Category: Random

Asenovets

~ Veselin ~ 13 Comments

Asenovets is a famous building in the city center of Sofia. Two similarly designed large residential buildings sit on the two sides of Ivan Asen II street, the area with our co-working space. I go past this building almost daily. The area is nice.

The police took out 48 dogs from an apartment in this historic building yesterday. I’m speechless. An apartment in such a place can be a pricy AirBNB that’s never empty, and someone hoarded dogs inside, and somehow managed to lock in 48 of them until the authorities stopped it and took the dogs and the owner away.

I hope the dogs find better accommodation and the neighbors – some peace and quiet.

The Cost of Inaction

~ Veselin ~ 6 Comments
Daily writing prompt
Write about a time when you didn’t take action but wish you had. What would you do differently?
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The one time I wanted to buy Bitcoin at $1 and didn’t. I made a mistake.

I believe it’s usually better to make a wrong decision than to not make any decision.

For example, I didn’t have access to a PC until I was about 17. As a result, I made an uninformed decision when choosing a university and ended up studying accounting. I got my first computer for my first year there. By the third year, it became painfully obvious that I had made a mistake because my entire life revolved around Internet but it felt too late to switch because I was close to graduation (it was 4.5 years in total). Do I regret it? Not really. I took a wide range of courses in accounting, finance, financial control, math, statistics, marketing. Years later, I applied again to another university and studied the right thing. Looking back, that bachelor’s in accounting turned out to be surprisingly valuable in my software engineering career.

But the post is about the cost of inaction. Here are some points:

  • Both in personal and professional life, if there’s a problem and you don’t address it, it gets worse
  • We’re more likely to regret the things we didn’t do than the mistakes we made trying
  • If you don’t do that thing, the competition may do it first, and better
  • Fear rots our brains. We rarely fear inaction. We fear action and change

Rather than a summary, have this encouraging look by the little Song thrush.

Lorna Shore

~ Veselin ~ 7 Comments

Some songs just click.

I first experienced that in high school, when a classmate gave me his walkman and let me listen to Master of Puppets. It happened many times after. Styles varied but I would instantly know when I hear something and it clicks.

The song below relates to Metallica the way Rage Against the Machine relates to pop music but it does have a little bit of both. If all of that made you a bit curious, headphones on, lower the volume, and press play. It can be too much even if you’re no stranger to metal.