This Magical Week was a relaxing one. Due to a couple of national holidays here in Poland we both got the whole week off to recharge. Reading, studying, Netlfix, and some financial stuff in between was just what the doc had ordered. No exciting travel, which sucks, but weather wasn’t exactly encouraging. There’s still the weekend! 1….
TMW#3
This Magical Week was a tough one. I feel mentally drained and beaten by the past five work days. Need to clear my head, reorganize, and get back to it. 1. Silicon Cowboys Before wearable, before portable, there was luggable. Silicon Cowboys is a story about a group of engineers crazy enough to start a…
Licking Your Heart – The Musical
Licking Your Heart is not your typical happy-go-lucky musical. It doesn’t make you wanna dance in your seat or sing along with the crowd. With the plot taking place in a 1945 war torn Breslau, which during the play officially changes the name from Breslau (German) to Wrocław (Polish), this musical does transform you to…
TMW#2
This Magical Week was a quick one. Here are my 5 topics of the week. 1. Mom’s Birthday It was my mom’s birthday this week. Happy Birthday Mom! My sister put together the cool collage on the right, and my dad is convinced of a very strong resemblance of little Maya to little Kasia 33…
This Magical Week #1 (TMW)
Tim Ferris does 5-Bullet Friday’s, my boss Nicholas does 5 Strive Friday’s, and me, I’m gonna do This Magical Week. TMW for short. TMW could also stand for Too Much Work, in a way that there’s too much I’d like stuff into a 24 hour period. But TMW’s are going to be my weekly blog…
Home Office is NOT a Reward
The subject of home office has been the topic of several in-office discussions in the past month or so, discussions that ultimately led to nowhere. It started off fairly evident and clear: I suggested home office so that I may be more productive. There are days in the office where all I need is quiet….
Shoe Dog – Book Review
Nike is a huge. Today no one would ever question the might that Nike has in the shoe business, or in the sports industry in general. Nike, just do it! Micheal Jordan, Tiger Woods, just a couple of super stars we automatically associate with the Nike swoosh. But do you know where the idea of…
GOVECS Supplier Forum
Late last month I attended my very first supplier forum. The feat itself was ever more rewarding since it was for a project that I am currently leading. Because GOVECS is a fairly small company with very start-up roots, our projects and scooters often don’t get the attention and consideration of other high volume customers…
End of Carnival
Today’s Ash Wednesday, meaning the end of carnival has come upon us. The next 40 days are about fasting and deep soul searching within ourselves in preparation for Easter. But while getting some ash sprinkled on my head today I realized that I did not share any of my carnival photos on here. Ania and I…
Schwalbe in Spain
As part of ongoing testing prior to our scooter production launch this year, I have arranged for a team of our test engineers to spend a mandatory holiday in Spain. What a drag, I know. To spend a few weeks in a warm and sunny climate on the southern coast of Spain, while Poland is…
Pamukkale and Hierapolis, Turkey
Temperatures in Poland have been hovering just below the zero degree Celsius mark, meaning that it has been freezing here for the past couple of weeks. I figured that going back to our summer vacation was a good way of warming up a bit. So without further ado, here’s my write up of Pamukkale. Pamukkale…
Christmas Post Season
I didn’t post anything at all in December, not a single entry to follow up a really good seven-post month of November. So here’s a short update as to what was going on in December. Ania’s favorite season is indeed the Christmas season, and our home takes on a whole different decor during that time….
January Resolutions
It’s been two weeks since New Years Eve and I’m still trying to figure out how to write the very first blog post of 2017. On one hand it should be grand, something spectacular to set you, the reader, up for what’s to come later this year. On the other, with no grand subjects in…
Elon Musk: an Audiobook Review
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future Elon Musk needs no introduction. A boy genius turned real life Tony Stark of Iron Man. That’s how he’s portrayed in this book anyway, and with actual proof to support it, too. At 13 hours and 24 minutes, this audiobook…
Really Expensive Vespa’s
How much would you be willing to spend on a vintage scooter? €8.000? Maybe €20.000, because it’s a classic and will surely increase in value? Have a look below, and say out loud the price you think this scooter is worth: And now let me tell you that you’re wrong. Way off. Not even in…
Kortas.Blog
I made a little change to the naming of my blog. Most probably won’t notice; the polvadis.wordpress.com address still works, and the rest probably click over here from Facebook. I did however buy out the Kortas.blog address as soon as WordPress e-mailed me that a .blog naming was becoming available. I’ve had this blog for…
Women of EICMA 2016
I was really trying to write a meaningful blog entry just now, but simply nothing was making any sense as soon as I typed it. I figured it just wasn’t a good evening to write. So, without further ado, I leave you with all the models of EICMA 2016. Please note that most of these…
Schwalbe at EICMA
While still pretty hot from our Intermot official showing of the Schwalbe, this week GOVECS presented Schwalbe at EICMA in Milan, Italy. Our booth took on a little different arrangement from just a month ago due to an EICMA regulation on open floor space percentage, and while just a little smaller than at Intermot, we…
The Godfather
Yesterday I officially became a godfather to my niece Emma. It didn’t exactly catch me by surprise as this has been three years in the making. After Emma’s birth my sister Kasia asked me to be the godfather, but due to us living on two different continents the scheduling itself turned out to be a…
Turkish Vacation: Side and Manavgat
SIDE Side, pronounced Seede, is an ancient Greek city dating all the way back to the 7th century B.C., but is now mostly a Turkish resort town with some of the best-known classical sites in the country. To us, however, it was home for the week. I’m not gonna get into our five star hotel,…
The Polish Magician 