Lessons Learned

I just recently read Hannan Zubair ‘Life at 27’ story, and it greatly inspired me to start documenting my journey. If you haven’t already read it, then I highly recommend that you do. In his post, Hannan asked the question: how do you know that you are growing up? For…

The content mill trap is real, my friends. Writing and getting paid, it’s enticing. It’s like a piece of candy offered to you, but then you find out that it was rolling around in a linty purse pocket for a while and is suspiciously unwrapped and unsettlingly sticky. …

It was about a week ago. A week ago I entered the office of my first employer, Findwise, located in an old building in the center of Warsaw. I was feeling uneasy and unprepared. I thought I was a fraud, having not even finished my education in the field. Just…

Leap of Faith: Part 2 of 4 — Education and Learning Let me be straightforward here. The school does not prepare you for your life. Other than the primary class education, I can’t see what I learned in our education system that applies to my life right now. The school doesn’t teach us time management, energy management, mental health, primary physical…

The U.S. hit a grim milestone of 1 million Covid deaths — One million Americans have died from a virus that was unknown to humans just a couple of years ago. Covid became the third leading cause of death in the U.S in 2020. Ask yourself, what would you say to someone if they told you in just over two years, a…

People will look at you and say “you changed” as if you worked that hard to stay the same. Nobody wants to tell you why discipline is so important. Discipline is the strongest form of self-love. It is ignoring current pleasures for bigger rewards to come. …

My mother once told me that I deserved a love that made me love being me. That gave my heart a song to sing and my body a beat to dance to, lift me like a runners high… My mother knew you before she met you. I wore you on my smile the way soldiers wear battles scars. With honor of the recollection of my lips first speaking your name. I spoke your name and it felt like love. Eventually it was and with you, me, was all I was.