Friday
The week flying by. I don't feel like I got anything done, but it's gone already. I will finally have an oportunity to try and get rid of my old washing machine. It costs about 30 bucks I think to throw it out.
I have been making a big effort to "get a life", trying to meet more people, focus less on work. I find it is more tiring to do this than it is to work. I don't know how a head-hunter friend of mine does it... her job is to meet people get connections and always be nice freindly and cheery. I have about had it after only a few weeks of making an effort.
Big beer fesitval coming up this weekend. Hundreds of different micro-brews from all around Japan. Of course I don't want to put things such as alchohol in my body, but in the name of "getting a life" I think I better go. That and the fact that I have yet to find really good beer in Japan unless it is imported from Belgium.
I just recieved an outline of what types of questions I will be asked in an interveiw next week for a Japanese magazine. I may have to spend the weekend studying.
- What are some good things about Japanese companies?
- Favorite food, least favorite food
- What does it mean to me to "Work at a company"
- Brag about the US
- Where will I live 10 years from now?
There are more but you will have to wait for the interview to be published.
Found a really interesting article about crocodiles in the news the other day. A researcher Daphne Soars discovered that they have little hypersensitive bundles of nerves around their jaws that allow them to locate the position of even a droplet that falls onto the water's surface, allowing them to hone in on their prey.
Two good interviews on Tom Peters site. One with Paco Underhill, an anthropologist and retail consultant and author of Why We Buy, a great book about what environmental variables drive people to buy, based on the observations he and his company has made throguh the years. It's a great book, interesting even if you don't care about the business aspect of it... it will tell you a little about what makes you buy too.
And...
One with Robert Sutton a Management Science and Engineering professor. I havn't read his book, but I just may check it out...