Semua Pernah Salah

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”
Thomas J Watson
IBM chairman, 1943

Ini jaman komputer masih sebesar lapangan tenis dan beratnya berton-ton

“We don’t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.”
Decca Records rejecting The Beatles, 1962

The rest is history…sama kayak si JK Rowling yang ditolak banyak penerbit sebelum serial Harry Potter-nya hot dan meletup

“640K ought to be enough for anybody.”
Bill Gates, 1981

Hahahaha om gates, bahkan ukuran terabyte aja gak cukup sekarang

Kalian pasti pernah dengar Chicken Soup for the Soul-nya Jack Canfield kan? kebangetan bgt kalo lo pade lom dengar…kali-kali aja lo tinggal di gua beberapa tahun belakangan kakakakaka…..the manuscript was rejected by 140 publishers! To make matters worse, their agent told them he could not sell the book and gave the manuscript back to them.
bisa jadi nangis2 tuh penerbit kalo tau ternyata tu buku jadi meledak….kekekekeke…secara yang dah terjual lebih dari 80 juta kopi brur

kho ping hoo

sebenarnya dah lama punya buku2 nya asmaraman s. kho ping hoo dalam format digital…..dulu pun dah sempat baca waktu SD selintas2….tapi gw gak terlalu tertarik mengeksplornya coz tebal2 bgt karena disatukan dalam bentuk *.lit dan *.pdf, seri bu kek siansu aja ada 17 edisi yang masing2 berkisar 750 sampe 1000 halaman lebih per-edisi.

gw jadi bongkar koleksi ebook gw setelah bro sawal dengan menggebu2nya bercerita tentang si bu kek siansu ini dan berhasil menginfeksi anak2 sarang elang untuk menunda waktu tidur gara2 tenggelam mengikuti petualangan si bu kek siansu manusia setengah dewa ini.

akhirnya gw mikir…hmmmm what’s the deal with this bu kek guy….
maka gw baca lah (sejauh ini baru selesai 2 seri bks) serial bks ni…hmmmm ngeliat cerita nya tampaknya too good to be true lah kalo ada orang yg nyaris perfect kayak si bks ini….orang yang bisa melepaskan diri secara total dari keduniawian…

tapi bukan tentang serial silat ini yg sebenarnya paling menarik….yg paling menarik adalah betapa social proof principle berperan besar disini karena bro sawal dan kawan2 di sarang elang suka ni buku maka gw juga jadi suka….salah satu inti dari social proof adalah “battle-proven theory” yg menyebut “manusia cenderung menyukai apa yg juga disukai oleh orang lain”, mungkin perlu penjelasan agak panjang supaya bisa jelas…tapi gw lagi gak mood berpanjang2 sekarang. kapan2 aja yak…

Gak Da Judul

kata seorang pakar, contact lens dan kecantikan itu sama, tergantung….tergantung siapa yg ngeliat kakakakakaka…… mungkin beberapa diantara kalian pernah dengar istilah itu: just like contact lens, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. tapi memang sih ada nilai2 yang ‘dianggap’ universal untuk kecantikan ini. setelah gw pikir2 tingkat universalitas ini ternyata berbasis ras dan lokasi. kenapa gw berkesimpulan begitu karena tiap2 budaya memiliki nilai universalitasnya sendiri. contoh kalo orang bule lebih suka kulit yang sedikit gelap, istilahnya ‘tan‘ makanya mereka suka berjemur atau malah ke tanning saloon biar kulit mereka sedikit gelap….sementara asia cenderung lebih suka kulit yang terang…..itu baru masalah kulit, kalo di sebuah suku di burma/myanmar cewek yang lehernya semakin panjang kayak jerapah dianggap semakin oke, sementara di afrika ada sebuah suku yang menganggap bibir yang super dower nauzubile sebagai lambang kecantikan, bahkan (maaf) bibirnya sampe selebar piring….kalo orang pemasaran tentu harus ngerti yak coz kalo jualan ponds lightening ke bule kayak-nya kurang hot kan…kata pakar ini namanya marketing ethnography

