Raise your hand if you’ve recently read or heard any variation of the following three sentences: I just finished a two-week accelerated boot camp, quit my lousy low-paying job, and now I’m earning six figures. If I can do it, so can you! I lost 50 poun…

For some time now, I have wanted to set up a blog using a static site generator. There was no real reason behind that wanting. It was just the plain old curiosity combined with the drive to learn new things. I’m not sure when exactly the trend began, but I…

Is the glass half-empty or half-full? Know that one? The former depicts the views of our pessimist and the latter of our optimist on the state of the glass which volume is 50% occupied by some hypothetical liquid. How would our characters view the current…

I recently read a short blog post titled Saying the Difficult Things. It was trending on HackerNews and spawned an interesting discussion. People wrote that certain cultures are more direct than others, mentioning Dutch as an example of directnes…

Bombarded with an endless stream of content to consume, the majority often skips longer publications. Often, the reason won’t be because of the contents, but because of the knee-jerk reaction to the longer blocks of text. Conversely, there’s a group that d…