Showing Up Every Day For One Year
365 days of daily blogging complete. The skills sharpened, the costs paid, and why meaning [...]
December 2021 (31)
Optimize For What’s Necessary
Technology optimizes for performance, business for profit, evolution for survival. What should humans optimize for [...]
2021 Monthly Recap – December
December felt like half a month—first holiday in 5 years, daily writing becoming predictable, and [...]
2021 Monthly Recap – November
November monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
2021 Monthly Recap – October
October brought manifestation—first marathon post-pandemic, NFT experiments, guitar composition. Reaping benefits from months of consistent [...]
November 2021 (30)
Fear Is The Mind Killer
Frank Herbert knew—fear obliterates rational thought. In pandemic times, watching fear become policy reveals how [...]
Jack Dorsey Steps Down As Twitter CEO – Bitcoin Rumors Step Up
Jack Dorsey steps down as Twitter CEO, handing control to Parag Agrawal while Bitcoin rumors [...]
Movie Review: The Wheel Of Time
Movie review of The Wheel Of Time. I must be the last person on Earth [...]
The Limitations Of DAOs
DAOs promise decentralized utopia but deliver human politics with extra steps. Why blockchain can't code [...]
Countries Versus DAOs
DAOs are positioned to replace countries—low entry barriers, instant governance, unlimited wealth scaling, and location [...]
October 2021 (31)
Picking A Good Anchor
Rough patches are guaranteed. Expecting smooth sailing is toxic thinking. The only question is whether [...]
How Much Money Do You Really Need?
Ricky Gervais bought one expensive t-shirt after years of poverty. The lesson isn't about money—it's [...]
Debt Is Death
Debt trades future income for present convenience. Each payment kills a piece of your future [...]
Good Habits Die Hard
Ten years of morning yoga taught me good habits become invisible. The best routines disappear [...]
Skills You Didn’t Need 150 Years Ago, But You Need Now
The world moves at an incredible pace. We already ran out of letters to denominate [...]
September 2021 (30)
Diamonds Are Forever. Their Inside, On The Other Hand, Might Or Might Not Be
Diamonds last forever. Lab-grown diamonds are chemically identical. The illusion of scarcity crumbles when technology [...]
Lack Of Education Is A Liability
It's a nice Wednesday morning, you open your computer as always, and, to your surprise, [...]
Voulez Vous Learn Una Idioma Noua?
Mixing French, Spanish, and Romanian in one question. Language learning opens more than communication—it rewires [...]
The Wind Of Change, Unquestionable Right To Comfort And Stress Wood
Biosphere 2 trees collapsed without wind stress. Comfort weakens—adversity strengthens. The lesson applies to humans [...]
Why Finding Meaning In The Work You Do May Not Work Out In The Near Future
We spend most of our lives working, but the 5-day, 8-hour model is historically recent. [...]
August 2021 (31)
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Eight
Eight months of daily publishing. The hardest part isn't writing—it's publishing imperfect work when perfectionism [...]
Monday Moving Forward – Disrupt The Weekend Before
Mondays hurt when weekends end abruptly. Disrupt Sunday evening with Monday prep—ease into the transition [...]
The Rise Of Continuous Conflict Age
Now conflicts appear perpetually—culture wars, trade wars, information wars. We live in permanent low-intensity conflict [...]
The Flat Earth Theory
Flat Earth believers aren't stupid—they're distrustful. When institutions lie repeatedly, people stop believing anything, even [...]
Documentary Review: Fantastic Fungi
Documentary review of Fantastic Fungi exploring the fascinating world of mushrooms and their impact on [...]
July 2021 (31)
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Seven
Seven months of daily publishing. The discipline became identity. Missing a day now feels like [...]
Thinking Outside Of The Loyalty Card
Loyalty programs train predictable behavior. Real advantage comes from thinking outside the rewards system they [...]
Flattening The Curve
COVID taught us curve flattening. The concept applies everywhere—spread intensity over time to avoid system [...]
Learning To Rest
Rest is a skill most never learn. Active recovery differs from collapse. True rest requires [...]
Know What You’re Talking About
Confident ignorance spreads faster than careful knowledge. Before speaking with authority, verify you actually understand [...]
June 2021 (30)
Information Inflation Equals Truth Deflation
Information overload creates truth confusion. Yuval Noah Harari explores how more data leads to less [...]
