How To Work Better

 how to work better     
                
  1   do one thing at a time.
  2   know the problem.
  3   learn to listen.
  4   learn to ask questions.
  5   distinguish sense from nonsense.
  6   accept change as inevitable.
  7   admit mistakes.
  8   say it simple.
  9   be calm.
10   smile.

Is it worth it?

I just read this comment on reddit, and I really came to think about this.

Since you want to talk about money, instead of diamonds... let's do that.
I think our system of using money as a medium of exchange is a superb one. And I think that the fact that money has no intrinsic value (unlike other currencies people have used - when they exchanged salt, or cows, or what have you) makes the whole system fairer. Money is not worth anything, unless you pass it along to someone else.
Of course, just like when sitting down at a family board game or card game, we see that if a person doesn't ever put his heart into playing the game, he won't do very well. And when folks are distributing resources and the bounty of the world, those who opt out of playing the money game are doing something which is tantamount to going on a hunger strike. Altruists who produce free software, and writers who blog for free are producing something and not gathering the resources they need to do a better job tomorrow with their work. They're poor schmucks.

I invest quite a lot of time for blogging and getting higher Pageranks. But what for? This all doesn't generate any revenue right now. Will there ever be a project that get me more money? Certainly some aspects of blogging are very unseful; for example blogging about topics which were talked about at the university.

There are many blog posts on the hacker-news (by ycombinator.com) are about failing/success in life or just in your field of work. But you even can think too much about your next year in your life.

Business School is a joke

I’m enrolled in a top-5 undergraduate business program, one consistently ranked beside MIT’s, UPenn’s, and Stanford’s. 99.5% of my classmates will graduate with a full-time job offer in hand, with about a quarter of those working at places like McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs. The facilities are impeccable (we just got a $100M donation), the student groups rich and varied, the class sizes relatively small. By all traditional metrics, the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan is exceptional; I should be proud to attend.
But I’m not. I’m actually sort of embarrassed about it, though I don’t hide the fact I go there for the simple reason that most people think it’s commendable. The goal here is to fight that misconception.