Would you be surprised to learn that acquiring new knowledge becomes much harder once you go past your mid-20s? Specifically, the number seems to reside around 25th mark. Nobody has a definite WHY, but there seem to be multiple factors at play. One, which is rather obvious, is […]
Category: Thoughts
Turning Chaos into a Line
I’m the most chaotic and unorganized person ever. Seriously. Give me an unknown task and, deep down, I go full blown hazard. Favorite example is my manager making a request to provide a timeline and plan to do X, where X is usually something that I have no faintest idea about. Gotta admit that […]
Surviving Breakups: The Handbook
Silence. These are the opening words in my journal, dedicated to my last breakup. This article was supposed to be called “The Sound of Silence”, because, that’s exactly what losing somebody feels like. No more sound of their voice […]
Rereading the Same Book
Last year I read 30 books. And then I wrote an article about it. What you can learn from it is that I was never an avid reader, but more of a (very) late-bloomer. But I figured that “if you want to be successful, you’ve gotta read. A lot”. Don’t really ask me what it means, but it is what I believed in. So I focused on reading a lot for the sake of reading […]
Q&A on Mental Health – Part 2
Part 2 of Q&A on Mental Health session. If you’re not familiar with it, go check the Part 1 first!
Q&A on Mental Health – Part 1
What is this article all about, right? Good question!
My very dear colleague, Eddy Mugwiza, and I had a pleasure of being guests of Helloworld.rs webinar titled “What is the cost of Mental Health in IT Industry?” (Serbian-speaking readers can watch […]
Are you taking care of your Mental Debt?
I’m sure you’ve heard of the concept of technical debt, right? The idea pretty much boils down to – if you are writing a code, you are most likely creating a tech debt along the way. And if you DON’T repay the debt (e.g. by scheduling regular maintenance intervals), you will accumulate even more […]
Hacking your brain with Active Vacations
Nine out of ten times, asking somebody how their vacation was, the response is along the lines of: “good, but too short!”. And you know what? They are right; at least from their point of view. Or, to be more precise, from their emotional point of view. On the other hand, I’m sure you’ve […]
Beating social anxiety with shame-attacking exercises
I talked about this on multiple occasions. Even wrote a full blog post about it. I’ve been attending REBT (Rational Emotional Behavior Therapy) sessions for 5+ years. What I will focus on is a specific time period. Period when I was “tasked” with doing the shame-attacking exercises. Yeah. For those unfamiliar, the concept of […]
I was pissed
This article was supposed to be called “I am pissed”. That’s how I envisioned it. Because, guess what? I WAS pissed as fuck at the time when I wanted to write it. The only reason I didn’t was that I was so pissed about being pissed that I couldn’t even start writing about it. Go […]