Pursuing the world of startups. Creating videos @Jurnalul Unui Olimpic. Ex-Software Engineer @Amazon.
Ever felt like an invisible force is keeping you from taking action? You want it so badly. You think about it every day. But something stops you - you’re feeling mentally paralyzed, just like in those dreams where you can’t move or run.
Got overwhelmed by the complexity of some goals, so I built a way to visualize them in one glance. pic.twitter.com/jVGgCluC7y— alexand.ro (@alexand__ro) April 11, 2025
Don’t let time fly before you start achieving your goals. That dreadful feeling of another month passing, another year, but you are not closer to your goals.
As of 1st of January 2019, I am taking action on the decision to accelerate the progress towards my vision of creating a positive impact upon the world through the world of startups by leaving Amazon after working 2 years and 4 months as a Software Engineer.
I’ve been asked this question quite a few times now. The picture above represents the center and University of Bucharest where I have studied computer science. I was there for a few days in October and I wanted to rent a place that has the view composed of the landmarks that witnessed my passion, hustle, determination, enthusiasm and desperation every time I was walking around them.
This may be the most important problem of our lifetime.
Our thoughts are the most important things we have as humans, they are the ones that dictate the person that we are. Whatever we are doing, whatever we decide and however we see the world is managed by our thoughts. Even what we have around us and where we live is dictated by them. You don’t have the current house, clothes, car, income, relationships because of the randomness of the world, but…
Oh, Madrid, I’m writing this letter directly to you. This is the exact same place that I saw you for the first time. It was 1 year ago, on 29 august 2016, at 20:47, my airplane arrived in your airport from which I entered directly into your metro. I never saw the city, not even from the windows of the airport, I had no idea how you look like. I had some vague idea and expectations because you are…