On October 12, 2015, I decided to read 54 books in a year (more details: Reading 54 Books in a Year). One year later, I’m sharing my impressions. The main takeaways are these.

Over the past year, from 10/12/2015 to 10/15/2016, I started reading 34 …

The committee for organizing and holding the election of the rector of KhNURE stated that it was impossible to carry out the work of preparing and holding the election of the rector of KhNURE.

Source: Витяг-з-протоколу-11-від-13.10.16.pdf.

For the fourth time in a row, the university is unable …

Let me tell you a joke. Five programmers are sitting at work late on a Sunday evening, December 31, wondering: how the fuck did they end up there. “What did we do wrong? Where did we screw up? What didn’t we do?” Looking for someone to blame and all …

Sorry for such a deeply philosophical post this late at night, but I was promised lunch for it.

The beginner level of stupidity is when you, like, know everything. Well, that is, in reality you know absolutely nothing, but for some reason you think you know everything. For any question …

Recently I came across a recording of a roundtable on the strategy for Kharkiv’s development, in particular IT technologies. During the discussion, KhNURE employees disclose financial figures. See the excerpt from 30:00.

Transcript:

Eduard Samson:
— Look at the volume of industry-funded research topics or contracts. Do you know …

There’s this public page called “Shitty Kharkiv.” The main content of the page is how everything in our city is bad: “And you just keep thinking Shitty isn’t really that shitty.”

This brain cancer started infecting others too. A public page called “SHITTY KhNURE” appeared. I never stop …

Students ask:

Volodymyr Ihorovych, I got into KhNURE, specifically KIU. How do I get into some company as quickly as possible? What year should I start working?

As quickly as possible means, from day one, make a list of companies, write a résumé, and start sending it down the list …

Someone has probably told you some abstruse motivational quote, or you’ve come across them in public pages. For example:

or:

With a probability of 0.99976556% × 10², these quotes were from Jim Rohn’s book “Five Pieces to the Life Puzzle.” Jim Rohn (Jim Rohn) is one of …

It’s funny to watch how, in the chase for instant results, people degrade into complete morons. Here’s a popular public page teaching kids to sight-read:

By the way, not everyone will be able to perform it correctly anyway: the note durations aren’t indicated here, and that matters …

Telephone marketing is when someone calls you from an unknown number and starts pushing some useless crap on you. It’s easier to swat away an annoying fly than an unwanted offer over the phone.

A couple of years ago, a woman called my work phone, introduced herself as a …