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
I have set an OKR for this quarter to provide feedback to my direct reports on a weekly basis. At first, I was a bit uncomfortable, but now it is a part of our 1:1s and I always try to… Read More »Weekly and Quarterly Feedback
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 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
A matrix or table is the simplest and most powerful tool that is rarely being used by people. There are some famous one as Eisenhower Matrix for planning and decision-making. You can also use it as a simple to-do list… Read More »The Power of a Matrix
“Managing a team of any size — from a handful of people to a whole company — is a continual balance between trying to empower people to achieve what they want (interesting projects, plentiful opportunities, a plethora of pay increases… Read More »Recommended Read: The Disappointment Frontier
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
“When a company starts playing weird games with how it reports user activity, something is going very, very wrong. In general, when a company starts trying to obfuscate the true numbers about its revenue, growth, or profit, it’s a bad… Read More »Recommended Read: We’re Watching Facebook Die