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No reference could give you enough credit. Thank you David Jenkins!

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 An open reference to David:  To Whom It May Concern, I am writing to wholeheartedly recommend David Jenkins, a remarkable psychologist specializing in sports psychology. My experience with David over the past year has been transformative, and it is with great enthusiasm that I share how his guidance has reshaped my life, with a particular focus on my sports achievements. When I first approached David, I was navigating the lowest point of my life—overwhelmed by grief, burnout, and a profound loss of purpose. Physically, I was significantly overweight, unfit, and had not engaged in any sports activities for over two years. Mentally, I was equally beleaguered, grappling with a faded sense of self and dwindling motivation. David's approach, rooted in an expert understanding of sports psychology, was instrumental in my resurgence. He taught me not only to set realistic goals but also to adopt the mindset of an athlete—perseverant, strategic, and resilient. His techniques in visual...
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Product-market fit - Back to the basics

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What is Product-Market Fit? Product/market fit, also known as product-market fit, is the degree to which a product satisfies strong market demand. That's the definition of Product-Market Fit as per Wikipedia. Why is Product-Market Fit so important? When starting any new venture, the idea and the vision alone are not enough.  As a matter of fact, 90% of startups in the world fail. Out of these failures, 70% happen during years 2 to 5 of a business. Those numbers are huge, and the bad news is that these failure rates seem to be fairly similar across industries. As an entrepreneur or startup founder do you really want to fail 9 times out of ten? Do you want to build 10 startups to only succeed with 1? That is assuming you're learning from every previous failure as you might very much as well start and try a100 times but still fail every single time.  If you're looking for success when pursuing your ideas then Product Market Fit is something you need to understand and want to k...
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The curse of being efficient or the curse of going the extra mile

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The curse of being efficient or the curse of going the extra mile. Why is being efficient a curse? Or, why is going the extra mile a curse? Well, let's start with something most of you have probably been told before: "you're being too nice!". See where I'm going with that? I want to talk here about some of my experiences at work and some of my experiences with some clients. I'm a Software Developer. I do that for a living and I'm lucky enough to be able to consider it my passion. Now I don't know how many of you have worked with Software Developers; still, you probably know what the stereotypical Developer looks like. Obviously, it's just a stereotype, but can be true in many cases.  Inefficient Software Developers Lots of developers cannot be interrupted. They like to put their headphones on, put on some loud music, and focus on one task only which is writing code.  If you're dealing with that type of Developer, you need to know that when they...
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Back to writing (part 2)

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Hello friends! First of January today; the start of a hopefully happy new year. I wish you all the very best for a new year full of beautiful experiences and good moments. Wish lots of health for you and your loved ones! So today I continue from where I last left:  back to writing! (my wedding) I was happy to be back to writing and explained where I've been for the past four months. My wedding obviously was one big highlight of those last few months. What else have you done? Other than that, I've been really busy starting a new life. I left my full-time job What!? Really? Leaving a well paid full-time job now? In the middle of a crisis! Who does that? That's initially most people's reaction. I've had to listen to it from everyone again and again. But guess what? When you have a plan and know what you're doing, it doesn't matter when and how you do it. I left a job that many people would only dream of having. But guess what? To each their vision. To each thei...
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Back to writing! (my wedding)

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Hello hello! It's been so long! More than 4 months already without any new blog posts. Where have you been? For me, a lot has happened in the last 4 months. First of all, I got married! 💍💑🥂 I got married! Yes, I got married, on the 29th of August. Unfortunately because of the Covid situation, we didn't have any family or friends. It turned out amazing though. Truth be told, I've never really been into big weddings so that was sort of a good excuse to have a really small and intimate wedding without all the stress that usually comes with the typical preparation. It turned out to be amazing because we had a magical 22 days (+1 day for missing our flight 😅). We did it in Denmark. Denmark is an incredible country and the Danish people are now by far the people I respect the most for their lifestyle, honest kindness, and extremely high levels of civilization... It turned out to be amazing most importantly because, although not having any family with us, we never felt we were...
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Agile - Back to the basics (Part 3)

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Hello dear readers, I'm finally back in London after 3 weeks in Poland and 1 week in Belgium. A month has already passed since our last 2 discussions about Agile. If you haven't read the previous posts or need a refresher, here are the links: Agile - Back to the basics Agile - Back to the basics (Part 2) In the first part, we described the process of building a house and then described building software. That helped us spot the differences between software and other types of projects. We understood why the Waterfall model doesn't usually work well for software development, and why it can be a bad idea to manage software projects linearly and sequentially. We realized we needed a better way for building software and we called it Agile. In part 2, we focused a bit more on what Agile means. We explained how Agile takes an iterative and incremental approach rather than the linear and sequential covered in the Waterfall model. We gave an exa...
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Agile - Back to the basics (Part 2)

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Hello hello, Have you read  Agile - Back to the basics ? If not, now is a good time to read it 😉 Surprise! Today is the 2nd part. We'll continue from where we left. Waterfall: recap Just a quick recap first. Last time we talked about the Waterfall model, how it can be used, and why it may usually be bad for building software. Waterfall is a project management approach in which all requirements are gathered at the very beginning of a project. Once requirements are gathered, the project is broken down into a set of sequential stages. Those stages are: Gathering requirements → Designing → Implementing → Verifying / Testing → Maintaining We mentioned those stages being sequential which means one cannot just jump from one to another randomly. Following the Waterfall model, one needs to completely finish and sign off a specific stage to go to the next one. Here's for example how it could look like: Spend 2 months gathering requirements and understanding needs Spend 3 months designin...
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