5-question Interview
January 3rd, 2007 by binnur
Gordon Graham of Broken Bulbs: Innovation blog tagged me for “The 5-Question Interview”. This certainly was a suprise, a pleasant one that is.
1. What have you learned so far from your visitors?
This is a difficult question given the short duration of my blogging experience, and that I don’t track metrics on my visitors. I only know you from your comments. However, I have learned each one has their own motivation for reading my blog, and some have their own blogs. This allows me to learn from their blogging experience, but also learn about them through their blogs. Through the interaction, I also learn about myself: it is like a performance review feedback cycle 
2. If you could take any course (or courses) for free, what that course would be?
This is quite an insightful question - would the person pay for my PhD? (certainly I have been thinking about this…). After sifting through different topics that I would like to deep dive into (tarrot reading, SOA technologies, organizational design, entrepreneurial finance), one course I would really like would be on “Journaling like the Da Vinci”. In some stretch way of the imagination, blogging is a form of journaling. However, the ideas, opinions, details of Da Vinci’s thoughts, his curiosity, interests and findings left to us through his journals are extraordinary.
3. Are you satisfied with what you’ve achieved this year, in general?
Yes and no. On the personal side, I have learned tons about myself and about being an entrepreneur, and have even started to see the fruits of long-time personal goals. My previous corporate experience analogy of being stuck on the bus of the movie Speed, now feels more like an amusement park with fun (and not so fun) rides. However, I am still waiting for the epiphany to hit me (yes, I know that is a problem) for my next career step, so I can stop being a cost center.
4. Did blogging change your life or your personality in any way?
Absolutely. I ask more questions, I am more curious, and through exploration I learn more about my thoughts and perspectives: I go deeper than just reading the headlines. I also realized that I like writing, and it is a fun way to bring creativity into my life.
5. If you had the opportunity to meet one person that you admire the most in the world, who that person would be?
If I could time-travel to the past, it would be Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - he is great example of a leader with vision, personality, style and execution that changed a country. He would make a formidable CEO today. Since I don’t have a Tardis, I would choose Guy Kawasaki - great speaker, teacher/mentor and also humble with humor.
Now your turn. My “victims” shall be Rob Miller, Guy Kawasaki (maybe I’ll get my chance to meet him! :)), Anna McClain, Mike Griffiths (I enjoy his agile perspectives), and You the reader. Remember, you can alter any of the first four questions, but you must answer number 5 as written.