What is more Important than How.

Whenever we try to do something specifically new the first question which comes to mind is How do we that. And we think answering this is the most important thing to solve any problem we have .

But I have released that How is not the Important question .

Once we come to the question of How we Generally in most cases find the answer sooner or later .

The main question is What to do . This is what is difficult to answer .

The question of how to do becomes too important to us because till we are in college or even later What is generally defined may be by school or college or other people .

They say this is to be done . And we just try to figure out How .

So we come to the conclusion that How to do a thing ( anything ) is the most important question and if we can answer that we are through .

But later as you take more control of your life the most important question become What .

How just follows .

What you feel ...........................................................

The above thing is structured a bit oddly or confusing as I was just thinking what to write rather than how to write :).

Have a great day.

Software project development teaches life

I was talking about something that was very difficult for me to complete to one of my close friends where I think he came up with a beautiful line .

He said that like a software project which has to go live ,will go live irrespective of any numbers of bugs the only thing is we have to fix them .

In life when we decide something to do , it might be hard and lot of bugs might be there but if we decide it has to go live ( has to be done ) then rather than concentrating our efforts on thinking whether we have to do it or know we start concentrating our effort on how to fix those .

Also those bugs ( problems ) are going to crop up , irrespective of how good one is , and we have to fix those . Even realizing that problems will crop up help us in not wasting time & energy on crying on problems have come up and concentrate on how from now we can fix them and finish the thing we started .

By far it does not mean that we make mistakes purposely , but its good to realize that if we pick up something difficult we are bound to have some problems .

Also as a software gets old it starts having lesser bugs .

Infact if we did not have problems doing something that means we have gone very good at what we are doing it long enough to master it and its we might be not growing too much .

In summary like software projects in life

• Like a software project which has to be done if we have to do something just do it and keep fixing as problems come up.

• As a software gets older , same way as we get experienced in doing something we start getting lesser problems .

So we learnt a lot in engineering about Software development and also life :)

Have a great day :)

The ease of attempting again can make one complacent.

Hey,

 The ease of attempting again can make one complacent.

 When we know that we have only one shot at a thing and we have to do it now or never there is a different level of seriousness to it.

 But when we have a lot of chances on some thing, and those chances are easily obtain we tend to take that particular thing easy.

 So many times when we have a very tough task to do but only one chance there are good chances we might finish it.

 

But an easy task which at the back of the mind we know it’s not do or die makes us complacent.

We all get complacent at some time about something that’s easy or not do or die . Also when things go dead serious we might be able to pull out things that we did not think we could .

 The point I wanted to stress is becoming complacent about an easy thing is that it could become serious and do or die . Or it might happen that we might never finish the task .

 So don’t fall in the complacency trap . I will surely try not to J

 Also if you have any situations where you have gone complacent about ( If not -  wow ;)

) or pulled out completely unthinkable according to you when it was do or die please share it .

 Have a great day  :)

Activity & Progress.

Hey,

We many time knowingly or unknowingly interchange the term activity and progress and think that’s one and the same. We do a lot pf activity and think we are leading to progress. And if a lot of activity is not happening that means progress is on hold.

Lets just define the terms

 Activity – Is doing something.

 Progress – is gaining something which is beneficial and mostly measurable.

 For e.g. Studying 10 hours a day is activity. Getting a first class and passing is progress.

Activity may lead to progress but not necessarily.

 This being a very general e.g:- one can easily differentiate activity and progress. But as we get into more specific work generally we have a tough time differentiating the two and mistake one for another (and generally we mistake activity for progress).

 The second reason is that activity is in our hand whereas progress depends on factors outside which one can influence but cannot totally control. So we prefer measuring activity .

 But Pareto’s principle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle)  applies here that 20% of our activity brings 80% of the progress and rest 80% of activity brings the rest 20% progress.

 So the most important point is to decide which is the 20% activity which brings about the 80 % progress.

 I try to increase that 20% deciding intuitively which is the 20% ( or call it experience J ) or I try to increase the 100% of activity which in turn increase the productive 20% activity which increases progress .

 How do you all decide what activities to perform and what not to ?

 Have a great day

The Honey Moon Effect

I read about a nice concept called the HoneyMoon effect . It just happened that a lot of my friends are getting married at this time and I accidentally came across this concept.

Don’t get scandalized this is nothing do with what you all are thinking only the name might sound a little controversial :) .

 

Actually the concept is that when we learn a new thing by attending a training , meeting some new person very good in the field we are totally charged up and enthu about applying these things . But as a day or two passes by we get caught up with daily urgent work and forget to apply what we learnt. So the new knowledge which could improve us goes waste as we forget to incorporate it in our ways of doing things.

This happens a lot when I meet some top person in their field and he gives some talk .

I am totally charged up that time. But at times the energy drains out after a few days.

Does this happen to you all ?

 

I liked this stuff party because of the concept party because the apt name given to it . the honey moon effect :)

 

Have a great day