There are people without legs living in a poorest environment who are happy. And there are healthy rich people who are depressed. Mostly it comes down to expectations. If you expect more from life than you have, you will not… Read More »The Power of Expectations
Sometimes we want to give people we talk to a benefit of the doubt. We do not want to dumb down our content or say (for us) obvious stuff out loud. This usually backfires. People are more prone to stop… Read More »Harms of a Benefit of the Doubt
I have some experience with medical system in Slovakia over past few years and in general, people are nice and helpful, you get help and solid diagnosis and prognosis. However, there is one thing, that really annoys me and it… Read More »Burned Out Doctors
I ended up two times in an emergency room with a severe back pain (meaning I could not walk) and each time it took me several days to weeks to really walk properly again. After the first time. It took… Read More »Bulging disk helped me live a better life
What is a good school? Many parents want to send their kids to “elite” schools. Sometimes this starts from kindergarten (which is sick). However, these “elite” schools are not always (I would maybe also rarely use) excellent. They are elite… Read More »A “Good” School
I am currently finishing Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity, and it has over 400 pages, which could be summarized as So what is the 400 pages for? Stories. Almost no one will listen to a good advice, when… Read More »400 pages to say 5 things
When something goes wrong at home or at work and there is more than one person or team involved – which it usually is – it should always be analyzed. And it should be clearly stated how much and in… Read More »Share of blame and responsibility
For some time now I am doing short daily and weekly reviews. Here are the questions, for my daily review And here is the list for my weekly review What are yours review questions?
During the COVID pandemic, my son had his critical years of development as a child. At the same time, at my job, we were trying to make our facial recognition algorithm work with people wearing masks (and we succeeded). Which… Read More »Recognizing people in masks
When I was younger, more naïve, and less experienced, I thought that we could solve a lot of problems in politics by letting countries have different, even drastic, political systems, such as fascism and communism, and just allowing people to… Read More »Freedom to move