Listening to Schiller. Life is neat.
Looking forward to again sailing among the Greek islands.
Looking forward to August – getting busy with my telescope.
Looking forward to September – playing with Brendan in our new company A-circle.
Looking forward.
Watch out for Å. Brendan and Geir will make waves. Going way outside the box. On a wild abandon. News will be coming to a blog near you 😉
A week’s vacation and here I am. Man, you guys have been busy… 500 comments. To make it easy for myself, instead of wading through the threads looking for questions I should address, it’s far easier to ask you here if there is anything you want me to comment on or take up. So, this is a free-for-all post; You are free to ask any question, direct my attention to any comment, tell a joke or offer a cheese cake recipe… or whatever. Feel free 🙂
Looking to buy a new car, a house, an HP calculator or a new telescope. Looking for the perfect job? The perfect employee or the perfect girl? Or deciding between a set of possible choices and having a hard time making up your mind?
There is a simple tool that I have used many times when faced with difficult choices (including that of finding the perfect girl). It requires you to simply list all the important items in a requirement specification and giving each item an importance or “weight” (any scale will do). And then as you are faced with each case to evaluate, give that case a score on each item in the list of requirements. A simple example:
If you are to recruiting a new employee, the specification would consist of items such as “relevant knowledge”, “relevant job experience”, “proven production record”, “communication skills” or “empathy”. You would give each item a certain weight where “relevant knowledge” could be given a weight of “4” while “empathy” for this specific job could be given “2” in weight.
When a requirement specification is populated with a list of weighted items, it’s time to pitch a set of cases against the specification. You figure out the scale you want to use and put a score on each item of the requirement specification for the case you evaluate. The scale goes from “0” to any number you set as the maximum score. A candidate for a job could score a “3” on “relevant knowledge” and a “5” on empathy on a scale from “0” to “5”. You then multiply the score with the item’s weight to get the “weighted score”. So even though the candidate receives a maximum score on empathy, she only gets a weighted score of “10” on that item compared to “12” on “relevant knowledge”.
Finally, you sum up all the weighted scores, divide by the sum of the item weights, divide by the maximum score and multiply with 100. Then you have a total percentage score of how well that case fits the requirement specification.
A tool? What do you mean with “a tool”?
You want a tool to help you create a requirement specification with a list of weighted items and then to easily manage and evaluate many cases against it?
Sure, I have that. Do you have an HP-41 calculator?
I know, I know. It’s a stupid question. Of course you have the best calculator ever made sitting right there on the table and in daily use no less.
Then I will supply you with this neat evaluation program utilizing a new trick; dynamic menus.
What’s that? Well, head on over to my calculator’s page and check it out. Choosing the perfect girl is at right your fingertips.
I am trying out less moderation on this blog. This means that posters with previously approved comments will have their new comments auto-approved – they will show up immediately. This should make for a more dynamic and smooth discussions as I will not have to read and approve every single comment.
Go frolic!
With inspirational suggestions pouring in for topics to cover on my blog, I thought it would be a great opportunity to gather some criticism as well.
In the past two years I have been writing and commenting and discussing and exchanging viewpoints with hundreds if not thousands of people. I have been blogging, commenting on other’s blogging, writing on discussion forums and mailing lists. It’s time to take a step back and see if I should correct something in the way I form or present my viewpoints.
I would like to invite criticism from the readers of this blog. From you.
How about it – is there something you think I should improve upon?
Turning to you for inspiration;
What would you like to see me cover on this blog? Yes, I have a set of categories and you may have seen what I typically cover on my blog. But for a moment, forget all past posts. What would you like to see?
Propose a subject by leaving a comment on this blog post. I may be inspired to go with the flow 🙂
I finally got around to redesigning my website.
It’s been like this for a few years now:
Now it looks like this:
I know, it’s a crazy idea… no structure, not at all professional, only a drawing… OMG WTF? BBQ!
But it’s all there. Even a new revolutionary take on organization (I’ll make that a separate blog post later).
Hop on over and check it out.
It is quiet here these days because me and my family is on a sailing vacation, only occasionally on the net 🙂
I’ll be back in full force at the end of July.
Will try to drop by and approve comments every few days.
Welcome to my new blog. My previous Scientology and IT blogs are now consolidated to Isene’s blog. Blog posts worth preserving will find its way to my personal home page.
I have made a set of categories in anticipation of blog posts to come: Philosophy, Scientology, IT, Intellectual “property”, politics, physics, mathematics, astronomy, art and HP calculators. Hopefully there will be posts for a variety of tastes. My artwork will also be published here.
I have included my original article on Free Will as a separate page. In a day or two I post a newly written follow-up. Stay tuned.
Leave a comment if you want to introduce yourself.
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