sacha chua living an awesome life

“Big, Hairy Audacious Goals” is a catchy and inspiring way to think
about things. If you don’t have this book yet, you might want to look
for it next time you’re in a well-stocked bookstore:

Built to Last – Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

Jerry Porras and James C. Collins, 1994.

Here are some links for more information:

http://www.inspired.co.nz/Reading%20Room/Built_To_Last.htm

Book review / executive summary

Big Hairy and Audacious Goals for Business! (interview)

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/earth/stories/s218498.htm

“We found that visionary companies often set these incredibly challenging goals.”

Goal Setting with Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs)

http://www.cool2serve.org/tools/pdf/BHAGs.pdf

A workshop outline—great idea for training

My BHAGs are:

• Revolutionize computer science education by making it highly
  individualized and experiential.
• Become a world-famous expert on creating systems for planning one’s
  life. Instead of pushing a particular methodology, I’d like to work
  with people’s current ways of planning, suggesting improvements and
  software/hardware to support their life.

What are yours?

昨日は、私のコンピューターが故障していたのです。 My computer was down yesterday.

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I need to hack a couple of things in Adphoto. For one, the scheduling
system needs to be improved. Also, we need to work out a smooth way to
transfer files to clients.

The best way to get me to work on these things would be for me to get
annoyed with them.

The best way for me to get annoyed with these things would be for me
to have to do them.

So that can be my summer job. If my mom doesn’t mind having me
underfoot, I will work for Adphoto. First, I need to hack scheduling.
In the process, I’ll probably also tweak office communication. When
I’m not scheduling things or improving the scheduling infrastructure,
I can work on making the website more informative.

Sounds like a good plan.

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