Personal

They say opposites attract, and that’s exactly the case with one of my best friends in the world and Brainient’s co-founder and CTO, Andrei Baragan, who turns 28 today. 28 going on 14, as he’s born on the Romanian Children’s Day.

I first met Andrei six years ago and we kicked off…

Two years ago, someone told me to keep my real friends very close because they’re hard to find. So I did — for the past couple of years, the relationships I have with my three best friends have grown immensely, despite the fact one of them is in Bucharest and another…

It was 3:30AM and I had just gotten back from a few drinks with Mike Butcher, Tarik Krim and a few other friends. I was having a glass of water and checking emails on my iPhone. No email caught my eye, so I opened Twitter to see what’s going on in the world. In a matter of seconds tears started dropping into the…

As many of you know, I’m a big fan of RescueTime (a tool that tracks how you spend your time in front of the computer). It has helped me get my social media time down from fifteen hours per month to about four. And over the past three years, I’ve been using it to make sure…

“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship”, Oscar Wilde once said. The first time we met, Dragos complimented my notebook. I said I liked his hat.

It was a hot summer day of 2007; I was running a software company and Dragos had just…