selain itu tiap hari kita juga dibombardir oleh informasi dari koran, majalah, tv, radio, internet…..yang secara langsung tak langsung ikut membentuk persepsi kita terhadap sesuatu. cool nggak cool-nya sesuatu itu ternyata variabel yang sangat volatile. ahli NLP bilang ‘there’s no reality, only perception’…….. contoh lima tahun lalu kalo elo pake celana kuncup elo akan dianggap aneh, lima tahun lalu kalo elo pake syal ala tentara gurun elo dianggap sedeng, 15 tahun lalu kalo lo pake kawat gigi elo dianggap nerd…tapi sekarang ternyata 3 hal yg baru gw sebut diatas adalah sesuatu yang dianggap cool, setelah gw telisik2 ternyata untuk hal2 diatas, yang berperan besar membuat mereka naik kelas menjadi cool adalah apa yang disebut oleh robert cialdini sebagai social proof principle…..untuk kasus diatas selebriti adalah yang paling berperan. hmmm….mungkin itulah kenapa selebriti banyak didaulat menjadi endorser sebuah produk atau bintang iklan…..selain social proof principle, likable principle juga berperan disini.

ahhhh….by the way kok jadi ngalor ngidul…kakakakakaa…..

eh kemaren gw baca novel DO, yang udah difelemkan, ternyata novelnya jauh lebih keren, bahkan felemnya cenderung ‘lari’ dari novelnya….

anyway makasih buat dek yoan alias dek koniciwa yang udah minjamin novelnya ke ucu dan ucu minjamin ke gw kakakakakakaka….sehingga novelnya bisa di review…..

lo…reviewnya mana…..
kakakakakakakakakaka

Seribu Bangau Kertas

dah pernah dengar cerita seribu bangau kertas a.k.a thousand of paper cranes???? keren…tribute to sadako sasaki…korban kekejaman bom atom.

menurut kepercayaan jepang kalo bisa melipat 1000 bangau kertas wish elo bakal come true hmmm…bener atau gak wallahualam

dulu pernah baca juga yang versi lain…ini tentang luv kakakakaaka…dapat disalah satu situs internet…pernah gw tulis di blog ini juga.

eh gw baru kelar baca influence: science and practice-nya om robert cialdini dan the power of persuasion; how we’re bought and sold-nya robert levine…..wuihhh must read banget deh tu buku….gw kasih rating 4.5 untuk yg pertama dan 4 untuk yg kedua…out of five loh ya

50 battles that changed the world

gw baca 50 battles that changed the world karangannya william weir, gw tertarik baca bab 5 tentang perang merebut jerusalem antara saladin dan pasukan salib…berbeda dengan banyak literatur lain yang pernah gw baca (gw pernah baca versi kedua belah pihak: versi islam dan versi kristen dan ditulis oleh sejarawan yang punya nama) gw menganggap tulisan bab 5 di buku ini rada2 mislead gitu deh

Ripped Jeans And Lady Kryptonite

Ahhh…dah lama gak posting….maklum sibuk coyyyyy…..here we go

As lame as its my seems, I always finds ripped jeans sexy…a.k.a jins belel yg sobek dengkulnya gw masih simpan koleksi jins belel gw jaman kul dulu di berzak & for the sake of nostalgic moment I still wear it once in a while…

Anyway mungkin ada yg bertanya2 apaan sih berzak, hmmm berzak tu tas bulat lonjong kayak terong yang biasanya jadi tempat pakaian kalo tentara operasi militer, biasanya di pantat berzaknya ada huruf misalnya: A, B, C, dst…..huruf ini menandakan kompi si empunya berzak…..bahan berzak ni alot dan kuat banget…kalo sempat barang2 konsumer sehari2 kualitasnya military grade ala berzak bisa2 pabriknya cepat tutup…coz daur hidup produknya lama amat.

Balik lagi ke soal jins, 2 tahun belakangan jins yg bawahnya kecil lagi in bgt yak….hewww….kalo dipake ce cakep yg punya rasio pinggang-bokong-paha-betis proporsional alamakjang cuhui bgt….tapi sekalinya rasionya amburadul ampunnn rusak kali kelihatannya…

