The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded & Updated

I finally finished reading all the stuff I had laying around like, FREE – The Future Of A Radical Price (which, I must say, every entrepreneur should read, check out my book review on it), and an issue of Web Designer and a Website Magazine.

Now that loose ends are tied I can start on this new Expanded and Updates edition of The 4-Hour Workweek. I read the first one and found it very useful, read my book review on this one too. If you haven’t read the first one, don’t bother because the second one has the same stuff in it and more, so read this one instead.

I started reading yesterday and am really enjoying it. Will tell you more about it as I read.

And yes, that is the kitchen behind me… my office is in the dining room. :)

Until next time,

~ Valik

Why Life Isn’t Fair, The Freelance Pareto Principle

by Giancarlo Gallegos

Two days ago, I was listening to a podcast sponsored by the Stanford Technology Ventures Program on the Art of Teaching Entrepreneurship. The speaker is Tina Seelig, a professor in Stanford University and the author of one of the best selling book, “What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20”. In her podcast lecture, she talks about what distinguishes entrepreneurs from your average person. She said that entrepreneurs have a knack fo challenge themselves by looking at opportunities in everyday circumstances. They are in a constant lookout for things that will challenge their creativity.

Creativity for us designers is a given. We just have to be always creative. In fact, day in and day out, we tend to scribble ideas, create countless designs and offer various design concepts to our clients.  Sad to say, creative people tend to go overboard with designing ideas that we sometimes: 1) fail to maximize our time; 2) design things too perfectly for one client that we forget we have other clients to take care of; 3) miss our deadline because we have so much on our plate.

I plead guilty in some of these examples. I tried to search for a solution that could help me maximize my time well and luckily I found the answer from an Italian economist who lived 100 years ago, Vilfredo Pareto.

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