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The economy of wrong incentives

The economy of wrong incentives

Disclaimer The post is purely my personal opinion. I may be wrong and missing some essential bits and pieces so take it for granted. I still believe that no one does harmful and malevolent actions intentionally. However, our economy is broken, and we praise the activities that are not in

30-Day LeetCoding Challenge

30-Day LeetCoding Challenge

At the end of March, I received an email from LeetCode with an invitation to take part in the "30-Day LeetCoding Challenge [https://leetcode.com/discuss/general-discussion/551411/30-Day-LeetCoding-Challenge] ." Without too much thinking and hesitation, I decided that it will be a well spend time because it is always good

I draw for a month every day, here is what I learn

I draw for a month every day, here is what I learn

I start writing this post as a tweetstorm, but it became too long to be a useful tweetstorm, so I decided to change it a bit and publish it as a blog post. Yesterday I finished my journey over the self-help drawing book - "You Can Draw in 30 Days"

Inertia will eat it alive

building a company

Inertia will eat it alive

There are quite a lot of the things that could kill a successful company, but one of the cruelest one is inertia. Probably everyone already knows the story about a boiled frog [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog], and inaction is precisely the same story but about the boiled

One person company is a road to nowhere in the SaaS world

One person company is a road to nowhere in the SaaS world

There is a quite appealing idea out there - you can make a great business alone. You can make lots of money alone, and yes you can do it all sitting on your favorite couch, the only things you need is a cheap laptop, internet connection, and a decent idea.

personal development

Retro v.2018

Last week of the year is a great time to look back and figure out what are the results and make some course corrections to achieve even more significant results next year. Usually for this purpose I use, widespread in the software engineering word, the practice called “retrospective.” I am

One man hackathon ended up as a SaaS product

product development

One man hackathon ended up as a SaaS product

Tl;dr I spent a month building email addresses validation service and now it is live on https://smartlyse.com. Currently, access to the alpha version is invitation only, but you could leave access request, and I will try to do my best to let you in. Long version Once

Evolution of my product development framework

product development

Evolution of my product development framework

During the November, I had quite a lot of time to reflect over my past opportunities, regrets and approaches how I tried to build things and I understand that intention to make a profitable business from the beginning is something that creates an enormous pressure. Starting from this December, I

How I make pictures for my blog with Free/Libre software

How I make pictures for my blog with Free/Libre software

A friend of mine asked me for a few time how I made the pictures for my blog, so I decided to go with a small tutorial and hope it will be useful. Usually I start drawing the image for the post after I made the text content, but in

Prototype is even smaller

Prototype is even smaller

Today I'm gonna share the path I went on building the prototype of my idea and how I realize that prototype could be much less than I could even be imaging. A little bit about idea The initial plan was to build a service that allows anyone to generate best

Many roads lead to Rome

Many roads lead to Rome

This post won't be about history or geography; I just want to share the story about two of my imaginary friends that once upon the time happened inside my mind. Bobbie, the first imaginary friend living in the small town near Madrid and since early childhood had a dream to

personal development

On supporting dreams

After starting my journey as an entrepreneur, I found the strange issue when some of the people surrounding me do not think it is a good idea and rather skeptical about opportunities and perspectives. The skepticism is not a problem by itself but in combination with the advice they give