Book: Good Luck

Good Luck: Creating the Conditions for Success in Life and Business
By Alex Rovira, Fernando Trias de Bes
This must be the first book I have read that discuss the reasons why some are so fortunate while some are not in a way of story-telling. The authors lead us to a magic world, and show us two [...]

Book: The Why Are You Here Café

The Why Are You Here Café
by John Strelecky
You can also visit the author’s website at http://www.whycafe.com/

This little book have an interesting start – a successful business person one day want to take a vacation but was stuck on the highway. He took a different route but was almost running out of gas. Finally, he bumped [...]

Book: Don’t Eat the Marshmallow …Yet! The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life

Don’t Eat the Marshmallow …Yet! The Secret to Sweet Success in Work and Life
by Joachim de Posada, Ellen Singer
This book started with an experiment that’s conducted at Stanford University several years ago. The main idea is that those who can delay their satisfaction lead to better achievement in the future. If you are willing [...]

Thought: What can you do without a computer

Yesterday, I met up with my undergraduate friend for dinner. He said that he is interested in learning two skills: how to fight and how to fix a car. He said that our lives highly depend on computers, and we EECS student may not create any value without using computers.
Thinking of myself, I think it’s [...]

Life: A world of experts

One of the important things I learned in 2006 is that nothing in the world can be easily done — it might seems to be very strange to most people, but this is really what I have been thinking for a while.
From daily life to work, every single part of the world is not easily [...]

Thought: Web 2.0 Startups

Yesterday, I had an idea of starting up a on-line social network company by sharing everyone’s collections. I am very excited about the idea since it is of high potential to work well: everyone collects something out of his/her hobby and hobby can link people together. After some studies, I found that eBay already provided [...]

Life: 10 Habits to develop before 25 (Symbol: 10^25)

Inspired by my friends, my readings and the experiences in my life, I have finalized the top 10 habits to develop before 25 years old. The symbol I chose for this action is 10^25, which means that once these habits are well-developed, our life be 10^25 better. Here’s the list of the ten habits and [...]

Life: Observing leadership from a great sample

I am very lucky to work as a summer intern in the top semicoductor manufacteuring company. These days, I had three chances to meet up with VP-marketing. I could say that this is the first time I have close interaction with high level managers in a big company, and the experience is totally shocking [...]

Thought: Chien-Ming Wang – NY Yankee #40

Chien-Ming Wang is undoubtedly the most famous baseball player so far in Taiwan history. Besides politicans in Taiwan, there are rarely someone who can take up the cover page of every single main newspapers. Wang did that, Ann Lee did that, and their stories are widely know by every individual in Taiwan.
Taiwanese love baseball. Since [...]

Life: Father’s Day

Yesterday was Father’s Day in Taiwan. When my father called, I said happy father’s day to him. He replied, “Thank you”. I can tell from his voice that he is happy.
Last night in an entertainment show, Selina (in the group S.H.E.)’s father said to her that “you are the gift from God, we really appreciate [...]