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Memo: BRICS countries

There are changes around BRICS. BRICS (the currently 5 countries) will add the plus 5 countries available from January 1st, 2024.[1][3] Argentina, which was planned to be one of the plus 6 countries, was pulled out of the plans to join the…

Czech language: Improving listening numbers.

To improve my Czech language listening about numbers, My teacher introduced the following website to me. It is fun to practice it on the website. Czech Numbers Listening Practice

Reflecting on 2022

At the end of the year 2022, I would share my reflections on the year 2022 with this article. Previously I wrote the 2020 version of the article. In recent years, I learned how to work with big open-source projects. It was fun and meaningf…

Employee Thriving Not Employee Engagement

Engagement is used to measure employees. It has been believed if someone's engagement score is high, the person has a positive impact on both company and themself sustainably. But according to Microsoft's study[1], it was wrong. Why Thrivi…

Memo: New 4th metro D and extended metro lines in Prague

Metro D (blue color) will be completed in 2022. But more exciting thing is metro A's extension current Motol to airport. Not sure when it will be completed. Construction starts on Prague’s long-delayed metro D line - Prague, Czech Republic…

Czech alphabet: how to write and pronounce

This content is from a Czech text book page 15, blue box on the bottom of the page. This can be used to explain a word to someone on the phone. How to write https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czech_orthography#Alphabet https://everipedia.org/wi…

Book review: Effortless - Greg Mackeown

This article is my output after reading Effortless - Greg Mackeown [1]. As in my assumption, I have been overwhelmed by many essential tasks I thought. When I found this book, it attracted me. I wanted to apply what I learn from the book t…

How to use Czech keyboard layout on Mac

I was not good at using Czech keyboard layout on Mac. But here is a good document. https://www.czechclass101.com/blog/2020/10/16/how-to-type-in-czech/#3 The tip is to show keyboard viewer, and use the key "+" that is a modifier key to ente…

Reflecting on 2020

Foreword Happy New Year 2021! In the past I have been writing articles about my year of reflection in Japanese. But this time changing my mind, I would do in English as other articles for some reasons. Reflecting on 2020, first I focused o…

Daigo Umehara's Lecture at Keio Univerity

In the past, as I shared on the blog [1], I have been inspired by Daigo Umehara who is a pioneer and well-known professional gamer in the world. I think his talk or focus is about avoiding an approval emotion as extrinsic motivation, and e…

Theory of constraints (TOC) - thinking process

There is a management paradigm Theory of Constraints (TOC) [1] developed originally from hard science by Eliyahu Goldratt. This time my goal is to clarify the steps for all the stakeholders to find bottlenecks (constraints) to change in a …

Designing healthy habits

The goal is to maximize my energy in AM after waking up, and improve an environment to think. I noticed caring some basic needs is important to do some activities for higher needs, according to the human's growth psychology models such as …

The day of changing the context of capitalism

I think that the important context of the present capitalism is sustainable growth. It is a scaffold of today's education, values and people's behavior in many regions. Growth is an encouraged value in the regions, but it was not always en…

yEd Graph Editor for Linux?

I love the tool yEd Graph Editor. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and macOS. It's available on Linux too. Is it packaged like FreeMind on Linux? www.yworks.com

Mark Zuckerberg's Speech at Harvard

news.harvard.edu My favorite parts in the speech. "I’ve sat with children in juvenile detention and opioid addicts, who told me their lives could have turned out differently if they just had something to do, an after school program or some…

Clay to drink

To care and clean my intestine. A cup of spoon every morning, with water. So far, I could see the good effect.

Air Berlin and Niki filed for bankruptcy

The LCC airline companies was bankruptcy. Niki https://www.flyniki.com/en/start.php The flight operations of NIKI Luftfahrt GmbH under the IATA airline code HG were suspended on Thursday, 14th December 2017. Air Berlin https://www.airberli…

To avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose

We are in many choices every day. How to make a choice? The hint is in a Steve Job's famous speech in Stanford University. news.stanford.edu “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” ... Remem…

Barcelona Live Update on EL PAIS

Lovely City Barcelona. The Live update is here. Catalan parliament approves resolution to declare independence elpais.com And other memo list. Beyond Catalonia: pro-independence movements in Europe www.theguardian.com

English pronunciation and the used mascle

I am not good at speaking with good pronunciation. But recently I checked each pronunciation of mine. And I found that especially the physical motion opening a mouse widely with side was my challenging. According to International Phonetic …

Talk: Yuval Harari

Historian Yuval Harari’s Talk. Very interesting. Also how to speak, and the used words. How to make a sentence. How to express a dense content by short words in short time. Those are so helpful for me. www.ted.com And his book is also writ…

Wateched The Linguistic Genius of Babies

Today what I learned from below video in English lesson is I understood why my listening to English is so hard to me :) Taking the statistics of sounds from English and Japanese language, Japanese language does not have sounds like English…

Appearance and Personality

That may be surprising people. Living in Czech, my problem is that it’s still hard for me to distinguish most local people from appearance. For detail, I might be able to do it. But I am not confident for that. Of course each people has a …

Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo.

The title is a line from Oracle in Matrix (Revolutions). In general, it is hard to find people who are working from their passion. If you see people who are working from the passion, they made an effort to get the skills so much in their p…

Moving residence is solving several problems

Moving residence is solving several problems at same time. Recently I moved my apartment. There are 2 purposes mainly. Moving near office to save the time and simplify my life more. Moving bright place to get more sunshine for my health. W…

もうすぐ2017年

年末のこの時期、昔なら年賀状を書いていたこの時期であるが、 その年を振り返り、来る年を思う気持ちは変わらない。 2016年は、旅行では、欧州を中心に8カ国、訪れた。 チェコがこの時期の気温がマイナスになるのに対して、 今旅行中のスペインでは、気温が…

Future of Brno Centre

I have found a board about “Future of Central of Brno” in front of a big tram station. There were pictures for the future. And schedule to 2045! The south area of Brno will be renovated. Brno has an advantage about train course. So, maybe …

Japanese remarkable pianist

Nobuyuki Tsujii. Remarkable pianist.Regarding of below official site, next Europe tour is likely to be in next year 2017. I am going to go to his concert next year!!http://www.nobupiano1988.com/english/schedule/

Yummy French, Italian restaurant

There are 2 adjoining yummy restaurants near Česka station, Brno.These are my favorite ones. Bistro Franz French restaurant. Bistro Franz Address: Veveří 461/14, 602 00 Brno http://www.bistrofranz.cz/ Cattani Veveří Italian restaurant. The…

Czech lesson: Kde je to? - Where is it?

Kde je to? - Where is it? Where? nahoře: up vlevo: left vpravo: right dole: down uprostřed: middletady: here tam: there blízko: near daleko: far Vedle vedle: next toodchod => vedle obchodu banka => vedle banky restaurace => vedle restaurac…