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Probably all of us have heard that to be successful in business, you’ve gotta be the first one who come up with a brilliant idea, and that there is no room for the second, third, and the rest.

I should say that this is foolish!

Let’s say that you are in college now and, for simplicity, you’re planning to continue to medical school. Then I come to you and tell you that there are already hundreds of thousands of doctors out there, and thus you would never make any money.

Naturally you will say that I’m nuts.. and for a good reason.  Continue reading →

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Background

This might sound a bit weird for some of you, but ever since I was 10, I always like to read a self-help book. The first book I pick up was “Being Happy” by Andrew Matthews. I didn’t know it was called self-help book, actually I bought it because of the comic character on its cover.

It wasn’t the only book from Andrew that I bought, about one or two years later I bought his second book, “Making Friends“, and few years later I bought “Follow Your Heart” when I was in the Philippines.

Through the years, the list of self-help / motivation books I read keeps increasing, some that I can remember includes “7 Habits of Highly Effective People“, “Rich Dad Poor Dad” series, “The Secret“.

Honestly, I’m not a full positive thinker as I supposed to after reading these books. Probably because of my ‘realist’ nature.

However, if I started to connecting the dots (Steve Job isn’t the only one who can do that), I can see that these books indeed shaped the way I’m thinking now. Continue reading →

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Sabbath school (SS) teachers and leaders, you know what we afraid of most; a dull, boring SS discussion in which almost no one participates and you do all the talk.

The chance is even a lot higher when the lesson is doctrinal.

We all think that there should be something that can be done to prevent this from happening, and thank God, there is. Continue reading →

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Bookshelf at NEU CCIS Lab by djitz!

oleh: Peter Norvig

(disadur dari Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years)

Mengapa semua orang terburu-buru?

Masuklah ke sebuah toko buku dan anda akan melihat buku mengenai bagaimana “Belajar Java dalam 7 Hari” dan banyak variasi lainnya yang menawarkan untuk mengajarkan Visual Basic, Windows, Internet, dan sebagainya dalam beberapa hari atau jam. Saya melakukan power search di Amazon.com:

pubdate: after 1992 and title: days and (title: learn or title: teach yourself)

dan mendapatkan 248 hasil. 78 hasil pertama adalah buku komputer (no. 79 adalah “Belajar Bahasa Bengali dalam 30 hari“). Lalu saya mengganti “hari” dengan “jam” dan mendapatkan hasil yg luar biasa mirip: 253 buku, dengan 77 buku komputer dan diikuti dengan “Belajar Grammar dan Tata Bahasa dalam 24 jam” di nomor 78. Dari 200 hasil pertama, 96% adalah buku-buku komputer.

Kesimpulannya adalah entah orang-orang sekarang ini terburu-buru untuk belajar tentang komputer, atau komputer adalah hal yang sangat mudah dipelajari dari hal-hal lainnya. Tidak ada buku untuk belajar Beethoven, atau Fisika Kuantum, atau bahkan Melatih Anjing dalam beberapa hari. Dr. Felliesen et al. mengakui tren ini dalam buku mereka “Bagaimana Mendesign Program“, dimana mereka mengatakan “Memprogram dengan jelek sangat mudah. Orang-orang Idiot bisa mempelajarinya dalam 21 hari, bahkan walaupun mereka betul-betul bodoh.” Continue reading →

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“My friend once asked me,

‘you saved so much, what are you gonna do with all the money you save anyway?’ Continue reading →

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“The only difference between the programmers in Bali Camp software house and the people in any mental hospital is the earlier knows how to program.” -djitz!

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Pastor Ginduk from Flickr by caB.jm’s photostream

I know that a position as Sabbath School group discussion leader is one of the unwanted position in some Adventist church. You got to come early and face a bunch of people who never study their Sabbath School lessons. Help!

Do it wrongly and you got a dull and boring SS discussion… And that was the case with my church youth SS group discussion few years ago.

I tried several ways on how to improve the live of our youth SS discussion. Some works, some don’t, but in the process I learned several things that I believe are essential to improve a SS group discussion.

In this post I want to share to you some of the things that work in my church. Continue reading →

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Veneta SDA Church from Flickr by YoungWarrior

Quite a catchy title huh? Well, I just wanna talk about my theories of different church types. I’m not gonna talk about different church denominations here, but rather the different church of SDAs.

From my experiences going around the churches in Philippines, Singapore, Surabaya, Bali, and Jakarta, I see that basically SDA churches can be categorized into at least four types, they are: Continue reading →

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photo by Rafael Fischer (http://iasd.org)

AY Department is probably one of the most important department in a church because it prepares the next generation for their responsibilities to God and fellow men. Unfortunately in most churches it is also probably the department that has least attention.

I’ve had a year experience as my church Adventist Youth (AY) Leader. The church was a petite one, with only more or less 10 youth in total. However, the lessons that I learned I believe are quite fundamental and exist in other churches as well.

In this post I want to share some of the lessons that I have the great opportunity to learn during my AY leadership term. Continue reading →

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I remember almost a year ago I googled for article about this. I’ve been a system and network administrator for more than two years in medium sized company, dealing with Windows Servers, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX, Firewall, and VMWares.

Then, for an unknown crazy reason I applied for a programmer position in one of the biggest software house in Indonesia. I was accepted and suddenly had a dillemma of choosing to stay as an administrator or to shift career as programmer.

Being a good information age generation, I looked for what other people’s opinion in online forums. Some are pros for career in sys and network administration, and some others are pros for career in software development.

To be honest, they made me even more confused. But I finally made my choice.

Now after 8 months of work as Java EE programmer, I want to share about what I know about these two IT careers. Please note that I don’t think one is superior than another although during this article I may be a bit inclined to software development career. Continue reading →

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