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Self-Help

On Personal Betterment 33

December 16, 2011

Believe that you can get better; Just start getting better. Even tiny dosage of betterment is fine. Start with simplifying. Ask: do you have a personal betterment plan? Yes or no. If no, develop one; if yes, move forward. Get clear on your chief goals; Chief goals which are aligned with your personal betterment vision. [...]

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Stop Talking

December 8, 2011

Stop talking nonsense, at least. The problem with talkers is that they rarely go into the greater depth of the details. The programmer who replies, “We must go with MVVM pattern for this application because of (concrete) X, Y and Z reasonings, here’s the demo application that I created last week…” will be respected more [...]

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Dumb Vs. Clueless

December 7, 2011

Your crucifying client or your difficult programmer… probably are not dumb, probably just clueless. There’s a distinction between two. Every person takes actions based on their climate of opinions and the information at hand. If two people have the same climate of opinions and the same information, they’ll take same action, every time, given they’re [...]

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What Matters to You? Beiing Nice or Being Honest?

December 3, 2011

Few days ago, Rajesh Setty published a thought provoking article about blind spots. The article took me back in early 2008 when I attended Landmark Forum in which I was exposed to ‘distinction’ as a subject. Within just few days of completing Landmark Forum, not surprisingly I came across Rajesh’s blog while doing web-research on ways [...]

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Love the Starting Line (Regardless of the Attempts)

November 29, 2011

Maybe the worst result of a failed project is rebeginning the same. Going back to the starting line. Post failure, starting line seems like an infelicitous target. Very remote. Apparently. Think: if you’ve failed, if you’ve traveled the wrong path, does it make sense to keep chasing something down the wrong path? Isn’t the logical step [...]

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