History is not only written by the winners. It’s also rewritten by people with an agenda. Scholars and experts not only scour past events to highlight their favorite version but also according to their own philosophy of history. The most common are: Great Man Theory – Churchill, Lincoln, Caesar, Charlemagne, Stalin. The greats have disproportionateContinue reading “History is not that Deliberate”
Author Archives: Artur Piszek
Engineer, Psychologist, Productivity explorer.
Both Software Engineer and Psychologist by education, I try to bridge the gap between those worlds by creating human-centric applications and use behavioral psychology principles to design ‘smart’ software.
Welcome to the talent wars
The new sought-after resource will be talent. Cities like Miami are already actively fighting for tax dollars of location independent workers.
Penguins and Effective Advice.
In 42nd issue of the Deliberate Internet, we chat about giving actionable advice, and that what you do in your bed is your business, even if that means business.
Bitcoin, Tesla, Bears, and Ducks
Bitcoin and Tesla. Yeah, I know – such a tech bro topic, right? I’m only going to mention this to squeeze in “I told you so”. I concluded last week’s Deliberate Internet issue with: Maybe this all will accelerate cryptocurrency adoption similarly to COVID accelerating Remote Work? We’ll see. Turns out Tesla has bought 1.5Continue reading “Bitcoin, Tesla, Bears, and Ducks”
Composability is the only game in town – Roam, shipping containers, Lego and Twitter.
Lego Blocks, Shipping Containers, Roam Research, Open Source, and any other unreasonably successful endeavor follows the fractal design of composability.
January 2021: GameStop, Parler, censorship, and crypto.
You thought 2021 is going to be an oasis of tranquility compared to the dumpster fire of 2020? After 31 days, there is A LOT to unpack in the events of January 2021, but I’m going to focus on events relating somewhat to the Internet. Keep in mind that this is all fresh and we’llContinue reading “January 2021: GameStop, Parler, censorship, and crypto.”
Technically Correct is Wrong
Even though something can be technically correct, it’s quite often an unhelpful or even a wrong thing to say. Not because of social norms, but because reality is more complicated than the one-dimensional model representing adolescent morality.
Most Deliberate reads of 2020. Plus a Baby!
In Deliberate Internet issue 39, I share the best things I’ve read in 2020.
Roomba having trouble docking? Check the IR sensor.
I’m quite happy with my Roomba 980, but few months ago it started behaving like a blind puppy searching for her mum’s breast. It managed to return to the vicinity of the docking base, but it could never quite dock. I had to dock her manually most of the times. The Infrared sensor When youContinue reading “Roomba having trouble docking? Check the IR sensor.”
Hello World!
A letter to my newly born daughter.