From better to best

I am about to finish reading Marshall Goldsmith's What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. A really amazing book, one of the best that I have read in the self improvement category. The book lays down simple rules that will enable an individual to improve his/her interpersonal skills, thereby making them all the more successful in their jobs as well as family relationships. The book really struck a cord in me.

Baby Shower

Spent the Christmas with my cousins in St Louis. Maushi had arranged for Tanu's Baby Shower as well. Was lots of fun and ate lots of desi food. And oh yeah, we did get lots of baby stuff as gifts, so that saves me some green :)

Slumdog millionaire - zhaakaas

We watched Slumdog Millionaire , an awesome movie. Really loved the concept. The movie has been nominated for Oscars and I hope it wins it. Can't believe the director is British who has captured the slum life so well. I really wish Bollywood came up with sensible movies like this one.

The next book to buy

The next book that I really want to buy is Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective . Looks like a undergraduate level book, but seems to be a great reference guide.

Haste leads to Waste

I was pondering on the year 2008 and thinking about all the problems that we all saw during this year. One common thing that struck me was that most of these problems were caused due to "Haste".

1) The financial markets have got ruined due to the "haste" in making money.
2) Have realized that most of the software projects fail due to the "haste" of getting them done. Haste in the software context is pretty expensive since the software does not work the way it is desired to work and the firm ends up wasting unnecessary amount of time and money.
3) Relationships break up, because people "haste" into them without giving a complete thought.

I hope we all learn from this and "Measure twice and cut once".