Living The Dream

Phu Quoc is a beautiful island in Vietnam, known for its stunning beaches, clear waters, and vibrant culture.

No one checks tickets on trains and people leave laptops and phones on the tables in the cafes if they want to take a stroll.

Here are my key impression from 2024 trip to Dubai where we got flooded by unexpected and unprecedented precipitation: The Dubai city is roughly two cities: downtown to the north and Jumeirah to the south, with a highway connecting them.

It’s been ten years since my paleo superpowers post.

Here are my key impressions from a recent trip to Colombia, to the cities of Bogota and Medellin.

It’s good to be a big fish in a small pond.

Civilization II Transport Tycoon Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Fallout and Fallout 2 Dragon Age: Origins Mass Effect 2 XCOM: Enemy Unknown Jagged Alliance Europa Universalis Command&Conquer Hitman: Codename 47 Heroes of Might and Magic III Tropico: Paradi…

This is the summary of my 2 years doing the master’s program.

The team project for my master’s degree in Innovation and Entrepreneurship from HEC Paris took about a year.

Today, I just finished the last (20th) course for the MSIE program.

Many of you know Maslow’s pyramid of needs.

Rich people can and do risk more than ordinary people.

I’m 3/4 into the Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MSIE) degree program at HEC Paris, and it is time to write a reflection on my experience.

Time flies.

In our day and age, learning is more important than ever because things change so rapidly.

In English, to wish someone a nice and tasty meal is said with “enjoy your meal”.

We’re halfway done with the phase one of the Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at HEC Paris.

It’s time to write a new blog post about my experience in the HEC Paris Master of Science program.

It’s already been two months since I was accepted into and joined the MSIE program at HEC Paris (Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship).

I truly believe that human brains didn’t evolve to process complex data.

Working is important.

This year I had a lot of changes.

Needless to say that cafes, open offices, commute and slow internet all impede productivity.

My main jobs are software engineering and writing.

As I was reviewing transcripts for one of my Node University courses, I was surprised to see so many “so”, “um”, and “ah” filler words.

I’m almost done listening to an audiobook A Man for All Markets read by its author and I’m fascinated by two things.

Being busy has became a badge of honor.

Before I wrote that success is boring.

Most people use social media wrong.

Create an online course to learn something yourself, to promote one of your other products, to help others and to make millions.

I’ve been doing software engineering for over 15 years now, and I always had to sit in an open office space.

Last week, I finished reading Scott Adam’s How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.

When people hear that I published 14 books and several online courses while speaking at 17 conferences in 2016 and working full time at Capital One on hands-on projects, they ask one question: “How do you find time?”.

Flow is a blissful state of activity in which time is distorted and reality is ignored.

I was at a conference and some guy told me after a quick chat “I’ll give you my feedback on Node University”.

Shaming is good because it’s a strong motivator to change.

I’m not a huge fan of reading.

I stopped saying “I’m checking my email”, because I almost never check them.

After reading Nassim Taleb’s great book Antifragile, I saw how one can apply the barbell theory, which he described in the book, to building a career in tech: Focus 80-90% of fundamentals like algorithms, data structures, specifications (W3C), standards (…

A lot of people are brainwashed into spending their hard-earned money into enduring stresses of traveling and adjusting to new places for subpar experiences.

Every time someone says: “I like traveling”, I know they are lying.

Are you worried about small stuff and losing the big picture?

Most of us intuitively understand that better products and services are better for you as an employee or business owner.

Recent Ryan’s book is another popular junk-read which have 0 substance and not only waste time but actually distract.

Weekends are too long… waaaay too loooong.

After reading Deep Work, I was sold on removing distractions.

I lived for 5 years in the Bay Area which is San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, and everything in between them (a.k.a.

I’ve noticed that there are a lot of paradoxes when it comes to attitudes and life which you can’t easily solve: Focus on doing vs. learning and expanding your horizons: You need to keep up with the latest stuff, meet new people and generate new ideas by…

We often hear that we need to listen to our customers/users from business, marketing and product development gurus.

A few years ago I would consider myself a person who likes to do things in a batch by focusing on one thing and seeing it through completion.