About a week ago, I was spending every minute I had on an assignment for my natural language processing class. My partner and I were already behind from starting the class a week late (we started out taking a different class), and it was a pretty long assignment. We probably each put 50 hours into [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Time Constraints
Posted in Thoughts, tagged parkinson's law, productivity, sleep, time, work on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Hofstede Dimensions
Posted in Thoughts, tagged asia, china, communication, culture, hofstede, immigrants, japan, masculinity, personality, united states, US on April 14, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I went to a talk recently by a consultant from BSG, where he talked about the Hofstede dimensions. It’s basically a measure of the collective personality of a country by giving the level of importance of five things: power distance (to what degree unequal power is accepted and/or expected), individualism, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance, and long-term [...]
Willpower
Posted in Thoughts, tagged persistence, priorities, sleep, stress, willpower on April 3, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Recently, I linked to an article on my tumblog about willpower. The idea is that in the short term, willpower is limited, but in the long term, you can strengthen your willpower. I actually feel like my willpower decreases over the course of a few months, until I spend a good week or so doing [...]
