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20040928 Tuesday September 28, 2004

Time Management

Gasp. There is so much cool stuff going on (inside Sun and within the greater community) that I am having a hard time managing my time. I really want to participate in today's Sun Developer Network's chat on java.net. No time.

The good news is that I can always come back and check it out. Playing around with Solaris 10 has really put me behind on some of my other endeavors around Java Studio Enterprise 7 beta, NetBeans 4 beta 1, JXTA, etc. . All were demo'd at Java One this year. I really want to play around with the collaboration features of Java Studio Enterprise but collaborating with myself is redundant.

Of course, I have my daily customer responsibilities. All of these sideline activities take a back seat to the customer. What is abnormal is that, due to my Starbucks addiction, I am getting involved with a couple of customers outside of my normal responsibilities. While I do pass responsibility on to the appropriate account management teams, I still see these new Sun customers regularly at the mude hole. I am permanently indirectly involved (and interested) in how their endeavors are going.

One multi-tasking algorithm I use is to play back online recordings while fulfilling my daily responsibilities. 90% of what is playing in the background hits the bit bucket since I am barely paying attention, but occasionally I get that nugget of information. I am wondering if I should record some of this audio on CD and play it back in the car.

Trying to focus me is like trying to zoom in on a target with a disposable camera. Not gonna happen. :)

Speaking of time management, time to go.

(2004-09-28 07:36:11.0) Permalink Comments [3]

Comments:

You're right, time management is very tough nowadays. I spent last year just to put in place and improve some best pratices for myself. Now it's a bit better, and I have got some lessons : - plan not more than 2 activities a day, - keep always a place for the urgent things falling down at the last minute - take time on monday to plan the week - take time at the end of the month to make report There also a preparation which is census your activities, and that is usually very difficult.

Posted by jjmahe on September 28, 2004 at 08:03 AM PDT #

and, speaking of Focus, how did the naming of the lab machines turned out?

Posted by Jaime Cardoso on September 28, 2004 at 04:11 PM PDT #

Haven't had time to set up an ldap server :( i really, really should do that. Thanks for the reminder. Good news is that I was in the lab today hooking the ultra 10 up to some external storage. I got a snapshot I will post once LUNS are created and zone creation continues :)

Posted by John Clingan on September 28, 2004 at 07:05 PM PDT #

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