Even the largest US companies will appropriate IP that isn't nailed down. Cases appear here every few months.
In the 19th century, American entrepreneurs took the same attitude to European IP as China now does to America - if anything, IP appropriation was even more blatant than it is now.
Great idea.
Is there any way to pull in kindle data?
Currently I read all my books and articles in kindle. I think I'll use polarized to read and organize the articles I read and use kindle to read the novels.
If I could see the total usage statistics in polarized that would be awesome.
I once got caught up in one of these .
I was young , poor and had failed in my engineering exams.
I had no coding skills, but was hoping some company would pick me up based on my math skills and train me (that is what most MNCs in india like Infosys do). I was attending different tech job fairs, but would get screened out at the beginning itself because of my lack of degree. But then one company was fine with it and interviewded me but only after the HR round was over did they say that they were a BPO . They claimed to have tie up with a big MNC in india , and so off I went to join.
On my first day, I was given a script to learn and placed near a senior guy to listen in on his phone call to learn from him.
The scam was simple, they had a website similar in name to yellowpages.com but not the real thing.
They would call up small businesses (mom and pop stores) in the US and tell them their yellowpages listing was chargeable from that year, and if they don't pay 500$ , it would be removed.
If someone other than the owner was attending the phone and said they don't want it , they would use scare tactics like ,"this would get your listing removed.Are you authorized to do that ?" etc.
The main targets were old people and less technologically savvy ones I guess. Once someone agreed , the call was routed to another team some place else.
Long story short, I didn't go back after the first day- but my friend chose to stay back. Many of them who attended the interview did . I don't have contact with any of them , but now I wonder how many of them turned to bigger scams. None of them had joined there thinking they would be scamming people. At no point in the interview process did the company appear to be scam artists.
If anyone is wondering what I did after that, I borrowed some money, checked out the cheapest training course available near by - it turned out to be php (around 120$) and I landed a web dev role in 4 months.
* Write everything down that comes to your head. Review that information.
* Categorize everything into actionable tasks, or waiting items within a project (Anything that takes more than one task)
* Clear your inboxes (Physical and digital) often
* Weekly review of how the system is working for you
Coming along with that is a lot of software to try and make it really easy to follow. I personally use Todoist, a lot of people in the Apple ecosystem like omnifocus, but really any task-app and a calender can do (paper works as well).
I suggest reading the book if you are someone who struggles with productivity or wants an imporoved system. I like the book because even if you don't fully adopt the system, just about everything in the book works independently (You don't have to do EVERYTHING in the book to get an improvement, as I see often with other similar books).
Do you use the Todoist Windows app? I like Todoist and have used it for a few years but the Windows app is crumbling! They moved to the Windows Store and the new app has tons of bugs. I keep losing tasks while trying to edit them.
I will rearrange a task only to find now I have a duplicate. I try to delete one and I lose both. So, the whole ‘task list’ idea has been undermined by the app’s bugs.
The legacy Windows app still works but is getting it’s own set of bugs as time goes by.
Have you had these experiences? Just wondering. I’m currently shopping for another solution. I have e-mailed them and the customer service seems to be waning along with the software support.
The book is the best place to understand it, in my opinion. There's plenty of summaries, but the book is good.
But if you take nothing else: next action. When planning a list put the next physical thing you need to do (call, draft, debug a specific routine, etc), not abstract concepts.
Towards the end, they have clarification that states: "Technological development is mainly done at the WhatsApp headquarters in Mountain View and not in Russia as the information suggests. There the company maintains a 'small technical team'."
In Mountain View, just off Castro street, AFAIK. Their name isn't even on the building. Super low-key. An external shot of the building was used in the show Silicon Valley as a stand-in for the Pied Pier office in season 2 or 3 (where Jack Barker is the CEO)
I have seen the crowd at indira canteens and they are not the clientele of the near by eateries.I think this is a much better way than food coupons to be used at private restaurants , which is ripe for correction in a country like india.
