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It’s not that Filipinos don’t want to have their own business. It’s because setting up (and closing) a legitimate business in the Philippines is complicated. It has been made easier in the past few years. In World Bank’s 2019 Doing Business Report, the Philippines ranked 124th out of 190 countries. In 2020, we jumped ... |
One of the things everyone looks forward to during the Christmas season is the food. Not me. As my wife says...I don't have an emotional relationship with food. For me, food is to fuel my body. Oh sure, I want it to taste good. I don't like eating brussel sprouts. They're gross. But I still eat them. I don't eat ... |
A couple months back as I rode with Lila the wind was howling from the north. It was a cross wind (which is better than a head wind) that makes riding no handed really hard. As soon as you take your hands off the bars the wind grabs the front tire and turns it sideways.I kept trying anyway. Lila (10) keeps wanting to t... |
This picture is from last August from the first bike race of the season.(this is relevant...I promise)Addie won the Varsity Girls race. No surprise. She's won every high school race she's been in except for State Championships. She works her butt off.<img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images... |
What Julia wrote will make you smile. ------------------ We Filipinos are more excited about Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve rather than Christmas and New Year’s Day. Christmas and New Year’s Day are when we sleep in. The real celebration happens the day before. Both celebrations start the same way. Early in the mo... |
In preparation for next year, we just updated our <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=bGN2azRxY2pnajI5OW1scXM3YjAyYjdwbWtAZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=bGN2azRxY2pnajI5OW1scXM3YjAyYjdwbWtAZ3JvdXAuY2F... |
Julia (my content OFS) offered me this: ------------- When people find out that I work for Onlinejobs.ph, they immediately ask me whether we have job openings. They ask because it’s known throughout the Philippine outsourcing industry that Onlinejobs.ph employees get 13th month pay. Not to brag, but we’re the envy of... |
My daughter usually plugs her AirPods in the kitchen so she doesn't forget them in the morning when she leaves for school. This morning: "Where are my AirPods?" <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/e1c7422e-7c1a-4c0b-dc89-bf7ff6f508dd.jpg" width="360" height="480" data-file-id="473524" ... |
In the US, there’s this long-standing friendly debate among family about when Christmas is allowed to start. In my family, we start the day after Halloween. That’s when it’s acceptable to play Christmas music. Often my wife puts up her Christmas decorations in early November. This year has been a steady stream of deco... |
Hopefully you're reading this on Christmas Eve, December 24. If so, recognize that it's Christmas Day in the Philippines because they're ahead of you (Except if you live in Australia...then you don't do any conversion...). Today is a good day to send them an email wishing them Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays or wha... |
Where I live in the US (I live in Utah), the week between Christmas and New Years is relaxed. People are off work. People get together with family. People stay home. I go skiing. Generally, traffic is less because offices are closed. Unless of course, you're going to a Mall (who does that anymore???) or to Walmart (w... |
Have you ever noticed how we name things after landmarks? Where I live there are mountains all around. Mt. Timpanogos Lone Peak Mount Olympus Twin Peaks There are tons of businesses, parks, traditions, cemeteries...named after these mountains. Does that happen where you live also? In the Philippines, it's Rizal. J... |
When I was in high school, I made a new group of friends. The first time we hung out we were going out to dinner. This is right after school and I didn’t have any money. So, they decide they were going out to dinner and I told them, “I can’t go with you guys, I’m sorry. I don’t have any money.” One of them said, “Th... |
The first time I hired someone in the Philippines it was "easy". I told the agency who I wanted and they came back a few days later with my VA. He lasted a couple days before he said "Sorry Sir, I don't know anything and can't do this job." He quit. The agency apologized profusely and then provided me someone else. ... |
Short email just to update you. Typhoon Rai is pounding the Philippines right now. <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=typhoon+rai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://duckduckgo.com/?q=typhoon+rai</a> <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=typhoon+rai"><img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/ima... |
If you didn't know, the Philippines just had a super typhoon come through. Here's what I know. In the US we call it Typhoon Rai. In the Philippines it's called Typhoon Odette. They call it a typhoon. We call it a hurricane. This was like a category 5 hurricane. The death toll is 200+. There are cities where there... |
It depends on where your OFS lives. To be more specific, it depends on who runs the power distribution center. Here’s some context. Back in the 1990’s, the Philippines experienced a power crisis. To address it, their government started privatizing the power industry to introduce investments and upgrade the country’s i... |
