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Now you can get the printed version of my book from Amazon. It took some time but it’s all ready.

Enjoy.

I’ve just made available a free download of the advantages of teleworking , part of my book Telework People.

Learn about how working away from the office, at home, a coffee shop or telecenter, can increase your productivity and make your life a healthier and happier one.

Get the free download now. I’m sure you’ll find quite interesting ideas.

Want to know how to use the Internet and your current skills to work away from the office and spend more time with your family?

In Telework People I’ll tell you how to do it.

Teleworking, or telecommuting, means doing your job away from the conventional office. It means working online. From anywhere.

You can earn much more money than you’re currently making by teleworking, but to do so you need to know a few tips and techniques I’ll share with you.

Get the book today for only US$ 22.22:

Update: You can now get the printed edition at Lulu.

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Who’s This Book For?

Everybody can telework! No matter if you are an employee, busy manager or entrepreneur. You can start teleworking today.

You will find useful advice and ideas in this book.

Forget about rush hour, endless meetings with a stressed boss or the annoying chit chat of the guys in the next cube.

You can telework from home, a coffee shop, a bench in the park and even from a plane 35,000 feet up!

Teleworking is about people, and that’s why I’ve included cases from people I know. Friends and colleagues all over the world.

You’ll also know what I’ve learned in the last eight years, while working happily from home, including my mistakes, so you won’t repeat them.

Grab a free sample of the book

What Does The Book Contain?

In this 140 page downloadable PDF book you’ll find:

• The benefits of teleworking
• Ideas for convincing your boss to let you work from home
• What you need to telework
• Jobs suitable for teleworking
• How to start
• How to manage an online team
• How to spend more time with your family
• How to avoid becoming a workaholic
• Real cases from my friends and colleagues in many countries
• Useful resources for teleworkers

Unconditional 60 Day Money Back Guarantee

If for any reason you think this book is not for you, you can get an immediate refund. No questions asked, just contact me and let me know.

How To Buy?

Telework People costs only US$ 22.22. You can buy using any major credit card or Paypal.

You will receive an email with a link to download the PDF once you complete your order.

Get the book and start teleworking, and changing the way you live and work, today.

Update: You can now get the printed edition at Lulu.

disponible en español

Despite being published in 2000, Steve Krug’s Don’t make me think is a great book covering the most important aspects of usability.

Believe me or not, I have just finished reading it for the third time. Steve offers us excellent ideas which you need to remember in a daily basis if you really are into web design. He has good jokes too (the donuts drawings in the first pages reminded me of many distracted customers I’d had).

You can read the book in one afternoon, he really applies the omit needless words concept here, one concept borrowed from Elements of Style and also mentioned by Stephen King in his excellent On Writing. The whole chapter on this subject is just a couple of pages.

I really like the way used by Steve to explain most usability concepts from the user perspective, specially the part in how users see a web page all blurred versus the way a designer hopes.

You can tell that Steve has been there when he talks about the religious debates arising between programmers, marketing people and designers when choosing certain interface elements .

But not everything is focused in design, Steve also talks about internal politics, which, as we all know, most of the times tie web developers hands.

There are many great resources online about usability, but Steve has made a great job of putting the most important issues in one easy to read package.

You should grab a copy of Don’t make me think even if you are not into web design, these concepts apply to many other fields too.

Get it, read it and let us know what you think about!

I have just read that Orson Scott Card sold the rights to produce a movie based in Ender’s Saga to Warner Bros.

The movie would be directed by Wolfgang Petersen and the script would be written by Dan Harris and Michael Dougherty, who wrote the X-Men 2 script.

I just hope they don’t spoil these fabulous novels.

I really enjoy reading science fiction, some time ago I bookmarked the list of all time Hugo award winners and decided I would read all the books in the list.

Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card was in my very long “to read list” for months, now I have finished the book and will comment about it in this post.

Note for the curious ones: I have also read the second book in the saga: Speaker for the Dead, and I will comment later.

Ender’s game is not your average sci-fi reading. Our hero is a boy: Andrew Wiggins, which is only five when you start reading, he is known as Ender because his sister, Valentine, mispronunced the name when she was a little child.

I have to admit my first thought was “this could be Harry Potter in space", but read on and you will see this is much more profound and dark than Rowling’s writing.

We, humans, are living in a distant future in planet Earth, over population is controlled and people is not allowed to have children without permission from the planetary goverment: The Hegemony of Man.

Human race have successfully resisted the invasion, some 80 years ago, of an alien race known as the buggers, insect like of course. It is known that buggers will attack again and we should be prepared, so the military start training children, yes, special and very intelligent children, to be fleet officials and be ready when the buggers attack again in the years to come.

Due to interstellar travel and light speed issues we still have some years until the second invasion arrives.

Ender is one of these special children, actually he is a “third", name given to the third child in a family. Not many families are allowed to have three children, but Ender’s older brothers, Peter and Valentine, which will have an important participation in the story, were also trained by the military, they had the potential and Ender’s parents we authorized to have a third child with the hope he would be a better “prospect” for training, indeed he is.

Scott Card narrative is intense, he submerges us in the mind of Ender, we suffer with him when he is sent to the military school, the way his companions see him, he has a great responsibility in his shoulders as you will see.

In the school Ender will learn to fight in space and command battle ships, he also will have to fight for his life. It is interesting to notice the video games and artificial intelligence references, this was written in 1985!

As every good sci-fi book, here we see a critic to human society and the way we, humans, behave when we don’t know all the answers to our problems.

Don’t expect big space action as in Heinlein’s Starship Troopers, but this a really great book in its own way.

The mistery about the buggers will keep you reading and a great, unexpected, final made me love the book.

We don’t see many writers, if any, which has won the Hugo in two consecutive years. Orson Scott Card got that in 1986 and 1987 with the first two novels in Ender’s saga.

I always see sci-fi as something more than aliens and space ships, Ender’s game has many references to religion and political questions, humankind future and the way, sometimes, our destiny is not completely in our hands.

A must read!