Lower Your Expectations with Job Boards

Lower Your Expectations with Job Boards

Credit: this amazing, excellent book.    The site  50 Ways to Get a Job too is great and helpful.

Train with Real Swords

Train with Real Swords

You're still a free user. You're still outside our Dojo. Yet, as the great Konosuke Matsushita ( founder of Panasonic, father of business and management in Japan) once remarked, you won't be learning well if you practice only with wooden swords.

Be serious. Go back if you haven't done the previous steps.

1. If you are not clear about your ambitions, then you search Grace Kelly/Tom Cruise but will end up with Kim Kardashian/ Arnold the Terminator.
2. If you are not clear about your strengths, then you Justin Bieber will try to challenge Einstein in Physics, or you Einstein will try to out-pace Usain Bolt.

Be serious.

If you can't pretend your life and job depend on our exercises, do go back. Please do the previous steps. Or come back later when you can be more serious.

Our Approach Is Simple

Our services all come down to just five groups:

1. Finding the potential employers
2. Moving better to the potential employers
3. Selling your services better to the potential employers
4. Making yourself a better product : Learning
5. Making yourself a better product : Design, in particular mixing, matching and marshalling your mediocre skills to magnificent, magical results

All these services will be available to free users soon.

Our Approach Is Sturdy and Robust

(credit: "On Grand Strategy") In order to have a direction but avoid the swamps and holes, to be a lion as well as a fox, we use

1. Compasses
2. Binoculars
3. Walking sticks and sensors too

Interests in Details Help Your Job Hunt

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" and "Manual of The Warrior of Light" by Paulo Coelho also share such ideas. Details do break deadlocks sometimes.















Credit: this wonderful, lovely book. The site  50 Ways to Get a Job  too is very helpful.

If you have to charge ten times as much

This is a provocative question for marketers by Seth Godin. The source article is This is Marketing

Here is our  attempt to answer this question:

Why We're Worth 10 Times as Much

To your relief, your dream has come true : "You will reach your true potential in this life."

We make this promise. Not by magic. But by your own DIY research and wisdom.

Once you clearly know

1. What you truly want to achieve
2. What you can do: long-term, short-term, right-now-this-hour-term

1. You will act. That is, you come to have agency.
2. This action will have extra punch and power and venom because you have conviction because you've seen precedents and examples with your own eyes. That is, you come to have self-efficacy.

Examples

1. English majors usually become burger-flippers (credit: Dilbert cartoon strips and "What Color is Your Parachute?").
   But once you've seen others with good written English and good math become successful programmers, the way you attend your coding classes won't stay the same.
2. Previously guys with a bit of marketing, a bit of design and a bit of coding and a bit of many things else, got no where. You have been one of them.
   Now these same guys become hot as "growth hackers." When you tell an interviewer that you are a growth hacker, your voice will carry a convincing, compelling tone.

"Horizontal" means from outside one's industry.( credit: "Marketing 4.0"), or from outside one's expertise (credit : "Rules for the Radical")

You who can , will do your life's work with the force of faith, and get better results.

For that, aren't we worth US$ 500 or more?

Do a Project and Get a Job

Sometimes, a project is your fastest, surest ticket to a good job.























Credit: this wonderful, excellent book.    The site  50 Ways to Get a Job too is great.

Sometimes It's Easy: Physics Nobel Prize 1965

Sometimes It's Easy: Physics Nobel Prize 1965

So I got this new attitude. ... I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

Within a week I was in the cafeteria and some guy, fooling around, throws a plate in the air. As the plate went up in the air I saw it wobble, and I noticed the red medallion of Cornell on the plate going around. It was pretty obvious to me that the medallion went around faster than the wobbling. I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate. I discover that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice as fast as the wobble rate - two to one [Note: Feynman mis-remembers here---the factor of 2 is the other way]. It came out of a complicated equation! Then I thought, ``Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it's two to one?'' ...

 I went on to work out equations of wobbles. Then I thought about how electron orbits start to move in relativity. Then there's the Dirac Equation in electrodynamics. And then quantum electrodynamics. And before I knew it (it was a very short time) I was ``playing'' - working, really - with the same old problem that I loved so much, that I had stopped working on when I went to Los Alamos: my thesis-type problems; all those old-fashioned, wonderful things. It was effortless. It was easy to play with these things. It was like uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly. ...

The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.

From a page of this site : Ohio State University

CANDOPI.com always and gladly encourages such serious play ! ;-)

Never Say Die, in This Abundant Universe --- 2

If you have US $100, you can build it and get Physics Nobel Prize later.

Small enough to hold in your hand.

So we cannot blame anyone or anything for our situation in life.

The first successful cyclotron, built in 1930 by Ernest Lawrence at the University of California, is shown below.

Candopi.com says: "Never say die. One more try"  ;-)

Never Say Die, in This Abundant Universe

If you have 7 years, pencils, paper and waste basket, you can write 5 worthless research papers,  and 5 good ones and become another Einstein or a junior Einstein or at least a Physics PhD.( US alone make about 1000 Physics PhD per year!)

So we cannot blame anyone or anything for our situation in life.

Einstein working in at the patent office, Bern, Switzerland, looked a bit depressed!

Count  on such a never-say-die attitude at Candopi.com

Steve Jobs the Alchemist

According to this article, How to use the concept of Alchemy to improve your writing (or any creative action), alchemy relies on

-- reducing base metal to its materia prima prior to it being transmuted into gold.

