This is a concept which appeared in my head when I was working on my own startup. To understand it better let’s analyze the two elements — what does it mean to be “emergent” and what is “friction”. Friction Friction is a physical notion. It is simply a force which…

How I used internal documentation at my previous project and why it didn’t work. At my previous company, for a few years, I was working as a software developer. At one point in time I wanted to jump into an existing project which was new to me. There was quite…

Where are we now? Let’s start with a short story. You come to the office. You have a meeting with somebody and you observe a pattern in their behavior that you feel might be improved. It bothers you but you have already learned how to live with that. However yesterday…

If you are reading this article, you probably know the idea of Pareto principle, commonly referred to as 80/20 rule (Pareto principle on Wikipedia). The general idea is that in many areas we can observer a pattern, that things are split up between each other in an 80% to 20%…