2021 Monthly Recap – June
June monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
2021 Monthly Recap – May
May monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
2021 Monthly Recap – April
April monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
2021 Monthly Recap – March
March unglued everything—research trip begins, NFT experiments launch, AI course insights emerge. Taking action when world stood still
2021 Monthly Recap – February
February monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
2021 Monthly Recap – January
January monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
When Your Car Gets Hit By A Person
Sometimes life reverses expectations—like when a person hits your stationary car. A Bucharest memory that still defies explanation
Saying Something Without Saying Something
Algorithms reward collective dreams and standard success models. True conversation happens in smaller circles, away from the yesmen and echo chambers
Looking Around And Writing About It
December brings silence and concealed joy. People learned to be mindful about social sharing—the world feels poised between what happened and what's coming
The Algorithm Rules
Reality is algorithmic—every feed, every ad, every person you meet. Learn the rules to stay unhackable when the algorithm knows you better than yourself
Ramblings
Some days writing flows, other days it stutters. Today's fragments of thought on consistency, resistance, and showing up anyway
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Eleven
Day 334 of 365—the finish line approaches. Reflections on discipline, writer's block, and how daily practice reshapes the mind
Fear Is The Mind Killer
Frank Herbert knew—fear obliterates rational thought. In pandemic times, watching fear become policy reveals how prophetic Dune really was
“Don’t Do Anything” versus “Don’t Do Anything Stupid”
Two investment philosophies separated by one word. The difference between passive wisdom and active restraint shapes your entire financial future
Monday Moving Forward – Let It Be
Since today is a Monday, I thought about writing a short post from the Monday Moving Forward series. You know, something simple, an easy life hack [...]
Short Form Versus Long Form Content
The haiku versus the epic. Or Twitter versus Medium, if you like. A few witty sentences, trying to convey meaning in a condensed package, versus the [...]
Autumn Season
There's something about autumn that I like a lot. I'm not enjoying it, but I deeply resonate with it.
Live Events
After months of digital isolation, attending live conferences again revealed what we lost. Human energy in physical space hits different than pixels
365 Days Writing Challenge – Checkpoint Ten
Ten months into publishing daily. The discipline matters more than the output—showing up builds the muscle that separates creators from dreamers
Good Habits Die Hard
Ten years of morning yoga taught me good habits become invisible. The best routines disappear into your life until you forget when they started