-- reducing a writing idea to its essence

-- dissolving impurities


In another example, we have  1,500 types of stretches or 60+ Yoga poses or 120+ Tai Chi moves

versus

the following 12-move exercise.

Wherever there is complexity, there is underlying deep simplicity.

Steve Jobs made his name with kicking out the fluff and the chaff from his products.

See alchemic principles in action at CANDOPI.com.

What's Next? In this Abundant Universe!

"There's always something that comes next."

Even if there is a Fairchild Semiconductor, there is  still room for an Intel.

We'll make, create room for candopi.com in this wide world.

Getting Real Skills, in Real Ways

How do you make good jobs, good skills and not-meaningless fame come to you?

Yes, that is three birds for one stone. Degrees, diplomas and certificates can help. But there is a faster, cheaper, easier, more threatening (more reliable) option. Just start and finish a project( or product ) that wins real customers, living their real lives in real markets.

Proof that It Works

This is how waiters, shoe repair men, and car-number plate painters get thier jobs.

By the way, this is also how the poorly-paid, lowly miserable Einstein won a physics Nobel Prize and became a professor. Also how a restaurant manager Karry Mullis won a chemistry Nobel Prize and became a highly-paid researcher. Also how a Subway worker, a train station worker discovered a new way to calculate prime numbers and became a professor.

Between these janitors and those Nobel Prize winners, there are lots of unlucky, unhappy folks who rose. Like JB Strauble who got a big job at Tesla. Like Anthony Levandowsky who Goolge and Uber fought to employ. Like Luckey who Facebook acqui-hired for Oculus VR games. And a million more examples ...

Proof that It's Easy

You build on previous inventions, discoveries, innovations and technologies.

You can hire or team up with experts.

Away from classrooms, you are free to experiment, free to fail, free to try unconventional approaches.

See such learning in action at   candopi.com.

Job Hunting and Resolving / Transcending Paradoxes

Bruce Lee got both strength and speed. 

The British Mosquito fighter plane during the Second World War: both safety/protection and speed. 

The Polynesian catamaran: both stability and speed. 

How can they get both?

Now your turn: give your potential employers BOTH more value AND less risk!

Here is one idea to give value at less risk to the employer:















It's an amazing book for job hunters, full of neat and nice tricks and ideas.

Passion Gets You the Jobs? Only In America?

I wonder if this idea would get you into trouble in some cultures. There, the interviewers would think you are arrogant or crazy or both.

Job Hunting and Re-invention by New Perception

To reinvent yourself for new jobs and opportunities, you need to see things anew. If not by your own eyes, by some borrowed eyes.  I learn a lot from this fantastic book.

Job Hunting and Re-invention

If you feel your options are limited, try the fiction-writer's lens. This fantastic book says it all.

Young Steve Jobs's Business Acumen

Wozniak (Apple co-founder) wanted to give his design away so that other people could build their own personal computer.

Jobs knew people were either too busy or not smart enough to do so. He knew they would pay for convenience.

And Paul Terrell, the owner of a computer store, also knew that. That's Steve Jobs's genius and savvy.

Over-Automation and Over-AI

A few months back, Elon Musk admitted that production delays at Tesla factories were down to their attempt to automate too much too soon.

Here in this story, the pilots had to fight their own in-flight software. The software read wrongly that the plane was rising too steeply and corrected the "error" by diving the plane too steeply too. The pilots tried to over-ride the software with lots of difficulty.























Here I see no point to plug into my web app. ( candopi.com ). 

Haa Haaa Haa ...

Entrepreneurs to Be Impulsive and to Think Black and White

I admit that there is a great method to Steve Jobs's apparent madness.

Entrepreneurs, especially at the startup stage, are busy. To get to essence, they should simplify a lot.

Moreover, the subconsciousness does not let float up truly unhelpful ideas to the surface. Whatever you recall is somehow relevant to  the issues you are facing.

How to Inspire Poor Treps, and How to Inspire Poor Kids to Take up Programming

If you are curious and ambitious, you will find opportunities that fit your budget no matter how small that budget is.






See more such insights at   candopi.com 

Serious Dangers of Zooming Out Too Far : President Obama

When we look for jobs, we need to look a bit more closely. Or else, we may feel despair as all the roads may seem blocked some times. This can happen to genius like President Obama.




From this excellent book:

Excellent Sheep? Excellent Students?

I do not necessarily agree with this author's point view, data, or logic.

However if he is right, we need to something for our kids and our schools

How to be LUCKY

In Australia, people are mostly employed, but in debt and practising frugality out of necessity.

In India, youth are "atrociously educated" but under-employed.

In Israel, researchers noted that very efficient and capable brains can be more error-prone.

In England (this one is not recent), coaches find that the more familiar you are with success,  the calmer you will be.

No connection among these pieces. Except I happened to read them in a row ;-)

Extreme Pivot: Leaving Education Alone

We won't be doing Education anymore.

The new app says:

"When your odds are not that good, don't limit your options.
It could be about jobs or business.
We offer scientific as well as traditional ways to make luck.
There are fun stuffs too."

For Who?

Everyone. Whether you are a job-seeker, a self-employed, a trep or a bureaucrat, we think you  can use some more luck. Especially when great odds are against you.

Why?

Unless you are already one of the 1%, you may need to improve your life, right? Then you need luck there.

How?

We give encouragement. We demonstrate versatile, vibrant options of those who have succeeded before us all.