🏀 Paralyzing Success
Why you'd better fail
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Why you'd better fail
Why the changes in your life can only be the result of your efforts
How staying a perfectionist can stop you from results
A continuation of the post why it is important to verify information and how you can check if your beliefs are in line with your own standards.
Why government is not effective in controling anything
Why attempt to make communication "polite" and "evenly distributed" ruins the experience of breaking the bread with strangers.
Some of the norms we accept are not humane at all. Though not following them may also not be humane.
Why your dreams don't define you — but what you pay for them does.
Russian passport on Moldovan border and my little adventures.
Comparing yourself to locals is unfair; compare yourself to who you’d be if you never left.
What's common between the start of opioid epidemic in the USA and the trend not to accept any criticism?
Two simple lessons I learned from keeping a to-do notebook: rest is part of the plan, and procrastination hates clarity.
Interpreting a loaded quote through orthogonal vs opposing attributes — and why context matters.
Eight goal‑free days between jobs and how doing 'nothing' restored energy and curiosity.
Notes from turning 33: what I let go of, what I keep, and why it makes life easier.