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wonderful touch tone telephone there
uh what kind of books do you enjoy reading
uh having have uh i have a wide variety of of hobbies therefore my my reading pleasures are quite wide um
i get a charge out of uh Texas highway uh which uh is very colorful and uh not being a native of Texas uh but being here eleven years have a tendency to uh find out the uh
oh
about the different areas of of the kind of the state by reading it
right i've read that one too i only had a subscription once but my mother always gave me hers and i i really enjoyed you know all the little
things that you find out about Texas
oh yeah it's it's uh absolutely it's great the way that it's broken out and you can uh set up little trips and day trips and things it's pretty pretty neat
um oh i like photography um magazines i don't take a subscription or anything like that um
things oh
being an engineer in facilities i do read a lot of a lot of uh building magazines and and and plant engineering magazines and read up on different ways to do things and energy management type of magazines and
uh-huh
and uh kind of strange because i it's not unusual to uh see um an engineering manual or something laying around the house and then i'll sit up and read just to refresh uh you know to keep active on it but uh how about yourself
uh-huh
well um i have an interest in art so i frequently purchase and read um books mainly on water color because that's my big interest at the moment
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oh that's great
and um
oh i guess i like a variety of things um lots of fiction uh type
books
um right now i'm occasionally reading on a book about uh the Mardi Gras in New Orleans and it's history that's fairly interesting
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i bet that would be rather interesting uh
that's uh self-improvement that's that's always well that's that's kind of a hobby but it is self-improvement uh from the standpoint of probably relaxing um
yeah i i don't know that i read anything strictly labeled self-improvement how about you
um
well i hate to yes i do
we um we have these classes we attend uh management classes then and they give you books and and the last book uh matter of fact i read was
At America's Service by Carl Albridge it talks about um who the customer is and being customer oriented uh which falls in line with the TI culture here at Texas Instruments
yeah
um one of it's great slogans is if you're not serving the customer you better be serving someone who is
uh-huh
uh so that's all in self improvement to stay focused on who the customer is and as you probably well know all of us are our own customer your my customer i'm your customer sort of thing um
right
every now and then i'm loaned the tape i can stick in the in the car cassette on the way home to make the drive more enjoyable talking about uh
better outlooks on things and the philosophy of of Pat Haggerty and these kind of uh mind stimulating philosophy type
yeah
actually which all you know betters yourself
yeah yeah well i guess maybe i am into some things occasionally that i don't think of in terms of self-improvement
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i mean they are but i don't label it as such
like what for example
well i don't know um
i uh have attended some seminars that had some tapes that went with them but uh i guess not so much books although they sometimes have manuals and things but um they would
be things on like how to be successful and sort of talking to yourself you know getting getting your yourself in gear to
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uh sort of pull yourself up by your boot straps and do what you really wanna do convincing you that you need to get on with it
sure
sure how about items like um The One Minute Manager which used to be a big okay so those are self improvements um
yes
sure
our supervisor uh suddenly bought all of us a book called What Every Supervisor Should Know
um
by a main man named uh Doctor Bittel B I T T E L and it's a very layman's uh uh approach towards managing different types of people
and the very last chapter and i haven't figured out why that one was last is how to manage engineers
so it's it's very it's interesting here again it's it's casual reading and it's not eaten up with a lot of uh technical stuff and it's really uh excellent fast reading and uh
but as you say it's it's sometimes it's difficult to to know if it's you know i think if somebody wants to say okay read these ten books because these are self-improvements i would probably be turned off to them
yeah yeah
he casually just walked into it and uh put down a Stephen King book and uh picked up one of them it might be a little more interesting
i don't know i i'm not sure i could take too much of Stephen King that's a little little little heavy for me
yeah they're uh quite uh they're hard to set down because it's so interesting and course they're always a little spookier than the movies but uh
yeah
it's always they're always challenging to get through one of them i have a hard time finishing books
well i guess i also have been reading uh a lot of things on uh quality improvement and that type of thing because that's what i'm involved in a lot at work
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in quality especially nowadays uh that's almost everything that comes across the the the the the airways of the
oh yeah you could almost label everything quality in some sense or other but i think sometimes the word is a little over used but
exactly exactly right
yeah we we have i think we we name drop it a little too much and and don't fully understand what what what it is we're saying i think it's it's focusing in on the issue and walking your talk and and all that kind of rolls in together there but uh
yeah yeah
yeah
that's kind of part of it
okay well any other comments
uh not that i can think of um i think i'm under my quota a little bit i need it if i if i make a phone call or two
well we just started right
ah this is true i've enjoyed it
well you too and uh
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