Sometimes you meet a person who self-identifies as an “idea generator” and, by that fact alone, asks for a place aboard an organization. Such people should be driven as far away from the organization as possible, for the following reasons.
First, there is no shortage of ideas, just as there …
From the bell tower of ten years of teaching experience, as well as 7 years of experience organizing international conferences, I formulated this empirical law:
The amount of knowledge received is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source to the recipient.
Corollaries:
— at lectures, conferences, and …
The success of a software project can be judged by two characteristics: a) quality; b) delivery time. If one of these characteristics is unsatisfactory, several interesting questions arise:
If a project manager doesn’t have a technical …
Last week I got a message from a good friend who lives abroad. Like, “why are you bad-mouthing Maidan, it seems like something good.”
The phrase “something good” really grates on the ear. This conversation was already after the nighttime dispersal of the students, the deaths of people, people being …
As late as noon on Thursday, nothing foretold disaster. But at 4:00 p.m. the first warning bell rang from an unknown number:
— Hey, so are you coming tomorrow?
After a couple seconds of thinking, from the voice and the question I figured out who was calling.
— Yes, of …
And yet, sometimes you really can find a diamond in the mud!
Usually there’s no reason to linger in the long tunnel at Proletarska metro station. This time, as I was walking past a book stall spread out on the dirty floor, among a multitude of colorful covers my …
— Platoooon! Dress right! As you were! Dress right! Atten-hut! Open your notebooks, take notes!
Oddly enough, the question “how do I become a senior?” comes up on the internet much more often than “how do I become a junior?” From this you might get the impression that no one is …
When I was a schoolboy, my father often took me with him to the radio market located at the Heroiv Pratsi metro station. While waiting for the train at the Istorychnyi Muzei metro station, Dad would point to the bas-relief and say:
— Look, that’s a chopping block and an …
There’s an old joke: what would happen if programmers became doctors?
“Doctor! My leg hurts!”
“Strange, I have the same kind of leg and mine doesn’t hurt.”
Few people know that this actually happened. An icy horror grips my heart when I reread the records of those tragic …
Today in a debate I came across this opinion:
You have to pick up a book and read it, attentively ! Not this thing where it’s 10 little pages today, some more a week later, and so on...
I completely agree with the statements: "you have to pick up a …