I’ve always wondered how work is for a government spy. I’ve seen a couple of documentary and fiction movies about Israel and its spy agency, Mossad. It seems to me that Mossad does more “adventurous work” than any other spy agency. If I am to believe most of what I’ve read about Mossad, they’re operations are very good plots for espionage thriller films. Read more »
The past few months, the Filipino social networking site, GrooveNet, has been buzzing *silently* across the Philippine web. GrooveNet is the exclusive distributor of There in the Philippines, an online 3D chat application that is perhaps second only to Second Life in terms of number of users and popularity. When you register at GrooveNet, you get an avatar for the 3D World and a profile page in the GrooveNet site itself.
You can upload MP3 songs to the music player provided in the profile page. Also, the profile owner can move around the panels. Moreover, the profile owner can add custom panels as he/she pleases. The owner can then add widgets to these custom added panels. Read more »
Allegedly, Google offers free beer and sushi to their employees. If this is true, I just found my dream company. I love beer and sushi (but hate working long hours)! Wait a minute, my dream job is actually to work from home and reporting to no one , except my wife probably. Can I just have the free beer and sushi and not work, no? Read more »
Last month, I resigned from my day job to concentrate with my blogging. It generates about the same income as my day job and it’s less stressful. It’s more fun that I don’t treat blogging as a job. Thinking about SEO and page ranking is like anticipating a new school year - you never know what will happen but you hope for the best. It’s fun fun fun.
I could have doubled my monthly earnings by continuing with my day job while blogging. After all, you don’t need 8 hours to maintain your blog, right? Well, I like to stop and smell the roses. If I can earn enough to feed me and my family and spare some for a little bit of extravagant life, I’m good.
A new poll from employment advertising company Monster says 77% of U.S. workers say they work much harder than their firms’ presidents. I don’t know why this article ever got printed. It’s clearly nonsense. Though the company admits the activity is not scientific, the fact that workers generally are biased against their bosses makes this poll uninformative. It’s like asking a woman if women are more intelligent than men.
Workers work “more” because they think less and have lighter responsibilities. It’s the quality of work (over quantity) that should count *most often*. The workers obviously want their salaries comparable to that of their bosses. The best way of identifying which job position requires a higher salary is when you hypothetically set the salaries of the bosses and the workers equal. Then, let the workers pick which job they would rather have, knowing they have equal salaries.
With the advent of information technology, multi-tasking has been a very abused word - writing code while managing a project, working on 2 or n different complex tasks at a time (and your boss expects both tasks to be accomplished the same day), chatting while working, etc. Studies show that multi-taskers are probably doing a lousy job if they’re trying to do more than four things at once. By the way, this looks like the story of my professional life, except for the chatting part of course. Read this:
Researchers at the University of Oregon have concluded that the human brain has a built-in limit on the number of discrete thoughts it can entertain at one time. The limit for most individuals is four, according to the research team led by University of Oregon psychology professors Edward Awh and Edward Vogel.
The multitasking cap is not affected by the complexity of one’s thoughts. Surprisingly, as many complex concepts can be retained in short-term memory as simple thoughts, the researchers found.
They said that people with high IQs can think about more things at once but that doesn’t mean they have easier time passing tests or having successful jobs. They can store more memory but not necessarily that clear. I’m trying to think of how I can make a parallel example of a computer but… I can’t think clearly while watching the TV.
