During the New Year’s Eve of 2020 I had a life-changing conversation. I was employed in my corporate job back then but to earn extra money I used to mentor people applying to universities abroad, as a contractor for a couple of educational agencies. The agencies I worked for were…

“It’s the things we don’t do that tend to haunt us long-term — such as choosing not to take a new job, not to pursue a relationship, not to stand up for ourselves, or not to push beyond our comfort zones. We tend to remember the things in life we…

“Only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution toward the things that really matter.” — Greg McKeown, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Generalists vs specialists Some people call me a one-man band. It is indeed…

“The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands with the same pair of eyes, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.” — Marcel Proust — This is so cliche, but I find it scary to think that an average Pole reads below one book a year. Given that a typical person works 8 hours a day, then even if you add 3 hours for daily chores, 2 hours for eating or commuting, 1 hour for…

Why ask yourself questions? As Tim Ferris aptly notes, reality is largely negotiable. If you are brave enough to get out of your comfort zone and stress-test your boundaries, you will quickly discover that most limitations are a fragile collection of socially reinforced rules you can choose to break at…

New month, new recommendations. Two awesome books of a completely different kind, one book that everyone recommends but I find rather overrated, and one nice refresher about bootstrapping. Enjoy :-) Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, Patric Keefe 9/10 I love investigative journalism, not just because…

If you are following my stories closely, you know that I promised to publish two articles a month: one book summary of the previous month at the beginning of the month, and one reflection/realisation/life hack article in the middle of the month. Why did nothing come out on June 15th…

I feel like the number of books I am reading per month is declining with each month. If I wanted to be ver inspirational I would say that that’s purposeful, and that I have substituted quantity for quality, more thoughtful, reflective reading etc. Nah. It is just longer working hours…