Personal Blog of Carl Pei

The two heavyweight pioneers of modern computing; Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Apple Computer’s Steve Jobs sit down for a chat.

If you haven’t already watched it, it’s definitely a recommended watch!

[Via Engadget]

A few days ago, a member of my forum Teclasters, kabyraj17 (guiuser@hotmail.com), adds me on MSN. Key: T29 and T39 are products from Teclast. SkySports is a web seller of Teclast products, who told me he sent a free player to Kabyraj before.

Below is our conversation chatlog.
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There is a useful analogy that can be thought of and applied when dealing with people; the one of the cat and the string.

When holding a ball of yarn above the cat, teasing it, the cat will do anything in its power to try and get the yarn - out of its nature of curiosity. But when you finally decide to give the yarn to the cat, it will soon grow disinterested and walk away.

Human beings function in a similar way. We all want what we can’t have, and when we get it, we want something else.

Business function similarly. Supply and demand. High demand & low supply, as we all know, equals increased value.

This is a concept I very recently became familiar with. Basically, it’s about arousing desires, backing off, arousing more desires, and backing off. And repeat. Using this type of two steps forward, one step back methodology of constant teasing, you will be faced with much less resistance and will result in a faster speed and/or greater success in achieving your goals.

During the last couple of days, I have been experiencing with this, creatively applying the concept to different situations, and I can say (and without exaggerating), sometimes the results were absolutely amazing. At times, this method works like clockwork, flawlessly. Everything you anticipate happens and it all goes according to plan.

So if you are seeking to exert more influence and win people to your ways, try this out.

But just as a friendly warning, I would not recommend doing this online, as “backing off” will be pretty hard and awkward to do. In real life, you can back off using body language, speech or by literally moving away. On the internet, all you have is your keyboard.

I just got home from Barcelona yesterday. It has been hard work, but fun too. The days were packed with activities such as field studies and sightseeing, and the nights consisted of clubbing and tequila racing. As you perhaps can imagine, there wasn’t much time for sleep.

Over the next few days I will be taking it easy, recovering, so don’t expect a lot from me. I will post my April earnings.

Pictures and more details of the trip will come soon.

MyBlogLog is a nifty little service, but recently it has been getting on my nerves. I have three main reasons.

1. Concept. What is the actual concept of MyBlogLog? Whatever it is, I’m sure the thought was NOT to have people adding as many contacts and joining as many communities as possible in order to gain traffic. It’s starting to more and more seem like a bad idea.
2. It’s slow. This is very annoying. One of the main reasons I use MyBlogLog is to see the nice “Recent Readers” sidebar, it adds a nice, personal touch to the blog. Recently, it has been so slow that sometimes it might take up to 30 seconds to load. As internet connectivity and speed develops, people grow less and less tolerant to slow web sites. MyBlogLog is making my websites slow. If they don’t get faster servers anytime soon, I’ll stop using it.
3. It’s spyware. In its essence, MyBlogLog is spyware. Not much different from spyware that infect your computers, MyBlogLog tracks all click activity on pages where its code is inserted. They collect and save a large amount of data that they could do what they want with, perhaps sell to companies. If you want to use my info, provide a better service.

The only reason I’m still keeping it on my blog is because, as stated earlier, the Recent Readers widget. But don’t forget, there are other competing services offering a Recent Readers widget as well. I’ll give MyBlogLog one week.