Doing something the first time can be life-changing, or a simple moment of realisation that guacamole flavour ice cream is not your thing. New experiences can be exhilarating, devastating, and everything in between. We don’t need to do grandiose things to experience the “new”. Observing small children shows quickly that even the simplest action performed…

I love the cold summer morning after the cloudless night. There is something exciting for me during dawn. I get outside dressed up for the sun that will soon scorch the earth. It is cold, chilly, but there is no reason to go back and grab a coat. Soon we will long for that frigid…

The gray reality of the everyday life of a child in a post-communist country stood in stark contrast with images we have seen on TV. The world we have observed in a glimpse was so different that it was impossible to comprehend. That wonderful land was predominantly of USA origins. Everything was amazing. Even then…

Sturgeon’s law puts it’s simply: Ninety percent of everything is crap. Derived from various Sturgeon’s quotations. I have read about Sturgeon’s law while reading the Dennet’s Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking[1]. I was intrigued by it. Dennet explains it bluntly: “90% of everything is crap. That is true, whether you are talking about…

Magnus Carlsen gave very nice talk at Milken Institute’s Global Conference 2017. Tickets to the event cost from $12,000 to $50,000 which is fantastic if you wanted me not to show up. Carlsen is the best of the best in Chess and very different compared to a lot of other chess players when it comes…