There are plenty of side projects that I can work on while here on my foreign assignment. I can do them after working at our client. I can do them on weekends, which are quite idle.
But I barely do them, Research & Development that used to be my lifeblood. Am I losing it as a [...]
Some time ago I was writing on the “Silicon Valley in the Philippines” theme. I was going through a “Silicon Valley Envy” phase. I wished I were part of the culture – not just the tech, but hanging out with people I read in tech blogs.
Time passed and I did not magically get transplanted to [...]
In my previous post about product and technology innovation, I complained that I lacked the skill or opportunity to create my own product. Instead, I implement plans made by others.
Now I’m thinking this is a similar to the theory of multiple intelligences: intelligence is not one-dimensional. While there are tech people like me who can [...]
Marc Andreesen’s guide to career planning is interesting:
part 0, part 1, part 2, and part 3
How does it apply to the Philippines situation, which is obviously different from what Andreesen describes? One way would be to look at the future of Web startups in the Philippines. In the original article which I quote, Paul Graham [...]
One great frustration I have with myself is that I can’t think of an original product to build.
So while I urge people to build “the next hot product,” and put up “the next hot Pinoy startup” (a topic I’ve discussed in the past), I find myself unable to follow my own advice. To this end [...]
Joel (a software developer) wrote about
criteria for geek job satisfaction. I noted that he left out work-life balance, to which he replied, he never had a problem with that.
That’s good for him, since work-life balance is a common – even stereotypical – tech working problem. I myself have always had a balance, but it’s mostly [...]
How to make fresh software developers productive has long been a concern of mine, through various jobs in my career. At my current job, the concern is how to make tool-oriented Computer Science graduates productive. These are people that by the choice of their school or their own decision, orient their education on certain tools [...]
Jayvee – one of the original Pinoy probloggers – asks bloggers if they can get time off from their job to attend a presscon.
My reply in his comments: No. This is conflict of interest with your day job. You can argue all day whether bloggers are media people or not, the fourth medium after print, [...]
Luke Rivera, a 12 year old Pinoy in New Jersey, starts a startup! It’s called Switcheroony.
What’s Switcheroony about? Luke explains it.
I got to chat with his dad, my colleague in the old days. The dad invested the money but Luke did the work. No joking.
Now, where’s the next Pinoy startup in the Philippines?
I finished reading Founders at Work. Very interesting. If you have built a startup (me), plan to (me again, in the future) or even if you are employed by one (me right now), you can relate.
Someone told me in reaction to Paul Graham’s Why to Not Not Start a Startup that one requirement missing was [...]
