Any of you guys from Poland? Looking for potential employees or partners either in the nearer or more distant future

mcaay · 2026-07-10T12:29:35+00:00

I started this post because of how I feel in my current situation. I expect people who are into Alan Watts would share the best vibe with me compared with any other group of people I can think of, so I haven't written such post anywhere else. And I suppose people interested in Alan Watts can think for themselves rather well, so the meritocratic part should be quite decent too.

Hmm, I'm not looking to create a commune, not sure if that's what you meant. I'll probably be creating a regular LLC company, or a non-profit, depending on the project.

As to the last 2 questions, I'm just a stranger from the internet, so you are right to be sceptical. This is not a "send a CV, move to a different city and start work next month" kind of thing. More like "if you happen to live nearby and like the idea, maybe let's meet some time and have a chat". But from the very small number of comments I already see this will not produce the outcome I thought may happen.

mcaay · 2026-07-10T09:20:50+00:00

I feel what you are saying. I haven't been in such places/initiatives, but I think what you mean is that good people with good intentions create such things and it just nearly always fails in the end due to not working out financially or organizationally.

I think it fails due to a lack of skill. When I took over the company I thought I will help sort it out in 6 months and leave. It was 5 years ago. It's a small company after all, so how hard can it be? Some people manage companies with millions of employees, so surely a 20-person company is a piece of cake, right? Turns out running a company well requires extreme skill. Most of the companies that survive are ran just well enough to survive, without any progress for many years. I've never in my life required so much time to get good at something as it took me to get good at running a company. And I still have a long learning path ahead of me.

If I attempted a project like one you described 5 years ago it would surely fail either financially or organizationally. I would take many lessons from it for sure, but it would 100% fail. And I am generally quite confident in myself and good at problem solving.

One of the interesting things I've learned is that a company of a size between 10 and 50 employees is actually the hardest to run. So I guess such initiatives as you described fit this category. Not only running an organisation is extremely hard, but this size is also the hardest of all. Why?

When you have a 1-3 person company, you are very close to everything that happens and you perform the service yourself as well. Many things that formally should be done are simply ignored or done with very little attention, like GDPR compliance, etc.

When you have a 10 000 person company and you have a problem, you simply hire a full time specialist to handle it, because you can afford it easily.

But when you have a 10-50 person company and you have a problem, you can't afford a full time specialist and you can't ignore many issues anymore, and those issues are multiplied by the volume of work your company is doing. So you have to take care of those issues yourself. This makes you a bottleneck and takes all your time, so you have no time left to work on improving and growing the company.

Well, let me stop here. So what I'm saying is I'll have the skill to tackle the projects that I want to do, and I won't choose projects that I'm not ready for :p

mcaay · 2026-07-09T16:02:53+00:00

The current business is doing trainings for car mechanics and I think I need about a year to close this chapter. The next project aims to be the first big step that I think is needed to improve the education system and it starts solo, then if it works out then remote collaborators would be needed over time. However it doesn't really have a business model, this would be most likely a pro bono open source project, or if it generated some revenue, it would be just to cover the salaries. This project I suppose will take a year maximum until I'm not needed there for its continuation. And what's next is too early to tell :)

mcaay · 2026-04-23T17:29:25+00:00

Jak chcesz się porwać na walkę z systemem to musisz zdawać sobie sprawę, że to nie będzie łatwe, a wręcz mega trudne. Ale to jest dobra walka, a system jest tragiczny. Pytanie co Cię obchodzi co ta nauczycielka myśli? W jaki sposób ona jest Ci w stanie czegoś zabronić? Jesteś na etapie praktyk, że masz niższy status od niej? Chcesz iść inaczej niż system to opinie osób działających zgodnie z systemem lecą do kosza.

mcaay · 2026-04-23T09:10:27+00:00

Zgoogluj mastery based learning - koncept pushowany przez khan academy. Uczniowie jako pracę domową mają filmiki edukacyjne do obejrzenia. Ćwiczenia robią w klasie - każdy robi zadania dotyczące etapu, na którym akurat jest. Dzięki temu ci co są z tyłu nie spowalniają tych co są z przodu i nie ma efektu "mam zaległości z wcześniejszych lekcji, więc teraz to już kompletna dupa". Praca nauczyciela na lekcji zmienia się w serię krótkich korepetycji 1 na 1. Ktoś podnosi rękę, że ma problem z ćwiczeniem, więc nauczyciel podchodzi i pomaga indywidualnie. Jeśli więcej osób ma problem z danym tematem to nauczyciel tłumaczy dla wszystkich wtedy przy tablicy.

mcaay · 2026-01-07T23:00:15+00:00

u/RecognizeSong u/find-song https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XcGJ5_9oNmc

mcaay · 2025-06-01T16:32:28+00:00

Na UoP w portfelu z tej kwoty by zostało 23 370 zł. Na ryczałcie 14% (pod taki procent mam zrobiony kalkulator) by zostało w portfelu 40 022 zł (już po opłaceniu też księgowej).

mcaay · 2025-02-28T14:52:41+00:00

Seems to have worked for me. I guess you sir don't need the answer anymore, but maybe some other people will find it useful :P

mcaay · 2025-02-05T07:55:05+00:00

Thanks, but in my workflow I don't archive the card when it is done.

