Back in 2010 I wrote a post about the power and price of illusions. It was built on a small, informal experiment: I asked people if they were…
Read more The Price of Illusions – 16 Years Later – Dragos RouaIn January 2010 I wrote a post asking whether you were running the best version of yourself, built around a software metaphor — defrag your mind, update your…
Read more Are You The Best Version of Yourself? – Checking In After 16 Years – Dragos RouaIn 2016 I brainstormed ten frameworks for defining success because I couldn’t find a single one that covered everything. My general approach back then was that before making…
Read more The 2026 Definition of Success – 10 Years after I First Tried My First One – Dragos RouaIn 2009 I wrote seven ways to say no, motivated by the observation that most people don’t practice the word. My framing was almost entirely technical: saying no…
Read more Why I’m Still Learning to Say No (17 Years Later)In 2016 I wrote about the ancestor syndrome — the mechanism by which your ancestors’ financial survival strategies become your unconscious money script. My claim was that you…
Read more The Ancestor Syndrome – Revisiting Inherited Money Beliefs 10 Years After – Dragos RouaIn 2015 I argued that life has no inherent meaning — and that this is its most liberating feature. It wasn’t nihilism — on the contrary: if nothing…
Read more Life Has No Meaning – In 2026 I Still Think This Is Good News – Dragos RouaIn 2014 I reviewed The Diamond Cutter by Geshe Michael Roach — a book that maps Tibetan Buddhist principles onto business management. The author ran a diamond company…
Read more The Diamond Cutter, 12 Years Later — Buddhism as a Daily Practice – Dragos RouaIn March 2009 I published 77 reasons to love your life. Almost 5,000 words. The list that started with the fact that you’re breathing and can read, and…
Read more 77 Reasons to Love Your Life — Why I’d Write This Differently After 17 Years – Dragos RouaIn 2009 I wrote seven reasons to enjoy life more, grounded in the idea that most people simply forget they’re allowed to. The main obstacle back then was…
Read more 7 Reasons to Enjoy Life More — 16 Years Later – Dragos RouaWhen our one-year-old started to watch cartoons on iPad, we mostly used YouTube. He learned very soon how to scroll, how to pick new videos from the “related”…
Read more Why I Built AI Kiddo, A Kids Vocabulary App (and How) – Dragos RouaSpoiler: you can. You already are. Traditionally, old age was always a mark of wisdom, or at least useful experience. Something has changed, though, and, if you are…
Read more Can You Stay Relevant After 50, In The Age of AI? – Dragos Roua
