A few months back a product manager joined our team which seemed to have experience with things that were new to me. For a few months I would always ask his opinion on the those matters hoping that he knows a thing or two more than me. Every time he would say a few things but nothing specific that assure me he know his way around such topics very well. Not that she was claiming to know more, it’s just I assumed she knows it and I always respected her opinion and tried to act in line with her suggestions.

So turns out our company is not doing very well and in order to survive we have to lay off a few people. It’s a difficult situation and it’s hard to say goodbye to the colleagues you worked with for more than a year. Even more difficult is to deliver them the news, knowing that you cannot offer any decent severence package adds one more level of complexity. Entrepreneurship is hard, even in Europe with lots of help from the govenrment.

One full month is passed since the beginning of 2021. I didn’t have many new year’s resolutions but I expected a lot from this year. To be more precise from myself. I don’t believe that I let myself down, in fact I made a great progress thus far. Yet, I wish I had done more, and how quick the days go by worries me. I’m going to write another dedicated post reflecting on the second month of 2021, and I promise you by then I have launched my new venture.

What happened to GameStop’s stock was the first of it’s kind (probably), but it won’t be the last. Robinhood brought stock market investment to the masses, and we are grateful for that. However preventing their customers from purchasing certain stocks put us the commoners or retail investors in a disadvantageous position. Following the restrictions, Robinhood in a blog post shed some light on the rational behind the action, which was to control their risk and satisfy thresholds required by the clearinghouse.

One my top goals in life is to have financial freedom. What is financial freedom? I don’t think there’s an official meaning for it but here’s my definition. You are financially free when you can decide to do what you want when you want. That also implies at any point in time you can be anywhere you please. This doesn’t mean I want to live like a hippy and constantly travel and never settle, it’s just I want to be able to do so if I wish.