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I’m George Appiah. Over the past 10 years, I’ve trained, coached, and helped hundreds of professionals leverage technology to design their ideal careers, grow their businesses, and live their dream lifestyles.
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You’re Good Enough: Just Step Forward And Share Your Gifts
Don’t let fear of failure or the feeling of not being good enough stop you from sharing your gifts with the world and profiting from it.
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No, I Didn’t Buy This $750,000 Property At Tower Hill Circle, Kingstowne, Virginia
I woke up one fine morning in January to see a notification from Google Alerts that I had purchased a $750,000 residential property at Tower Hill Circle, Kingstowne, Virginia. In Trump’s America! Later that same day I received a congratulatory email from a dear friend of mine in America, who had spotted the same home…
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Why and How Evernote Moved 3 Petabytes of Data to Google’s Public Cloud
How do you move an entire data center to the public cloud? And if you’re a SaaS provider like Evernote, how do you do all that safely, securely, and without your millions of active users even noticing? Here is a fascinating account of the why and how Evernote, the popular cross-platform note-taking app, moved their infrastructure from two…
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The State of the Family Address
We’re already 28 days into the new year. I thought it’d be fun to give a little update on what I’ve been up to, what’s going on in our little nest, and more importantly, what’s to come in the coming weeks and months. For fun, let’s call it the State of the Family Address. How…
My Newly Adopted Color: Rebecca Purple
Grandma was right: you should never judge a book by its cover. But the reality is, most of us pay no heed to grandma’s sound advice, and more often than not, we do judge a book solely by its cover. Therefore, as sellers of products and ideas, it’s essential that we pay as much attention…
TU Delft’s One Million MOOCs Enrollments
I recently received an email from TU Delft (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) celebrating 1 million enrollments in their MOOCs program — an effort to open education and allow learners from all around the world to gain access to TU Delft professors’ knowledge and expertise. One million enrollments is impressive, even by MOOCs standards. Equally…