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Aug 10, 2021

A short piece I wrote about the material culture of post-Eastern Bloc, pre-EU Romania that I grew up in.

Photo credit: evz.ro, Bianca Zaharescu - It's Bucharest in 1996, I was there too.

The text and some pictures:


Mar 28, 2017

I've become quite fed up with a show notes that had very little value to the listener. So I've decided to turn them into full-blown, stand-alone blog posts!

Hence, until this experiment lasts, I am now running a blogcast instead of just a podcast.

Are you as excited about this as I am?


Dec 25, 2016

A bit of fun revision today, going through the previous 14 days and self-scoring on the ERE test! The scale is 90 points scores an A, 70 a B, 50 a C, 30 a D and 10 an F. Housing is worth 30, transport is worth 20, food is worth 10 and the rest are 4-5. I used 4. Original article...


Dec 15, 2016

Jacob puts hobbies into three categories:

  1. Expense creating
  2. Free or self-funding
  3. Income creating
I add the idea of considering a hobby that also involves personal development: building broadly applicable life skills, one of the most satisfying activities that I know of out there.

Original article at