http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:03:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, after a week of slacking off, this week I finally managed to accomplish reading about one hour every day. Of the five working days, I read on four. So, I announce the project to be a success :) I find continuing self-education after having finished one's studies very important; after ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/12/project-news/ The first project was not a success: I practiced on monday, wednesday and thursday - and that's it. That is, out of the seven days I managed to get something done on three... But I am not giving up. For this week, I am planning on devoting one hour every day to ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/11/first-week/ Struggling to find the energy to pursue all my extra-job tasks (singing, dancing, working out, etc) regularly, I decided to try and focus on a single one of them for each week. I will try to do at least half an hour of said task every day of the week. ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/11/focus-again/ Seth Godin launches SquidWho, an online, free-for-all Who is who. It seems like the squids are trying to occupy the niche of truly user-generated content opened by the more recent editing restrictions at Wikipedia ('A good friend attempted to post her bio and was rejected, "not notable enough." '). It seems he believes with all ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/08/does-important-enough-make-sense/ http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/08/which-one-of-them-is-lying/ I left this post as a comment on the Personal MBA blog. Seth and Josh were calling for questions on Seth Godin's new book, The Dip, so here goes: Hi Seth, I will argue that choosing the right metric is not always possible. I find the aspect of meticulously measuring your progress controversial, the ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/05/market-metrics-and-internal-metrics/ I'm convinced it is addictive to work on The Wrong Thing. I see people getting hooked on it like drugs: They start working on The Wrong Thing and see some results, but not enough; so they put in more and more hours, eventually forgetting about everything else just to reach some ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/02/the-right-the-wrong-and-the-hopeless/ I was thinking about setting up a framework for measuring learning processes, my first thought being to set up a construct encompassing all parts and aspects of the skill in question. That would, in theory enable to measure the learning process the traditional scientific way: Splitting up a problem in bits ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/01/measuring-paradigm/ The Global Enterpreneurship Monitor published a study (summary pdf) about the rate of the population starting or running new businesses throughout 74 countries in the world. A couple of highlights, in the USA every tenth person is trying to make a living on its own, while in Germany, 24 of 25 ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/01/startup-rate-over-the-world/ Aspiring to a new career in case the software-thing doesn't work out, I am taking dance and singing lessons since october last year. Since I tried learning to dance a couple of times already and it invariably ended up in me getting frustrated by the lack of progress and giving it ... http://zoltanhajnacs.com/blog/2007/01/measuring-learning/