Author: Lukas Cech

  • The Meaning of Life Isn’t One Thing – It’s a System

    The Meaning of Life Isn’t One Thing – It’s a System

    Most people try to answer the question “What’s the meaning of life?” with a single target. “It’s good relationships.” or “It is having enough money to buy free time”. And that usually leads to people investing too much time chasing the wrong thing and neglecting other important areas of life. But it’s rarely one single…

  • Chatcoding: chat your way to coding a plugin in WordPress

    Chatcoding: chat your way to coding a plugin in WordPress

    How I used ChatGPT 4 Plus to create a convenient WordPress function without having to code anything. Saved me hours and hours of my and the client’s time. How I “chatcoded” a plugin :).

  • FREE Dividend meter – Google Finance formula adjusted

    FREE Dividend meter – Google Finance formula adjusted

    First published on my Steemit.com. If you’re a dividend investor, you probably came across the Dividend Meter. It’s a great way to start, you even get 7 days free trial. Worth the 7 USD per month to get you started. I searched long and hard to find an aggregate tool with all the necessary data…

  • How to get better ideas

    Ideas and innovation don’t generally emerge from a single point, team or a company. They don’t jump to existence in sterile offices, by employees pushed or forced to think about innovation. They emerge over coffee tables, over lunch or beer, when seemingly irrelevant parties talk about random shit. An idea needs versatility and variety to…

  • Activism: Realistic expectations or why we (mostly) see it in the wrong timespan

    Originally published on my steemit.com blog on December 9, 2018. We live in a day and age of activism, causes and speaking up against inequality, cruelty or fighting for a better, more sustainable lifestyle. And it is amazing! I am a very grateful to be able to watch and read inspiring stories, philosophies or ideas from…

  • Why we (…I) procrastinate? Instant gratification …can be a good thing

    First posted on my Medium.com account. I am doing good, business wise. Not “here in my garage” good, but the I am happy where my business is going and that my effort is bearing some fruit, and don’t need to brag about it good. Doing good also means constantly working on it. Improving, checking your…

  • LastPass Premium not worth it – beware of bad policies

    LastPass Premium not worth it – beware of bad policies

    I was a happy and long term customer of LastPass. Had hundreds of passwords saved in their vault, mostly for my work. Until recently. LastPass inefficient work and very frugal and not customer friendly policies resulted in losing all my secure data, beyond recovery. Here’s what hapenned: 15.11.2016 – issues with logging in – Invalid…

  • Recharge yourself!

    New year coming, a shitload of new year´s resolutions, putting pressure on yourself. You hear about making the most of your day, being efficient and productive everywhere. From me too. I also want to make the most of my day. BUT – sometimes, it´s ok to stop and recharge yourself. It´s ok to be boring, lazy,…

  • How would you feel reading your own biography?

    What the hell am I talking about? Simple thing – if someone decided to write your biography, an article in the news or a movie about your life, how would you feel about it?

  • Perseverance

    “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”  ― Confucius Today, I received some good news that I already gave up on over a month ago. But I still kept poking it each week, and now, I am 172.15 GBP richer, which inspired me to this quick dump of thoughts.