http://pnarula.com Intense activity - in the midst of eternal calmness Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:34:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the twenty or so must read books mentioned in Poor Charlie's Almanac is "Getting to Yes" - a principled approach to negotiations. It is an excellent and accessible read on getting to mutually agreeable outcome during negotiations ranging from salary to nuclear disarmament talks. For my present gig ... http://pnarula.com/200804/they-are-humans-too/ In a NY Times article "The Wealth Trajectory" Greg Mankiw, a Harvard Professor and a famous economics blogger explains the differences in earnings for average workers and the super rich. I found the following statistics good on value of education In 2005, each year of college yielded an additional ... http://pnarula.com/200804/education-pays-but-no-golden-ticket/ YouTube revolutionized the idea of embedding videos into websites. It was a matter of time before before various domain specific websites started embedding videos in their sites. There have been numerous job sites on the internet for job hunting. Now comes Nextjob for landing you the next job. They have ... http://pnarula.com/200712/nextjob-a-job-portal-with-video/ Having been in SAP for some years I get asked this question how to get into SAP as a career. I was writing this to a close friend of mine and thought of putting it on the blog. This advice is a rather first step to decide which stream to ... http://pnarula.com/200711/advice-on-joining-the-sap-world/ After many many years I have started reading a novel based on the true story of author - Shantaram. I am on the 11th page and I love it. Here is a blurb about Bombay A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic ... http://pnarula.com/200710/shantaram-1/ Last night I landed back in San Jose on US Airways 162 which should have been dubbed rather TechED flight. I am sure more than 50% folks were returning from Mandalay Bay. It was easily the biggest TechED so far with 6000 folks from all over the US, quite ... http://pnarula.com/200710/back-from-sap-teched-2007/ Few days back I was at Project Management training and our excellent instructor asked what is the problem executives are trying to solve by going for ERP implementation. What he said rhymed with some thing Jeff Nolan wrote today on Future of Enterprise Software CEOs are concerned about growing ... http://pnarula.com/200709/future-of-enterprise-software/ I am reading "The Business of Software" these days. What a delightful book to read about business of software as a product and services. After starting as a developer I have been in the services for the past few years. Michael Cusumano, the author distills the business of software ... http://pnarula.com/200709/business-of-software-services/ In his 1995 speech “The Psychology of Human Misjudgment” given at Harvard Law School, Charlie Munger said “Well I think I've been in the top 5% of my age cohort all my life in understanding the power of incentives, and all my life I've underestimated it. And never a year passes ... http://pnarula.com/200709/understanding-the-carrots/ As speculated on Firefox wiki Safari, the web browser from Apple has been released for Windows. It is a very interesting development as this would take away some market share from IE and Firefox. It is also important for me as my work involves accessing enterprise apps using a browser. ... http://pnarula.com/200706/safari-for-windows-and-wwdc07/