Whats on my reading list
I’m a voracious reader. I spend a lot (both money and time) on books. Blogs bring in a lot of flexibility and casualness to such a habit. I keep modifying my reading list according to perceived benefits. Here are some of them:
Management Thoughts
HBS Working Knowledge: From Harvard Business School. Academic discussions on management.
InsideCRM - The CRM Industry’s Web Resource, PGreenblog & The CRM Consultant: Being a CRM consultant, I look for blogs providing decent CRM information. I added these blogs recently on my reading list. So far I am happy with them.
Raven’s Brain: She has good information on project management. Not only that she collates pretty good articles on project management too.
Scottberkun.com: Scott Berkun’s The Art of Project Management is a must-read for all project managers. His web page is a collection of information on his books and essays. Be sure to check out his mailing list (you need to register) for very active discussions on project and people management.
LinkedIn Answers: Management: Another very professional and active discussions on anything related to management - projects, people, outsourcing and so on. I’ve found these discussions to be focused and stimulating, to say the least.
ElementalTruths.Com: Reg Adkins is a behavioral consultant. I found his early writings to be very informative. I feel that recently, he has deviated from his core strengths. But I still keep reading him.
Technical
Grey Sparling PeopleSoft Expert’s Corner: I’m from Vantive world who moved on to Peoplesoft world. I don’t develop in Peoplesoft but manage two projects (with some excellent team leads) in Peoplesoft. Tips from Grey Sparling helps me understand Peoplesoft little better.
The Django community aggregator: I’ve recently started with Django, a web framework in Python. I find Django easy to learn and Python easy to code. Hopefully I can develop some decent, useful applications in Django. I already developed SOL, a Twitter clone for our department use.
Joel on Software: I’m not sure if this should be under Technical or under Management, because Joel speaks authoritatively on both topics. Whatever be the topic, his articles are very informative of the subject.
programming: what’s new online: Reddit’s collection of articles of interest on Programming. These articles are rated socially and hence generally worth reading.
Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen: I stumbled on Scott Hanselman’s blog while looking for useful tools. He not only blogs about useful utilities but about .NET as well.
The Yourdon Report: Ed Yourdon is the authority on System Analysis and Design. Those concepts introduced by him are still so relevant. I admire his energy - he blogs, travels a lot, micro-blogs and still come out with good articles.
LinkedIn Answers: Technology: Related to LinkedIn Management Answers. I don’t find this discussion forum that useful like the other one. Yet, time to time I get some valuable tips from this forum.
Indian blogs
Just a little something:I envy Anita’s photography skills and admire her nomadic spirit. Every time I see one of her photos, I wish to shoot like that. I visited her Photography Exhibition too.
Ouch My Toe!: Jammy can make you laugh. Sometimes louder. With all the sarcasm, I wonder how he is not yet put in jail or divorced (his wife is the point of jokes in most of the entries).
Prabhu n Ferrari: If you understand Tamil, be sure to read his He-She series. They are humorous. He should publish his series using the Depot’s self-publish service.
Tasty Palettes: Food blog of an ex-colleague. I’ve not yet had the opportunity to taste her work; but looking at her photos I am sure they are a treat.
Walk in the clouds: I can’t understand all of Seema’s poems; I am no good in literature. But the ones I understand are fantastic; most of them are romantic; few others are inspiring.
The Marketer Who Went Off Consumption: I’ve added this newly on the list. Gaurav is on an experiment for a year - trying to be off consumption. He has a definition for it. But it is interesting to follow.
Others
Quotes of the Day: List of famous quotes. Not just inspiring quotes; but funny ones too.
Geek & Poke: Cartoons on IT folks. I know Dilbert is a famous one. But some how I like Geek & Poke.
Joke of the day: Another site for relaxation.
6 Responses to “Whats on my reading list”
By Reg Adkins on Apr 28, 2008 | Reply
“I feel that recently, he has deviated from his core strengths. But I still keep reading him.”
Not that is feed back I can use!
Can you be more specific about the type of content you would like to see?
By Joseph Jude on Apr 28, 2008 | Reply
Reg: I didn’t mean to offend. If I had, my apologies.
To answer your question, I enjoy every article on behavior management and temperaments. I didn’t understand your experiments with water (and so I didn’t like it). And sometimes I felt that you posted few articles just for the sake of posting.
Probably it is a dilemma between what you want to write and what your readers come to expect.
Keep posting your articles. They have helped me a lot. In case I come across any entries in the category of ‘deviating-from-core-strengths’, I will email you.
By Reg Adkins on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
I took no offence from the comment.
I am sincere when I say this is feed back I can use.
I spent an extremely large portion of my time building, evaluating and conducting professional development training. So, what I write sometimes gets colored by the questions asked by participants. Their questions can cause me to stray from behaviors and temperament into other surrounding areas and if I don’t do a good job of connecting them for my readers it can definitely look like I’m doing “filler pieces.”
The water cure experiment is a case in point. In one of the behavior focused classes I was teaching the impact of environmental chemicals and stimulants and their relationships to temperament came in to question. The experiment was an attempt to explore how someone with my temperament might react, and cope with an arbitrary adjustment in their life. I chose liquid intake because it was the easiest to explore. But, as you point out, I didn’t do a good job making the connection.
Elemental Truths is about the readers. I want to provide something of value them. When I get feed back like yours, it gives me an opportunity to do that.
In fact, I will probably use our entire exchange (with your credit of course) in a post about temperament behavior and product continuity.
Thank you and God Bless,
Reg Adkins
By Raven on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
Hi Joseph - thanks for the mention of my PM Focused Blog: Raven’s Brain. I see we share a lot of the same interests and look forward to digging deeper into your blog!
By Sheetal on Apr 29, 2008 | Reply
Great links, Joseph. Have you checked blogadda.com? I found some great Indian blogs from there. I like the punch line of your blog. Superb!
By anita on May 2, 2008 | Reply
thanks for the mention, joseph! and good to know you came to the exhibition