Don’t Trust, Verify
The crypto mantra "don't trust, verify" now applies to all digital life. Practical filters for surviving deepfakes, bots, and AI-generated content.
2025 Year in Review
2025 year in review: cleaning up old projects, adding new tools and getting ready for a challenging 2026.
AI Is the New Marijuana (And We’re All About To Get High)
AI creates plausible realities as addictive as drugs. Someone who lived under communism and capitalism sees a new ideological split emerging from this shift.
Can You Stay Relevant After 50, In The Age of AI?
After 50, you hold three assets AI can't automate: experience, ethics, and mindset. They compound with time. That's not a disadvantage—it's your edge.
AI Won’t Take Your Job — Because It Already Took It
The job as we know it is already obsolete. Discover why the end of traditional employment might be humanity's next evolution, not its downfall
2021 Monthly Recap – November
November monthly recap covering personal growth, business insights, and life lessons from Dragos Roua.
Welcome To Singularity
The bad news is that singularity is already here. There is no good news, I'm afraid.
Encapsulated Emotions
30 years ago, I was a student, living in one of the campuses in post-communist Bucharest, named Grozavesti. The so-called Romanian Revolution, in which Ceausescu was [...]
The Anatomy Of A U-Turn
You drive on a normal day, on a normal road, at a normal speed. Suddenly, the road in front of you seems to abruptly end. Sometimes [...]
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 generations, with Gen Z.
London Bridge Is Falling Down
Everyone knows the song. Few ask why it stuck. Sometimes titles arrive fully formed, carrying meaning we only understand after we write them down
An Early Riser Is A Failed Late Riser
Fifteen years ago I forced myself to wake early. The experiment revealed something unexpected—early risers aren't special, they're just reformed late risers
Action And Reaction: How A New World Is Created
Every action triggers reactions. New worlds emerge from cascading responses to initial moves. Change isn't single events—it's chain reactions nobody predicted
Exactly 9 Years Ago
October 7, 2012—overweight, beaten, crawling toward the finish line of my first marathon. The moment that changed everything about what I thought I could do
What If Social Media Simply Vanishes One Day?
Facebook's massive outage reveals our dependence on social media. What would happen if these platforms vanished permanently?
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 more than we'd like to admit
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. When automation replaces meaning, what becomes our anchor?
Blitz Empires – How The Mighty Fall In Modern Times
Empires used to take centuries to fall. Now they collapse overnight—Nokia, Blackberry, Blockbuster. Speed of rise equals speed of extinction
The Stranger From Ten Years Ago
Look at photos from ten years ago. That person is a stranger now—different priorities, beliefs, habits. Continuity is the illusion we maintain
New Beginnings Are Important, But Honest Endings Are Importanter
Everyone celebrates new beginnings. Few execute honest endings. Proper closure matters more—dragging dead projects poisons future starts