matei vlad

July 13, 2021

Leadership is hard and rarely "sexy"

The news Bloomberg-style articles about "Leadership lessons from the pandemic" are almost as annoying to me as the phrase "It's coming home" (nonetheless I still supported England on Sunday and repped my Three Lions t-shirt with pride). So, I don't expect anyone to read this - and nor do I care. It's a useful exercise for me to write d...
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July 9, 2021

Some reflections

In 10 days my official working life begins. Hence, I have taken the last month very easily and tried to focus on recovering after a pretty intense year. It mostly translated into doing a lot of sports and trying to spend some time with people I care about. More specifically, I have trained for and successfully completed a climb on Mont...
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May 31, 2021

On Human Relationships

The idea of what a friendship means has been on my mind for quite some time (read: years). What friendships mean in abstract terms is fairly simple for me to put into words: being with someone and feeling that you know what they feel, think and desire without them saying a word. Or the certainty of reciprocal understanding in front of ...
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May 26, 2021

Hello, world.

Ever since I moved my email to HEY, I was tempted to share the ideas that fly through my own "world" using the HEY World blog feature (which, by the way, I really love). Despite having more time on my hands than usual, I never started. It was probably due to fear of being too open with my personal ideas and beliefs. But perhaps because...
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