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Friday, May 7, 2010

Importance of communication

My biggest weekness is lack of communication skills. Hmm... I am not sure. May be it is because so many people told me. It is more difficult get over any weekness when we constantly think about it.

Lets go back and check what I have lost of because of lack of communication skills

- Had a big fight with my best friend because of mis-communication

- Couldn't perform well in HR round of Microsoft in undergrad

- Technical skills were not valued at D.E.Shaw because of lack of good communication skills.

Well, Let me think again.

I do work hard and I am good at thinking.

what if I read many grammer English books.
- I did. But it didn't help.

what if I read many novels?
- Technical books are more interesting than novels. I tried and read around 15-20 books.

what if I watch so many English movies?
- This thought changed my life. I started watching one movie per day. Now, I am unable to get rid of this bad habit.

what if I watch one movie many times?
- It helps me to remember dialogues.

what if I read one novel many times?
- I read 'Two states' novel 3 times. can't read.

what if I write a novel?
I wrote a novel 'Indian bridegroom' and published as well at https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/125514
You know what. I was appreciated for my narrative skills. Yes, this novel writing helped me to impress sentence patterns in my mind.

There is no single way to get over any weekness. Constant aspiration being excel in one area helps a lot.

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Work in the boundaries of capabilities/knowledge

Its very difficult to quantify the one's capability in a area. And it's very certain that there is always an improvement. Why do we need to think about this?. World is so competitive. When you want to be top, want to prosper in life,(s)he has to know about their area of improvement.

Let me give a simple example to emphasize advantages of working on boundaries of knowledge. When we read a fresh topic, we get lot of new thoughts. These new thoughts might have been well explored. But if we get a new thought after having complete knowledge about a topic leads to a research paper.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Every day is same

You believe it or not. Every day is same. Atleast, almost same.

Sun rises around 7AM and sets around 6PM. In a working day, the people we meet are also same.

Wake up in the morning. Get ready for office. Do some stuff at office (this is NOT to save country but just to lead life). Come back home and then sleep.

Routine life makes our boring and doesn't bring a smile. What can we do?

Should we stop following a routine? All professionals are not same. We can't do this in every job.

Though our lives are same everyday, our thoughts are different. You can do the same thing differently and in a better way. Everyone is different. Be passionate in knowing other's life. Relationships grow. Every person is an unexplored book.

Dance @ Deshaw parties...

We (D.E.Shaw treasury) went to excess pub, which is in Novtel 1st floor. I danced a lot, may be this is because my mind is fully occupied with Michel Jackson inspiration. Prasanna, my colleague, dearest friend at Deshaw. He danced exactly like a dog. Almost everybody in my team danced except my team photographers, the only and one subbu, and Sravanthi. You can very well comment my dance. Here is youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIugQdeEFdA
If you compare the dance I did in Diwali occasion, this dance is much better.

Anubhav and Ujjwal talks after they drunk are bit funny. Ujjwal want to make Deshaw as one of greatest hedge fund and optimizes all calculators in order of O(1). Anubhav is taking care of mastiff up and running. We had a chat with our M.D, Neal Power, the big boss. It is a different experience to talk with highly influential persons.

Monday, February 4, 2008