It’s Not A Question Of Black And White
Binary thinking simplifies complexity into false choices. Reality exists in gradients. Most important decisions live [...]
addTaskManager Version 1.4 (iOS) Live In AppStore
Version 1.4 ships with enhanced GTD workflow improvements. The Assess-Decide-Do framework gets faster, cleaner, more [...]
First Thing In The Morning
How to create seamless days where everything clicks into place with minimal effort through intentional [...]
Selective Memory And Survival
Memory filters experiences selectively. We remember what serves survival, forget what doesn't. Selective memory isn't [...]
May 2021 (31)
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Five
Five months of daily writing. The challenge became automatic. Discipline transformed into habit—showing up no [...]
Financial Resilience – The Hard Way versus The “Easy” Way
Hard way builds resilience through discipline and delayed gratification. Easy way shortcuts with debt and [...]
How To Start A Religion – Covid-19 Apostles and Bitcoin Maximalists
Religions need true believers, sacred texts, heretics to condemn. Covid measures and Bitcoin maximalism follow [...]
Incremental Growth versus Sudden Leaps
Incremental growth compounds reliably. Sudden leaps look dramatic but rarely sustain. Tortoise beats hare because [...]
The Real Problem With Virtue Signaling
An angry status on Facebook. A long, punchy thread on Twitter. Changing your avatar picture [...]
April 2021 (30)
Before Opening A New Chapter
New chapters require closing old ones properly. Unfinished business bleeds into fresh starts. Clear the [...]
Getting Things Done
Today was a mixed day. There's less than half an hour until it ends, and [...]
Learning To Play The Guitar – 8 Months After
Eight months into guitar. Progress is slow, clumsy, frustrating. But fingers remember what mind forgets. [...]
Building A Backlog Of Opportunities
Opportunities stockpile when you can't pursue everything immediately. Building backlogs creates optionality. Future self picks [...]
Movie Review: Looking For A Lady With Fangs And A Moustache
Vietnamese film about identity, gender, tradition colliding with modernity. The title's absurdity masks profound questions [...]
March 2021 (31)
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Three
Three months of daily writing. Quarter-year into the commitment. The difficulty shifted from starting to [...]
Hacking Humans
Humans run on predictable code—cognitive biases, emotional triggers, social conditioning. Understanding the exploits means defending [...]
Monday Moving Forward – Take A Different Route To Work
Different routes disrupt autopilot thinking. Novel paths activate attention. Monday variation prevents routine from becoming [...]
Choosing Your Own Hallucinations
Reality is subjective interpretation. Everyone hallucinates their version. The choice isn't whether to hallucinate—it's which [...]
Playing Around With NFT – But For Books
NFTs for visual art exploded. Books remain untokenized. Experimenting with literary NFTs—ownership, scarcity, royalties for [...]
February 2021 (28)
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Two
Two months of daily writing. The honeymoon ended, discipline kicks in. Writing when inspiration is [...]
Geo-arbitrage, Or How To Get The Most Of Where You Are
Earn in strong currencies, spend in weak ones. Geographic arbitrage exploits economic differences legally. Location [...]
The Best Defense Is Attack
Defensive positions drain resources. Offensive action creates momentum. Best defense isn't blocking—it's controlling the battlefield [...]
Limited Field Of Vision
Everyone sees reality through narrow apertures. Recognizing your limited field prevents confident errors. Blind spots [...]
Expectation Management
Expectations set satisfaction baselines. Managing them means calibrating hope with reality. Under-promise and over-deliver beats [...]
January 2021 (31)
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint One
First month of daily writing complete. The challenge shifts from excitement to discipline. Showing up [...]
The Virus That Killed The Modern State
COVID exposed state incompetence and overreach simultaneously. Trust collapsed from both sides. The virus that [...]
The 6 Stages Of A Toxic Attachment (To Anything, Not Just A Person)
Toxic attachment progresses through six stages—idealization, dependency, rationalization, isolation, crisis, release. The pattern repeats across [...]
The GameStop Takeaway – We’re Already In A Post-Factual World, But We’re Just Entering A “Post-Fundamentals” Economy
GameStop proved fundamentals no longer determine prices. Coordinated sentiment beats balance sheets. Post-fundamentals economy runs [...]
The Schnitzel Effect
Schnitzel expectations set disappointment thresholds. When reality matches mediocre standards, satisfaction follows. The effect—lowered expectations [...]