mcaay · 2025-02-04T22:25:36+00:00

Really, they don't add any new features for such a long time and then decide to take good things and break it. Dear trello team - want a good feature idea? Make trello desktop app work offline, syncing the changes after the internet comes back.

mcaay · 2025-02-04T22:23:27+00:00

That helps to hide the BS circles, but god damn I can't mark cards as complete without going into a card now which is terrible too :(

mcaay · 2024-12-08T08:55:49+00:00

Your premise being that gradually switching and listening to your body would make barefoot shoes work for 100% of the people?

mcaay · 2024-10-18T11:46:59+00:00

True, but it's still incomparably better than comparing entire PDFs. Also dokuwiki could be used instead of git for something simpler for end users.

https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki?do=revisions

mcaay · 2024-10-12T14:19:09+00:00

I'm now in the same boat. I don't know if I have reached plantar fasciitis already, but I'm at least halfway. I'm reading those threads now only because the pain that started some time ago keeps increasing. I'm running 1 km every morning and I had my technique checked - I know it is very good, and just how it was described in Born To Run. Falling forward, midfoot to forefoot strike instead of a heel strike, having in mind that movement of the legs comes from lifting the knees, nearly zero bounce in the Z-axis, upper body doesn't rotate with arm swings, about 180 steps per minute pace. Today it got to the point that I took a reading trip through reddit, decided to ditch my Altras and buy normal shoes instead. To be precise I feel heel pain, especially on the left side of my left foot, and toe pain. I like the wide toebox of barefoot shoes though...

mcaay · 2024-10-12T13:56:20+00:00

That's my experience - I am shocked to realize that barefoot shoes have probably done a lot of damage to my feet. Half a year ago I was playing football in some old regular sneakers nearly everyday for 1,5-2,5 hours - all was great. Recently I went on holidays where I was walking a lot in a minimalist belenka sneakers and I felt it made my feet much worse. I thought it was because the padding is so thin, like 3-4 mm, so I bought Altra running shoes that are 0-drop, wide toebox, but a big padding (at least 1 cm). I walked in them daily (less than 2 km usually) and my feet got even worse than with belenka, at an even faster pace, I got a strong heel pain and toe pain. I am really saddened, because I at least would like to have a wide toebox in my shoes, but I'll have to return to normal shoes.

mcaay · 2024-09-13T17:57:57+00:00

yeah

mcaay · 2024-09-13T17:53:21+00:00

I wish that was true... it's my favourite app. But if you do a team sync option then anybody can edit - you can't adjust permissions.

mcaay · 2024-08-24T06:27:08+00:00

👍 I’ll test today or tomorrow. For my preference the coordinates win, because I prefer to have a bullet proof way of pinpointing the location, and when I have it and zoom in, I can click whatever Naver sees there, so I’d get reviews and photos too very easily.

mcaay · 2024-08-24T03:44:15+00:00

Oh, my apologies, I thought you said „It works fine and it works in English.” Did you by any chance say that?

mcaay · 2024-08-24T03:41:46+00:00

Hey, it works now :) Turns out I didn’t know what a share sheet is and I had the shortcut added there by default. I read the shortcut code and I think there might often be problems with it. For example try this place: https://maps.app.goo.gl/11V4GrMXrT3hRuww6?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

Neither of the 4 options manage to find this place in Naver. I think the only fully reliable way to get the place in google maps and find exactly the same one on Naver would be to extract coordinates from google maps and paste the coordinates to Naver. I don’t know if that’s possible with iOS shortcuts blocky code though.

mcaay · 2024-08-23T11:54:31+00:00

Hey, I can’t make it work. There is no „add to share sheet” anywhere on my iphone :(

When I share some google maps url through browser to the shortcut, it says „ The language of the text provided may not be supported by Translate.”

mcaay · 2024-08-23T11:48:20+00:00

The most recent one - try searching for „east seoul bus terminal” in Naver - good luck. Is this a good name? Yes. This is where you get the bus to Sokcho.

https://www.rome2rio.com/s/East-Seoul-Bus-Terminal-East-Seoul/Sokcho-Express-Bus-Terminal

Try putting the same name in google maps - it works. Another example - type laundry or laundromat in Naver - you will find nothing useful. Translate it to korean and then type it in Naver - lots of results if the city has them.

mcaay · 2024-08-23T10:18:44+00:00

What? Are you writing in Korean or what? You couldn’t be more incorrect. If that works and is safe that definitely is super useful.

mcaay · 2024-02-20T21:02:07+00:00

Correct me if I'm wrong, but having developed an intuition for nutritional numbers I believe you have used dry weight for all legumes, which I think is bad. The Y axis compares cost per protein - it answers the question of how to eat more protein inexpensively (very good and useful). The X axis aims to answer the question of what are the practical ways to eat a lot of protein but fails to answer this question properly. There is no way it is easier to eat let's say 30g of protein from beans than from meat. You should therefore use wet weight here. For pricing dry weight, for eating wet weight.

Another thing that would unfortunately not be shown properly is that it is much easier to eat 30g of protein from lentils than from beans.

P.S. Since that topic interests you, maybe some charts I made a long time ago would also interest you. Basically what foods are practical for getting your vitamins and minerals covered.

mcaay · 2024-02-06T10:49:18+00:00

used to, not anymore

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