Life in Bangalore

On the use of emails:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2012/10/25/i-banned-all-internal-e-mails-at-my-company-for-a-week/ If aint fun, Why do it? :  http://zenhabits.net/fun/

One of the interesting time management techniques that I use frequently is the Pomodoro technique . A Pomodoro defines the time limit of 1 unit of work...  Following are the typical rules of  a classic Pomodoro: ·            A Pomodoro consists of 25 minutes plus a 5-minute break. A fter every four Pomodoros comes a 15-30 minute break . The Pomodoro is indivisible ie., i f a Pomodoro begins, it has to ring.  If a Pomodoro is interrupted definitively causing a break in the activity  it’s considered void and never begun.  If an activity is completed once a Pomodoro has already begun, you need to continue reviewing the activity  until the Pomodoro rings. The key challenge of the Pomodoro technique will be to p rotect the current activity against interruptions , both internal and external.  My personal opinion on this technique is that it would work well for scenarios where the task to be done is by an individual and when there is less scope for external disruption. It would

Top 3 Reads of the week: I stumbled across the following articles on the Web. I found them interesting, intriguing & informative. Check out….. On expectations by Leo Babauta :  http://zenhabits.net/fun/ When Passion meets your Profession by Scott Dinsmore :  http://liveyourlegend.net/the-myth-of-the-4-hour-work-week/ An interesting Time Management technique by  Franscesco Cirillo : http://www.pomodorotechnique.com/

“Diversification is Protection Against Ignorance”…Warren Buffett It has been a year since Steve Jobs died. As I was reading through several articles on the first anniversary one message stood out…Focus and Simplicity. Jobs’ success is owed due to these two main qualities. We can all see the effect of “Simplicity” in the Apple designs…but  what about Focus ?                According to Jobs, “Focus is about saying No”. Successful people are Focussed…be it Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs or Gandhi. We face multitude of options in our daily life. However, in order to use our limited resources effectively, we would have to pick and choose. Let us take the example of investments . The traditional way of thinking is to diversify and spread the money in different instruments such as fixed deposits, Gold ,Real estate or the Equities…While this may reduce the risk,  you would barely get an average return at a given point, because one of the investments may be pulling down heavily on the