Author: Tony Tam
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link: 42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy – First Round Review
42 Rules to Lead by from the Man Who Defined Google’s Product Strategy – First Round Review.
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link: Your kids will not be grateful until they are 30 years old. NYTimes: All Parents Are Cowards
This article reminds me of how I felt as a single parent with C.. Scared, protective and constantly worried. As she is heading to high school, I wish to teach her to be independent, free thinker, know to fail and recover. For other parents, this article is a great read amd a reminder that being…
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Return on investment of online marketing for restaurants using Yelp, Yahoo, Google, Facebook
In helping my friend’s modern Japanese I Privé raise awareness, we decided to try to pay for marketing on Facebook, Yelp, Yahoo, Google. Here is what I’ve learned about the effectiveness of these companies. Keep in mind that is this my owner personal experience and not based on a large marketing budget and only apply to a…
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Re: HTML5 Dev Conf: JavaScript Programming Style and Your Brain with Douglas Crockford
Watch his talk on YouTube Programming is one of the hardest things humans do Programming uses Head and Gut, we don’t really know how we do it JavaScript: Good Parts. Bad Parts. It was done in 10 days and released to the wild JSLint : defines and professional subset of JavaScript JSLint will hut your…
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link: Mike Long on Modern C++ and the C++ Memory Model
Mike Long on Modern C++ and the C++ Memory Model.
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link: 12 Books That Every Leader Should Read
(Photo from my restaurant I Privé) I listened to Bob Sutton’s podcast on Scaling Excellence Successfully podcast fro the Center for Social Innovation podcast at Stanford I checked out his blog and found a list of books he recommends. I’ve put To Sell is Human, By Dan Pink. in my SF library queue. (I removed the referral…
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Find that one true sport you love
In high school I played badminton for 4 years. I liked the sport, but did not love it. When I went to UC Berkeley, I join the badminton club and we trained and competed against other colleges. We would travel both days on weekends, come back as a team, have dinner together and laugh about the…
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Face to face meetings: when they are useful
I’ve struggled with having too many meetings where I didn’t find them useful, but I felt that there is 10 minutes of useful information so I go to get that info. This particular week, I’ve had several useful meetings. The 3 attributes of these meetings that made them particularly productive are 1) They are 30…
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Before paying for recurring service, know how they make money
I am in a position to evaluate different point of sale systems for a restaurant I’m invested in (I Privé). There are 3 different business models I have seen. Take a percentage of every credit card transaction, give away the hardware Hosted software, charge a recurring monthly fee per hardware device Sell one time hardware,…
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Having the hunger to standout
Out of a team of 10 people, how do you standout without making others look bad? Figure out what is the BHAG. Out of the 10 features, bugs, on the list of todo, what are the most important pieces that move the needle? Write down all your ideas about improving, developing those 2 things. Ask…