Some of the interesting articles 5-Oct

1. Curiosity - the trigger/top predictor for success. Yes says this article
2. Ego and Decision making - Where/How to invest our ego in decision making.
3. Servant Leader?? Are you one? How to spot one
4. 5 Signs you are successful in your career.  - A glimpse of the content is shown below   

MS watching, 14-Sep

1.How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier  - A TED Talk

Goals for H2 2018

I took an advice from one of my senior managers (from his blog) and started wondering how about having a goal for an entire year and for every year to follow from now on. I used to have a lot of sheets with goals for every aspect in life, from the past 5-6 years,  but never bothered to update it regularly or even if I update it regularly would rarely revisit and evaluate myself and use it as compass to guide me in my life. So today I took some time off and sat down to filter it and create a simple page which consolidates all goals and be more specific and customized to my needs. I just completed by goal setting for H2 2018. I intend to evaluate them at December/January 2019 time frame to know where I stand with respect to where I started. It was a refreshing activity which took close to 4 hours to setup ones for me. I want to make it an annual ritual with 2 reviews. I will setup goals for myself in the January every year. I will evaluate myslef twice a year. One, a mid year review during June/July and a final review at the December/January time frame. Based on the goals and outcomes of the previous years, I wish to formulate the next year goals and see how I can bridge the gaps.
 Happy 2018!!

MS Reading, 13-July

1. 29 Life changing questions that will make  you successful
2. If you only read a few books in 2018

Books readlist

Suggested by Senthil -
1. Deepwork
2. Make it stick

MS Watching, 19-June

Posting after a long time, since my dad was hospitalized due to UTI and it took my time from past 20 days..Thanks to god, He is recovering.

1. The great Field marshal Sam Manekshaw's lecture on Leadership. - An hour long lecture On leadership from the great man who was the chief of  Army Staff and who was the architect of the Indian Win over Pakistan.

MS reading, 29-May

1. Excellence - Stopping by for a quick read of a blog by Seth godin on Excellence.

2. Steve Jobs secret for eliciting questions, overheard at a cafe - Article revolves around a conversation between a mentor and a mentee (both being CEO's of their companies) and how to get real feedback from a bunch of people, if you are giving a presentation or leading a team. The article presents a couple of ways to do it. Nice one, May be I should also start using it in my presentations or conversations. This article re-emphasizes the need for mentors and how others have benefited from having mentors.

3. Studies show that people with high integrative complexity are more likely to be successful. - As a quote says - “If everyone has a full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven’t been.” ― Gloria Steinem. The author has interviewed many self made billionaires and has presented his findings here. Based on his findings, author says  that successful individuals develop the ability to hold conflicting, contradictory, and paradoxical ideologies, thoughts, and values simultaneously. Having both short term and long term vision, having both bigger picture and sweating for small details. He also points to some of the biases we may be prone to while thinking or conducting business which maybe holding us back. 

MS reading, 27-May

1. The power of listening in helping people change - "Feedback is the breakfast of champions" - Ken Blanchard. Lets pause, Is giving feedback really a good thing?? Are we taking feedback in the right spirit?? Giving feedback caused performance to decline in 38% of cases. This happened with both positive and negative feedback, mostly when the feedback threatened how people saw themselves.One reason that giving feedback (even when it’s positive) often backfires is because it signals that the boss is in charge and the boss is judgmental. This can make employees stressed and defensive, which makes it harder for them to see another person’s perspective. This HBR article explores, other forms of subtle intervention.

2. 19 Truths you dont want to hear. - Some honest questions to ask ourselves. There is so much that goes through ones mind when we come across such honest questions which make us introspect and helps us gain a bit more clarity in life.

Top Interviews

1. Michael Jordan - The greatest basket ball player to have ever played the game.

MS watching, 22-May

1. The one thing only 1% people do - Short Video about Self discipline

2. Michael Jordans Trainer - Tim Grover- On how to become Unstoppable , renowned as an un paralleled authority on science of achieving physical and mental domination.What holds one back and how to set free and how to push beyond mental barriers. He has trained the great basket ball player Michael Jordan.

