My name is Olek. I write about what matters to me

Co-founder of 2 kids 👨‍👩. Married happily ever 💍. 🍕 lover My side-project: 1. ✍ distraction-free writing app - https://getdifree.com 2. 🍕 blog about homemade pizza - https://domowa.pizza Meet me at Mastodon: https://mastodon.world/@olek

[🇵🇱] Dobra książka, której nie warto czytać

Hej, Przemysław Gerschmann w swoim cotygodniowym newsletterze pisze o dobrych książkach, których czytanie jest stratą czasu. Podaje przykłady, np.: Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Héctor García Sekret - Rhonda Byrne Dlaczego śpimy - Matthew Walker Idealnym przykładem z mojej strony jest książka "The 5 Second Rule - The Fastest Way To Change Your Life" Mel Robbins. Autorka jest szczera, że informuje w wywiadach, że filozofię książki można streścić w kilkunastu minut...
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[🇬🇧/🇺🇸] Would I allow a stranger to have an hour of my time for $0.83?

Netflix introduces a new plan - Basic with ads for $6.99/month - next to the current Basic for $9.99.month. They claim to show about 4-5 minutes of ads for each hour of content watched. Let's say: I watch Netflix one hour a day, every day. In a month I would watch around 150 mintutes of ads (30 days x 5 minutes per day of ads). This means that Netflix value my time 3$ / 2.5 hours = $0.83/hour. What's even worse, when I choose this plan, this means I value my time as little as $0.83/hour I...
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[🇬🇧/🇺🇸] Use your browser, like you normally do, and plant trees

Hey! Inspired by Carbon Almanac, I'm on the way to make a dent in the climat crisis. Last time I wrote about Ecosia - a search alternative to Google - you search, Ecosia plants the trees from the money they get from ads shown there. I'd like to share another real and commonly accessable action one can take to make the difference - OpenTabs. It changes the default page of the browser, which usually looks like that: Once installed, it changes the default page, so now it looks like that: ...
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[🇵🇱] Zmiana pieluch po raz pierwszy i po raz milionowy

Hej, Dzisiaj miałem bliskie spotkanie pierwszego stopnia z kilkudniowym noworodkiem i jego rodzicami. Była to okazja aby z bliska przyglądnąć się procesowi opieki nad dzieckiem z perspektywy osoby niezaangażowanie emocjonalnie. Zobaczyłem delikatne stąpanie rodziców w danej sytuacji. Czasami pewne, czasami mniej pewne, czasami intuicyjne. Zacząłem zastanawiałem się jak to różnie jest między ludźmi i maszynami. Ludzie i maszyny stosują algorytmy. Ludzie czasami w sposób nieświadomy. Program k...
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[🇬🇧/🇺🇸] The power of not saying

Hey, Maybe it's my cognitive bias effect speaking, but I don't remember the moments I said too little or nothing, and get in to trouble. On contrary, I definitely remember the moments, I said too much, or at all, and get in to one. Best, Olek #ThoughtForTheDay Written in Difree | Published via Standard Notes & Listed.to ...
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[🇬🇧/🇺🇸] 'You don’t fall down; you fall up'

Hey, I've been reading 'Radical Candor' by Kim Scott. It's a book about the management philosophy, where the key is to give and receive candid feedback, without being a jerk with no humanity. I came across a short, yet powerful sentence there. You don’t fall down; you fall up'. I caught my attention. Instead of play win-lose game, I can play win-win game. Either I succeed at something, or I learn from the failure. With this approach, I win either way. The only condition is, I don't giv...
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[🇵🇱] Dyskomfort poprzedza zmianę

"Men, the philosopher’s lecture-hall is a hospital— you shouldn’t walk out of it feeling pleasure, but pain, for you aren’t well when you enter it." - EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.23.30 Holiday, Ryan; Hanselman, Stephen. The Daily Stoic (p. 264). Penguin Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. Hej! Czytam refleksję z dnia 2 września z książki "Dziennik stoika. Refleksje i myśli o sztuce życia na 366 dni" autorstwa Ryana Holidaya. Epiktet porównuje salę wykładową, w której uczy się filozofii do szpit...
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[🇬🇧/🇺🇸] Improve your mileage by ~3.3 percent and reduce CO2 emissions

Hi, I am reading the book The Carbon Almanac by Seth Godin and J. Thorn. The book collects facts about the climate catastrophe. What's more, it gives the real and commonly accessable actions one can take to make the difference, instead of falling into catastrophism and apathy. What and how? I will share an action that I found in The Daily Difference newsletter One of the changes that you can make on your own and "on the spot" is taking care of the correct car tires' pressure. It turns ...
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[🇵🇱] Zaoszczędź nawet 3.3% paliwa w Twoim samochodzie i emituj mniej CO2

Hej, Czytam książkę "The Carbon Almanac" autorstwa Setha Godina i J. Thorna. Książka zbiera fakty odnośnie katastrofy klimatycznej. Następnie podaje realne i dostępne dla przeciętnego człowieka sposoby jak pomóc sobie, innym i Ziemi. Zamiast popadać w katastrofizm i marazm, można podjąć realne działania. Co i jak? W tym poście podzielę się działaniem, którą znalazłem w newsletterze The Daily Difference. Jedno ze zmian, którą można wprowadzić samodzielnie i "od ręki" jest dbanie o prawi...
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[🇵🇱] Zamień Google na Ecosia, wyszukuj w Internecie i sadź drzewa

Search the web, plant a tree The Carbon Almanac is teaming up with Ecosia to make your online searching more powerful. Visit www.thecarbonalmanac.org/search to install a simple extension that plants a tree every time you do some web searches. It’s free. Just as fast and even easier than Google, but it makes a difference, every day. 143,000,000 trees planted as of 2021. The Carbon Almanac (p. 69). Hej, Czytam książkę "The Carbon Almanac" autorstwa Setha Godina i J. Thorna. Książka zbiera fa...
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[🇬🇧/🇺🇸] Search the web, plant a tree

Search the web, plant a tree The Carbon Almanac is teaming up with Ecosia to make your online searching more powerful. Visit www.thecarbonalmanac.org/search to install a simple extension that plants a tree every time you do some web searches. It’s free. Just as fast and even easier than Google, but it makes a difference, every day. 143,000,000 trees planted as of 2021. The Carbon Almanac (p. 69). Hey! In 2019 switching the search engine from Google to Ecosia took me less than 30 seconds. ...
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