“If you want to increase your success rate, you must double your failure rate” – Thomas J Watson

This quote remind me of the book with title “Dare to fail”. At which I read at 1999.

Sometime the fear of failure is the one restricting us from getting to the next level. We become tied to our comfort zone and holding back.

Most of us more concerned about what others will say about our failure.

And not to embark on our own adventure despite of the passion and the inner satisfaction.

Is not the most intelligent or the smartest guy will succeed achieving their goals, but those who dare enough to take action and overcome their fear.

Important point to consider:

1.Failure inevitable

2.We all experience fear of failure.

3. Success and failure are linked.

4. How we perceive failure is critically important to our success.
Either as a stepping stone or a stumbling block.

Having a great A-Team is one of essential item to be successful in your career and also for the company.

And in order to achieve this, the company have to do a lot of hiring and also firing process.

During the process of finding the right candidate, we have to believe our gut and filter out the bad guys from joining the team.

For whatever reason, if your guts doesn’t feel right about a candidate.
Most likely it is a correct decision to not getting him/her onboard.

Yes, nowadays, we can search on social media for any hint about the candidate right before the interview is even being scheduled.

And one of the right thing the job agency doing right, is doing their due diligence before even suggesting a new candidate for hiring.

Because, believe it or not, it will affect everyone else in the process.

including your team, your boss and also your other colleague.

by the way. we got an opening for “senior PHP programmer”.
Drop me an email or comment below if you’re interested. 🙂

The above quote emphasis the meaning of prioritising all the thing that we are currently handling.

Sometime, we put a lot of effort on such trivial matters that actually doesn’t affect the outcome as much as we expected.
Therefore for a long run, it is wise to set aside some time to properly organise all our task.
And just do what is the most important or at least mindfully manage those task to be allocated with its proper ratio of attention span.

Daily task can be very interesting but it may not actually end up as the main part to support our long term goals.

For example, if our task is to write a book.
the optimum desired output would be the page written and eventually completed the book content.

Getting publisher and preparing marketing for its release is interesting.. however, if the product itself can’t be produced at the desired time and quality. those other effort may just end up as useless.
Therefore , each task have different priority and different weight on its effect toward overall desired outcome.

I came across one of my friend, at which point we had some important deadline for an assignment to be submitted.
Otherwise, we may risk of being denied a good result for the particular subject.
It is critical at that moment, because without those assignment submitted on-time we may need to re-sit this paper for the following semester.

As a normal student, I would be panic and drop everything else to ensure this assignment is submitted on-time.
However, my friend here said, he got other commitment that require his attention at the moment.
And those commitment are far more important that the deadline that have been escalated only recently.

When I asked him, he said.. even though this deadline may seem very important as student. However this short deadline is not expected at the beginning of our semester, and its original timeline has been reduced drastically despite the change to the requirement itself.

In our life, there a many things with have to consider, this role is just one part of many other roles that under my care.
It may appear as simple change for others, but not for me.
I got other thing that need to be taken care of at this point of time therefore I can’t allocate any further resource (time and attention) in this particular matter.

are you not worried of the consequences?
why would i worried, the worst case scenario, i would have to re-sit for this paper next semester.
so, if that the case, i’ll just re-sit.
life still goes on.. right ?

After some conversation, he explained that something worth more than personal pursuit at this time was his commitment toward his day-to-day job as a professional executive.
His team need his full attention and contribution toward completing a project which will have a major affect toward his company financial status for the current year and will also affect his personal integrity.

..

I believe for most of us, we are juggling between roles on daily basis or even hourly. We are a father, a worker or entrepreneur and also at the same time is a normal human being with the need of rest, sleep and everything else.

just decide which one is the most important and take a great care to ensure it got the best of our effort and attention.

so, finally I finished reading this book.I would like to share my viewpoint on what to expect from this book.

1. Ok, in the beginning, I got so excited and managed to read almost every single word in the introduction sections.
   Somehow Dr Daniel Amen highlighted the crucial thing that I might have missed in the past.
   Its mainly about the brain, how we should have protect it from any kind of possible injury or toxic.
   Dr Amen goes into a very great detail on laying out the importance and how significant the healthy brains for each of us. Continue reading this post…

On the last week, there is an interesting event in KLCC convention centre . 12-13th December 2017 to be exact.

It is the “Global Entrepreneurship Community Summit 2017”.
I was asked whether am interested to join as part of company representative, so I got myself registered.

It is a two-days event, and fully packed with GEC-Lab.
Which consist of small group of people talking about very specific topic, lead by the host or organiser.

The hall 5 is well known to host various of event before this, including the infamous “PC-Fair” few years back. So, you can expect the visitor would have to go from the beginning the hall until the end to see everything. Oh, I think it is also where the “Bahtera” event was hosted last 2 years.

