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Even though I left my hometown two years ago, a part of me seems to go on living there, as if in a parallel world.

A few analog photos from before and after the beginning of the war

A short story about my favorite compact film camera: the Rollei 35.

Do you know how to tell whether a roll of film in a regular cartridge has already been shot? Practically no way. Usually photographers rewind the film all the way in, which is more convenient and a reliable sign that the roll is finished. But that approach has a downside: you then have to pull the leader out during development. So sometimes the film is not rewound fully, and the cartridge looks no different from a new one.

Sometimes, when something annoys you, your mind is actually pointing toward the direction in which you need to grow, the fears you need to overcome, and the problems from the past you still need to sort out.

At work we often have to communicate with someone at the end of the day, and sometimes we do it deliberately. I try to structure my work so that by 5 or 6 p.m. only a minimum of important tasks remains, and all of them are already moved to the next morning.

You can get to the sea in three and a half hours. Sometimes that means driving at 150 km/h, nervously crawling behind trucks, skipping coffee, sinking into the seat, and stepping out of the car already on the beach.

The sound of cars, co-workers talking, birds singing? You are surrounded by countless sounds right now, even if you are not focusing on them. If you think you are in silence, stop reading for ten seconds and listen. Hear it now? At the very least, you will hear your breathing and your heartbeat.

Over years of reading nonfiction I developed a set of criteria for filtering books and giving each of them exactly as much time as needed to get answers, enjoyment, or a broader perspective.

All the rich men in his region envied one poor Chinese man because he owned a marvelous white horse. Every time someone offered him a fortune for the animal, the old man replied...

I did not expect anything special from Greece. My head was already full of worn-out images: islands packed with white houses and blue roofs, beaches, dirty and depressing cities. But sometimes the lower your expectations of a country before a trip, the more it can amaze you afterward. That is exactly what happened to me with Greece.

Fog delicately emphasizes light sources, as if giving them character.

Notes on Chris Hadfield's book An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth.

Whoever we are, it can take us a very long time to value ourselves properly.

A practical and spiritual warrior's guide built from the comments of the samurai Yamamoto Tsunetomo.

Since Darwin, official science, religion, and cultural institutions have claimed that men and women evolved in families where property and protection were exchanged for female fertility and fidelity. The authors challenge that model.

A book about preserving passion and desire in family relationships. The author is Esther Perel, a well-known psychotherapist from New York with 25 years of experience.

After the Front-end course I teach, people often ask me what to do next. To avoid repeating myself, I decided to write down my general development plan for a Front-end developer after a basic HTML/CSS/JavaScript course.

Plants in a garden are planted, on the one hand, according to the original design, and on the other, according to current circumstances.

First, an idea is born in you. It is not on the surface but somewhere deep in the ground, in the form of a seed. The seed is tiny, and no one knows what kind of tree will grow from it. But the seed is almost nothing: birds cannot nest in it, it will bear no fruit, and in the end it can hardly be used as timber.

Idiots are sure they are right and speak up. Smart people doubt and stay quiet. That is why it seems like idiots are the majority.