Note: This site started as my personal blog where I intended to write about anything that comes to my mind. With time, WordPress topics started to prevail, and a new course for hackadelic.com was set, resulting in the launch of my professional WordPress services. This is still my original About page, preserved here for nostalgic reasons. (I might overhaul it eventually, once I get a free time slot. But don’t hold your breath.)
Hi everybody! My name is Zoran, and this is my blog.
Wait a minute! “My name is Zoran, and this is my blog!”?!?
Not really a hell of an opening, for sure! Let me see if I can do better…
What is hackadelic.com about, and who is behind it?
This is my personal blog. It does not claim to cover any particular topic, nor to have any particular purpose beyond serving as a “place I can call my own” – where I’d write whatever comes to my mind, neither claiming absolute wisdom, nor fearing absolute disgrace.1 Therewith, it does fulfill a particular purpose nonetheless: to exercise my freedom of thought.
Indeed, freedom is something I really am passionate about (is there anybody who isn’t?), as is creativity, productivity, and personal development. I’m a gifted software engineer, and, throughout my career, I have been given titles like software and solution architect, a software designer, a system programmer, a lead developer, a team manager, and a technosopher (for my ever-lasting addiction to philosophizing on behalf of technology-related topics). In my youth, I’ve also been passionate about art2 – something that still shines through my approaches to work and life.
Over the years, I’ve discovered that my viewpoints and ideas take on a unique mixture of technical, analytical, and philosophical aspects, combined into an unconventional and inventive problem solving potential. I hate routine, and love creative work, and have been pretty inventive in overcoming the former for the benefit of the latter, by employing a combination of strategy, technology, automation, and nonchalance.
Oh, and I should mention that I love to read books, and watch movies.
Hence (but without any promise), things you can probably expect to find around here include:
- software tools and gadgets that help make life easier
- software engineering lessons learned, and thoughts on principles and patterns of creating software solutions
- management lessons learned, and thoughts on organization and work procedures
- thoughts and insights about technology, especially computer-related, and it’s impact on human life (i.e. pure technosophy )
- thoughts and insights about personal productivity, creativity, and personal development in general
- occasional book reviews, on books related to some of the above areas
In case you want to know who to blame for the content on this blog:
I am Zoran Isailovski, a Macedonian guy who lives, works, suffers and thrives in Berlin, Germany. If you’re interested in more biographical information about me, have a look at my personal wiki.
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- Despite all the “good advice” to focus a blog on a <hype>niche topic</hype>, I just could not get acquainted with the idea. Narrowing my self-expression to a single topic just feels way to rigorous at the moment. Instead, I will simply get going, and see what paths fate is holding on store for me our here. (See also: “Don’t Believe the Hype“ and “7 Reasons Why Personal Blogs Rock“.) [↩]
- I used to write short stories and poems, play guitar and piano, write songs (and annoy everybody singing), and draw short comics. [↩]
