Category: Food for thought

Broken

Posted on June 5, 2026

I’m broken, you hear me? I’m tired of acting like I’m fine when every single day feels like I’m drowning inside my own damn mind.I wake up every morning trying to convince myself it’ll get better, but it never does.I’m exhausted, I’m tired, and I hold it all in. Trying to be strong for everybody […]

Quiet passionate employees, toxic culture, and uncaring leaders

Posted on June 4, 2026

When you passionate employees go quiet, it is a sign that the culture has become toxic, and that the leaders have stopped caring about their people. People rarely become silent overnight. At first, they contribute ideas.They try to improve processes.They raise concerns, because they genuinely care. But when effort is ignored repeatedly, silence slowly replaces […]

What if the numbers say you are winning, but you are actually losing?

Posted on June 4, 2026

This is McNamara fallacy. Named after Robert McNamara, US Secretary of Defence during the Vietnam War. His strategy was simple: measure everything. Enemy body counts, bombing tonnage, territory controlled. The numbers looked incredible. America was winning by every measurable metric. But they were ignoring what they could not count: civilian trust, enemy morale, political will, […]

Бавните майстори

Posted on March 22, 2026

Най-добрите майстори са “бавните” майстори. През годините в софтуерната индустрия разбрах едно нещо – не можеш да форсираш креативност. Добрите архитектури и решения не се създават под напрежение. Хората измислят добри неща, когато отделят време да рефлектират върху събитията, които са преживели. Опитвайки се да изцедиш последната капка продуктивност, забатачваш всичко на много нива – […]

Do you trust your eyes

The flashed face distortion effect, occurs when two faces are rapidly alternated while fixating on a central point. Instead of seeing normal faces, the brain exaggerates differences, making them appear distorted. This happens due to adaptive face perception, where the brain enhances contrasts to distinguish features more effectively. The result is a surreal and unsettling […]

Power, not ideas, determines who is right

Everybody thinks their ideas are right. That’s why the people you call terrorists call themselves freedom fighters. The fundamentalists think they are right. The capitalists think they are right. The communists think they’re right. No one will ever convince anyone of anything. All these honorable men, lecturing the world from the floors of congresses and […]