Folks,
Hope you are doing fine and getting prepared for Diwali vacation. I am already on vacation ... not signing for any program till end of this month from tomorrow onwards. Want to work on my portal and getting it ready at the earliest.
Guess some of you might be upset with me as I was not able to respond to your mails/calls in the past few days. Extremely sorry for that. You know, I can not erase the past but at least I will try not to repeat it. I attribute my lack of communication with the loads of work that I had to clear. Not sure if you believe it or not, but I slept only for 3 hours a day on an average in the month of October so far. I had assignments Mon to Fri in Bangalore and Sat & Sun in Chennai. Its all preparation, travel, classes and nothing else :-)
Fine, I trust you do not need any more explanation to believe me.
How are the things moving at your place? I hear that many of you have been allocated to projects or being called for interviews. As expected, I found that few of you are asked to work on technologies that you never worked on earlier. Its the way of life. Lets face it. Especially when the rest of the industry is facing severe uncertainty, you should be more careful at accepting/rejecting the offers made to you, whatever it may be. I must say that you are really fortunate to be with your organization at this point of time. The trees that are flexible survive rough whether, not the tall or bulky ones. Learn to be flexible and align with the organizational goals. Whoever listen to the needs of the organization are the ones who will be listened to when they are in need. Support your management and customers. Sometimes, we may not get what we may like, but once we develop affection to what we do, we like every thing that comes in our way.
Apart from emotional preparation, you will have to prepare well in handling new technologies when you are on the project. The ways may be different for learning different technologies. However, the underlying theme is always this: Learn by doing mistakes and questioning every statement. Never look for handholding. By questioning the statements made, you are not denying them rather you are trying to understand them from different perspectives. By doing mistakes you are not failing, rather you are trying to understand which of your assumptions are wrong.
Another common way of quickly learning a new technology is by sharing your learning and discussions. Try to share whatever you learn to the other person; the questions that he/she asks would stir up new thoughts in you ... which leads to wholesome understanding of the technology. By discussion, you can quicken the learning.
I am sure you all know it ... there is nothing new in what I am saying. However, I wish my words make you more conscious in whatever you are doing.
I have learned a great deal of AJAX and its related technologies in the past few weeks. I say, confidently, that I know more now, compared to what I know a month back. How can it be other way around when I have people like you?
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Specially for my students at Sasi
Folks,
Hope you are doing fine and remember me. I am fine and enjoying nice weather at Bangalore :-)
It has been long since I spoke to many of you. As I have said many times earlier, you all have a special place in my heart (not just in career) as you were my first few students and you have tremendous influence on the way I live since met you people. Being busy at work I am not able to spend time for you, otherwise I never forget you wonderful kids.
Hope your studies are going well. While I never subscribe to the idea of focusing only on studies, we all know, that your performance at studies make or break your other dreams. It may look like I am repeating, but let me say it once again: do not study only for the sake of marks. Try to understand the big picture and relate what you are learning to that picture. Nothing in this world exist in isolation. Everything is related to every other thing ... directly or indirectly ... some times very tightly and some times fragile. Your syllabus pressure may not allow you to look into other sources of information, but whenever you get a chance, see if you can get the other perspectives on the topics that you are working on. For example, when you read a Java text book, it may talk about all of its virtues, but get in insight from who actually uses Java and try to understand its short comings and other alternatives as well. Only then you can really know what is Java. This is just an example.
I guess every other person you meet may give you a lecture on studies. Why again I should bother you? Let me tell you about what I am doing.
Ever since I returned to Bangalore from Tadepalligudem, I have been shaping myself as a corporate trainer and consultant. After spending few months with you, I found that I am more useful to this world as a teacher/trainer/mentor rather than as a manager or corporate person. I told you that you have strong influence on my current life. Of course, I am passionate about technology but now I am equally enjoying in training others in technology. Frankly, I do not want to make it as a career for money. But you know, I am not that rich and I will have to do it for few more years :-) Once I find other avenues for financial resources, I would like to carry this as a social commitment. I am currently aiming to build a business around technology in the next couple of years. Let me see how far I will succeed in it.
Recently I have worked with few engineers from IFlex and Polaris. One profound observation is that many of the successful people who made it into good positions at various organizations are actually from rural and semi-urban areas. They are not born city dwellers or having English speaking parents. Yet, they are no less self-confident, self-driven, self-critics than others. I hope you cultivate those personal strengths and bring good name and fame to your parents, teachers and whom ever you love.
Thats all for now. Drop a mail in your free time. I will keep writing to you whenever I have something to share with you. I am not having the mail-id of all the people whom I wish you to contact. I am posting this mail to my blog with the hope that it reaches them as well on one fine day.
Hope you are doing fine and remember me. I am fine and enjoying nice weather at Bangalore :-)
It has been long since I spoke to many of you. As I have said many times earlier, you all have a special place in my heart (not just in career) as you were my first few students and you have tremendous influence on the way I live since met you people. Being busy at work I am not able to spend time for you, otherwise I never forget you wonderful kids.
Hope your studies are going well. While I never subscribe to the idea of focusing only on studies, we all know, that your performance at studies make or break your other dreams. It may look like I am repeating, but let me say it once again: do not study only for the sake of marks. Try to understand the big picture and relate what you are learning to that picture. Nothing in this world exist in isolation. Everything is related to every other thing ... directly or indirectly ... some times very tightly and some times fragile. Your syllabus pressure may not allow you to look into other sources of information, but whenever you get a chance, see if you can get the other perspectives on the topics that you are working on. For example, when you read a Java text book, it may talk about all of its virtues, but get in insight from who actually uses Java and try to understand its short comings and other alternatives as well. Only then you can really know what is Java. This is just an example.
I guess every other person you meet may give you a lecture on studies. Why again I should bother you? Let me tell you about what I am doing.
Ever since I returned to Bangalore from Tadepalligudem, I have been shaping myself as a corporate trainer and consultant. After spending few months with you, I found that I am more useful to this world as a teacher/trainer/mentor rather than as a manager or corporate person. I told you that you have strong influence on my current life. Of course, I am passionate about technology but now I am equally enjoying in training others in technology. Frankly, I do not want to make it as a career for money. But you know, I am not that rich and I will have to do it for few more years :-) Once I find other avenues for financial resources, I would like to carry this as a social commitment. I am currently aiming to build a business around technology in the next couple of years. Let me see how far I will succeed in it.
Recently I have worked with few engineers from IFlex and Polaris. One profound observation is that many of the successful people who made it into good positions at various organizations are actually from rural and semi-urban areas. They are not born city dwellers or having English speaking parents. Yet, they are no less self-confident, self-driven, self-critics than others. I hope you cultivate those personal strengths and bring good name and fame to your parents, teachers and whom ever you love.
Thats all for now. Drop a mail in your free time. I will keep writing to you whenever I have something to share with you. I am not having the mail-id of all the people whom I wish you to contact. I am posting this mail to my blog with the hope that it reaches them as well on one fine day.
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