I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I&...
I consider myself a "product person". Counseling, consulting, and other types of mercenary work are cool short-term, but I'm not going to fool myself. In the end, I want to build (organically) something persistent and lasting that will stand out in comparison with the competition and...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least in...
Goals are not rocket science, right? Just make sure they are SMART [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria], confirm the specific objective value, and get yourself busy, striving to get there before the deadline is due, correct? In fact, many do just that. I find it an equivalent of...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "They...
The pandemic is over. I know there's a non-zero probability I've just turned myself into a meme with this (very rushed) statement, but since the very beginning, I was convinced this mayhem could end only in one of four ways: 1. near-zero-latency, easily accessible, cheap tests...
I've decided to publish this blog post because it depicts the way of organizing the work that is non-linear, highly async, and requires constant navigation across vast amounts of multi-dimensional, interconnected data. IMHO such a problem space requires a very unorthodox approach. This is a story about how...
The funny thing about leadership is that the more I speak/write about it, the more people become interested in the topic and the more questions (about it) I get. It's not necessarily a bad thing (well, but I'd rather not have this blog about the...
Disclaimer: This will not be a typical post from No Kill Switch. You know: one that follows one of two patterns - either "hypothesis -> answer -> summary" or "thesis -> confirmation/denial -> summary". Instead, expect something much more chaotic -...
How are things? Is the business going right? Nothing unexpected going on RIGHT NOW? Or let me ask in a little bit different way: if there was anything wrong going on with your platform, how would you know? How quickly would you be able to spot the issue? Who'...
Spotify [https://www.spotify.com/pl/home/] has revolutionized the music industry - it's a fact, not an opinion. I couldn't help falling in love with it at the very first glance. It brings tens of millions of instantaneously available songs, personalized recommendations, dedicated apps for...
