In a previous post I was advocating for everyone to travel more and to open their perspective by experiencing more places and cultures. That post proved to be extremely popular with lots of shares and views. I was pleasantly surprised so I decided to share also some of my travel tips. All the tips and… Read More »
Dear Reader, What is it that you do for your own mental health? This topic has been swirling around my mind for some time and I even did my own list of activities that I enjoy and consider beneficial for my mental health. You might take your mental health for granted, but are you sure… Read More »
Dear Reader, Can you name your superpower without thinking more than 2 seconds? Mine is Resilience. Sometimes I wished it was willpower. But why can’t we have more superpowers? Who does actually define this? I say it is every person on its own. I decided to work with my willpower.Willpower is a limited resource that… Read More »
I advice all people to get out of their comfort zone and travel. Travel to the most strange destinations and see that the world is a small little place where everybody has basically the same desires and hobbies! People are not so different as some politicians want you to think. Isolating yourself from the world… Read More »
Dear Reader, Lately I have seen many videos and texts online promoting and even demanding everyone to take responsibility for their own actions. It got me wondering how does taking responsibility actually translates in our daily actions. According to dictionary definitions, responsibility is a state or a fact of dealing with something, having control over… Read More »
Dear Reader, I recently came across a question I noted for self-reflection. I invite you as well to ponder on it: Who am I when I have nothing to do? A few guidelines, building blocks or initiatives could lure you into giving it more thought: What is my superpower? What is my kryptonite? What are… Read More »
Dear Reader, Today I wish to share some tools for increasing the communication process inspired by Dr. Harville Hendrix and Dr. Helen LaKelly Hunt, from their book The Space Between: The Point of Connection. I consider the following ideas to be very powerful, especially if you can apply them on a regular basis. As I… Read More »
The bash one liner of the day is to find and kill a Java process using one liner. In my case I have a Jboss application server domain that is stuck. By using jps command that displays only the running Java processes is a no brainer to kill the process by using a token that… Read More »
Dear Reader, I usually read in parallel from several books. Some share a direction regarding their content and some don’t. The books’ ideas manage to connect themselves in my mind, inspiring me to share some ideas with you. I hope that sharing some tools and open questions can provide you with some useful food for… Read More »
Moving to a new place has its advantages and disadvantage. If you are a geek, obviously you need to make a new home for your IT infrastructure 🙂 The advantage of a new location is that you get to have fun again in setting up a new mini data center. Due to some restrictions (do… Read More »