juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 25, 2009, 8:49 pm
The book ‘Fool’s Gold’ is the detailed story about those innovative financial products which caused the credit crisis. The book is written by Gillian Tett, an extremely competent writer from the...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 23, 2009, 9:45 pm
Last weekend I updated my profile picture with an avatar. I am consolidating my presence in the Internet and having an avatar is a fun way to be recognized while remaining anonymous. Increasing one’...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 20, 2009, 8:36 pm
Two new branches in economics called behavioral economics and neuroeconomics attempt to explain the recent financial calamity. To explain briefly, the crisis is due to old thinking patterns that exist...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 19, 2009, 6:19 pm
From: http://www.wordle.net/ I assessed my modest investments in stocks, Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) and unit trusts today. Mainly to see if I have enough to pay for my kids college education. The re...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 18, 2009, 7:47 pm
At my age one can’t avoid worrying about the future, about life, about family and about one’s kids. Anxiety and dread fills you that one has an urge to compensate by the easiest thing possible. Of...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 17, 2009, 5:50 am
During the weekend I watched most of the DVDs I borrowed from the library as well as finished reading overdue books by Rummler-Brache and an excellent tome on old houses. I watched a documentary on th...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 10, 2009, 8:52 pm
We got our permanent resident cards today. It’s the final step in settling here. I expressed my thanks to the lawyers and staff that made it possible. For most people, this would be the happiest mom...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 6, 2009, 9:03 pm
I am amazed that I missed reading the works on process and performance improvement during the 1980’s and 90’s. During that time I was interested in subjects like Alvin Toffler’s ‘Future Shockâ...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 3, 2009, 6:12 pm
I am again bored at work with nothing to do but procrastinate. I attended a training session this morning on wireless communication. It was informative. The speaker is an interesting geek who uses Lat...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Nov 2, 2009, 8:52 pm
I have been pondering about the many changes happening in the company in recent years. I had always thought that the changes were influenced by recent trends in information technology. For example, th...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 28, 2009, 8:58 pm
Last night I continued reading Nick Daws CD writing course. There where some interesting ideas. I think that I will not enroll in a formal writing course because there are a lot of low cost alternativ...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 26, 2009, 10:25 pm
Last weekend we went to Flat Rock, North Carolina. We visited Connemara – Carl Sandburg’s home in the last phase of his life. It’s a great place and looks like a poor man’s version of Vanderbi...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 24, 2009, 8:40 am
I attended a meeting in the morning where we discussed highly technical stuff. It was a file mapping meeting and discussions where about things like canonical and concatenation and field length and bu...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 22, 2009, 9:59 pm
What do you do if you have nothing to do? I stifled the urge to surf the Internet although I did surf for a few minutes. I try to limit myself to less than 5 minutes so I won’t leave a large footpri...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 20, 2009, 7:51 pm
My head is a bit woozy these days. I am not sure if it’s the cold weather. The car windshield was frosted for the past 2 mornings and the climate is winter like about 40-50 F. We closed the window i...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 16, 2009, 8:44 pm
Yesterday I presented the functional design to the business. I spent more than an hour explaining the proposed changes. The business leader liked the presentation and thanked me. In the meeting room w...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 15, 2009, 7:59 pm
Yesterday I did my first speech here in the USA at the Toastmaster meeting at my company. It was a good session and it was a different challenge from my previous experiences. The meeting was held in t...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 14, 2009, 8:57 pm
I am reading a book called the “Coffee House Investor.’ It’s a simple and down to earth investment book written by a financial adviser. I like the tone and style of this work. It’s plain commo...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 10, 2009, 6:16 am
I finished reading Richard Restak’s book ‘Think Smart’. It’s the second time I read his work. Earlier I thought his style of writing is a bit convoluted which could be impro...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 7, 2009, 9:57 pm
I met with the 2 contributors helping me in the project. Both belong to different organizations but both are from India. One is from Utter Pradesh (North India) while another is from Tamil Nadu (South...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 5, 2009, 10:20 pm
Last weekend I wanted to continue work on the remaining functional design documents I needed to complete. I had brought my laptop home which I needed to bring back anyway due to the pandemic alert. St...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Oct 1, 2009, 5:59 pm
I had my first minor clash with a contractor here. It’s a difficult situation because the company is reducing staff so they are a bit pressured. Not really a blow out but an exchange of defensive em...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 28, 2009, 9:22 pm
It was raining very hard on Saturday but the climate cleared up on Sunday. I had planned to go to the nearby flea market but no one wanted to go. So I stayed home in the weekend although I drove my so...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 25, 2009, 8:26 pm
There is a monthly forum scheduled by management where all analyst or project managers can meet and exchange views. There was one session where I attended this morning. It’s an interesting meeting w...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 24, 2009, 5:36 pm
I attended 2 seminars today in the office, one in the morning and another in the afternoon. Yesterday, I attended another one on improving one’s project management skills. In all these training semi...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 22, 2009, 6:03 pm
At work, we are getting into the design phase. I am under pressure to complete the design document. I guess I am being tested to produce because I am the analyst assigned to this project. I have been ...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 21, 2009, 9:32 pm
Last weekend I read an excellent article in The Economist about the failure of traditional economic theory to handle and manage the modern economy in it’s advance state. The failure seems to be in 2...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 14, 2009, 9:24 pm
The network is down this morning so I decided to write an entry. I played golf with my dad yesterday but he did not complete the last 9 holes. We started at the wrong time at about 11 am so we did not...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 10, 2009, 9:12 pm
The project manager was back to work today after resting from his assignment in Canada. He was sick for a few days after arriving last week. There were a few questions on his location in the past few ...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 9, 2009, 9:11 pm
I just joined the local Toastmaster club in my company. Their meetings are held in the company auditorium. It’s a small club but the quality of the speeches and evaluations are not bad. The club pre...
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juan m. posted an article on Manage Life - Sep 8, 2009, 9:45 pm
Yesterday, Labor Day holiday, I brought my folks to Hendersonville. It was the annual Apple festival. Main Street was closed off with lots of stalls offering local food for sale. There were also stall...
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