One of the4 side effect of learning to brew coffee is that you’ll be harder to sleep at night.

For this reason, I have had a chance to blog about life recently.
Life is good, as in Lots of works at office and lots of stuff is running around, but still nothing to complain about…

I had been reviewing things, thinking about career plans, and what to learn and Let’s say having an early mid-life crisis.

To be honest, I had nothing to complain, having a not-bad job, ladder to climb, having a cute wife, not much worrying about housing, and no health problem yet. But as any guy would prefer some bigger achievement, but I have none to offer.
(Or probably I have a problem for it, since I never get satisfy over most of the “big thing” in my life either)

One of the thing I am proud of myself, is the influence I bring to people, which start ripple around, Thoughts and Ideas spreads out, to make the world a better place. (And some idea for the industry as well)

As for the career, I am planning to continue pursuit the PM line, it may not be the best path to choose, and may not suit my characteristic , But I guess it’s more fun than dealing with restless changes on the industry, and having others to tell me the secrets among different part of the technology is good and efficient enough for me….
(I like to see/get things done, with or without my direct intervention is irrelevant)

I guess for getting the thing I would like to accomplish, I would rather hire some guns and organize them, than to get my hands dirty. As a result, I’ll need someway to make cash fast and continuously…

That’s enough rumbling for the night….

From what I see, in the consumer market,
people tends to get results without putting effort.

This happens when thing are easily done with automation and getting thing done without any knowledge about it. e.g. Email and iPhone Apps.
We too get used to the fact that the only thing we do is paying, for a miracle service/product and then get our life changed.

While this is true for lots of thing, it’s hardly true for many areas, e.g. Habits, Skills.
Take an example of
1. “If you drink this product A everyday, you’ll be slim in two weeks, without any effort on exercise, take on a diet”
2. “With this new camera and lens, you can takes amazing photo with a click. And everyone will think you as a Pro Photographer.” (link)
3. “Taking this course will improve your English so fast that you’ll have a merry career lie ahead with in Three Months.”

Empty promises and yet people fall for it, or are those applications of the rule?

This is from one of my favorite Fantasy Novel:
“人們是愚蠢的, 給予適當的動機, 幾乎每個人都會相信幾乎所有的東西。因為人是愚蠢的, 他們會相信一個謊言, 因為他們願意相信這是真的, 或者是因為他們害怕它可能是真的。人們的頭腦中充滿了知識, 事實和信念, 而大部份都是假的, 但他們認為這都是事實。人們是愚蠢的, 他們很少能分出謊言和真理, 但他們卻有信心他們可以, 所以都很容易被欺騙…“
(翻譯 From http://anf.blogspot.com/2011/03/blog-post.html) 

“Wizard’s First Rule: people are stupid.” Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. “People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it’s true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”
Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard’s Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It’s easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do.”
—Chapter 36, p.560, U.S. paperback edition

Note to self:

The responsibility to overcome barriers to communication normally rests with the sender. However, in a leadership situation, the responsibility falls to the leader in all cases, whether one is sending or receiving.