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
What are you missing?
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?
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
I log my time spent on tasks at work, and over time I have noticed, there are two types of workdays. One consists of dozens of 5-15 minute tasks, updates, small checks, comments, reviews, short meetings and other smaller tasks.… Read More »Two types of workdays
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
People often ask me, how am I able to read and share so many articles and videos. I use RSS for more than 16 years since the days of Google Reader and until now I have not found a better… Read More »RSS is the king – How to read “that much”