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Ignite talk about TEDxWarsaw

A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of giving an Ignite talk at the second edition of IgniteWarsaw, held at the beautiful Zacheta Gallery. Aircon wasn’t cooperating all that well but other than that the evening went off like a rocket thanks to the efforts of Michal Paluchowski, Zuza Stanska, Mateusz Nowak and [...]

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A review of Warsaw StartupWeekend

No doubt detailed technical write-ups will soon pop up in lots of places so instead I’d like to offer a broad brush kind of review of the Warsaw StartupWeekend – an event I had the good fortune to attend this last Sunday.

The short version: fully awesome.

The long version: without putting too fine [...]

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Jazz and the art of contradiction

Jazz is a contradiction. Of course the very nature of the medium carries with it a load of contradictions but I actually mean that in a far more direct sense. Jazz musicians the world over repeat as if in a chorus that radio play of jazz, other than the easy-on-the-ear variety, is hard to come [...]

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Capuchin Friars feed the hungry

Generations of Varsovians have taken their children to see the “szopka” (Christmas display) at the Capuchin Minor Friars’ monastery in Miodowa Street but unless you happen to go past the place during any other time of year, and at the right time of day, you wouldn’t know that for most of the year the [...]

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