Dear Reader, Try this exercise: for a few minutes, pull your phone from the cover and shut it down. Watch it. Consider that you look at much of your world, and speak to many people, through that shiny skinny piece… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader,As a physicist, I have always believed that a measurable hypothesis should be backed by numbers (or, at the very least, by comparisons). “This table is pretty long” is incomplete. “This table is pretty long with regards to what we are used” may seem redundant,… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, You may be familiar with the acronym RTFM. If you are not, let me point you to the relevant page of the Urban Dictionary: Read The Fucking Manual! More than being just a nerdish way to annoy lazy… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Someone says: “You failed.” Your reply: “No. I tried, and I failed”. See the difference? See the effort? Until next time, enjoy your Christmas!
Dear Reader, remember: seeing a list of numbered items is no guarantee for order. The Alphabet does not need an order to work properly. Until next time, never take anything for granted. And that is an order!
Dear Reader, Sometimes we feel inadequate, neither strong nor fast enough. Thinking “I’m a piece of s..t” won’t help. You are not fixed in stone; you are more like clay. You can improve. You are a work in progress, more… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, how much do you care about the quality of your art, of your work, of your relations? How much are you willing to raise the bar? If you let someone else set it, you may end up with… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, I’m getting more and more convinced that we can see our true self only when we are alone. The reasoning goes along these lines: when we are with other people we are (in normal conditions) not allowed to… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, Now and then I see workers performing and answering the same way anyone else could. That is nothing wrong in principle, as long as the answer is correct and the deliverables are reasonable. However, it smells fishy when… Continue Reading →
Dear Reader, we often hear the sentence “Do this job quick and dirty, don’t spend too much time and effort into it”. What is rarely understood is that “quick” passes quickly, while “dirty” stays dirty. The effort of cleaning up later… Continue Reading →
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