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Čeněk and HCP

2025-10-15 Antonín Král
𝕀t was a murky autumn morning. Čeněk, lost in his thoughts, looked out the window at the slopes rising steeply from the river. He put down the book he was just reading. On the cover, in large red … Read More →

Written Narratives

2025-07-24 Antonín Král
𝕆ne of the key roles of the leadership team in the company is to make clear decisions1 and unlock decision making internal link on other organizational levels. Topics are frequently complex and … Read More →

Procrastination -- beyond the To-Do list

2025-06-20 Antonín Král
ℙrocrastination is often misunderstood as merely poor time management or laziness, but research increasingly shows it’s primarily an issue of emotional regulation, not time management1. … Read More →

Strategy and vision

2025-04-28 Antonín Král
𝕎hen the organization grew1 beyond about 60 people, it felt different. We have agreed that a new management layer (between myself and tech-leads) is needed. But, I’ve started to lose a grip on … Read More →

Who should decide?

2025-03-06 Antonín Král
𝕀’ve come to like the saying “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness”1. It reflects the reality that most decisions don’t need approval, and waiting for blessing … Read More →

U+2234 -- The Story of the Symbol ∴

2025-01-12 Antonín Král
𝕎e don’t know when the symbol as such appeared. Probably very long ago. The triangle is a popular symbol in itself, and three points naturally present themselves as its symbol / representation. … Read More →

DC Motors, Limit Switches, and Diodes

2024-07-08 Antonín Král
𝕆ur chicken coop door is controlled by an ESP8266 board running Tasmota. Tasmota allows for simple configuration of timers based on sunrise and sunset using timezone information. The door movement is … Read More →

The Power of Written Standup

2021-03-08 Antonín Král
𝕎ritten standup is a simple tool that can significantly improve how distributed teams work. It’s just what it sounds like: instead of meeting to talk, team members write down what they’re … Read More →

Traffic light without MCU

2019-07-07 Antonín Král
𝕂ids wanted a working traffic light for one of their games. I took it as a good reason to hide in the workshop and produced one showed on the video below. […] This is super-simple project, why … Read More →

Smarwi

2017-11-28 Antonín Král
ℙodlehl jsem impulznímu nákupnímu rozhodnutí a pořídil smarwi external link . Celou akci spustil Petr Stehlík external link , který postnul link na recenzi produktu serverem Geniální … Read More →

Tracing distributed systems at Showmax

2016-10-21 Antonín Král
𝕎e have opted for a micro-service paradigm on our back-end. This means that different parts of the API accessible by end-user applications are handled by different services running on our application … Read More →

Work Principles

Antonín Král
𝕋his page used to be called “Work Values” in the past, but started to grow beyond values, and actually listing more “how”1. Also, unfortunately, word “value” became … Read More →