Tomasz Wierzbicki
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Charged but Not Recorded
I remember sitting in a dark apartment three years ago, the only light coming from a terminal window, trying to figure out why a customer…
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Staying Employable on Company Time
I’ve lost count of how many “career growth” influencers try to sell you a $500 course on the latest JavaScript framework or a grueling 6-month…
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Changing the Table While People Use It
I still remember the specific, hollow sound of a Slack notification at 2:14 AM during my time at that logistics startup. It wasn’t a loud…
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Sent, Accepted, and Never Delivered
I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:15 AM, the only light coming from a laptop screen and a half-empty mug of cold coffee, staring…
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The Script Three Colleagues Asked for
I remember sitting in a dark apartment at 3 AM during my logistics startup days, staring at a Python script that was supposed to “just…
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Releasing Should Be One Button
I once spent an entire weekend at a logistics startup trying to implement a “state-of-the-art” deployment pipeline that required three different specialized engineers just to…
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Write the Down Migration First
I still remember the specific, hollow feeling of staring at a terminal at 3:14 AM, watching a deployment hang while the production database CPU spiked…
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The Email Went Out Twice
It was 2:14 AM, the kind of hour where the only thing keeping you awake is the blue light of your monitor and the growing…
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Build for the Job You Already Did
I spent three months last year trying to build a SaaS tool for a market I thought was “lucrative” based on a few Twitter threads…
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Starting From Nobody Knows You
I’ve lost count of how many “thought leaders” on LinkedIn claim that your success depends entirely on who you know, as if a warm introduction…