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Three Things Artificial Intelligence did in 2016
The post highlights three 2016 AI milestones: AlphaGo beating the Go world champion, an AI generating a Rembrandt-style painting, and Google Neural Machine Translation producing translations and a language of its own.
How To Quit Your Job And Become A Freelancer
The text argues that leaving employment for freelancing begins by choosing what you like to do, turning it into an offer for multiple clients, and setting up a simple website to present services, portfolio, and contact.
Praise in Public, Criticize in Private
The text criticizes an investor who publicly exposed an entrepreneur and argues that, in any position, the most appropriate stance is to be humble and modest, or else remain silent.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The text summarizes Dale Carnegie's book as a set of techniques for changing other people's behavior by changing one's own behavior, with an emphasis on praise, listening, empathy, and avoiding conflict.
Elon Musk, Neural Lace and the Apocalypse
The text brings together Elon Musk's concerns about AI and presents neural lace as a possible response: a bridge between the cortex and a digital extension to bring humans and artificial intelligence closer together.
The missing step to all Productivity Advice - Disable Notifications
The text argues that productivity tips only really work when notifications are turned off on all devices, because they interrupt focus and disrupt the rhythm of the day.
Stuck in a rut? 5 tips to get your first freelancing gig
The text says that starting to work as a freelancer is usually difficult and that the safest path is to keep your job and act gradually, using five steps to get the first jobs.
How to be a Good Parent, for the Lesser Mortal Startup Entrepreneurs
The post says startup founders can keep a healthy home life by managing time well, planning ahead, prioritizing work, protecting family time, and staying flexible when emergencies or events arise.
A Simple and Easy way to overcome your Twitter Addiction
The author says the use of Twitter took time and productivity and describes a gradual method for reducing dependence, while keeping limited access and keeping work devices away.
Introduction to Gamification for UI/UX Designs
The text presents gamification as the use of game mechanics to engage users in sites and apps, with examples of badges, progress, and easter eggs, and warns against its forced use.
Blogging - Nuances & Impacts
The text defines blogs, distinguishes personal and corporate blogs, and argues that business blogs help publicize expertise, attract traffic, and promote services, but they require regular updates and good organization.
Apple’s New iPad - Steve Jobs’ Legacy Continues
A note highlights the commercial impact of the New iPad, points to sales of 3 million in 3 days, and summarizes its differentiators in screen, connectivity, camera, A5X processor, and 10-hour battery life.
5 Ways to Build an Online Community for Your Startup
The text argues that an online community can help create long-term demand and proposes choosing the right platform, engaging customers, prioritizing quality, and measuring results.
Your virtual assistant is a partner, not an employee
The text argues that virtual assistants are often underestimated and should be treated as business partners rather than employees. It says they are entrepreneurs too and may know as much about running a business as the client does.
What makes a great Product Manager
The text adapts a Quora answer to say that a good product manager owns the product, persuades, understands the technical side, keeps the team positive, shares credit, includes others, and speaks with courage.
How to Hire a Great Web Designer
The text highlights that design can differentiate web startups and that the company should have design leadership early. It also says that whoever evaluates designers needs to understand the work or ask someone trustworthy for help.
Evernote - Remember Everything
The author says he uses Evernote frequently, but that the free version is enough for him; even so, he subscribes to Pro because he likes the software, which works on desktop, mobile, and web.
5 Very Cool Travel Gadgets
The text argues that, for business travelers or those who want to stay connected, certain gadgets make travel easier, safer, and more convenient, although they serve those who want to unplug less well.
10 principles of Good Design
Dieter Rams presents ten principles of good design, centered on utility, clarity, honesty, durability, attention to detail, environmental impact, and reduction to the essential.
Windows Phone 7
The text presents Windows Phone 7 as a new mobile system from Microsoft, with a tile-based home screen, social integration, Xbox Live, Zune and a standardized hardware set.
Tech World’s Top 10 Mistakes
A list highlights five technology industry mistakes: IBM delayed the PS/2, Iridium failed through its own execution, Intel failed to connect Itanium to software, Sony had a dangerous battery, and the Pentium suffered a calculation defect.
An Orwellian Year in Review
The text compares 2010 to Orwell, saying that Facebook, the persecution of Julian Assange, and news dominated by governments and conglomerates increased surveillance, censorship, and loss of privacy.
Resume writing for Dummies
The post lists resume basics for applicants: add a cover letter, keep formatting clear, check spelling, show real work, tailor the application, stay honest, and include links to online profiles.
Economics behind the Open Source Model
The text links open source to economics through time, effort, perceived value, supply and demand, and the exchange of products, services, and reputation. It argues that open source creates lasting value and revenue mechanisms.
What NOT to do while looking for a job
The post lists job-search pitfalls to avoid, including being too location-specific, overemphasizing certifications, appearing like a loner, criticizing a former employer, and using a generic resume objective.
Startup Saturday
Startup Saturday is a series of events across Indian cities where entrepreneurs and startups meet to discuss, present, network, and learn. The post also announces a Mumbai presentation on bootstrapping a startup.
Steve Jobs at home in 1982
A page from 2007 quotes Steve Jobs on living alone with only tea, a light, and a stereo, and says Diana Walker’s book includes a 1982 photo of his apartment.
Scrum - the Hyper Productivity Tool?
The text describes Scrum as an agile project management method, used to increase team productivity and also applicable to other group work contexts.
Personal Time Management for Busy Managers
The page defines effective, efficient, and effortless, then says personal time management helps people take control of time through self-discipline, better planning, and avoiding wasted effort.
How to write an effective Resume How to get your Curriculum Vitae right
The post says a resume should be simple, precise, and short, while showing what you are best at. It also argues that attitude and eagerness matter in hiring, and warns against spelling errors, vague goals, technical clutter, and mixed role claims.
How to make Meetings Successful and Useful
The post says meetings work when they stay focused on a specific problem, happen at the site of the problem, and finish with a solution plus responsible people for the next action.
Lean Software Development; Make More Money
The text presents the lecture “Make More Money” by Mary Poppendieck, describes her experience in operations and new product development, and mentions the book Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit.
You blog? then better ask your boss
The post warns employed bloggers to be careful about what they publish, since a boss or web host may object. It also describes a Movable Type change that adds a direct delete link to comment-spam warning emails.
Blogging in news again
The post says the author forgot where they read the article, but had heard that Google is buying Blogger.com.
brajeshwar.com
Brajeshwar Oinam says this is his personal website and that the domain was registered on Jun 11, 2001. He presents that date as the start of his online life and notes that the article is back-dated to mark the birth of the domain.
Brajeshwar Oinam
A página diz que e-mail é o meio de contato preferido, aceita cold emails e responde mensagens cuidadosas, curtas e claras, com pedido específico, oferta, ação ou um simples oi.
The secret sauce to managing our backlog and TODO lists
The page explains how the Ranger program moved from MSF and Scrum to flexible self-managed teams, using a simple backlog structure and Kanban boards grounded in trust.
One Div Zero
A humorous yak-shaving creed casts the programmer and the yak as mutual obstacles to shipping, where effort shifts from useful work to endlessly removing the hair that keeps release blocked.
Why you can't be a good .NET developer
The post argues that developers leave .NET to escape teams and shops that choose tools and practices for the least capable members, which blocks progress and pushes people elsewhere.
Flow state: Why fragmented thinking is worse than any interruption
Nick Moore surveys flow-state research and argues developer productivity suffers more from internal fragmentation (self-interruption, rote mundane tasks) than from external interruptions like Slack pings.