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    Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 8: Don’t Those Super-Short Timeboxes Make Timeboxing Meaningless?

    August 18, 2010
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    OK, now I’m just abusing the word “trilogy”. Series starts here. Previous post is here. I can’t find the original comment, but back in one of the preceding timeboxing posts, a kid asked a very pertinent question. It went something along the lines of: “How can a 60-second timebox have any meaning or motivational value if you know you’re just going...

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    Getting Back On The Horse: How To Make A Comeback from a Japanese Hiatus

    July 16, 2010
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    So, the other day, I’m eating spinach, and I get this email from a kid we’ll call Amphy, because that’s her online name: Hi Khatz, Your recent posts, adapted from a IM conversation with you friend Maddie, really struck a chord, especially how she said she always gets sidetracked and fails. That’s I guess the position I’m in at the moment: I...

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    Ask Dr. Khatz: Sidetracked in Salt Lake, Part 3

    June 10, 2010
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    Maddie and Khatz go way back to university days when they studied together in the computer science department. Now, as a video game programmer in a major company, it would seem Maddie has it all. There’s one dream, however, that has remained elusively beyond the reach of this avid anime fan, gamer, and cosplay seamstress — the dream of...

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    Ask Dr. Khatz: Sidetracked in Salt Lake, Part 2

    May 19, 2010
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    Maddie and Khatz go way back to university days when they studied together in the computer science department. Now, as a video game programmer in a major company, it would seem Maddie has it all. There’s one dream, however, that has remained elusively beyond the reach of this avid anime fan, gamer, and cosplay seamstress — the dream of...

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    Ask Dr. Khatz: Sidetracked in Salt Lake, Part 1

    May 9, 2010
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    Maddie and Khatz go way back to carefree university days when they would put in long chocolate-milk-fueled hours in the underground computer laboratory hacking away at never-ending oceans of code. Now, having landed the most awesome and lucrative job of video game programmer, it would seem Maddie has it all… There’s one dream, however, that has remained elusively beyond...

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    Surrogate Mother: The Proper, Correct And Only Way To Do Private Tutoring

    November 12, 2009
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    Surrogate Mother: The Proper, Correct And Only Way To Do Private Tutoring

    Pen-name Jason sent me this cool email yesterday: Hey Khazumoto, Huge fan of the site,  I’ve read almost all of it.  I come to you with a question because I respect your opinion more than anyone on the subject of learning languages. I live in Seoul and I’ve been learning Korean for a little over 2 months.  I enrolled...

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