Category: Articles
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Not everyone can be a programmer. But everyone should learn how to code.
Programming is trendy. Every month I see a new ad of some course that will supposedly turn me into a developer. Some of them claim they can teach everyone to code in as little as 6 weeks. Others last a whole year or more, but will only collect any money once you finally land your first coding job. Some of…
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Houston, we all have a big problem here
Okay, this is quite embarrassing. For more time than I’d like to admit I thought that Houston was the name of some really smart guy at NASA. It took me the while to realize there’s actually a whole space center in Houston, and soon after that I got a chance to go there and see it myself. As…
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5 books to read if you’re losing faith in humanity
Even if you’re the most optimistic person in the world, following world news can recently feel quite overwhelming. It seems that technical progress has far outpaced our mental growth, and the four-year-olds in us are not yet ready for the inventions of modern civilization. If you slowly get to believe that humanity is screwed, or caught yourself looking for a safe hideaway…
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Getting back to the basics
Last year brought many changes for me, and most of them were simply amazing. I have the freedom I’ve always dreamed of – to do something I care about, whenever I want, wherever I want, and the way I want it. After so many years of working the Korean way, this freedom feels truly overwhelming. It’s like…
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2016 was the best year ever
I’m 100% serious here. I can clearly see many alarming global and local trends, but the worst trend of all is the attention economy that rewards extremism and apocalyptic beliefs. I know some regions of the world are deeply torn by terror and war, but when you put that in proper perspective we’re still living in…
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Girls.js – our own little school of magic
There is a certain kind of joy that comes from creating something out of nothing. For the whole human history, this was what pushed painters, writers, and composers forward to paint, write, and compose. To me, there’s even more joy and pride in the process when it feels like bringing something to life. It doesn’t…
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Survival Kit (Not Just) For Customer Support
For some of my friends it’s hard to believe it, but I do love working in customer support. There’s a certain kind of joy that comes from helping people, that can hardly be felt if you’re just interacting with machines all day. However, for every 50 customers who are all happy and grateful, there’s always…
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Lessons learned while working on the road
It’s been exactly one year since I came back to Poland from my crazy Korean adventure. When people asked me then what I planned to do next, I would say “get a remote job, get my stuff in a backpack, and get the hell out of here and round the Cosmos”. That was some abstract wishful thinking,…
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Drive: What motivates us, and how not to kill it
Imagine a workplace without carrots and sticks. No hands-on control of what people do and how they do it, no extra rewards for great performance, no extra punishments for falling behind. Sounds pretty abstract, doesn’t it? If you’re like most people, you wouldn’t probably bet on this company’s success. Yet when there’s some innovative job to…
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Let the Happiness journey begin!
Today I’m starting a new job as a Happiness Engineer. Yes, seriously. This is in fact a real job title, at least as real as it gets in a company that shows complete disregard for titles and hierarchy. I told a few people I’d work as a Happiness Engineer and was amused by their reactions. Some…
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