[lopsa-discuss] LOPSA Book Club - December: Time Management for System Administrators

[Tom Limoncelli]

You guys are wonderful.  Sometimes I feel like the people on this  
mailing list are more passionate about "selling" my books than I am.   
I really appreciate it.  Humbled, actually.

(Raise your hand if you think Benji is on my payroll. :-) )

I write these books to help others (and because I have all these  
ideas that I need to put down on paper before my brain explodes).

One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can lead a horse to  
water but you can't make them drink.  At my last job I gave copies of  
TPoSANA to each of my staff and yet couldn't get them to read beyond  
the autograph.  Fundamentally these books are "self-help books" (all  
technical books are, too, in my humble opinion).  Something that the  
self-help book industry understands is that people don't read a book  
when they are forced to.  You can't give a self-help book as a  
Christmas gift... it's just insulting ("Gosh, 'Time Management' ...  
how screwed up do you think I am?").  People read books when they are  
ready for the help.

Anyway... I'm glad LOPSA made it the first ever "book of the month".   
That's totally cool and appreciated.

Thanks, LOPSA!!!

Tom Limoncelli
http://www.EverythingSysadmin.com