Etude

Short sketches in the style of arte di vivere.

Why are you doing all this? What is the purpose? - these questions are puzzling. How to answer that there is no goal? The answer "because it is being done" will not sound like an adult ...

You can come up with something about expertise ...

But often I do it because it’s done, I say it because I have something to say, I write to streamline the flow of chaotic thoughts. And I get a picture, a sketch, a sketch that I didn't even expect.

Aesthetic pleasure from the process and the result is perhaps the main driving force.

Storytelling price

by nikivolt|18 November 2021 26 November 2021 |Analytics, Artificial Intelligence

- We can pull the plan-fact taking into account the cash flow and observe the dynamics of deviations in absolute and relative values - he continued, not paying attention to the tired looks of the audience. Well - I think - a little more and will begin to tell something ...

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Transformation. Based on personal stories

by nikivolt|29 October 202126 December 2021|Transformational leadership

That year was remembered for the struggle. Spring. A gambling struggle for a dream contract and a short-lived joy of victory “and how are we going to do it now?”. Summer. A sultry struggle for resources and the simultaneous delivery of functionality to the client despite “one hand, and that one on the back”. Autumn....

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Time travel

by nikivolt|19 September 202126 November 2021 |L'Arte di Vivere, Travels

In my free time, I usually do time travel - most often to the future, but now I went a couple of centuries ago - to the Middle Ages. On the way, it seemed to me that gloomy pictures, the Holy Inquisition and a bonfire for a penchant for ...

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Country from bottom to top

by nikivolt|08 March 202120 November 2021 |L'Arte di Vivere, Travels

When I find myself in a new country, I am subject to landscape lust - to “cover” as much territory as possible, to travel many kilometers, to look into the most interesting corners. But at that time, even the lonely mountain peak, observed daily from the hotel window, was not conquered. Spain I ...

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Managing the unknown

by nikivolt|24 February 202120 November 2021 |Composable Enterprise, DWH, Transformational leadership

The old school of management taught to respect someone else's time. But this has lost its relevance. I watch how traditional approaches die where you need to manage ideas and at the same time build systems. And it becomes sad - I have always liked system managers who can plan, delegate and track performance ...

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See the big picture

by nikivolt|11 February 202113 February 2021|Transformational leadership

Client: I diligently follow the recommendations every day, spend a lot of time, and the result is absolutely negligible. Consultant: You just don't know what it would be like if you didn't do anything. The survivor's mistake is not sacred knowledge, but in real life we ...

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Make the right choice

by nikivolt|08 February 202105 May 2021|Corporate culture

Checklist: how to find a partner / contractor and ... a client? Checklist how to find a partner, choose a contractor, tender for a service provider, requirements for an IT system, a scorecard for a candidate ... Before entering into any partnership, each organization tries to understand the criteria for success ...

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L'Arte di Vivere - the art of living 2020

by nikivolt|31 December 202026 December 2021|L'Arte di Vivere, Resource

It seems to me that 2020 brought us closer to the truth. What looked indestructible lost its brilliance, and at the same time - and meaning, one had only to turn the angle of light a couple of degrees. And this is a good time to ask yourself questions about true values ...

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Smart City

by nikivolt|20 September 202026 April 2021|L'Arte di Vivere, Corporate culture, Travels

True Gentleman Engineer "Nothing can stop me" - wrapping myself in a short jacket in line at the gangway, I repeated to myself over and over again. Neither the piercing wind, nor the fear of flying, nor the violent cough from the severe flu the day before. I was on the crest ...

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Quality controller

by nikivolt|30 July 202026 December 2021|L'Arte di Vivere

Engineering thinking, quality and everyday life of a student programmer If, while studying at the Institute, someone told that there is a quality assurance position - a quality controller and there is a chance to find a job for a first-year computer science student, life could have been completely different. But...

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About Engineer

by nikivolt|09 July 202005 May 2021|L'Arte di Vivere, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Resource

Engineer and engineering thinking ... He is, above all, lazy. But not apathetic. He just doesn't like walking the same path twice. He doesn't do too much. He optimizes known paths and thoroughly studies unknowns before taking action. Sometimes his inaction is called ...

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The magic of l'arte di vivere

by nikivolt|28 June 202005 May 2021|L'Arte di Vivere, Travels

Our relationship was rather dramatic. Memories emerge in fragmentary episodes - as if I am leafing through an album of photographs. Here is our first meeting - traffic jams in the rain, difficult parking, wet paving stones, a long search for a place to spend the night, it rained continuously and all night ...

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