Work and Productivity

Creativity is an often misunderstood concept, particularly in the realm of business. Some business owners and managers think that as long as all their employees do their job, they can organize a few FGDs every now and then, and someone comes up with a good idea every now and then, that’s enough creativity to be [...]

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On Choosing To Be Platform Agnostic

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by plsburydoughboy on January 7, 2012

I recently got into a short conversation with this blog’s webmaster, Fleire Castro, about different Twitter clients in between sharing information on how to help Sendong victims in Iligan and Cagayan De Oro. With the more recent changes occurring between the most popular 3rd party clients, user experiences have been changing and we can’t rely [...]

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There in front of you is the brain of a genius – in chicken-colored gooey wholeness floating in yellow soup-like fluid. If you had a chance to hold Einstein’s brain, what will you do? Would you imagine that moment with magical bursts of light and sounds of fireworks? Would you even dare to touch that specimen [...]

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Can Cebu become the Silicon Valley of the Philippines?

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by Fleire Castro on February 24, 2011

It is viable. As quoted from Philstar: “If given utmost support from both private and public sectors, Cebu’s bid on becoming the next “Silicon Valley” is highly attainable especially that it has already started with the establishment of an IT incubation facility.” ~Ehda M. Dagooc (The Freeman), I was able to attend the first of [...]

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Challenge: 24-Hour Digital Cleanse. Goodbye Everynyan!

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by Fleire Castro on February 4, 2011

I have hesitations in hitting publish for this post. But fudge yeah — Challenge from @plsburydoughboy now accepted. He has mentioned that it is good to take a break from these platforms so I will TRY to do this. For 24 HOURS. I have crafted this blog post in haste because I thought of this an [...]

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I Conquered One Thing I Fear the Most

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by Fleire Castro on December 29, 2010

Do you have a thing that you fear most? When you see the word “fear”, what scary images do you visualize? I understand if you could count a couple of those right now. As a web worker, you might have a fear of taking an opportunity that could change your freelancing career. As an employee, you fear [...]

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Note: I did not write this but only modified and customized it for me. This is written by Yuwanda at http://inkwelleditorial.com/ CLIENTS I’m thankful for clients. I’m thankful for clients – who pay. I’m thankful for clients – who pay on time. I’m thankful for clients – who pay what I’m worth. I’m thankful for clients [...]

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I Did Nothing Today and Still Got Paid

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by Fleire Castro on September 19, 2010

Does it sound familiar? Is it you? Extended lunches and breaks. Gawking at NSFW sites. *Scroll* *Scroll*. Getting paid to digest lunch food and poop. — you know stuff like that. Like this someone who said he got hammered and drunk and no one even noticed that he was absent. The citizens of cubicle nation can attest [...]

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