Watching The Paint Dry
periodical posts about the observed reality
by Piotr Parda
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Piotr
- Jan 10
- 3 min
Tsar’s Gambit
(political special) Do you think Vladimir Putin is an excellent chess player? My money is on YES and I might add that his prowess at the
Of course it wouldn’t be easy without the wide support of the American voters but with the greatest weakness of American voting system - The Electoral College, it could be easily hacked with some careful planning. All it took was to activate the machinery of disinformation on social media very precisely targeting the populations of swing st
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Piotr
- Dec 30, 2020
- 3 min
Swimming Lesson
I write the following words in 'Pages' on my Mac. Eight other applications are still open "just in case". I just realized that I need to
Here it goes: “Perhaps a good recipe for achieving focus is to accept and study our mind under pressure of distractions? Perhaps resistance to that pressure just adds another layer of tension?" Does this mean that bad habits can be cured by applying excess? Forcing teenagers to smoke a whole pack of cigarettes comes to mind… Are we to try t
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Piotr
- Jul 2, 2020
- 3 min
It’s A Cop Out!
You are SO talented! is a compliment artists hear with various frequencies. But what does it mean? The word talent derives from a Latin w
Making art as defined in a dictionary is optional but the part about not being creative is simply not true. It’s a cop out again! The mistake comes from the same confusion about manual skill being a “Gift From Heavens” and ignoring the fact that all humans come to this world with capability for creative problem solving and the potential
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