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Managing time as a manager
Artur gets interviewed about his time management as Team Lead.
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Get ahead by not shooting yourself in the foot
There is plenty of traps and hidden dangers in life. But sometimes, people are so hell-bent on making an obvious blunder and shooting themselves in the foot that it’s tough to explain rationally because it is not.
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Alexander von Humboldt: the first Solarpunk
Humbolt was captivated by lush nature but loved humanity and the new technological developments. He believed that if we understand Nature and the laws governing her, we can create a sustainable future. He was the first Solarpunk and here are his ideas
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Farmers always Worked From Home
Farmers effectively work from home, and in the past majority of the population was farming. What can they teach us about Work-Life Balance?
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Investing Basics
Lessons from Dad: Investing Basics holds investement strategies that I would recommend to my children.
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402 Payment Required and why micropayments are doomed
Micropayments systems are doomed. Here is why.
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The optimal human performance formula: the basics
There are simple, effective and proven tricks to reach your optimal performance. And yet, you are not going to do them.
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The lazy way to being outstanding: go after hard things.
Doing the hard things is both the best thing for the company, for you and counterintuitively β your lifestyle.
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So you want to work at Automattic.
I joined Automattic as JavaScript wrangler in October 2015. My hiring process lasted for about 3 months and was worth every second of it. Here is a detailed account.
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Transcribing your iOS Voice Memos to Markdown with Whisper
I wrote a script to transcribe my apple voice memos to Logseq with OpenAI Whisper.
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Running Tumblr on WooCommerce
Tumblr has recently released features for creators to earn a living with their art. Whenever you turn those features on, we provision an entire WordPress site, with WooCommerce (and WooCommerce Payments) plugins to facilitate billing. This post explains why (in case it’s not obvious).
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Synchronizing WordPress posts with Github README.md
Synchronize your WordPress content with Markdown files from Github with this snippet.
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Book: A short history of nearly everything
My summary of “The short history of nearly everything” by Bill Bryson – a multivitamin of natural sciences.
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Sort by Surprising
When kicking off the project, the natural instinct of engineers is double down on what they know and purse that brilliant idea on how to deal with X. This is a mistake.
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RVing around alps
Over the last year, we have spent 4+ months in our RV, with a growing toddler and a confused dog. We worked, visited amazing places, swam in cold lakes, ate way too much pizza & gelato, and had quite a good time. These are some of the places we visited.
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Source Monitoring Errors
The human brain is much more adept at remembering pieces of information than remembering where those pieces came from. In particular, it can easily confuse fiction with facts and treat hearsay as proof. Here is how Source Monitoring Errors happen:
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What is an Algorythm?
What is an Algorythm? What does it have to do with Facebook or Instagram? Is it bad?
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Star Alliance Gold za 1/4 mil czyli Aegean Airlines
WyjaΕniΔ jak zdobyΕem status Star Alliance Gold latajΔ c 1 / 4 tego, co wymaga LOT. I dlaczego muszΔ lataΔ do Grecji.
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O co chodzi z tymi statusami w liniach lotniczych?
Dla kogo sΔ statusy linii lotniczych, co dajΔ i jak je Εatwo zdobyΔ?