Category managment

Attention, please! How to keep your team engaged during meetings

Keeping meeting efficient and productive is a curveball and I learned it the hard way

Estimation: who is your enemy?

What is the estimation? For me, estimation is efforts, it is the amount of work, maybe lines of code, modules. However, it is never a time — it is not...

Category books

"Netflix No Rules Rules" - 2 mins book review

Building a healthy and productive work culture is extremely complicated. Biased, oversensitive, and ill-ambitioned employers & employees make most companies’ work environments toxic and hostile. Instead of changing, most companies...

"A Thousand Brains" - 2 mins book review

The Thousand Brain theory explains a new concept of how the brain works. Here is a great and compact explanation of the theory from Numenta.

"The E-Myth Revisited" - 2 mins book review

“According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, as reported by Fundera, approximately 20 percent of small businesses fail within the first year. By the end of the second...

George Orwell: 70 years ago, today, forever

George Orwell is famous for his dystopia, satiric novels, and today they are as valuable as 70 years ago. First time I read Orvells Animal Farm and 1984 in school....

"Escaping the Build Trap" - 2 min book review

Product management, for me, was always more art, craft than a profession. There is no silver bullet in mastering it: no MBA, no Master’s degree will make you a prominent...

"Good Strategy Bad Strategy" - 2 min book review

Does your company have a good strategy? What is the strategy? One thought with which I can relay a lot from the “Good Strategy Bad Strategy” that staff usually perceive...

"How Google Works" - 2 min book review

Countless times I have been recommended to read “How Google Works”, it pops up in many books, articles, and people talk about it. Despite that, I read a lot about...

"Measure What Matters" - 2 minute book review

Nowadays, no need to explain why companies need to have public, transparent, and actionable objectives. Nowadays - yes, but it was not always like that. John E. Doerr in the...

Marketing 101 - 3 best sellers review

Pretty often I have seen that my ideas would not land, people just don’t grasp them, don’t see them the way I do. The same applies to my pet projects,...

Jim Collins - ground research

I don’t think there are many people around who have not heard about Jim Collins. He is a legendary figure in the world of business literature. Hard to count how...

"Shoe Dog" - 2 minute book review

Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike. This book was recommended to me by a friend, a big fan of Nike. I hesitated to read it, assumed it...

"The McKinsey Way" - 2 minute book review

The McKinsey, The Firm - I heard this name million times, in news, books, and even movies. I never quite understand what makes this consulting company stand out and succeed...

"Zero to One" - 2 minute book review

Zreo to One intrigued me from the very begining by the story behind how it was created. In 2012 Blake Masters took class “CS 183: Startup” at Stanford lead by...

"A Sense of Urgency" - 2 minute book review

It is hard to disagree with “A Sense of Urgency”, people tend to focus more on the activity rather than output, create a false sense of urgency, resist changes. But...

"The Deadline" - 2 minutes book review

I was recommended to read this amazing novel at a time I was picking up my first project. And still, I would say that it is a perfect read for...

Focus on Mental Well-Being

How to maintain and improve mental well-being

"Critical Chain" - 2 minutes book review

Interesting novel, published by Eliyahu M. Goldratt in 1997 - “Critical chain”.

Engineering manager book shelf

I don’t read a lot about management, but when I do - it is usually recommendation from somebody I admire and respect. Therefore sharing a list of books that were...

Software engineer book shelf

I would not advocate that you need to read a lot of books to become an excellent software engineer, nevertheless, there are books reading which could drastically improve your skills....

"Primed to perform" - 2 minutes book review

Create productive organisation culture - “Primed to Perform”.

"Turn the Ship Around!" - 2 minutes book review

Story about the submarine captain fighting established bureaucracy machine - “Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders by L. David Marquet”.

"Atomic habit" - 2 minutes book review

How to create habits and make them stay - “Atomic habit”.

Category travel

Romania and a perfect road trip

Romania is a hidden gem in Eastern Europe. In 2019 I had a chance to do a road trip through it, from south to the north in 4 days, driving...

Сінгапур за 96 годин

96 годин 🤯 саме стільки можна перебувати в Сінгапурі 🇸🇬 з метою транзиту без візи Українцям🇺🇦. Отже, в кращому випадку, це 3 ночі 🌌 і на мою думку цього майже...

Category research

Emotional intelegence - why you feel what you feel

So many times after some situation happened where I acted in a particular way I asked myself “Why I did so?”. Often we are acting in a way we would...

Category pet-project

Game Night Just Got a Digital Upgrade: The Deck

The inspiration for “The Deck” came from a situation many of us have experienced. Imagine gathering with friends for a game night, only to realize that nobody has the necessary...

Unotone.com - one more attempt to stop waste

A few months ago, my wife shared how difficult it might be to find the right foundation tone: whatever she orders online, she buys a few samples and eventually throws...

Category politics

Ukraine-russia war. Stand With 🇺🇦

2022 February 24, 04:00 am putin gives an hour-long speech about Ukraine. It is full of chauvinism and nonsense about nazi & military threats coming from NATO & Ukraine. Finally,...