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→ What Matters

37signals posted a job ad on their blog today, and they’re looking for an interface designer. It’s a superb post. It describes the position in detail – by reading it I know exactly what the position is...

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After Hours

Every person’s sleeping habits are different. You’ve heard about morning persons and evening persons, and some of that comes from the genes, I’d guess, and maybe some from practice. I remember in...

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Photos of National Geographic

I’ve had National Geographic’s “Photo of the Day” in my RSS stream for quite a while by now, and I’ll never stop being marveled by those shots. Simply stunning photographs. For the past twenty minutes...

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→ Advice for university students: “I’m not as smart as I thought I was”

The students that are successful look at that challenge, wrestle with feelings of inadequacy and stupidity, and begin to take steps hiking that mountain, knowing that bruised pride is a small price to...

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Perfection doesn’t exist

What is perfection? Who decides what is perfect, and when does one know when perfection is achieved? Is it even possible to achieve? Questions, questions. This post is a bit abstract and blurry, but I...

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→ On using your time

Interesting and important article about why we should consider the time we are spending on different people and activities. I’ve tried myself to be more thorough with choosing the tasks and things I...

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→ “Master of many trades”

We hear the descriptive words psychopath and sociopath all the time, but here’s a new one: monopath. It means a person with a narrow mind, a one-track brain, a bore, a super-specialist, an expert with...

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