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Machine learning has evolved to a point where we can use its capabilities to provide some extra benefit to our business.
According to research , our client and ideal customer have two separate identity. One is the physical persona and another is digital persona. To understand its impact, let’s compare this two client:

1. One experienced worker earned 10K a month, but rarely used social media, owned an Android phone.

2. One newly graduate worker earned about 3k a month, and highly engaged in social media, own an IphoneX.

Between those two, if you were to target for new product lunch which one would be more higher success rate ? provided your product would be useful to someone who would spend more money on trivial stuff.

Clearly the first one would be harder to impress and convincing them to pay for our product would be taking extra resource.
Targeting the 2nd type of people would require similar effort but with better success rate and if you’re able to make them happy enough you may get exposure that you need in most of social media.

And guess what, this is where the machine learning come into play.

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My website got loaded with google analytic and google ads javascript library hosted elsewhere in google server.
It will attempt to download and re-write some part of the content with the relevant ads. (yes, I got paid for that traffic . )

Recently with some optimisation done on the theme, it found out only the above javascript got WARNING, and it tried to perform document.write while the javascript file been deferred until all content being downloaded.

I was wondering how to make it work again.
Then I found this page at google support which provide guideline how to change it to async call instead of blocking call in previous version.

Here is how to do it.

For Google Ads:

Before:

<script type="text/javascript">
    google_ad_client = "ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    google_ad_slot = "1234567890";
    google_ad_width = 728;
    google_ad_height = 90;
</script>
<!-- leaderboard -->
<script type="text/javascript"
src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/
pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>

After:

 
<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/
pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
<!-- leaderboard -->
<ins class="adsbygoogle"
    style="display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px"
    data-ad-client="ca-pub-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
    data-ad-slot="1234567890"></ins>
<script>
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});
</script>

note : please edit the client-ad and slot id with yours.

For Google Analytic :

Change to:

 
<!-- Google Analytics -->
<script>
window.ga=window.ga||function(){(ga.q=ga.q||[]).push(arguments)};ga.l=+new Date;
ga('create', 'UA-XXXXX-Y', 'auto');
ga('send', 'pageview');
</script>
<script async src='https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js'></script>
<!-- End Google Analytics -->

and that’s it, it is now being deferred and making async call while loading the ads content.

Nice !!

Reference:
1. Adsense Support
2. Google Analytic

Have you ever wonder how many time wasted on loading time while browsing a website ?
I think may be not an issue in the past few years if we are not digesting new information every single day like today.

Like it or not we tend to browse and getting the information as fast as we can. Yes, you can blame the extra information overload or whatever.

But what really bug me is all those wasted time can be reduced to minimal possible with some few step taken before hand by the website developer or its system administrator.

I’ve happened to maintain the same wordpress theme for a few years now.
Some of the thing been obsolete and things are broken when we tried to load some specific features.

So, I’ve decided to take some step to fix and reducing error during loading this blog.

I came across the parallel download method using content delivery network.
Most of browser now capable to make async request to different set of servers simultaneously while waiting for previous is downloaded.
This could save a lot of waiting time just to download the content.

The step to accomplish this is not as hard as it seem.

I use the following plugin/ support.

1. WP-Rocket
2. Cloudflare
3. Linux shared hosting with cpanel

Content Delivery Network setup:

and here is the result:

Before and After:

And after few round of minor tweaks on the themes codes:

What else can you do as website administrator to help improve user experience while browsing your website?

There is one story being spinning in my mind since past few days. I can’t remember getting this story from which source, either book or somewhere online but here is the story.

One day, in a small village, there is a father and his two sons, they have farm with goat.
Everyday they’re selling goat to the villager or whoever is willing to buy its product including milk and meat.

The business is good and growing fast.
His sons are both involve in the company as worker.
Both of them has been helping him since the beginning, and both are capable of running the business.
Until one day, he his health is failing, and he need to pass over the business to his son.

He decide to pass this company to his second son.
So, he called his elder son.

“Son, I have decided to give control of this company to your younger brother.”

The elder brother was furious and ask “Ok, but I want to know why you decided to give to him instead of me.”
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I bought this book about 2-months ago, and it took me a while to finish reading it.

Here is my take on the content presented by Simon in his book “Leaders eat last”.

There are 4 main chemicals highlighted in defining what have crucial impact on our social behavior and emotional state.

According to Simon, there are four primary chemicals in our body that contribute to all our positive feelings that we generically known as “happy”:

1. endorphins
2. dopamine
3. serotonin
4. oxytoxin

At which endorphins and Dopamine make us to perseverance, find food foods, build shelters, invent tools, drive forward and get thing done.

While Serotonin allow us to work together, develop the feeling of trust and loyalty, help strengthen our social bond, work together and cooperates.

All four are essential to be balanced, so that we can ultimately SURVIVE and ENSURE our legacy will LIVE on beyond us.

Have you ever experience of the feeling that feels good when you had put in a lot of effort to accomplish something.
That is the proof that there is no biological incentive to do nothing.

Simon went on explaining all above chemicals and its effect in very great details in this book.
And also put into readers perspective why it is important to us as leaders, as a father or mother of growing kids.
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