Please find below my favorite passages from Dao De Jing that can be useful for leaders. I tried to choose quotes that can be understood without lots of contexts. It is amazing how the text written 2400 years ago can be still so relevant. …

Having read the book by Mari Kondo and successfully applied her method to my things at home, I enjoy my home much more now. I appreciate the things I have, and I do remember each and every one of them and where they are located. In addition, I started to…

Being in front of the screen 40, 60, 80, or even 100 hours per week for work and leisure purposes is certainly not the best investment in your physical and mental health. So what can you do to mitigate the negative effects? I think the most important is to organize…

Below are my notes and interpretations from the seminar by the modern philosopher Andriy Baumeister in cowo.guru educational center. Is there such a thing as a personal mission? A personal professional mission can be simple, e.g. caring for animals as a veterinarian; it is not about trends or achievement; reaching…

Being a fan of delegation and automation, I face more and more its limits in terms of personal meaningfulness. I am listing here 3 things I consider that one should be very careful about in case of potential delegating. Your understanding of the world and your place in it We take…

What I observe is the trend to automate our lives. Yes, I feel grateful to Uber, AirBnB, mobile banking, online shopping, and many other great tech products that improved my everyday life. But, what I see as unhealthy though is making technology new religion, obsession with efficiency, and ignoring things…

According to the report of the VC firm atomico, the top 10 tech capital investments in $M in 2019 in Europe were the following: Fintech: 9071 Enterprise software: 7505 Health: 3624 Energy: 3080 Transporation: 2306 Food: 2289 Marketing: 2088 Travel: 1945 Security: 1850 Robotics: 1392 As wee see, fintech and enterprise software are distinct leaders and industries where the most money is. Certainly, the amount of capital investments in 2020 in total will be most probably lower than in 2019 due to the pandemic. The travel industry will feel it quite painful. On the other hand, the health industry could get a boost due to COVID-19.

Why checking if any of the Sustainable Development Goals by the UN are part of the mission of your tech company is important? If your mission is perceived as meaningful by the public, then it is easier to sell a product, raise money, get exposure in the media, hire better…

If you want to target the German tech sector with your products or services, it is certainly beneficial to understand the structure and dynamics of it. I will sum-up the findings from the report of Deloitte from 2019: The sector generates about 230 billion euros and employs about 1 million…