Life & leadership Linear progress in real life Never assume linear progress in your projects. I recently achieved my long-term sports goal - finished the OCR trail race (22km-long/1400m-elevation) in Harrachov, Czech Republic. As the Elite runner, I accomplished every single obstacle. It all required months of training in strength, endurance, dynamics, and technique. Similar to my
Life & leadership Software & health deterioration There is an analogy between software and health. Today, I returned to trail running after a month of recovering from an illness. How was it? Not as bad as I thought. My performance decreased by several percent, but months of hard training helped me keep my baseline on a decent
One bites Value of business trips This week I was on a business trip to our headquarter in Israel (I work from Poland). I don’t like traveling for business. * I’m not available for my family few days straight (instead of few hrs daily). * My 3yrs old daughter doesn’t understand why I leave her.
Life & leadership Paper vs mobile for note taking A paper notebook is one of the key tools in my professional work 📓🖊️. Although I couldn’t measure it, I somehow knew it made me more effective. Now I found the evidence. Pen&paper notes activate long-term memory areas in your brain 🧠, compared to working memory (your brain’s RAM)
Life & leadership Celebrate Labor Day Happy Labor Day to those who celebrate it today! I remember times when occasions like this (long weekends, extra days off) were only distractions - from growth, career goals, and work objectives. Today I know this short pause is priceless. It's time to stop, recharge batteries and reflect on what's
Life & leadership How I progress and achieve my goals Here is my pattern for progressing and achieving goals. Today I've finished another OCR run—the longest one in my life - 13km. And I did 100% of the 50 obstacles. Next stop - +21km / 70 obstacles on trail&OCR run. Seven months ago, I barely did 6km. And I
Life & leadership Stay hungry, be grateful A few days ago, I celebrated my birthday. It's a perfect time to look back at the last 12 months. What I learned, What I achieved, What I experienced, What I'm grateful for, What I did for myself, What I did for my loved ones. Retrospective isn't an obvious thing
One bites Continuous improvement This weekend, I finished the first obstacle course race in the professional Elite league. Something I wouldn’t have even dreamed about one year ago. But this story starts a few years earlier. I had a backbone injury. I could barely walk, fighting with pain 24/7. Fortunately, this wasn’
One bites Working from home changed my life WFH changed my life. It helped me become a father I would have never been when working from an office. It's funny. I was always an office-first person. I still am. I work 2-3 days on-site because I prefer to. Yet thanks to the lockdown, I could fully experience what
One bites Perfection is the enemy of good Perfection is the enemy of good. We tend to overoptimize things that don't matter. We tend to polish something that is already good enough. We don't share our knowledge because we think it's irrelevant. We collect countless edge cases to cover before we even start working. Perfection makes us unhappy.
One bites 1000x "whys" from your kid and leadership How does being a father helps me be a better leader? 👨👧💡 One proven way to build children's self-esteem is not to force them to do things. Don't use the position of power, but inspire, explain, and acknowledge their feelings. Since my daughter started to perceive causality, she's been asking 1000x
One bites I don't plan on Sundays I don't plan my workweek on Sunday. And it seems to be an unpopular opinion in leaders' communities. I plan my week on Fridays before I finish my work or early morning Mondays. It wasn't always like this. There were times I was super excited about my job and times
One bites Weekend reset There is no work vs. life. There is one life. Even though I do my best to work 8am-4pm, work and life spillover are not surprising. I keep thinking about work challenges and wins, I read professional books after hours, and my daily schedule is adjusted to my work schedule.
Life & leadership Work and life balance Yesterday I finished the winter OCR race, which is my first step in this year's sports goals I set for myself. 🔥 This is one of few things, next to photography which helps me stay sane. I spent multiple years chasing my professional goals at the cost of everything else. I'm
