Category: Notes
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Review: Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus (13.3″ QHD+ Touch / Core™ i7), my new laptop
After 3 years and a half of using a MacBook Air 13 inch as my personal laptop I finally decided to upgrade and went with an Ultrabook and Windows 8. After using a Surface Pro as a tablet I really started to like Windows 8 a lot. This new Ultrabook has an Intel Core i7…
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Discovering creative ideas in San Francisco – CapitalOne 360 Cafe
This is the 4th time I come to San Francisco this year, I just love this city and the weather (yes I love Summer in San Francisco!). I was lucky enough to get invited to Y Combinator’s Startup School this year, it was great and I had the opportunity to learn insights from founders from…
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Tips for the Deskbound
The definition for deskbound from different sources: restricted to working in an office, rather than in an active, physical capacity. engaged in or involving sedentary work, as at an office desk restricted to work at a desk unfamiliar with actualities or practical matters outside one’s own job: deskbound executives who can’t grasp production problems. You get the idea, being deskbound is not really for the active or adventurous types…
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Use your time wisely, it is a finite resource
Everybody talks about productivity and optimization these days. The get things done (GTD) popularity has been around since I can remember and most of us are still suffering of constant distractions that affect our productivity and concentration to perform our professional or personal tasks effectively. Also, there are many tools these days that claim they can help you…
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Entrepreneurship has become too fashionable
It used to be that people who ventured with startups were hardcore entrepreneurs, those who did it out of necessity or because the idea of having a college degree or a successful career was in some cases not even an option. Many times what drove people to start companies in those days was a strong…
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Be the person where the problems die, be the finisher and people will notice you
Many people often ask and wonder how or why they don’t get promoted, or even noticed at their jobs. Here is some advice I got from a VP of Engineering at a very prominent tech company in Austin, TX: Be the person where the problems die, be the finisher and people will notice you While…
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Tips to have success as a remote worker
I still remember when I first had the opportunity to work remotely, it took some convincing but my employer at the time understood and agreed to give it a try, it was 2002. Nowadays is very common to find professionals, especially developers and designers doing some of their work remotely. There are even some successful…
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It’s Your Choice
Reading this blog post is a choice, everything around you is the result of the decisions you’ve made during your life. Yes, there is luck, and faith, and karma, and many other things that many of us believe on, but in the end, it is our choices and those of the people around us that…
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Should I continue with my idea?
These days the word entrepreneur, founder, start-up, small business owner are very common and so it is the idea of starting a new business, especially in the tech and internet industries. Many of us dream of creating the next big thing, an awesome application used by millions of people, a service with public APIs that…