Polarization creates the false illusion that life can be distilled into two mutually exclusive choices. It numbs our minds. It hinders our ability to think through things critically. It creates tension. It divides us. However, it is never just black or white, right or wrong, or yes or no. It…

Hurry up, don’t be late, this amazing stock won’t wait. — “I’d invest £3k in these 3 bargain FTSE 100 shares to become a millionaire” “Forget gold; I’d buy these shares to become rich” “Forget Bitcoin. I’d buy these shares now to get rich in the stock market recovery” I see these headlines all the time. More so now than ever…

You don’t need fancy animations to tell a compelling story. — Before software and applications, slides were a laborious task. People would spend countless hours crafting slides by hand, which made them very valuable. So valuable, in fact, you would have one person whose only job was to create slides. Since then, an array of tools have come to our rescue…

There is more to the movie than just baseball. — Do you like baseball? Great, you should watch Moneyball. If you don’t like baseball and feel indifferent towards sports, you should still watch Moneyball. Very often, a movie is not just a movie on a specific topic; it is a bagful of life lessons and advice. From that point, Moneyball…

It is about leaving a legacy of knowledge. It is about you. — I am sitting down and I am looking out the window. My mind starts to wander in the beautiful world of endless thoughts. That place where past, current and possible events meet. The sky is as clear as it hasn’t been in many, many days…many weeks now. There are no…

You don’t have to, but it may help the growth of the platform. — I have opened Medium today — just like any other day — and I came across the 3 types of articles that seem to be hot right now: Type 1 article “This is how I made XXXX on Medium in my first, second, third, fourth/etc. month” Type 2 article “My stats plummeted and so did my…

Avoid them to improve your communication and influence your actions. — Communication can help you achieve your goals or be the reason you don’t. My passion for communication started with word analysis while studying and learning languages. I was driven by the desire to know how a word in my native language would be translated, used, and interpreted in a foreign…

Spoiler alert: jumping in a cold lake/fjord isn’t one of them. — It was 4am in the morning and I was roaming the streets of Havana, Cuba, without destination. I had left a club where I had spent the whole night dancing with and hitting (or I should say trying to hit) on a girl, only to return from drinks refill to…

It’s ok if you have your own and is different. — Back when I was a teenager, I had a Myspace account. Myspace was the go-to social networking platform among teens. Then came Facebook, with a more visually pleasing interface and a more friendly user experience. People started moving there. Instagram then followed suit as yet another platform for people to…