For the longest time, I was convinced that anyone writing for pleasure is doing it wrong. Or, at least, has never learned what it means to write well. Good writing can be devilishly tricky to get right because to write well, you need to translate your stream of...
Berlin has one of those street newspapers. Motz. It’s a community project that lets the poor and the homeless make some money. The sellers get on the U-Bahn (the underground) and offer copies, €2 apiece. And almost nobody buys one. It struck me recently, how strange...
The existence of free will is a hotly debated topic among scientists and philosophers. So far, it has neither been proved nor disproved. The discussion often boils down to the following question: Are there any truly random events in nature? Their existence would...
One upside, amongst many downsides, of the pandemic is that it taught me how to sell my services better. I’m serious. Back in January, I was in the comfortable position of having work lined up until August. Then COVID-19 happened, some of my clients got depressed,...
So… Week two of my productivity experiment. Turns out, not as easy or glamorous as week one. And though it might sound ridiculous, I actually struggled to keep up a shorter working schedule and felt a strong urge to fall back on my old habits. But more about that...
When you’re born in a country like Poland in the 80s, being racist, sexist, homo- and xeno-phobic is the only option on the menu. You don’t know any better because you’re a kid with no other point of reference other than the adults around you. You don’t leave your...
