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Time Management for System Administrators |
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Still not just for sysadmins, 2 years later |
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2008-07-28 13:41:07 |
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lamech
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I've just rediscovered Time Management for System Administrators after 2 years, and am rereading it in the context of a new job that is larger in scale, more complex, and more demanding. It's a real testament to the quality of the advice in this little book that Tom Limoncelli's thoughts are still just as relevant, and just as effective for me as they were 2 years ago. He is still helping me reshape time, interruptions, and priorities at work and in my social life.
Everyone else on this page is already saying most of what I'd say about why this book is so good, but I want to reiterate: it would be a shame if you let yourself be put off by the author's comment in the opening pages about how the book is "not for programmers." I think he means a very particularly rarefied kind of programmer, one who doesn't get interrupted all day, one who doesn't have to support production systems and deal with "customers" (even if those customers are other developers and/or sysadmins). I'm not even sure those exist. In any case, for the rest of us who live in the grey area in between "hardcore" sysadmins and architecture astronauts--for anyone "technical" who has to deal with interruptions and time pressure--do yourself a huge favour: read this book, absorb what you can, put it down, come back after a long time, and read it again.
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