As part of an internal programme at Sun, I am a “SEED
mentor” for another Sun employee (not a former employee
of MySQL, but what we Sun Dolphins call Sun Classics). He is
called Alok and lives in Bangalore, and sadly, our schedules
crossed so that I couldn’t meet him when I was at our Bangalore
offices in July. So I am mentoring someone I’ve met only over
phone — but we’re getting along just fine.
Two of the topics we’ve discussed recently are blogging and books. So after hanging up after our 9 CET 12:30 Indian time mentoring session, I got the idea to combine the two: write a blog entry about the books I recommended Alok.
One thing Alok is contemplating at the moment is the degree to which he should spend time on developing his business skills vs his engineering skills. That’s a familiar topic for many of us in …
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