When I was just starting my business, I didn’t have time to hire someone to help me. I just bought a house. I had a brand new baby. I had a fledgling business. I needed the business to grow because I didn’t want to go back to working for someone else. I also knew that I could do more if I just had someone to help me... |
My "New Years Resolution" started last August. I needed to be more understanding of my teenage daughters. I started working on it. Started praying for help. Started reading a book about it. It's working! We all start the year with the best intentions. We want to be better versions of ourselves. But studies show tha... |
"I'd just feel more comfortable hiring someone you or your team recommends" Yes...yes you would... But...I can’t recommend someone for you. Nothing personal. I don’t give recommendations to anybody. If you ask other business owners, they’re not giving referrals either. Why? Because once we find a great OFS, we hir... |
In December, Typhoon Odette decimated the central Philippines. I've seen dozens of typhoons affect my workers since 2005. I've never seen anything like Odette. Destruction like this doesn't happen that often...but it does happen. The Philippines is visited by an average of around 20 typhoons per year. They also get ... |
We’re finally at that point where things are somewhat going back to normal. Yes, Omicron is raging, but we’re close to getting back to the lives we had before we ever heard of Covid. Kids are in school. Travel is opening up (depending on the day...) We've all realized remote work is good. Now’s the best time to hire ... |
I love to ski. My wife...not so much. Part of it for her is just fear. What if I'm cold? What if I get hurt? What if it's not fun? At some point she has made mistakes (we all do) and each of those things have happened to her. On occasion, it has stopped her from going with me. Like this day: <img src="https://mc... |
When Filipinos talk about their neighborhood, they often refer to the barangay, the Philippines' smallest political and administrative unit. Barangay comes from the Malay word balangay, a boat used by the Austronesian people when they migrated to the Philippines. They travel in groups like the boats at the end of the... |
I HATE when I solve a problem and the problem keeps coming up over and over again. Like passwords with my kids. "Dad, what's my password?" ARE YOU SERIOUS!!! We've saved this password to LastPass. I've told you to get LastPass on your phone. Why? Just why!?!? This is what they look like when this happens: <img sr... |
Last week after an amazing day of skiing, my 8yr old had a rough last run down the mountain: <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/47c90239-43bd-0f3a-3537-3383f04ef657.jpg" width="480" height="360" data-file-id="473588" data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f... |
I understand why many business owners prefer to have their OFS work in their timezone. It's just more convenient. You don't have to worry about things like scheduling meetings and whatnot. There's also the added benefit of monitoring your OFS work hours. The first time I hired someone the agency said "Do you want the... |
I'm not a big holiday person. Halloween...my least favorite day of the year. Valentines day? Thursday. St Patricks day? Huh? I'm just not a big celebration kind of guy. I just can't get into it. For me, the only reason I even know Chinese New Year is happening is because of my team in the Philippines. It's a big d... |
People ask me regularly who writes this email. 2 people: - Julia, my OFS: <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/a89a3fc5-af4d-4a4d-eb43-63a22a897f88.jpg" width="200" height="200" align="none" data-file-id="473608" data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/im... |
Well...I was going to talk about background checks, but then I read what my OFS wrote for this email: "No background check beats doing the work yourself." I laughed. Out loud. My OFS gets it! We’re so used to background checks here in the US it’s impossible to think that there are places in the world that don’t do ... |
OFS = Online Filipino Specialist. I invented it because I don't like the term VA. People think a VA is a secretary. Someone who can only do mundane tasks. Someone who doesn't really have skills. Someone who can do data entry. Someone who can only follow step by step instruction and nothing else. ...that's not who yo... |
It seems like there’s news about another hack or data breach every other week. Big companies have their security breached, and information from millions of users or employees is leaked online. I used to worry about it with my team. But then I realized that worry was making me less money because I was less good at pus... |
In 2004 I figured something out I hoped the rest of the world would never figure out. I had quit my job (the only job I ever had, I worked there for 8 months right out of college) and was working from home. I worked my butt off. My wife was also at home with our little child and she started inviting me to go on walk... |
