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Serve Me Your Best Dish

I love good food. When I travel, I love exploring the local kitchen. The problem is, quite often other people appreciate good food, too. This means the best places to try a certain dish are often packed to the brim. A former colleague of mine once shared a really useful piece of advice with me.Continue reading “Serve Me Your Best Dish”

Do You Have Our Loyalty Card?

For years I turned down all offers of loyalty cards. Even if they were free. ESPECIALLY if they were free. I usually am suspicious of anything that’s free. It turns out, in this case, that I was wrong. A few years back I changed my policy. I started signing up for memberships. So long asContinue reading “Do You Have Our Loyalty Card?”

You Only Had One Job

Things can be done better. Everywhere I look, I see mediocrity. It’s like people have given up. The bar is low, and very, very few are struggling to push it up. And it’s everywhere. It’s in products we buy. It’s in services we consume. It’s our service providers. Every single thing could be done better.Continue reading “You Only Had One Job”

99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall

There are many aspects of my life I could improve. I could be spending less time, less money, less effort. But I can’t address all of these improvements at once. Where do I start? This is a known problem, also known as the Theory of Constraints. Software engineering has a solution. The idea is toContinue reading “99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall”

Where The Sun Doesn’t Shine

I work from home. Like many others, the pandemic got me working entirely from home. But even before the pandemic, I used to spend many hours in my home office. Since my work involves me sitting in front of computers, what I mostly do is, well… Sit. And I’m not as young as I usedContinue reading “Where The Sun Doesn’t Shine”

What’s Your Worth?

How much am I worth? I often ask myself that question. I believe the answer is relative. At the highest end of the scale, we have very few people. Elon Musk, at the top of the list, is evaluated at roughly $200 billion. That’s $200,000,000,000. That’s 2 followed by 11 (!) zeros. His worth isContinue reading “What’s Your Worth?”

Smile

I drink a lot of coffee. I mean, I could easily drink ten cups a day. While I enjoy my coffee, it does come at a cost. One of the most noticeable side effects of drinking plenty of coffee is the stains on your teeth. Since I can’t ignore the coffee stains, I have toContinue reading “Smile”

Nothing To Hide

My life is completely exposed. A quick Google search would tell you my name, the name of my company, my work history. My every detail lies bare. Why, then, do I care when a company like Facebook forces me to share my details with it? Does Google really care about my browsing history? They alreadyContinue reading “Nothing To Hide”

Turn Off The Light

It is said reading in the dark hurts your eyes. Well, that’s not true. At least, at the time of writing, there is no proof of it being so. I actually like reading white text on a dark screen. It reminds me of my early years in front of a computer. But it’s not everyone’sContinue reading “Turn Off The Light”

Inkredible

I spend hours a day reading. Whether it’s posts, articles or code, I read A LOT. A while ago, I discovered my reading could become much easier. As an added bonus, I learned I could also reduce my printing costs. So, what do the two have in common? Fonts. It turns out there are reallyContinue reading “Inkredible”