November 28, 2024

Wouldn’t it be great to be an actual assassin?  Not to mutilate anyone, of course, but to have his confidence, strength, KNOWLEDGE… (and it’s sure as hell more interesting than being “Jeff, an IT guy.”) And we all know that no assassin would be complete without secret knowledge of poisons. With knowledge like that – who would ever tread

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November 8, 2024

I often talk about what effective learning methods are all about but I have almost never mentioned all the memory experiments I have run which have failed miserably. It might give you the impression that this is the knowledge which came to me easily. On the contrary. It was like wading through the puddle of crap to pick

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November 3, 2024

  I have the greatest pleasure to introduce my friend and ex-student – Mariusz who I had the honor to teach (Swedish) not so long ago. Mariusz started his journey with Swedish in March and thanks to the super effective mix of grit, right methods and mnemonics got to (almost) B2 level at Swedish. The

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October 23, 2024

  Growing-up has to be one of the saddest things ever from the outside perspective. It’s like a backward evolution. You see how amazingly curious creatures turn into mindless corporate drones. You see how the pursuit of knowledge turns into the pursuit of money. I believe that curiosity and the power to create are the

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October 15, 2024

I guess that I didn’t take this one, crucial thing into consideration when I published my article about fun ways to read. Some people have the short attention span or even add ADD. And it’s quite difficult to read anything with such a condition. Or to do anything for that matter. You know how it goes

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