). But one advantage that might not come to your mind right away is the frustration of seeing your website(s) down, calling the hosting [...]
I read How To Win Friends And Influence People by Dale Carnegie a while ago. It was a very good read in practical habits a person can get into in order to better communicate with others. I highly recommend reading this book too. Following are some of the tips from the books: Principal 1: Don’t [...]
Another recent book that I read was Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell. The book discusses the reasons why outliers (successful people) become who they are. According to the book the main reason behind people’s success is their environment and opportunities. That is to say that if they didn’t have the opportunities available to them they would [...]