Kemaren tu si lady kryptonite beliin gw sebiji jins model kuncup itu….hanyut kali awak rasa, meski gak sesesak yg awak perkirakan coz bahannya ada karet2nya gitu…..btw gw belon pernah posting tentang si lady kryptonite yak…kakakakaka cerita lanjutan lady kryptonitenya kapan2 aja ya….gw mo koding dulu…apa lagi kemaren ada email yang masuk ke inbox gmail gw, katanya dia tau email gw gara2 nyasar ke blog ini pas search tentang Delphi portable kebetulan dia ada sedikit trobel sama Delphi dan mo meng-hire gw tuk mengkompile project yg dibikin oleh developer lamanya pake delphi2006, gile banyak kali file dan libs yang missing…

Masnavi – Jalaluddin Rumi

Masnavi alias masnawi, sebuah karya besar Jalaluddin Rumi, download disini 770 KB (password: www.AvaxHome.ru)

[E-Book] Engineering

Wind Turbines: Fundamentals, Technologies, Application, Economics
Springer | 2005-10-01 | ISBN: 3540242406 | 783 pages | PDF | 63 MB

http://rapidshare.com/files/155438612/wind_turbines.rar.html

Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins

John Perkins started and stopped writing Confessions of an Economic Hit Man four times over 20 years. He says he was threatened and bribed in an effort to kill the project, but after 9/11 he finally decided to go through with this expose of his former professional life. Perkins, a former chief economist at Boston strategic-consulting firm Chas. T. Main, says he was an “economic hit man” for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business. “Economic hit men (EHMs) are highly paid professionals who cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars,” Perkins writes. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man is an extraordinary and gripping tale of intrigue and dark machinations.

Perkins spent the 1970s working as an economic planner for an international consulting firm, a job that took him to exotic locales like Indonesia and Panama, helping wealthy corporations exploit developing nations as, he claims, a not entirely unwitting front for the National Security Agency. He says he was trained early in his career by a glamorous older woman as one of many “economic hit men” advancing the cause of corporate hegemony. He also says he has wanted to tell his story for the last two decades, but his shadowy masters have either bought him off or threatened him until now. The story as presented is implausible to say the least, offering so few details that Perkins often seems paranoid, and the simplistic political analysis doesn’t enhance his credibility. Despite the claim that his work left him wracked with guilt, the artless prose is emotionally flat and generally comes across as a personal crisis of conscience blown up to monstrous proportions, casting Perkins as a victim not only of his own neuroses over class and money but of dark forces beyond his control. His claim to have assisted the House of Saud in strengthening its ties to American power brokers may be timely enough to attract some attention, but the yarn he spins is ultimately unconvincing, except perhaps to conspiracy buffs.
Perkins writes that his economic projections cooked the books Enron-style to convince foreign governments to accept billions of dollars of loans from the World Bank and other institutions to build dams, airports, electric grids, and other infrastructure he knew they couldn’t afford. The loans were given on condition that construction and engineering contracts went to U.S. companies. Often, the money would simply be transferred from one bank account in Washington, D.C., to another one in New York or San Francisco. The deals were smoothed over with bribes for foreign officials, but it was the taxpayers in the foreign countries who had to pay back the loans. When their governments couldn’t do so, as was often the case, the U.S. or its henchmen at the World Bank or International Monetary Fund would step in and essentially place the country in trusteeship, dictating everything from its spending budget to security agreements and even its United Nations votes. It was, Perkins writes, a clever way for the U.S. to expand its “empire” at the expense of Third World citizens. While at times he seems a little overly focused on conspiracies, perhaps that’s not surprising considering the life he’s led.

Download Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins 12 MB

selamat pagi, dengan telkomsel ada yang bisa dihanyutkan

gw belon sempat nge-post yang kemaren gw bilang…gw punya posting lain.

hmmm…kemaren hand phone gw hang, mungkin tersepak atau tertindih ataw dimainin anak2……trus awak pencet sana sini malahan minta PUK…gw pake hp si polem buat ngubungin call center telkomsel 116. biasanya ada menu pencet sekian untuk PUK blablabla, tapi kok skrg banyak kali menunya gw jadi gak tahu kalo mo tau PUK tu pencet berapa.

mo minta tolong cek-kan sama bro2 awak, nomor2 mereka tersimpan di kartu gw yang terblokir tu……makanya gw pilih ngomong langsung sama caroline officernya 116….ternyata cewek yang pake callsign t_____, yg gw rasa mengidap tuli stadium 2,5….sampe 3 kali gw nyebut nama baru dengar, kalo speaker hp si polem kayaknya gak masalah.