My OFS Julia writes: ----------------------- In the Philippines, there’s this custom called “Bayanihan” (pronounced as buy-uh-nee-hun), where people come together to lend a helping hand. It’s more than just people helping each other out. It’s about working together as a community. Bayanihan is what makes the Philippin... |
On Facebook, I (and by "I" I mean my OFS) get occasional comments from business owners who say they’ve tried outsourcing who insist that there aren’t any talented workers in the Philippines. “I’ve been outsourcing for years. Workers in the Philippines are crap! They’re only good for data entry jobs.” At the same time... |
In a <a href="/why-natural-disasters-happen-regularly-in-the-philippines/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="/why-natural-disasters-happen-regularly-in-the-philippines/">previous email, I mentioned that the Philippines is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire</a>, that’s why they have a lot of active volca... |
The first time I hired a designer I was actually hiring a programmer. This was 2007 and I didn't really know what I was doing. I just knew that I had found a really good programmer, and he also said he was a designer! I thought I had just struck gold! <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/im... |
My wife came home from the gym the other day: "I got there at 9:15 and there were a bunch of parking spots. Just 3 weeks ago I couldn't even park on the street because so many people were there! Oh, how quickly people give up on their New Years resolutions." New Years Resolutions are a sorry thing. I stopped doing th... |
I love getting useful tips from other employers. I just got one from Vin Carrano when he responded to my email about <a href="/how-to-handle-passwords-with-your-ofs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="/how-to-handle-passwords-with-your-ofs/">using LastPass with my OFS</a>. It turns out he was using L... |
My son came home from college this past weekend. He's having the time of his life. He skied 4 times the past week. <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/daeb25bd-bfa2-e983-1518-bb0f709f246c.jpg" width="383" height="480" data-file-id="473660" data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/... |
Over the past 2 years it has become more and more apparent to me that I need help. For a long time I ran OnlineJobs.ph. I managed the developers. I thought through features. I thought through solutions. I pushed projects forward. I reminded people of their pending tasks. I kept track of things. And...I still run Onl... |
I've said before that I'm not a holiday/celebration kind of guy. Halloween is my least favorite day of the year. Valentines day is up there with it. I know not everyone feels this way...but for me... Yuck! But this email is more about relationships than it is about Valentines day and I found it quite interesting...... |
Did you know that the Philippines actually has two official languages: Filipino and English? I didn't really realize this until I went there in 2009 (my first...and only time there). I was so surprised that I took pictures while in Manila: <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/1ac4f5db-e... |
I got this question through my Facebook page: “Do you experience high turnover among Filipino Remote workers? We have gone through at least 30 of them in the last 3 years despite providing 13th-month bonus, health insurance, and higher wage than if they were to work through a staff agency company. We also do daily hud... |
I realized recently that I'm sarcastic with my kids. Too often I joke with them by being hard on them or making fun of them. It's not good. I had to take a step back and change my approach. Just be nice. I'm working on it...I fear it's a long road. One of the things people call me out on is that I’m too nice to my... |
Another Philippines holiday? Already? If I look at my calendar it feels like we (in the USA) have about one holiday per month. It feels like the Philippines has about 1 per week! They don't. But sometimes it feels that way. Tomorrow, Feb 25 is one of those days. The EDSA Revolution Anniversary commemorates the s... |
A while back I sent a newsletter about <a href="/a-terrible-video-published-by-my-ofs/">how my OFS had published a video that was horribly edited</a>. The video started mid-sentence, had no context, and was just a bad edit. <span style="font-weight: 400;">Yet, someone else (who didn’t do the edit) still published it... |
I think most people who have raised teenagers will agree that it's hard. There's almost always something that you don't see eye to eye about and the teenage years is when they're willing to push back. Right now we're having this about an iPhone. My 14yr old wants an iPhone and we don't want her to have one. Phones.... |
I have a lot of talented people around me. Not just in the Philippines, but at home and at church and with family. I keep telling my wife and kids that I'm consistently surprised at the talent of the people around me. There's a lot of talent I don't have...but others do. I’m not alone in this. Just a few days ago, ... |
I talked about this in a previous newsletter on how<a href="/already-given-up-on-your-new-years-resolutions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="/already-given-up-on-your-new-years-resolutions/"> SMART goals help make changes happen</a>. My daughters and I recently finished planning their race season ... |
