Candopi Programming 101 and The Luck Factor

I once read "The Luck Factor" by the psychologist Richard Wiseman.

Now I read a neat summary of the book in "The Smarter Startup: A Better Approach to Online Business for Entrepreneurs" by Neal Cabage and Sonya Zhang.

Very neat. How can you be luckier?

1. Alert, and open to opportunities
2. Decide by intuition
3. Manifest
4. Resilience and gratitude

Each point is deep. I'll elaborate only on the most laughable point, Point 3. If I can defend the most laughable, I can defend others way better.

"Manifest?" "The Secret?" "The Law of Attraction?" Shamans? Roll your eyes, okay.

But what about "Shaping" strategy that they mention a lot in Harvard Business Review, Jack Welch, Sun Tzu, Von Moltke (Helmuth von Moltke the Elder), the US Marines manual?

What about "Effectuation" (Sarasvathy), too?

Candopi Programming 101 teaches you luck.

We, Candopi Team 1, are showing off.

We are showing, the Harvard's, the Stanford's, the MITs, the Yale's, the Princeton's, the Oxfords, and the Cambridge's, how to teach coding/programming/hacking to the masses.

Not merely to high priests in the ivory towers.

It's the first bite of the apple in the garden of Eden.

It's Prometheus bringing fire to mankind.

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.

office to office, office to office

June 30, 2014

 office to office, office to office, ... I never get used to this kind of movement. Now it is over. RELIEF and REGRET. Things could have been very different ...

Now, a new start

How to Be Lucky in Your Study

A few weeks back, I seemed to be in a winning streak; all my programming projects got done without any major glitch. I was not that lucky with programming before, and thus I happened to become more self-aware: I kept asking, "What's happening? What was I thinking? What belief underlay this action of mine?" etc.

The following is a list of my thoughts that I managed to gather in those luck breaks:

1. "It doesn't matter." Here I'm dismissing a failure on my part, instead of feeling guilty or shameful or desperate. Then, I found that it really did not matter because I could find a work-around or I found I could solve it later or I found I didn't have to solve it at all.
2. "There's time, I'll learn it tomorrow."
3. "There must be a better book or approach, I'll find it soon."
4. "I'll do it my way, I'll invent, conjure up, cook up some funny solution that however works!"
5.  "There's nothing in the books or on Internet for this problem. It's for me to fill this gap in human knowledge. Since I'm first, whatever I do is automatically better than Zero/Nil/Zilch etc."
6. "I cannot solve this. But no one has solved it either. So no one has advantage over me."
7. "This is a wrong problem to solve. Anyone who tries to solve this will get bogged down, tied down, and suffer."
8. "I have no clue. I'll bluff my best and move on."
9. "I have no clue. I even don't know how to bluff. I will switch my brains and do blind, purely random variations."
10. "I'll give up and move onto what works. Will import what works."

One size doesn't fit all, of course. Such thoughts may not even work for me in a different context.

Yet the results, I noticed, were so good that I must remember to give them a try any time I encounter a hard nut to crack.