Mouli's thoughts and musics over two decades
A great list of 20 tech habits, that can make you effective computer users. A lot of helpful advise here – ranging from telecommuting to automatic backups to reminder tools to password management. All in all, I think it is a good collection.
Read the full article here.
Warning: Annoying irritating PC world article, which splits the article into 4 pages, and you have to click ‘Next’ after every 5 habits. Grr.
I have been getting up fairly early in the last month or so; but I am not the happiest person for some time. I do get used to it – I keep thinking that, I can catch up on my lost sleep in my bus ride to work (which is about an hour). But the following article seems to suggest a much better way to cure morning blues. I am defenitely going to try this out. Out of te 5 points mentioned, I think the first one struck me the most – and which is what I am going to try out.
1. I get up easier. Ever since I’ve starting morning quiet times, I’ve been able to get up refreshed, without hitting the snooze, and ready to start the day bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. This is directly because my day doesn’t start with the grind. It starts with the knowledge that I have around an hour of my day dedicated to Me. That can change anyone’s perspective in the morning.
Check out the article here at lifedev.
All of us have been in these situations, where we have fought for a challenging project to be assigned to us. Now, we have it for ourselves. Hmm. Now what? How do we start? It slowly sinks into you that it is indeed a very challenging project, for a short time line. Some of us start feeling jittery even.
Lifedev.net has a great writeup, for just this sort of situation. Read on here.
The essence of the article is:
- Start small
- Make small timelines
- Frequently review the details
- Don’t sweat the details… yet.
- Think outside the box
- Think INSIDE the box
- Ask advice
Each one of these bullets is important – ones that we often tend to ignore in high-pressure situations.