Ruben Kanya runs a successful podcast and agency doing $20,000+/month. He's super accomplished, and it shows in his work. His clients notice the quality and amount of work. They often ask how he manages to produce all that content and run an agency simultaneously. They don't realize it's his VAs doing the work. Rube... |
Getting poor work back from my team has been one of the pitfalls of turning tasks 100% over to my OFS. At times it has been really frustrating. When something gets left undone and it seems so obvious to me, I get frustrated. And I wasn't sure how to fix this...until now. About a month ago I wrote about <a href="/a-... |
I just got this email from Brian Wallace. He runs a small-IT company based in Miami. He’s interested in hiring an OFS for his business but is having trouble finding them. “Any tips or approaches on finding more specialized experts in technical areas? In my case it’s tech support, network engineering, the cloud - AWS &... |
Here's what "Clean up your play mess" looks like to an 8 year old boy: <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/79ac4de5-df15-9a4a-b794-e163faebde53.jpg" width="480" height="360" data-file-id="473720" data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/79ac4de5-df... |
This is the first email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes do mindless work. In the Philippines, fear often has the opposite effect as what you might expect. If you fear failure you’re likely to make more effort, do more, try harder. In the Philippines, it’s often the opposite. Fear says to them to do as litt... |
This is the 2nd email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes do mindless work. If you’ve never heard about Hofstede’s <a href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=power+distance+index" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://duckduckgo.com/?q=power+distance+index">Power distance Index</a>, it’s worth looki... |
This is the 3rd email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes work mindlessly. This one is often your (the employer) fault. Often, quantity is more visible than quality. An OFS knows that you’re going to see how many support tickets they responded to but you’re unlikely to see how well they responded. You're going... |
This is the 4th email in a series of 5 about why OFS sometimes work mindlessly. Laziness. Sometimes, people just get lazy. Sometimes, this just happens. Some say the rising generation is lazy. Sometimes the work lends itself to laziness. Sometimes it happens as an OFS gets more comfortable with the work. For a lot, ... |
This is the 5th email of 5 about <a href="/why-your-ofs-sometimes-work-mindlessly-and-how-to-change-it-2/">why OFS sometimes work mindlessly</a>. Surprisingly, I had quite a few different people talk about family with regards to mindless work. Like, when they don’t feel like they’re part of a family, they don’t care ... |
My previous 5 newsletters have described cultural reasons <a href="/why-your-ofs-sometimes-work-mindlessly-and-how-to-change-it-2/">why OFS sometimes work mindlessly</a>. Today is about solutions. When I asked my team why this problem exists, I didn't ask for solutions, I just sought to understand the problem. A bun... |
My newsletters from the past 2 weeks have taken a lot of work. They're all about<a href="/why-your-ofs-sometimes-work-mindlessly-and-how-to-change-it-2/"> why OFS sometimes work mindlessly (their thoughts) and how to prevent it (their ideas)</a>. Today is some of my personal experiences. A couple of solutions I’ve tr... |
I recently sent out a newsletter about hiring Filipino students. In that email, I discouraged hiring full-time Filipino students because they would need to prioritize their education. A college education is a big deal in the Philippines. If they don’t get that degree, they’ll never hear the end of it from their family... |
Bob Shape sent me a message through Facebook a few weeks back and showed me a YouTube Video: <a href="https://youtu.be/xSPRM7sFrz4" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://youtu.be/xSPRM7sFrz4">Adventures in Employment (in the Philippines)</a>. <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de... |
My daughter who is a Junior in High School just took the ACT. Yuck. It's interesting that High School prepares you to take standardized tests. It doesn't prepare you to work a real job. And...come to think of it, neither does a college degree. Yes, it helps you. Yes, it teaches you to think. Yes, it prepares you t... |
Everyone says VAs can't meet with clients. "They'll mess things up." "Clients won't like it." "Clients will see the insides of your business, and they won't want to work with you." None of this is true. Ruben sent me this video recently and talked about the misconception that VAs can only do back-end work...they c... |
About a month ago I made Joven the manager of <a href="http://OnlineJobs.ph">OnlineJobs.ph</a>. He's managing and coordinating our design/dev/QA/marketing teams. Was he always capable of this? Heck no!!! I hired Joven in 2005. In 2007 he told me "Sir, when I started working for you I knew nothing! I was so scared y... |
Here's some Philippines culture we don't often talk about. Training a new employee in the Philippines is such an ingrained part of the culture that they have an acronym for it and government backing for it: OJT On-the-Job Training It's so prevalent in the Philippines that I've had applicants ask me "Is there OJT fo... |
