A Quick Look Back on 2021

2021 was year II of COVID-19 pandemic with all its ripple effects on personal life, social life, career, economy, etc. Pessimists may ask if 2021 was any good. For me it was. Not so much for posting on this blog, with only 35 posts, but for career and personal life. As so many among us, …

Salute to my distant readers

As a blogger I do check the analytics of my (English) blog quite often, but I must admit I usually keep on the surface, not digging in the depth of what the analytic tools can reveal. Yet intrigued by the regular highlighting of India on my readers’ map, I checked the stats by country. To …

Updates, hassle and resistance to change

Anyone subscribing to an online service or apps has experienced the annoyance not being on familiar ground anymore after an update. When familiar elements get scrambled, our physical memory, i.e. knowing where to click, where to look or search and where to input is disturbed at best, rendered useless in the most severe cases. Our …

The 2020 top 10 Most Read Posts on my Blog

Month January is named after the double-faced roman god Janus, with one face looking back to the past and one face looking towards the future. More than 2,000 years ago, this metaphorical figure was probably already inviting to reflect on the past year and make resolution for the new one starting. For the first post …

Merry Christmas and all the best for 2021

This year, 2020, will not leave us with the best memories, thanks to the infamous coronavirus COVID-19, robbing us from our regular lives. Therefore, wishing a merry Christmas carries deeper meaning than just usual wishes. Christmas, for those who can responsibly gather with family and relatives will be a moment of refueling heart and soul …

The mighty COVID-19

Everybody is sick and tired hearing and reading about the infamous coronavirus COVID-19, yet nobody can ignore the tremendous ripple effect this virus has, disrupting the slightest things in our lives, despite its alleged moderate potential effects on our health. At least for rather young and healthy people. According to a STATISTA worldwide Survey dated …

Smiling because starting a job with a new company or because leaving the actual one?

In an article titled “My Personal Turning Point: Reflecting on a Decade as a Lean Coach” by Josh Howell, now president of LEI and posted January 14th, 2020, the author explains why he was smiling on a photo. It was not because of the prospective new job with LEI but because he was leaving his …

This blog is 5 years old!

Hello everyone, in these very first days of the new year 2020, I wish you all the best for the three hundred sixty and some remaining days. This blog is now 5 years old, as I started it in January 2014. The slow build-up of organic growth accumulated 362,698 views since, with 476 posts in …

2018: one year of blogging in retrospect

At the moment of writing these lines, the year has 5 more days to go until 2019 and complete its fifth year of existence. The 2018 counter of views shows 89,670,  a 16.5% increase compared to previous year, thanks to 53,430 visitors. A still modest score, but I am working on it. I managed to …

My blog’s third birthday

January 2014 - January 2017, my blog is now online for 3 years and counts 347 posts. Thanks to all of you my audience is gently growing on this blog, as well as on my Youtube channel and on tweeter. All organic! What is the most read here? According to the stats, Constraint vs. bottleneck …