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We just finished celebrating Easter. I wished all the best to my friend in Brazil and she told me that they don’t celebrate anything, they just have  Friday off and they exchange big chocolate eggs (each is worth ca. 70 PLN). I didn’t know about it - in primary school we usually talked about Christmas traditions so I decided to learn more about this topic and present to you Easter traditions in different cultures. Poland Just to make sure we have equal starting point: In Poland these are rather ‘sad’ holidays - maybe because of the Lent before - but still according to Christians, Easter is a happy holiday and we celebrate  resurrection, not the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. People go with food (coloured eggs especially!) to church on Saturday to have it blessed and to eat it for Sunday breakfast. Brazil I learned that my friend was wrong. In Brazil on Friday (“Good Friday”) there is a tradition of “Procissão do Encontro” - women carrying an image or sculpture of Vi...

On April, the 1st, day of the pranksters or just April Fool’s Day many companies prepared concepts of completely useless products. One of such products for me was Amazon Dash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMacTuHPWFI Apparently, over 1 week later this vision is still present and Amazon commented that it wasn’t a prank. It’s real. You will be able to put some kind of button on your washing machine and another one on a dishwasher and if any time you will lack laundry detergent you will press the button connected to your home WiFi network and order it instantly. If Amazon also starts delivering orders using drones you will receive ordered products in under two hours. Amazon Drone source: http://gizmodo.com/amazon-primeair-will-deliver-your-stuff-on-drones-1474589664 Probably the next step is to place such buttons on shelves where you store milk, fruits or even meat. Imagine you are getting home late, your fridge is almost empty: only 5 buttons are there...

People expect from us to be great in every single field, but we all know it is impossible. And here comes the question, it is better to be an expert in one narrow filed, or be a jack of all trades and have skills in every discipline? The first question that I have asked myself was: how can you master a skill when you don’t focus on one thing that you are really into? Imagine what you would achieve if you only paid attention to what you really wanted. That was actually my first impression. But then I thought that it’s only one side of the issue. There is a phrase that responds to my problem: "Jack of all trades, master of none, Certainly better than a master of one” https://www.pinterest.com/pin/114067803037613174/ I think that it’s good to know fundamentals of some fields, you somehow belong to. For example, when you run your own company, I think it is not really necessary to have perfect accounting skills, but it is good to know how...

Many of us are struggling with a problem how to combine a school life and career. That’s why we start to look for some freelance or remote job that is quite convenient for school boys :) I’d like to introduce to you how I find balance between those two things and what helps me to be as productive as possible! In my opinion the hardest part is to cut off all the things that distract you from doing work. I mean everything – a fridge, an urge to make another cup of coffee and stuff that surrounds us in our computer like Facebook, e-mails and so on. The problem is that at home they are so close, and we all know, how much they distract us and how awful it might be just to start working… Here are some tips that are very helpful for me. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/294845106828793843/ First of all, it is very important to set a schedule for a day – to write down what has to be done today, give priorities and start with the hardest ones. I always ...