Yesterday I talked about how training is so important for your OFS. - It shows you care about them - It shows you care about their success - It shows you care about your own business success - It sets expectations - It sets the stage for future work deliverables - It creates rock star OFS If you don’t want to create ... |
There are four (4) Philippine holidays this April. I know, it’s a lot. That’s why I’m sending out this email early, so you guys can get ready for what’s ahead. The first one would be Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) which falls on April 9 (Saturday). It’s a regular holiday (day off work, with pay if you're on salar... |
My newsletter regularly gets read by 20,000+ people. I get good, kind, insightful responses from people every day. But this one was nasty. Lisa responded to my email last week with: So, as a teacher, I completely disagree with your assessment of school. It absolutely does not just prepare you to take tests and give... |
I've written about how expensive it is to ship to the Philippines. But I understand how important it is to send something to your OFS to make them feel like they're part of the family. That's exactly what Danny had in mind when he sent me this email. Hi John, When we bring on staff or contractors in the U.S., we ofte... |
I’ve mentioned before that buying electronics and computers in the Philippines can be more expensive than buying them here in the US. But just how expensive is it? Let me give you a scenario. One of my OFS, Jam, likes Apple products. He’s been thinking about getting a new iPhone, and the one that caught his eye is th... |
I’m happy when I get thank you emails from business owners. But it warms my heart when I get emails from people who make it their life’s work to make the world a better place. “I do my podcast in the day "my time." He edits it and uploads it in the day "his time”, and it is ready to go in the morning I want it posted... |
I grew up near the beach in California. I grew up wearing flip flops. But it wasn't a cultural thing like it is in the Philippines. Filipinos really love their flip-flops. My OFS, Julia, explains why. ----- Like other Asian countries, we take off our shoes here in the Philippines before going inside the house. Once... |
The tropical storm "Agaton" entered the Philippines over the weekend. <a href="https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1581329/fwd-agaton-weakens-into-tropical-depression" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1581329/fwd-agaton-weakens-into-tropical-depression">https://newsinfo.inquir... |
Every once in a while, my OFS team and I talk about our kids. Most of mine are older than most of theirs...but not all. I have 5, with a 19yr old and an 8 year old. That's a big span. My OFS Julia mentioned recently that her daughter would be starting high school this year. I thought this was kind of weird because I k... |
Ah yes, the 80/20 principle. Everyone has heard of it... 20% of the work produces 80% of results. It's true in almost everything we do. I worked all year to get my 8yr old to like skiing. - I made him ski almost every Saturday - I got him good skis - I let him pick the runs we ski - I forced him to ski steep gnarly... |
Should you be providing health insurance to your OFS? Here in the US, having health insurance is required. But it's not required for companies to provide it. In the Philippines, it's not legally required. Private health insurance is a perk for businesses that can afford it. However, Philippine companies must get th... |
Once upon a time I commuted to work. I was fresh out of college and rode my moped to work, 30 minutes each way. It only lasted 8 months. I quit the job and have worked at home running my own businesses ever since. I don't really know the pain of commuting. Others do. Before my OFS, Julia worked for me she worked ... |
Our last inbounds ski day was last week. Instead of being a warm spring day (like normal in late April), it was a stormy winter day. I loved it! I got some feedback from my wife: "I'm a fair weather skier! I don't like winter storms!" This is our 8yr old who got to ski with some older friends on the last day of the... |
If you're in the US, Daylight Saving time started a few weeks ago (unless you live in Hawaii or Arizona). Never really been a fan myself. In the summer months it doesn't get dark until 9:45pm at my house. Try putting kids to bed when it's light outside. It's almost a revolt every night. DST also bugs me because ti... |
Health insurance...yuck. This is one of my least favorite topics. If we (in the US) thought of it as an insurance product rather than as a charity that "must" pay for our health costs it would probably be different... ...but I don't want to get political here. I want to talk about the Philippines. One of the perks ... |
On May 9, 2022 (Monday), the Philippines will be holding a general election for the executive and legislative branches of the national and local government. What does this mean? It means that on May 9, the Philippines will be electing a new president. It also means that on May 9, your OFS may ask to take a day off. ... |
I spent last weekend in Fayetteville Arkansas at a bike race for my daughter. It was an important lead-up race to mountain bike national championships which are in July. Friends kept taking pictures of Addie on the big screen which they had at the start/finish line as she moved up in the race. <img src="https://mcuse... |
