An unusual review of The Great Gatsby

One of my favourite books of all time is The Great Gatsby. I must have read it half a dozen times over the years, but while eagerly waiting for Baz Luhrman’s adaptation of the novel (coming out this May), I decided to read it again.

A most important CEO skill

As companies grow, they inevitably start seeing some employee turnover. If the company’s culture is entrepreneurial, some employees will go and start their own companies. If it’s rigid, some will leave for a more flexible startup. If it’s chaotic, some will leave for corporates…

Find of the day: multiple timezones in Google Calendar

I’ve never been good with timezones. I understand how they work and why they exist, but it’s a hindrance in my day-to-day calendar management because I generally need to schedule meetings on three different timezones (Bucharest…

Face Time

There are many reasons why I’m a big fan of distributed teams: cost savings (the cost for a developer in Romania is three times lower than one in Silicon Valley), 24 hour work-cycles (if you have developers in the Valley as well as Romania, you could basically build product non-stop because when one team…

Size does matter

When it comes to technology, size does matter — the smaller, the better.

I love the iPad. I think there’s no comparable device on the market yet, and doing what I do I’ve tried all of them. For the past few weeks, I’ve been using the iPad mini. It’s awesome, so much so…

Merry Hacking!

One of my most vivid memories as a kid is sitting on a little wooden chair in the garage next to my dad as he was dismantling the entire engine of his Dacia 1310 at weekends. He’d explain what the various parts do, then clean and put them back in. Sometimes he would discover stuff that was broken…