Physics New Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets - Wonderful & Grim News At The Same Time NASA recently announced that they found a planetary system that has seven Earth-like planets [https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1419/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around-single-star/] . Three out of which are in a habitable zone… this made me excited and worried at the same time. Why It's Great News? This kind of discovery
Information Benefits of Living Under a Rock I watch no television, listen to no radio and read no newspapers. I don’t even allow Facebook feed to fuck with my brain. And you know what? It feels great! Recovering Infovore I’m was an information addict. Back in high-school days I used to watch 4 hours of
Business Client Satisfaction Levels Client satisfaction is separate from the deliverables they purchase from you. It’s much, much more. It needs connection, empathy and trust. Delight demands even more than that. Levels of client satisfaction: 1. Angry 2. Disappointed 3. Satisfied 4. Happy 5. Delighted 1 is screwing with customers. It’s what
Learning What I’ve learned 2016 - Simple & Powerful Stuff I’ve decided to take a look at what I’ve learned this year. First there’s list of observations and strong life lessons. Those are epiphanies. I can honestly say I feel those things in my gut. However trivial they may be on the intellectual level, I can say
Book Dark Matter - Science Fiction You Can Identify With Excellent book. Fast action. Great characters. Amazing story with plenty of unexpected twists. Sci-fi component is light and aligned with the most recent discoveries in physics. And it all makes you wonder about your own life & identity. It’s hard to say more without spoiling the book. I’ll
Business The Business Disconnect - What Separates The Great Ones From The Average I recently heard about a product manager at a large, international bank. He's an owner of a financial product like a cash loan or something. He sits in the bank headquarters together with hundreds of other administrative staff. And guess what - he's never been in
Microsoft Slack Teases Microsoft Slack just published a full page ad in the New York Times [http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/2/13497766/slack-microsoft-teams-new-york-times-ad] to welcome Microsoft Teams to the group messaging market. I thought it's a great opportunity to play with the topic and try to predict how it'
Recruitment Life Hidden In A CV Reading a resume is a totally exhaustive activity. Each one is somebody's life compressed to just a page or two. How do you decompress that? Insanely Compressed Life I read dozens of CVs recently and I like it. I love seeing the work that goes into preparing them.
7 Days Writing Challenge Shadows Of Thoughts You may think that you know the thoughts you're thinking. Yeah, me too. It turns out it's not that simple. Your thoughts are just shadows of thoughts. They're incomplete, they're fuzzy, they lack boundaries, they lack rigour. Thoughts are transient as well.
Learning Learning A Skill In the past few weeks I pondered the difference between knowing something intellectually and knowing something instinctively, on intuition, in the gut. Rading To Know Will Only Get You So Far It all started over a year ago during a very intensive altMBA [https://altmba.com] course. During a month
Being Life's Mission: To Become Yourself I heard a story about a colleague's grandfather. He's playing a guitar, even though he's over 80. It's an unusual thing. I've learned that back in his younger years he was a professional, touring musician but his wife - the
Priorities On Priorities and Focus The world has infinite amount of options for us. Instead of reading this you might be doing a million different things. What's the opportunity cost here? Opportunity Cost This is what you loose by not doing the other things. By deciding to do one thing you give up
Writing On That Nasty Writing Challenges I always found writing challenges off-putting. Marathons of writing every day for a month, 100 days or a year always seemed to me like something both impossible and pointless. I realised I'm reluctant to take on even a shortest, 7-day long one. Why is that? Excuse 1: I
Mind Amazing Power of the Human Mind! I want to take you to a short trip. Short, but very fast trip to the edges of our current understanding of the world. For all the humanists out there, don't be afraid. It should be apprehensible to everyone even though it's about physics. In this
LinkedIn LinkdedIn Acquisition Creates Space for Disruptive Innovation in HR Acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft [http://www.wsj.com/articles/microsoft-gains-link-to-a-network-1465922927] caught us by surprise. It seems to be a very reasonable move by Microsoft and plenty of people analysed it already. What I want to focus on is what it means for the world of job-related platforms in the
Knowledge 3 Online Sources of Wisdom That Never Obsoletes and Will Make Your Life Better Believe me, if you haven't known them before, you'll thank me. They're packed with extremely valuable information. They give us the chance to learn the stuff our parents and grandparents never knew and schools forgot to teach us. I've always been an
Book Your Customers Lie to Themselves All The Time If you think you should advertise the features and benefits of your product, you're probably wrong. And All Marketers Are Liars by Seth Godin explains what to do instead. I'm a big Seth Godin fan. Fanboy even, I admit. Purple Cow [http://www.sethgodin.com/purple/
LinkedIn What LinkedIn Could Be For many years LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com] have been building a hope of bringing revolution to the obsolete job and HR market. In recent years it seems they've settled down as being "your online CV" + "candidate search". I'll try to broaden
Book Great Guide To Building a Great (Small-ish) Business - Zingerman's Part 1 Book Review This is one of the best business books I've read. Highly recommended if you run your own company and don't plan to turn it into a corporation. If your focus is to deliver high-quality services and make it fun for your employees - it's
Book Beautiful Constraint - Read This Before The Book This is one of the most valuable business books I’ve read. And it made me mad… It frustrated me because it describes a very powerful and universal business framework, but it’s written in such a bad style that it was a struggle to read it. The Good We
Wishes 2016 Wishes I wish You define what success means by yourself. Don’t let yourself be convinced it’s about money, luxurious car, 700 page long scientific paper, a position or anything else. It’s bullshit. To be happy you need: 1. Food and shelter. 2. Health. 3. A couple of good
Work The Shippers - Responders I can understand the people who aren't responsive to the emails and phone calls because they're busy shipping stuff. Making things happen. On the other hand I assume when someone is responsive to emails and phone calls they're not doing much important stuff. But
Communication Communication is Hard... But it's Everything Have you ever re-read your email only to find out it doesn't make much sense? Perhaps you've been astonished how differently the same discussion was understood by different participants? We stumble getting our message across to people all the time. Yet most of our work and
blogging Hello World ;) Every new project requires a "Hello World!", so here's one. This is a blog of Michał Nowak. Why Blog? This blog was created out of my necessity to write. For some reason I feel a strong urge to write. It helps me think straight, it'
