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For the last few months I've been constantly working on a new project. It's a collaborative task management app, based on my Assess - Decide - Do productivity framework. If you follow my blog constantly you already know about iAdd,…
It’s 9PM, you’re sitting on your couch, watching a romantic comedy while secretly digging through a bowl of popcorn. The plot thickens, the two characters are separated, but, through their power of their will, a gentle struck of luck and…
It’s pitch dark, my soles are hurting like shit, the air that I breathe is scorching hot and I’m running somewhere in the middle of fucking nowhere. It’s not a nightmare. It’s my real life. I’m running the Ultrabalaton for…
Last weekend I attended the 220km Ultrabalaton, probably the longest point to point continuous running event in Europe (except for Spartathlon, of course). It was my second participation in this event, if you want to read more about my first…
We live in a very crowded world. And the crowd is just getting bigger. This, combined with the fantastic technological advance of our times, generated an unbelievably big pool of information. Our sensors are filled with data each and every…
There is this saying that, from a financial point of view, you are the average of the top 5 people you spend time with. While I find this to be completely true in real life, I think it’s incomplete, though.…
This morning I posted this story on my Facebook wall (approximate translation, the story was in Romanian): “Sometimes, enough is enough. I feel that Connect Hub is one of the most interesting projects I did in the last 17 years,…
When I started to run ridiculously long distances, 2 years ago, people who found out about that were puzzled: “How can you run 200 kilometers, Dragos? Even by car, this is a very long distance!” For a while, this was…
II’ve been a productivity geek for years. The type that incessantly reads blogs about that, that knows all the techniques, frameworks and productivity apps by heart. I’ve tried dozens of them. Literally. In the beginning (like in the first 1-3…
I often see entrepreneurs pivoting just after a few months from starting their product. Pivoting means drastically changing your business model, as a startup. Most of the time, pivoting is seen as a positive thing. I met some entrepreneurs who…
Punctuality is heavily underrated these days. Getting on time to your meeting became a bit obsolete. Ironically, the thing that is supposed to make our lives easier, technology, is the same thing that creates time boundaries between us. We’re surrounded…