This morning a young man called me from +380 95 746-21-82. The young man introduced himself as an employee of the National Bank of Ukraine. He even gave me his first and last name, his position, and some reference number. Then he said:

— For your identification, we need to know …

The author of the best math textbook got shortchanged at the market. Don’t learn math. Stay a dumb moron.

Figure out the year of the shot and the place in KhNURE shown in this photo:

Why am I bringing this up? I found a little archive here:

Many of the photos are more than 10 years old. It’s interesting to look at how it was back then and …

Today at business school we discussed the film “Groundhog Day.”

The plot of the film is that a journalist ends up in a prison of time and is forced to live the same day over and over again.

The film is very interesting. But what conclusion can we draw from …

Most often, people bring back kilotons of photos from various trips. Rarely does anyone record video. And I like recording the vivid sounds of the places I visit. After all, photos, videos, and sounds bring memories to life in different ways, and complement one another very well.

The purring of …

Year after year, you have to explain the same thing to newcomers: “Nothing worked out for me,” “Nothing works for me,” “I can’t do it” — that is not a description of a problem. It is just whining. And whining is emotion, not the substance of the problem. Emotions won …

I recently read George Orwell’s book “1984.”

They say this book is on the school curriculum. I don’t remember anything like it being on the school curriculum. People are constantly referring to this book, so I decided to read what this thing actually is.

When I started reading …

This week’s disrupt is Docker (pronounced “Docker”) — an open platform for developing and deploying applications for microservice architectures. Unlike virtualization technologies, Docker uses Linux kernel capabilities to isolate applications, running them on a single operating system but in an isolated environment — a container.

A comparison of virtualization technologies and …

In the Soviet Union, ice cream cost 7 kopecks, a bus ride cost 5 kopecks, and a box of matches cost 1 kopeck. Small change made sense.

I remember in the ’90s, when coupons were still the national currency (coupon is short for “Kuchma stubbornly keeps deceiving the people.” Don …

People often ask: how I personally organize my work. I use a lot of tools for personal effectiveness. Today let’s talk about the task list.

A task list is the most important tool for organizing personal effectiveness. Absolutely everything that needs to be done gets offloaded from your head …