Being a big fan of O’Reilly’s books, I visited the website regularly looking for anything from open source articles,news and of course new titles.
I came across the above title and thinking of getting it from the recent International Book Fair at PWTC but sadly; to no avail—I couldn’t even find the distributor’s booth there! .
So, I placed an online order at MPH but was informed the very next day that it was out of stock and it will take 2-3 months if I were to pre-order the book. Not wanting to give up (yet), I went to Kinokuniya” and maybe it was my day, there was 1 copy of the book at the bookshelf.(I received the book later on Friday)
What so interesting about this time management book?
I have been a system/network engineer for almost 10 years (darn! Did I say 10?) now included was a 1 year fulltime system/network administrator work at Fibrecomm.
For those years, I have to admit what concerned me most (until recently) were purely technical —most of the books on my book shelves ranges from protocols, Cisco boxes, UNIX/Linux,certification, automations and securities. None of them were about time/project management (though I just bought Scott Berkun’s Art of Project Management today)—not that I totally neglected/ignored the importance of it, but there was NO book on the topic that could possibily relate (well enough and worth buying!) to the job that I am currently doing .
In this book Limoncelli shared ideas based on his years of experiences at Bell Labs as system administrator—things like how to handle interruptions, simple routines that helps, to-do lists, tools , documentations and my current favourite topic—Automation!


