Two years ago I had a problem. I had an unused bank account with zero balance, where I didn’t even have access anymore, while the bank was charging me a monthly fee. Naturally, I’ve found their client services phone number, called and wanted to close the account. Originally, I thought it would be easy. TwoContinue reading “Applying system engineering to organisational structure, part 1 (aka possibly a relatable situation)”
Category Archives: Day to day
FIRE movement – real people, real interviews
For those who don’t know this acronym but yet still found this post. FIRE is Financial Independence, Retire Early. Yes, that’s right. You can retire when you are 30 and live your dream life of sitting on a beach in the Caribbean, being server Pina Coladas all day and just getting fatter and fatter. ForContinue reading “FIRE movement – real people, real interviews”
One year since the first post
Few things I have learned. I thought I hated writing, I was never good at any language grammar and my last bigger piece was my master thesis, which was a bit more painful to write. In reality, I don’t hate it. I quite like it, even though I’m not particularly good at it. A lotContinue reading “One year since the first post”
Rephrase a problem to solve it. Or not.
I was listening to a podcast talking about steps to financial independence. “Step #1: Create a plan how to become top 20% in your field.” I stopped listening after that sentence, so I might be speaking out of my turn here. However, it is pretty much “How to become financially independent” = “Get millionaire generatingContinue reading “Rephrase a problem to solve it. Or not.”
Authentic hire
When I set up this blog I knew it will be a strange mixture of random thoughts from my personal and professional life. I had to decide if to write it under my name, anonymously, and even if to split it into “personal” and “work-related”. I still remember, when my man P-Diddy asked me “WhatContinue reading “Authentic hire”
The third conditional
If I studied harder, I would have known the grammar of the third conditional. I always struggled with English grammar. Especially, I could never learn that darn third conditional. I always learned it for an exam and then forgot it immediately. It was a big deal though because I’ve heard third conditional in Czech almostContinue reading “The third conditional”
Agile vs waterfall
Oh, the endless war. While principles of both methods can be explained within a paragraph, we see an amazing amount of £2000 courses, which will tell to you that user stories have to be only one user story size big and never bigger. It’s a blasphemy otherwise. “ACKCHYUALLY, user stories are in SCRUM and SCRUMContinue reading “Agile vs waterfall”
Learning progression
“Do you want a job at Google, Amazon, or Facebook? Sign up for these courses to learn to code/data science/cloud etc.” Or whatever these ads say. I’m not going to complain about it. It’s great we have a lot of resources and great resources to learn to code or learn other aspects of software development.Continue reading “Learning progression”
Happiness? Who said so?
“I wish I would have spent more time with my family.” says an ex-CEO and a board member of few companies. “I believe happiness comes from those small moments.”. No, you don’t. Why, when there is a conversation about happiness we take someone who had success in a business and listen to them talk aboutContinue reading “Happiness? Who said so?”
Do you listen to people or legal entities?
Have you ever wondered that a lot of content related to your day to day life and longevity is created and published by companies rather than individuals? Naturally, there is a lot of places where you want it to be the case! Hospitals, research centres etc. However, you’ll see content on “How to live yourContinue reading “Do you listen to people or legal entities?”
Just above average 