I’m not sure when it happened but I’ve noticed a total feeling of calm within recently, not a Godly type calm but certainly some type of spiritual calm – I’m sure its not enlightenment, an awakening or achieving meaning. But its refreshing…whatever this feeling is.
Don’t get me wrong I’m not floating on hallucianating mushrooms or [...]
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What I have stopped doing
Posted in Health - Body, Observations, Things I Like on January 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
How to fix the credit crisis
Posted in Observations, economy on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First off who’s to blame – well right now I am happy to report in principle it’s the bankers. I can say that because I don’t want anything from them.
Let’s look at the situation – when I was a young student, I was terrified about asking the bank for a loan – bank managers always [...]
The ugly face of sports
Posted in Observations on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Racism in football within Poland recently hit the headlines after a BBC journalist raised the subject. In fairness this is a subject that my wife is quite passionate about having suffered racial aggression and abuse for many years by loutish ‘football’ game attendees (I can’t call them fans because they are more akin to thugs). [...]
Emotions and our Decision Making
Posted in Observations on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last week I heard the former head of the Warsaw stock exchange say that 50% of investing decisions are made on pure statistics and 50% are made on emotions. I would expand this theory and say that 90% are made by emotions. This reminds me of a famous investment company founded by 3 Nobel Prize [...]
April Fools Day
Posted in Observations on April 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Google has established a reputation for silly hoaxes with pages hyping its Google MentalPlex. It once posted openings for its Googlelunaplex office on the moon and introduced a smart-drink called GoogleGulp!
Likewise the British Press, which normally make stories up all the time, but on April Fool’s Day they all fabricate in the name of humour. [...]
Obama could be a Leader After All
Posted in Observations on March 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve written before that I think Marc Andreessen (sold netscape for 4 billion and loudcloud for 1.6 billion) is one of the smartest guys in business. Marc and his wife are well known in the world of technology business and philanthropy. On the other hand I have previously written harshly about Barack Obama maybe because [...]
Making Changes – Paying it Forward
Posted in Observations, Things I Like, health on February 14, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Human networks are exponential. Like the “pay it forward” concept – smiles, laughter and even good deeds are contagious. If you make 3 people smile, within 20 degrees of separation the entire world will be smiling. We underestimate our capacity to effect change because we underestimate the growth of an exponential function.
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All together now Yawn (ziwać)
Posted in Health - Body, Observations, tagged Yawning on February 4, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I had to take an early morning, 6:30am, tram to a meeting today. Early morning meetings are quite frequent in Poland, much more so than they are in other parts of Europe – particularly France! In England we have a couple of expressions ‘The early bird catches the worm’ and ‘Early to bed, early to [...]
Polish pronunciation of words with ‘Th’
Posted in Language, Observations, Poland, tagged Language, Poland, Polish on February 3, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I called this blog ‘dat blog’ because I noticed whenever Polish people pronounce the word ‘that’ they always say ‘dat’. Of course this does not stop at the word dat it spreads to all English words which contain the letters ‘th’.
Month becomes ‘monf’
Something becomes ’somefing’
English Office Jargon
Posted in Language, Observations on January 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Office Angels a UK recruitment firm have released a list of 2007 office sayings. So the next time you plan to ‘think outside the box’, think again. Using the phrase in front of colleagues instantly marks you out as past your office sell-by date.
Here are the top five ‘must-use buzzwords’ designed to impress in 2007, [...]
