Observations of Life in Times of Change
Has it ever occurred to you to wonder what a Parisian craftsman felt during the French Revolution? Or someone living in Galicia in the first decades of the twentieth century, born a subject of Austria and then — without once changing address — becoming a citizen of a newly created Poland?
Those were times of change — change not everyone understood, but everyone could see. I believe we are living through a turning of eras just as great, and I want to tell what it looks like from where I stand, in Central and Eastern Europe.
The essays on this blog are written in Polish; the English versions are translated with the help of Claude AI.
All writing
- You Can Invest in AI. Will You?
- Music, Rudolf recommends
- I Was Not a Programmer, After All
- I Hate Corporations
- Who's Afraid of AI in 2026: A View from Poland
- I Don't Miss Family Parties
- Who Complains More on housing crisis: Poles or Americans?
- Housing in Poland and the US: the data
- USA vs. Poland: The Housing Showdown
- I'm Somewhat Furious
- The World Is Changing