MS reading, 21-May

1. 15 Rules to Win at life - Video link is here -  Its an Alux video with 15 rules to win at life. Life is a complicated game, filled with moving pieces, changing environments, changing rules & unfortunately it don’t come with a rule book. It contains 15 questions one should ask oneself, irrespective of whatever battles that one is fighting for, to find out loopholes and to create a successful habit.

2. The difference between time and money - You can't save up time. You can't refuse to spend it. You can't set it aside.Either you're spending your time. Or your time is spending you.

Mahamastakaabhisheka 2018 at Shravanabelagola

Study Material on Signal Processing

1. RF Analog Impairments Modeling for Communication Systems Simulation - by Application to OFDM-based Transceivers
           Good book. Gives explanation and mathematical modelling of all Analog impairments.
           Must Read for all professionals in RF Domain.
2. Wireless Receiver Architectures and Design Antennas, RF, Synthesizers, Mixed Signal, and Digital Signal Processing - by Tony J. Rouphael
           Good explanation with derivations of all RF Components.
           Must Read
3. RF MicroElectronics - Behzad Razavi
         Explains the the RF from the circuit/Electronics perspective with the circuit implementations.

4.EECE 522 Estimation Theory- Binghamton University, State University New york.
5. Fundamentals of Statistical Signal processing - Estimation Theory by S.M Kay

An Impromptu discussion with my Managing Director

Today during coffee break in our pantry I ran into our MD and started the conversation by thanking him about his blogs ( I regularly follow his blogs, and i find it very useful) and how I like them. This started off into an impromptu discussion, only to realize when we had finished,  I had taken 1 hour of his time. This post is about our conversation.

The discussion was mostly about what books he reads,  what motivates him to read so much ( he reads close to 40 books a year!!!  and has finished ~800 books from his library of over 1K books) , how did it start about. One such thing he mentioned was how he regularly used to take 1 week break from office and go to secluded place (like home stays, cousins places in villages etc.,) to finish upon his reading. He benefited immensely by reading books. By his own admission, in his early days he wasnt so much of a driven individual (in his academic days) and he detailed how books have transformed him into one and how he is now driven by Excellence. Being such a nice individual he opened up and recollected some of his experiences and let me know some of the books he studied and how it all started...how reading has helped him and why he emphasis on reading..I was pleasantly surprised to know even he liked working in a remote corner as an individual contributor, though  ( in my opinion) he is par excellence in his role as a managing director ( which involves lot of talking to build relationships, resolve conflicts, getting projects, advising to startups etc., ) .

As a bonus for me he also talked about how much he values his mentors,  how much he emphasis on having mentors and how he benefited from them in his career growth. As a matter of fact, he has 3 full time (periodic) and 1 event based mentors . 1 within company 2 outside company...He also recounted on how having a mentor saved him from taking a misstep early in his career in the leadership role in my current company. Just like all great visionaries, he also spent some time in telling about his future thoughts about having mentors assigned for the team and how he thinks it might help them.

Over all quite a few takeaways.Its time for me to re-start on a few things that I had dropped out of  (like having a mentor, finishing books that I have started a while ago, setting some specific goals for myself , all of these I have done for some period in my life...but Need to restart with greater energy) or to re-prioritise or to try out and see if I can pickup something and improve certain things in my life.

Thank you RamP :)

MS reading 14-May

1. 15 SACRIFICES You Need To Make If You Want To Be RICH - I ve been reading the old classic - "Think and Grow rich"  - by the great Napolean Hill for a while now...Ive always been intrigued by the similarities in people who have made it big in their life...(By RICH,I dont limit  my self to the materialistic riches)  Alux.com has put together yet another video where they talk about the sacrifices that one needs to make in life to be rich. Worth the 15 mins!

2. 15 Steps to Master Self-Discipline - I am always fascinated by discipline and the role it plays in success..I have deep admiration for people who live through disciple, for one I try daily maintain one for myself ( and I often fail and I hit reboot button umpteen times...and this self battle goes on in me...)  This video put together by one of my favorite site puts down some of the important traits of discipline and why its important in life...Although every one knows what to do...Its just that people find it hard to it!! Its a powerful, yet a refreshing video.

MS reading, 13-May

I came across an image a few weeks ago, which caught my attention and made me look at it again and again.

2. What if Everyone in the world lived on the same street. It is data compiled from a study of various countries and what every one in the world want. 

