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Why I moved to Poland four years ago and chose to stay

I’ve been training Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for half a year now and still hooked. Jiu jitsu’s really been a life saver during the long, grey winter months of Northern Poland. It’s really the perfect recipe for maintaining a healthy mind and body.

“A picture is worth a thousand words." Whether for better or for worse, data, or any visual representation of data is the same. It has been represented in a visual manner not as a translation (not a 1:1 relationship with the truth) but as a representation in order to communicate some sort of idea in a simpler manner, in order to make the data or what it is trying to communicate more palatable.

I love analogies. I think there’s something absolutely beautiful, fundamental, awe-inspiring to being able to connect two seemingly different topics. So rather than ‘drop the analogy’, I’d like to share another (my apologies, dear conference attendee, who asked me to do the exact opposite)

Some reflections on leadership from two recent mountain adventures: Polish Bieszczadas in December vs. Italian Alps in June

"Roots and wings / I'm somewhere in between / Where I'm from and what I dream / What I've known and what I've seen / No matter where I go / The sky above, the ground below / My heart will have a home / 'Cause I got these / Roots and wings" - Jessie James Decker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nud7PRy_uhI)

Is my generation of ideas procrastination? To some extent, probably. It’s easier to think of new ideas, than to build out ones you already have. The former requires only a burst of inspiration; the latter requires contemplation. And that requires effort... and time.

...what I’m really at a loss of words for, is not what happened this past year, but how, and thanks to whom.

Who says you have to go back to school to "go back to school"?

Do you write about the times you'll never forget or the ones you're afraid you won't remember?

What is the key to a long, happy, healthy life?

Adventure in the Polish Tatra Mountains. Great time, or great story?

I've been in Poland for over a month now... but it still feels like I flew in just yesterday!