Yearly Check-Up

Hello there, I am still alive and still doing this blog. Just saving the "infinite" Google's server-space from my mental crap. May be in 500 years it will save a tree in Amazonian rainforest. Greetz.

On Being Busy

When I am are constantly busy, it feels like my life goes on smooth and saturated. I feel a lot of moral reward from every accomplishment.

When I stop being busy, I start thinking a lot. I rediscover things missing in my life and this is scary.

I also realize that sometimes I keep myself busy just not to think. That's even scarier.

On Power of Words

Many words are strong. They move our thoughts. They raise our emotions. Such words are love, freedom, family, God.

Many words are beautiful. They involve our imagination. Such words are flowers, rain, sun, dream.

Other words are mysterious. They make us wonder, reason, and look for explanations. Such words are religion, fate, infinity, death.

Sometimes strong, beautiful and mysterious words are put together into poetry, and it refreshes our appetite for life like delicious food nicely laid out on a table.

But often these words are used by demagogues and populists to attract our attention and to confuse our objectiveness. Don't fall into a trap of words!

Anti-Stress

I preach that stress is a bad habit, like alcohol, smoking, drugs, or eye-brow plucking.

Under stress, our bodies produce hormones making us to forget the pain, tiredness, laziness, etc. But you know what? Lazy people live longer!

Stress is like an un-ecological fuel that is cheap, but have expensive consequences. I am sure you can get where you want without using it and enjoy life on the way.

On Decision Making

When your heart tells you one thing and your mind tells you the opposite ...

Plan A:

go for what your heart tells you and leave the rest for Plan B

Plan B:

admit you're an idiot and try to fix everything

Plan C:

go for a drink with a friend

Software Engineering is Not Engineering

Since I discovered for myself the hackaday.com website, my views on software engineering have changed. We (software engineers) are so wrapped into multiple abstraction layers of operating environments, high-level programming languages, libraries and frameworks, that we rarely see anything further than the next abstraction layer.

I start to think that a software engineering programs at the universities do not produce engineers, but some kind of middleware between the framework developers and the end users. Please assure me that I am wrong, and your software engineering graduates know how a microcontroller works or at least know how to read a circuit scheme.