Hi Guys! It’s been a long time… almost a year. I know I’ve been bad… but I have a good excuse. I have been busy starting my own business. It’s called BD as a Service. I resigned from my previous job at the end of January 2019, officially launched in May and (hopefully) am firmly […]
Would you want to be normal and miserable, or crazy and happy? It seems to us that mental ilness always makes people suffer and struggle, but this may not be true. We don’t know anything about the pathologies that make people happy. People are not likely to see a doctor and complain that they find […]
Recently I came across a website that sends letters to the future version of you. I had already heard of this idea before – it’s coming up in films and novels once in a while. The ability to send a letter to the future you raises an important question. How do you treat future you? […]
I read a lot of time management/productivity books. All of them give useful snippets of information/hacks. And (usually) they all suffer from the same problem. They tell you what to do, but they won’t tell you how to make yourself do it. It’s great to do things in advance, and not leave them to the last […]
I was watching the new ‘Daredevil’ today. The protagonist of the series struggles with his identity and the past. In the last episode of the series the main character, Matt Murdock, said a monologue that made me forget all about the action unfolding on the screen: ‘I realized that had my life turned out any […]
Someone asked me recently how to deal with assholes. The person asking the question suffered from a compulsive desire to ‘clear the air’, talk things through and explain to an asshole that he or she isn’t right. With predictably poor results. I gave the answer, and then thought it’s a good idea to post it […]
I don’t know about you. But I believe there’s a shortcut to everything. Very often things that look like difficult tasks can be solved with no effort at all with very simple steps – if you know which buttons to push. I was visiting a friend once who was trying to set up a streaming gadget […]
You may have heard the advice to ‘never give up’. It’s good in some situations and not so good in others. If you are banging your head against a wall trying to make a hole in it, persistence is the least of your problems. However, maintaining a positive state of mind when confronted with bad […]
Short thought for today, inspired by Yuval Harari’s latest book. Harari argues that we should stop treating our thoughts as an integral part of us. That our identity is a fabrication of our internal propaganda. A story, carefully crafted to minimise discomfort and changing from time to time. In my previous article I looked into various […]
I came across a saying that resonated with me a couple of years ago. “People are not punished for their deeds but by them” – Richard Matheson. Growing up in Soviet style socialism, a perverted society, I was confronted very early on with a very real moral dilemma. Leading a moral life and not breaking […]