Technical sites in Signal processing

This post contains the list of sites, i intend to regularly follow to stay updated with current trends in wireless communication industry, the one I m currently employed into.

1. https://www.mobilewirelesstesting.com

2. https://www.rcrwireless.com - To stay updated with all the latest in the Wireless Communication world. No particular affinity to this site, just that I ran into this site and it covers most of wats needed.

3. http://ma-mimo.ellintech.se/  -  Massive MIMO

4. https://www.grandmetric.com/

MS reading, 11-May 2018

1. 6 Big Career Mistakes That Can Sabotage Your Future - It always intrigues me to know what it takes to be a successful in ones profession. It talks about the common mistakes we might be doing.

2.  A Financial Planner Interviewed 233 Rich People to Learn How They Think. I always wondered how some people who have accumulated fortunes think? do they think differently? Is their thinking any different than us?

3. Warren Buffett's 5 Best Success Tips From 120 Hours of Berkshire Shareholder Meetings
From one of my inspirational guru - the Warren Buffet himself.

4. How to Get Along with a Co-worker You Hate  - It isnt uncommon for people to run into someone or to coexist with some one who they dont particularly gel together. The coach has the details.

5. Elon Musk recently wrote an email to Tesla employees about their upcoming model. It is titled Progress, Precision, Profit. His views on increasing productivity and professional nuggets of wisdom.

Blogs that I follow

Here is a small list of the bloggers I like to regularly follow. The insights into their way of life contain lots of nuggets of wisdom which would benefit a lot of us.

1. https://www.alux.com - The place where future billionaires come to get inspired.

2. https://www.gatesnotes.com/ - by Microsoft founder Bill Gates himself. I liked his idea of publishing the books he reads and how he shares what he learnt/his opinion about the book.

3. http://facilitatingimpact.blogspot.in/ or https://nitalk.jiveon.com/blogs/RamP - by the Managing Director of NI India RF. He writes about leader ship, time management, Books he recently read.

4. http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/- By Seth Godin, American executive, Ted Speaker and an Author. He usually writes on Management, Respect, Career management.

Malaysian memories

                                                                  In Work
I and my wife visited malaysia from 29-Mar-21018 till 5-April
This post is about our memories from our travel experiences.

Langkawi

Kuala lampur

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Our plan, before we started

Day	Location	Places to visit	Pre-requisite.	Stay/Hotel	To note
1 28-Mar	Bangalore – Chennai 11.40pm from silkboard to Guindy 4.40am.
1 29-Mar	Chennai-Kualampu-langkawi 7.50am-4.45pm	Eagle Square park  ( free, 24 hrs open)		Langkawi Rose Inn motel	Veg food will be a problem in Langkawi, better to carry ready to eat stuff.
2 30-Mar	Langkawi	Sky bridge RM 50 per person(9-30-19:00), Cable Car (RM 50 pre person, 10am – 20:00) Ocean	Need to give bookings for island hopping. (If booking given to car driver 1 day early, price is 40RNG else 300RNG)	Langkawi book a hotel near to Eagle square Langkawi Rose Inn motel
31-Mar	Langkawi	Taman Lagenda (RM 5, 9:00- 19:00) Telaga Tuju water falls (Free, 24 hrs) Morning only – Island hopping, GEO Forest (RM 35-50, half day activity, 3-4hrs costly) Eagle statue – near Ocean	Sun screens	Langkawi Langkawi Rose Inn motel
1-Apr	Langkawi	Kilim Geo forest (80-100RM per person) Nearby places, beaches, mall		Langkawi Langkawi Rose Inn motel
3 2-April	Lagkawi-Kualampur 8.15am : 9.30am	Genting Highlands (need to give bookings for bus timings early at the bus counter in bus stand)		Kualampur D Oriental inn Hotel	Find Indian restaurants street which has Saravana bhavan and other major Tamilian restaurants for food.
3-Apr	Kualampur	Batu caves, Petronas towers, - Petaling street city roaming		Kualampur D Oriental inn Hotel
4-Apr	Kualampur	Putrajaya, Shopping		Kualampur D Oriental inn Hotel
5-Apr	Kualampur- Chennai 6.30am-7.45am
5-Apr	Chennai-Bangalore 1.30pm – 8.15pm.