promote yourself

Promote Yourself: The New Rules for Career Success, Dan Schawbel

Dan has a really good grasp of the modern work place and I got to read the book.

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Silikong

I wonder if we could create our own Hong Kong close to Silicon valley by giving some land to the 99% and letting them thrive without taxes to slow them down. Maybe they decide on some new cyber currency to be the money of the land and innovation could thrive. Perhaps it might even be a model for the rest of the country.

Max Pain Theory

Yesterday I learned about the Max Pain Theory which states that the market will move a stock to a closing price on options expiry that will make the most option holders loose money.  I was trying to find a calculator on my trading platform, but no luck however there seem to be a few of them on the internet.

Innovation Speaker Series

Got to see the author of Search Inside Yourself (SIY). This groundbreaking program and course developed at Google and featured in the New York Times develops effective, innovative leaders using science-based mindfulness and emotional intelligence training.

It was interesting, however not enough to pay an extra $800 for the course that follows, however I am intrigued. 

Prepaid Cellular

From time to time I look at some interesting Cellphone Options all pre-paid:

if you are on WiFi most of the time: http://republicwireless.com/ $19/month unlimited everything

Verizon network pre-paid: https://www.pagepluscellular.com but the phones suck, 

cooler phones and the flash them for you: http://www.beigephone.com/

Virgin has some pretty good phones and $35/month unlimited SMS/3G 300Min Voice, but who needs voice when you have SMS? http://www.virginmobileusa.com/

New guy in USA

Yesterday we had a new hire who came from India and I thought that I might as well write down all the URLs I gave him to settle in close to the office: AirBnB.com for fast lodging, uber.com instead of a taxi, SUpost.com to find a bicycle and a home, CraigsList.org might be useful to get things. Then there is Target.com that gives you 10% off on your first purchase and a first credit card. https://www.google.com/voice will get you a telephone number. A cheap home phone line on the internet can be had with a Obi100.