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And why you will love it eventually. An emotional survival guide for those who feel lost. Part 1 out of many.

Slow December was an initiative taken by the Fibery team to take a break from their usual work routine and work on personal projects without the pressure of deadlines or mandatory meetings. The team members benefited from reduced anxiety 😌, restored energy, and increased creativity 🎈

How Fibery will transform product companies work and knowledge management processes, help them invent better solutions and build things faster 🐌 → 🦉

It's a rant. If you are not prepared for aggressive style, bad words, and existential crisis, don't read this article. It was a warning. It's a rant.

Dissatisfaction leads to progress—in business, personal development, and software development in particular. Learn how to embrace frustration to get the best things done.

Does a CEO have to love small talk and networking? Behold eight tips on how to avoid it and still be a successful introverted CEO.

Imho, HR is overrated. Learn to run a company without HR department and with a high level of employee engagement and streamlined company culture.

How to accept criticism? I can be straightforward about it. Only through practicing a lot with it.

How to achieve the state of determinate optimism and why does it matter in Product Management.

I won’t tell you about any widely-known tricks or common questions like if a person is stressed, talk about some everyday stuff first. Let's dig deeper.

How to motivate team without actually doing anything? Check out this article for 3 tips for employee motivation in software development.

Read this post to find out the only reasonable way of how to split equity in a startup fairly, efficiently, and without losing trust in your co-founders.

How many meetings should I squeeze in my day? Which team meeting to attend, which to ditch? What’s the hourly cap for meetings in one’s life? Let’s discuss!

Achieve transparent work culture and mutual trust at your company in three hard, challenging, yet very efficient steps. Works for a remote team as well.

Why do we work from Monday to Friday and who said it’s optimal for software development or the creative industry?

I believe that luck (random positive events) plays a paramount role both on peronal and company levels. Read this blog post to see how even one random chance can have a great impact.

Forget these interview questions 🙅‍ and never ask them your potential employees in software development (or elsewhere).

Goals and KPIs can destroy the workflow. How can meaningful objectives be disruptive? Learn to avoid the mess in setting goals and KPIs in just one simple step.

Find out how a startup founder should profit from both entrepreneur self-doubt and confidence—especially when the product needs to be tested yet.

It’s never too late: read these 8 easy, frank tips on overcoming fear of public speaking and learn to speak confidently on stage.

Use this easy rule of thumb to know when to close a startup instead of staying a “promising company” that won’t deliver anything in the next ten years.

The pre-internet era was full of wonderful and very powerful systems that are well forgotten now, but we definitely can learn from them, try to understand why we had an enormous degradation in the 1990s and 2000s, and why we are enjoying hypertext systems renaissance now.

Check out what transparency in the workplace can bring your company — and how no transparency screws everything up.

Learn from my experience of how to focus on work when Slack and Facebook lure you into talks.

In a knowledge economy, we compete with knowledge, not force. Our productivity tools should become knowledge management tools as well — thus, making companies more intelligent.

There is an important decision to make: build a lifestyle business or a startup? And the sooner you decide, the sooner you will stop worrying and start living.

Quite many top startups had a transformative near-death experience that changed everything and help them to find a path to success.

It’s tempting to download the first roadmap template you find. But you should avoid them, if you’re serious about building a sustainable self-sufficient business.