Yohei Nakajima

Author: Yohei

  • Why You Should Trust the Government

    It seems today that many people don’t trust the government, and for a good reason I guess. However, I’d like to propose that we do trust the government. Why? Because by not trusting the government and telling others not to, you’re making matters worse. The government, while it has many flaws, is set up so […]

  • What is mindfulness?

    Practicing mindfulness is not necessarily about putting aside time to meditate. It’s about learning to switch on-and-off your ability to live in the moment. Even if you have 1000 things to do at work, if you’ve set aside one hour to enjoy dinner with your friend, can you forget about work and engage fully with […]

  • 7 Simple Productivity Tips Backed By Science

    Here’s 7 productivity tips I like from the Buffer blog. Read the original article if you want to know more about any of these. For me, just simply glancing through the 7 key points is enough to inspire me. Help someone today – it will make you happier and more productive. Develop a daily routine. […]

  • Testing Facebook Ads

    I’m currently learning to test Facebook ads. I had a few ads run week, but they had horrible click thru rates (CTR), time to get aggressive with testing. Before I start just setting up ads like I did last week, this week I’m first documenting a logical process for doing this. So here we go: […]

  • Stats About Facebook Ads: Click-Thru Rates (CTR) & Cost Per Click (CPC)

    What’s a good Click Thru Rate (CTR) for Facebook ads? A CTR is calculated by dividing the number of times your ad has been shown to people (impressions), by the number of times people clicked on the ad. Optimal CTR: 0.11%-0.16% Above Avg CTR: 0.07%-0.09% Average CTR: 0.04%-0.05% Below Avg CTR: 0.02%-0.03% Poor CTR: 0.01% […]

  • This is my legacy.

    There are few defining moments in your life; I had one in college. It was in the Spring of 2007, I was the elected Social Activities Committee Chair at CMC, and was thinking back at party themes from my freshman year. I remembered the Pirate vs Ninja party vividly. It was at night, and there […]

  • Older Workers Should Continue to Learn and Teach More

    A recent study that analyzed 80,000 profiles on Stack Overflow found that older developers are more proficient than younger developers even in newer programming languages. They analyzed the reputation of answers on the Q&A site in different languages, and programmers apparently continued to have answers with better reputations, up until at least 50 years of […]

  • Alliterations ABC

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  • Productivity Methods & Techniques

    There are a number of what’s called productivity methods. The Pomodoro Technique is a personal productivity method that is very popular. Agile software development is a set of methodologies used by teams, very popular in the tech industry. Productivity methods are used to increase production, both in speed and quality. Common themes focus on better […]

  • I have $5. What is the best way to invest and grow my money? [via Quora]

    Every once i while, there’s a Quora answer that just blows your mind. This is one of them, I had to share: SOURCE: Investing: I have $5. What is the best way to invest and grow my money? I remember reading Tina Sellig’s (executive director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program) book- What I wish I knew when […]