Jure Cuhalev

Following on, with excellent writing of Jon Courtenay Grimwood author of Arabesk. There’s a brief quote that’s probably going to save you some insanity in future, if you remember to use it:
“About Avatar. You know, back when he was a kid, was it right to take him home with me - or was I just [...]

Lately I’ve been observing interesting phenomena regarding peer pressure. Most of the things that we do, we do because we’re prompted by our peers. That’s perfectly fine, since this is the way by nature’s design.
The issue is that we have to choose carefully which peers we decide to listen and be influenced by. Stereotypical example [...]

I’ve been thinking for a while now what’s fair in this system of ours. You see, people often say that it’s not fair to pitch some other companies employees to come and work for them, or in terms of product, that someone else has a better product and you’re loosing your hard-won users/customers to them.

There’s also an [...]

Further reading Arabesk book (it does have 850+ pages), I’ve stumbled upon another concept - emotional institutionalization. The idea is that, together with assimilation with local culture, you also have to change the way you perceive your own emotions in relation to what’s happening in your new world.

The reason for this concept in the book is that the [...]

Developing Umbrella service for Koornk, got me thinking, how could I expend this service even more, to give it more meaning?
What I came up with, is a simple extension of existing data-sets that had to be acquired already to make the basic service work. Inspired by all the talks of Widgets in recent times, I [...]