Stories tagged “reflection”
Indie hacking, startups, resilient systems - and staying sane while building a small company
Sometimes on sleepless nights, when you are trying to understand yourself a little better, a thought slips into your mind. At first you treat it as something strange. You think: 'Well, consciousness, …
Today, on my way to a concert that started at 22:00, I managed for a moment to catch a thought by the tail and look at it closely. It turned out to be a splinter from the past that, like a splinter in…
There was a time when I used to write lists for myself of things I absolutely had to do in life, or else it felt like it was not really a life at all. Along with everything else, that list included a …
The closer Web Summit gets, the less I write about it. Maybe I am afraid of scaring away the opportunities it might bring. Some time ago I discovered the Russian poet Boris Ryzhy, with his piercingly …
Today, for the first time, I had to fire someone from my infrastructure team. He was a good DevOps engineer who had worked at our company for almost three years. It was so sad that I still feel unsett…
I stumbled on a quote by George Carlin: 'If all kids are special, why do they grow up to be ordinary adults?' It got me thinking, because it really does ring true. When I was in school, every class, s…