The other day, I came across an answer on a social network to the question 'What s the most valuable life hack you ve discovered?' Being consistently reliable. Talent may impress people, but reliability is what they remember. That resonated with me immediately. For years, I ve been convinced that life becomes much simpler when you deliberately control [ ]
A part of my job is to debate with people about agile software development, sometimes, just analyzing discussions without taking part in it. I noticed one major factor that leads to arguments: misunderstanding. Two people may not agree on something only because they are simply not talking about the same thing, even though they are [ ]
The Sprint Goal, as defined by the creators of Scrum, is a selection of product backlog items that form one coherent feature, which helps a development team to work together rather than pursue separate initiatives. Ian Mitchell, a writer on agile software development, summarizes the usefulness of the Sprint Goal by writing the following statement on [ ]
It may surprise some, but my interest in cognitive sciences was initiated by the bullshiters I frequently encountered in seminars, meetings and other events related to my business sector (entrepreneurship, creativity and computer science). I was bombarded with countless theories and concepts, and more importantly organisational ones, each one more ingenious than the other and [ ]
When I created the first version in 2012, I never suspected such a success. After a few years of practice in agile coaching and the resulting deeper understanding of the Scrum framework, I decided to update the slides with the latest changes from the official guide. I also decided to focus on some of the [ ]
I ve been very busy lately. First, by finishing my studies of experimental psychology, and then, by all the projects that I had in progress. I still think about the direction this blog should take. Since I have undertaken a doctorate in the field of cognitive neuroscience in which there is an artificial intelligence component, I [ ]
I realize that it has been nearly a year since I have posted on this blog. I was short of time rather than short of ideas. To make amends, I have come back with something slightly more ambitious than previous publications, the first of many I hope. In this article I will explain to you [ ]
Entrepreneurs are often trapped in a vicious circle of hope. Hope clouds judgement and can be what prevents the entrepreneur seeing things clearly and taking the appropriate decisions. Hope is so seducing that it s what is used in most personal development or get rich in x lessons books. Hope is also so powerful and rewarding [ ]
There are two common types of behavior I have noticed in people regarding their competition. You have the competition driven people, and the competition denial people . The first constantly monitor their competitor s activity by visiting their websites forums or googling them constantly, while the latter meticulously try to avoid any piece of text mentioning their names. Sometimes, [ ]
In this post, I ll talk about a problem that affected me personally really badly and that I see in too many other fellow entrepreneurs developers. Twelve years ago I thought that increasing my productivity would solve my problems. It did the exact opposite. My problems did not disappear. They became bigger as I became more [ ]