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There’s Never Right Amount Of Work

There’s Never Right Amount Of Work

I once heard from an experienced entrepreneur that in business there’s never a right amount of work. There’s always too much or too little. It applies to projects, clients, office space and others. It and looks like this: Think about what it means… When the lows are at

Crucial Stuff Nobody Taught Me Vol. 1

Crucial Stuff Nobody Taught Me Vol. 1

Here’s a bunch of things I learned the hard way. I’m putting it out here so perhaps it’ll save you some time (and a as a reminder to myself). Ignore the art you don't like. They tried to teach me about art epochs, poems, novels,

HDMI Cable Reminded Me Why I Live The Way I Live

HDMI Cable Reminded Me Why I Live The Way I Live

Yesterday was a historical day for me. I plugged an HDMI cable into my TV set for the first time in my life. Of course I used that cable before to hook up projectors and stuff, but never for my own TV set at home. That’s how far I

Goal Setting Is SCARY Powerful. Because It Works 100% Of The Time

Goal Setting Is SCARY Powerful. Because It Works 100% Of The Time

Imagine you can achieve whatever you want. Whatever you truly want and commit to. Over last two years I used the 7-step method for goal setting. It worked every single time. 100%. Whatever goal I have set I managed to reach it. Now this is scary. Old proven method The

The Nightmare of Shipping - The Mercedes AMG Video

The Nightmare of Shipping - The Mercedes AMG Video

I recently shipped a video I made for a competition. It was a horror & fun at the same time. Here’s the story of internal turmoil I went through in order to ship that video. Idea I went for a short vacation on the seaside in the beginning of

One More Thing… Apple’s Marketing Hysteria

One More Thing… Apple’s Marketing Hysteria

Apple has shown us a lot of new, sleek technology on Tuesday. Starting from facial recognition in the iPhone, through 4K Apple TV with HDR, up to a smartphone built into a wrist watch! They proved an amazing ability to design and produce high quality products again. But this time

One Knob Too Far. How Car Manufacturers Killed The Volume Dial and Compromised Our Safety

One Knob Too Far. How Car Manufacturers Killed The Volume Dial and Compromised Our Safety

I recently test drove Honda Civic and Toyota C-HR. None of them had a physical volume knob. For me it’s a dealbreaker in choosing a car. Here’s why. Touchscreens Touchscreens conquered modern cars. The problem with them is that in order to know what you’re doing you

How Buying On Spec Leads To Trouble. For Consumers & Businesses

How Buying On Spec Leads To Trouble. For Consumers & Businesses

When we want to buy something expensive we do research online. We shop around and compare. We check specs, tests and comparisons. That’s how I bought my previous camera, car, shoes and a bunch of other stuff I don’t enjoy. I’m done with it. Car Spec Nearly

New Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets - Wonderful & Grim News At The Same Time

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

Benefits of Living Under a Rock

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

Client Satisfaction Levels

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

What I’ve learned 2016 - Simple & Powerful Stuff

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

Dark Matter - Science Fiction You Can Identify With

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

The Business Disconnect - What Separates The Great Ones From The Average

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

Slack Teases 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'

I have arrived

I have arrived. Many times. And I didn't even notice. Arrived where? Achieved the goals set many years ago. Do I feel accomplished? Not the slightest... We're all on a journey towards our dreams. We set goals either professionally or amateurishly, by assuming them. And then

Blogging True

I realised I'm blogging about some abstract topics. Things I've learned from books and then in practice. I tend to generalise what I see and try to teach others. Who am I to do this? Who am I to tell others what to do and what&

Life Hidden In A CV

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.

Shadows Of Thoughts

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 A Skill

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

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

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

On That Nasty Writing Challenges

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

Amazing Power of the Human 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