We recently celebrated my wife’s birthday. I searched for a suitable restaurant, we were in the mood for Sushi. I found a place that -from the pictures- looked kind of cute and elegant in a certain way. I couldn’t really tell that much, most of the...
When an organization is starting out on its journey, however crazy and busy it may get, there has to be laser focus. When navigating the early days of a startup, it is all about the fight for survival. It is like the critical few seconds, minutes, hours, and days of a...
I was recently listening to one of Seth Godin’s podcasts, where he picked at the fact that writing has helped humanity to do a couple of things: go asynchronous (not real-time), and be able to improve on things that are written down. The last one is a...
On May 1st, 2022, Google will shut down the remaining access to all users of the original “G Suite”. G Suite even started out being called “Google for Domains”, and it offered the ability to use Gmail with a custom domain. That’s what...
No system in the world has been designed for every possible situation. Most of them have been optimized for a particular range and “use case”. As an engineer by training, it sometimes baffles me how this concept is not well understood. When we go outside...
What would you prefer to be? We have a bias in our culture to think that firsts are memorable. And yes, when the goal is really hard but there are no nuances to it, it is usually true. The first to reach the North Pole, the first to go up to Mt Everest, the first to...