I am now working with remote teams for more than three years. Be it software developers from other countries, our own software developers in North Macedonia, or my newest team in Kosovo. Remote work doesn't only consist of writing through tools like Slack, Skype, or MS Teams but also demands having calls either via Voice…
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I was reading Vagabonds by Rolf Potts last year and somewhere he mentioned a quote by Ibn Battuta. I have never heard of Ibn Battuta before and therefore I did some research and what I found out was just surprising, so I thought I wanted to share that with you.
Ibn Battuta was born…
As we had to postpone our world trip because of this “situation”, my wife and I are staying in an Airbnb apartment in Sargans, Switzerland. It is mentally a challenge to not think about where we actually would have been as digital nomads traveling the world. So we tried to forget it and do something…
Today I'd like to share something with you from one of my favorite books. The Alchemist by Paulo Ceolho. I am re-reading it again found a passage I wanted to share with you. Enjoy.
He became friendly with the camel driver who traveled alongside him. At night, as they sat around the fire, the boy…
On a sunny day, I was walking with my wife at the beach. It was a sandy beach and the sand was like powder. The wind was getting stronger and stronger, blowing from the ocean to the land. For the first time ever, I noticed that it caused the sand to transform itself into a…
It was a very beautiful day as we trekked up the Lion's Head in Cape Town, South Africa. The sky was blue and the weather was just perfectly warm to go on a hiking tour. My wife and I are not die-hard fans of hiking and there are certain routes that we prefer over others.…
Airplanes were always very important to me. Not that I am pro-climate pollution, but because when I watched them fly high in the sky from my classroom, office, car, or wherever I happened to be, it meant freedom to me. Freedom to choose your destination. Freedom to get into an airplane and just fly wherever…
Choices. Every day we are confronted with hundreds if not thousands of choices to be made. I know my weaknesses and one of them is after a decision was made, thinking "What If..?" or "I should have.." I am really trying hard to avoid that thinking but the harder I try the more I do…
I don’t know what to say. I’m devastated. On February 05, 2020, we set off on our world trip and just a month later we are sitting at the airport heading for home.
Last night… 7:30 pm — the president, Cyril Ramaphosa, of South Africa speaks to the people and inhabitants. We sit in our…
“Please get up, I want to be early at the Addo Elephant Park,” my wife says to me at 6 am in the morning on a beautiful Sunday in South Africa. So instead of getting up, I ended up checking my smartphone notifications and was distracted for 15-20 minutes. This is one of the bad…