Marin Petrov

April 20, 2022

How painting in watercolor can help you be a better leader

Last year I started painting again after а 10 years pause. I used to paint a lot, but I stopped mostly because I became more interested in programming and tech and I just wanted to learn to be a better programmer and later leader. But last year, I wanted to get into painting again and I chose a medium that was foreign to me - watercolo...
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February 20, 2022

NFTs

I was going to write a blog post about NFTs for some time now. I wanted it to be a long post that looked at NFTs from two different lenses - technological and artistic. Instead, it will be a short one, in part because much smarter than me people already wrote on the subject or made videos about it. But also, because there is not much t...
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December 8, 2021

DAOs and the nature of human collaboration

A buzzword thrown a lot these days is DAO. In this post, I will dig into the brief history of DAOs, their promises, and explore if they really help us collaborate better together. What is a DAO in the first place? This Wikipedia article goes into detail, but in general, it is an organization represented by a computer program that is tr...
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July 5, 2021

Why all animation studios have the same org chart

I posted this question on Twitter the other day: But it is something that has been bugging me for many years now. Why do all studios (animation studios in this case), have the same org chart. Of course, there are always some minor differences, but I'm talking about the big picture here. Departments. Head of departments. Project manager...
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June 17, 2021

Rolling out processes in your company

You have probably experienced this at some point in your career. Someone (usually at a senior position) decides that something can be improved and rolls out a new process by introducing it to the company and your team. It sometimes goes together with a "big announcement" in the common area of your office or in your "general" slack chan...
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April 30, 2021

ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE

"He divided the human understanding into two kinds - romantic understanding and classical understanding. Romantic understanding is inspirational, imaginative creative, and intuitive. Classical understanding proceeds by reasons and laws. Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classical." - Robert Pirsig...
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