My favorite thing to do outside is to ski in the backcountry. It's exhilarating and requires both physical and mental strength and awareness. Last week we skied 3 steep lines of fresh powder. <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/2a17a46c-1dfb-c612-36dc-7bfb21e91d6e.jpg" width="480" heigh... |
I previously talked about how<a href="/how-to-help-your-ofs-progress-in-life/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="/how-to-help-your-ofs-progress-in-life/"> training can help your OFS improve your life and business</a>. After I sent out that newsletter, Billy responded. He talked about how he empowered... |
This is going to be weird. After I sent out the newsletter about balikbayan boxes, I got a great response from Edward. His wife is from the Philippines, so they regularly send balikbayan boxes to her relatives in the Philippines. He had a lot of good tips that I want to share with you if you ever plan to send a box to... |
Earlier this week I talked about<a href="/how-to-handle-security-and-manage-risk-with-an-ofs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="/how-to-handle-security-and-manage-risk-with-an-ofs/"> security with OFS</a>. Let's go a little deeper. Like, deep into your business with a bookkeeper. They're likely to ... |
I've always been driven by freedom. It's a primary motivator for me. Time freedom. Money freedom. Responsibility freedom. I always work towards systems which will provide me freedom. Like, if there’s a task that takes too much time I either outsource it or say no to it completely. Or, if there's a business opportuni... |
This email probably should have happened 2 weeks ago, but that's not how the Philippines does it. May 3rd was Eid'l Fitr or the end of Ramadan. It was a regular holiday in the Philippines (full day off for almost everyone). But they didn't announce it was a day off until two days before. I try to keep you updated on... |
There's some big stuff happening in my life and in the Philippines. 1. Philippines elections happened last week. This is a big deal, electing a new president. I started getting texts Monday night from my team about the outcome. More to come about this. 2. I'm taking my family to Europe (tomorrow) to ride bikes. We'... |
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... Sorry...I missed May the 4th. I went skiing. Deep powder. <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/fcdac5c2-12e5-7b37-844f-6f290241880a.jpg" width="480" height="448" data-file-id="473916" data-cke-saved-src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212... |
My OFS, Jamie, sent me this link last week. It’s a news article from the American Journal of Transportation, and it mentions Onlinejobs.ph as one of the websites last-mile carriers use to help them with their labor shortage. <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/de12c91c-8c74-a0fb-d0fa-e... |
Filipinos don’t want to steal data. In my opinion, you’re more likely to have your data stolen by someone who’s working with you in your office. I know it’s a pretty bold claim. I have no empirical data to support this, just anecdotal, so you can take everything I’ve said here with a grain of salt. But in the 17-plu... |
I haven’t been in Paris for about 10 years. The last time I was here we saw all the big tourist sights. Notre Dame, Versailles, Eiffel Tower, Catacomsbs, sewers, museums, Seine… This time…not so much. I have my 5 kids with me. They weren’t interested in going into the Louvre. Notre Dame is closed for rebuilding (after... |
The Philippines just concluded its elections and it looks like Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. is going to win. This was a really controversial election for them. Emotions are running high because there’s so much history with his family. Some are really happy about the results and some are really bummed about it. If you don't ... |
We’re on day 4 of 30 as we passed through the gates of the medieval city of Provins. I wondered what life must have been like 1000 years ago for the people here. <img class="CToWUd a6T" tabindex="0" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/gRv3zuc-UU-GlJo9vyBF1hAoS4SSJVCJSvsTp1IxiNVRZRd77p2USnPHW_HiAoX3lS9xdxAiwst... |
I’m currently on a mini-retirement like Tim Ferris talks about in the 4 Hour Work Week. We started in Paris and cycled east. We moved into Germany and the Black Forest: <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/_compresseds/e2916009-5d56-5324-9146-61551209eea8.jpeg" width="480" height="360" data-f... |
When we arrived at the Paris airport I really thought we were making a scene. 7 people, 5 bike bags, an obvious family all walking in a line together: <img src="https://mcusercontent.com/4bdbf922212cd053de282f27f/images/09c7ae01-569e-6fb0-4d96-73bd27be6170.jpeg" width="480" height="480" data-file-id="474000" data-cke-s... |
We do big projects all the time. These big projects can be improvements to <a href="http://Onlinejobs.ph" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-href="http://Onlinejobs.ph">Onlinejobs.ph</a>. Or when I launch new products like <a href="http://OutsourcingLever.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-cke-saved-hr... |
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