Jul 8, 2019Takeaways from the Preparing Slides CourseAbout a week ago I finished going through the Presentation Skills: Designing Presentation Slides course on Coursera. It proved to be a rather helpful guide for someone fully depraved of the ability to assemble anything that looks good in PowerPoint. If you belong to this kind like I did, I…Presentations2 min readPresentations2 min read
Apr 7, 2019Failure ChecklistJust about a year ago — early 2018 — I decided that I am ready to quit the job and build a business of my own in the wild. I won’t go through the details of how I came to that and what happenned next — the important part is…Startup3 min readStartup3 min read
Mar 30, 2019The Moneyball TakeawaysThe Moneyball Takeaways I recently watched the Moneyball movie — a biopic after Billy Beane, the manager of the Oakland Athletics baseball team. …Management2 min readManagement2 min read
Nov 10, 2017Use Trello as the good old day plannerIn the old days of my first attempts to plan my work ahead instead of simply following the stream of life I used a paper-based personal day planner — a thing that everyone had at some point. It is a great tool that has almost everything that one needs to…Productivity5 min readProductivity5 min read
Apr 11, 2017Takeaways: Ideal Executive by Ichak Kalderon AdizesI have already recommended the Management and Mismanagement Styles book by Ichak Kalderon Adizes earlier and now there is another title by Adizes that should draw your attention The book is called The Ideal Executive. Why you cannot be one and to do about it, which actually precedes the Management…Leadership4 min readLeadership4 min read
Mar 13, 2017What I Expect from a Developer’s ResuméOn a recent local programmers meetup we discussed the topic of writing a developer’s CV in such a way that it allows one to get to an interview past the initial screening. …Resume5 min readResume5 min read
Feb 16, 2017Search Algortihms in the Real WorldIn the middle of my university life I had a very strong desire to build a computer game. I was studying for a software engineer and still understood little about most of the software applications. At the same time I loved PC games, which clearly brought me to the idea…Coding4 min readCoding4 min read
Jan 16, 2017My 2016 Management ReadsThis post also appears in my other blog. It’s the middle of January, so everybody must have already published their version of summary for 2016. I will try to catch this leaving train and list several of the books that I read last year and found particularly useful for everyone…20165 min read20165 min read
Dec 20, 2016Interviewing Developers: triggers, part IIIThe series: Interviewing Developers Interviewing Developers: triggers, part I Interviewing Developers: triggers, part II Interviewing Developers: triggers, part III This post also appears in my original blog. In the two previous posts I focused on certain behaviors of an interviewee, which may indicate problems with their ability to become a…Hiring5 min readHiring5 min read
Dec 8, 2016Interviewing Developers: triggers, part IIThe series: Interviewing Developers Interviewing Developers: triggers, part I Interviewing Developers: triggers, part II Interviewing Developers: triggers, part III This post also appears in my original blog. Last time we looked into several responses that I don’t like to hear during an interview. In this post I will add more…Recruiting4 min readRecruiting4 min read