trus ngomongnya ketus2 kali trus bernada seakan2 awak ni bodoh…hahaha sekuat apa sih sistem kalian tu…dasar anjrit awak nanya sopan2 aja kok jutek kali….memang kata2 kawan2 awak banyak yg nelpon 116 cuma iseng2 aja ada yg mo kenalan, nanya2 gak jelas bahkan sampe memaki2….jadinya awak yang nelpon beneran jadi kena getahnya. bah lagian bukan tipe awak lah nelpon2 gak jelas apalagi sama orang yg awak belom tau bentuknya…..macam beli kucing dalam karung coy…haha iya kalo mantap kalo ancur….kakakaka

karena awak speakerkan malahan kawan2 kos awak yang gondok mendengar si caroline officer sok paten itu

penasaran then awak lacaklah ternyata si jutek itu tenaga outsourcing dari PT. ______ (sori coy…classified) dan jelek pula…alamakjang…gw maklumlah ternyata dia jutek untuk mengkompensasi mukanya yang ancur dan mungkin sedang dapet…kakakaka…btw buat yg soal lg dapet itu gw tebak2 aja coz cuma satu itu yg gak bisa gw lacak….huehuehueehueeeeee soalnya sistem intrusion detectionnya ganas kakakaka

btw no offence yah

Stuff You Don’t Learn in School

Coming soon

The Best Is Yet To Be

Mungkin banyak yg mengira gw lebih banyak membaca daripada ngerjain hal lain….tapi hohohohoho salah coi. awak banyak kesibukan….awak membaca hanya kalo ada waktu luang karena kan……i have to pay the bills, right? juga untuk memenuhi kebutuhan2 lain….juga awak harus punya waktu buat hobby dan passion awak, waktu having fun sama teman2 dan cewek gw.

karena apapun itu kalo berlebihan jadinya gak baik, termasuk membaca….dulu seorang bijak pernah bilang

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do

dengan membaca kita mendapat sesuatu yg baru tapi harus juga diingat: knowing how to do something is different than actually doing something.
ini sangat benar apalagi bagi kalian yang suka baca buku self-development atau self-help kenapa? karena baca buku self-development itu bikin ilusi seolah kita moving forward padahal sesungguhnya kita masuk ditempat yg sama, kalo para ahli bilang ini namanya mental masturbation (masturbasi mental)

reading and reading about a subject gives you the feeling that you’re getting closer to your goal but it’s a false, comforting feeling. without action you will never get truly started on your path towards your goal and new possibilities. so find a balance between reading and taking action. try see what the results are, then learn from them and books and optimize. rinse and repeat.

masih ingat hukum newton? a body in motion tends to remain in motion and a body at rest tends to remain at rest until acted upon by an external force.
awak rasa cocok juga di aplikasikan ke hal diatas, external force disini adalah taking actual action.

buku gak akan melakukan sesuatu untuk kita, tapi buku dapat membantu kita menemukan dan membuka pintu ke hal2 yang baru….tapi tetap saja setelah pintu terbuka kita sendirilah yang harus berjalan…..kalo awak pribadi it’s been quite a ride and its not over yet….the best is yet to be…..btw i do believe within each individual there is tremendous power waiting to be unleashed.

like i’ve said before, i confess that i read things, see life, and business, a lot differently than most people do.
hence the saying goes: the man who follows the crowd, will get no further than the crowd. the man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before. kalo kata star trek: to boldly go where no man has gone before

“You have two choices in life: You can dissolve into the
mainstream, or you can be distinct. To be distinct, you
must be different. To be different you must strive to be
what no one else but you can be.”
—Alan Ashley-Pitt“

Keep away from people who try to belittle your
ambition. Small people always do that, but the really
great people make you feel that you, too, can become
great.”
—Mark Twain

“Some of our best ideas have come from letting our
engineers wander in where angels fear to tread.”
—Henry Ford

btw kita pindah ke topik yg lain….kalian pernah gak ngerasa elo di-push sampai ujung limit yg bisa elo tolerir dan akhirnya bammmm meledak….awak termasuk orang yg sangat bisa mengontrol emosi tapi kemaren awak melakukan sesuatu yg awak harap gak awak lakukan, i punched my own friend….awak benar2 dah sampe titik terakhir untuk gak menunjukkan agresi fisik…….awak dah bilang sori tapi mungkin dia butuh waktu untuk tenang dulu….hahaha….sekarang pas posting ini dipublish semua dah normal lagi.

We Are Emotional,Then Logical

Awak yakin kita pernah dengar kalo manusia tu mengambil keputusan secara emosional dan kemudian merasionalkan keputusan yang diambil secara emosional tadi.

udah dari sononya kita jarang sekali berpikir tentang bakalan bagaimana perasaan kita ketika sesuatu terjadi dalam hidup kita kan? kenapa…coz we just feel it….
contoh: emang na lo pernah berpikir tentang bagaimana perasaan elo ketika sedang gembira atau sedih? gak kan. kalo elo sedang senang elo tu just feel it….

kalo penjelasan gw diatas agak ribet sampel lebih gampang kayak gini
bayangkan sekarang ini, saat ini……elo menang lotre 1 milyar, apa yang terjadi? apa lo pernah berpikir lo bakal senang? gak kan…elo akan langsung senang tanpa otak lo perlu memberitahu kalo ini saatnya untuk merasa senang.

itu artinya kita adalah emotional creature yang bereaksi secara emosional terhadap lingkungan.

People decide emotionally, then justify with facts. Build a lot of emotion into your argument, follow that with the word “because,” and then give a fact.
People only seek evidence that supports their existing beliefs. So, starting from what you know they believe, give them something they “know” is true and then expand that toward your ultimate goal. This allows them to agree while saving face.

Not bitter…just real!

I’ve been working awfully hard to avoid getting into any conflicts with someone I care about, but today it could start to feel like the effort required to keep doing that might be more than I can bear. I have to prepare myself………..

The Law of Scarcity

Pertama baca tentang scarcity mindset dari bukuna om cialdini, awak saranin klen baca buku ini….qren… cocok kali apalagi kalo klen di sales and marketing bayangkan aja misalnya: menjual dengan stimulasi emosi….kan seperti kata orang2 All Buying is Based on Emotion

Liat aja dealer ferrari ataw lamborghini gimana mereka menciptakan imagenya….bahkan kalo orang mo beli mereka bikin kesan You Can’t Have It.

Kalo yg berikut dari buku om Kurt W. Mortensen yg tak kalah qren

Why Scarcity Drives Us Wild?
The Law of  Scarcity works because it makes people feel like they will lose their opportunity to act and choose if they don’t do so immediately. The threat of such loss creates urgency in our decision making. Have you ever noticed how people tend to be more motivated when faced with potentially losing something than when they might take steps of their own accord and gain something of equal value?

The Law of Scarcity plays a large role in the persuasion process. Opportunities are always more valuable and exciting when they are scarce and less available. We want to be the ones to own the rare items or to get the last widget on the shelf. The more the scarcity of an item increases, the more the item increases in value, and the greater the urge to own it.

Whenever choice is limited or threatened, the human need to maintain a share of the limited commodity makes us crave it even more. Scarcity increases the value of any product or service. Scarcity drives people to action, making us act quickly for fear of missing out on an opportunity. Potentially losing something before we’ve even had an opportunity to possess it drives people to action. We don’t want to miss out on anything we could have had. We want to get around any restriction placed upon us. We feel uptight and want back our freedom. This causes tension and unrest. The Law of Scarcity not only pertains to physical products, but also to time, information, price, and knowledge.

Kalo yg berikut dari buku om pratkanis

Think about potatoes. Nothing special, right? There was a time in history (late 1700s) when potatoes were not a popular food. The French thought potatoes were connected with leprosy, the Germans thought they were nothing better than feed for livestock, and Russian peasants actually thought they were poisonous! Then Catherine the Great came along and turned potatoes into gold. She had high fences installed to enclose her potato fields. Signs dotted the land warning the Russian citizens not to steal her potatoes. With the potatoes suddenly off limits, they became the talk of the town! Imagine what those peasants were thinking as they watched those big, tall fences go up: ‘‘Why are they fencing in the potato fields? Why are the rich keeping the potatoes all to themselves? Why are we restricted to the same old beef stew every single day? We deserve potatoes, too! We need potatoes! Give us potatoes!”
A. Pratkanis and E. Aronson, Age of Propaganda (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1991)