In the Autumn of 2024, I enrolled in PhD studies at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade University. In the meantime, I’ve been working on different subjects and research projects. A particularly challenging one has been a scientific article for a peer-reviewed journal I’ve been working on with my mentor. As of now, there are…

Hello, world.Meet Budgette, a minimalistic budgeting and task tracking app. How does it work? It’s super simple: Categories and budgets are set up each month (you can copy from the previous month). Now, I’m off to add my expenses to Budgette, and if the app seems like something you could use – check it out…

Over the years, I tried different ways of organizing my time and tasks, such as Personal Kanban, ‘personal Scrum’, GTD / Getting Things Done, PARA method, Theme/Epic/Story pattern from product management, and many tools, such as Trello, Asana, Todoist, Miro, ‘note-making’ apps (Apple Notes, Roam Research and Obsidian) and Google Calendar with reclaim.ai. If I…

My interim contract is ending soon, so I’m looking for new opportunities! 👷 My experience over the last 5 years:– 𝐒𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐌 (API; Intellectual Property), – 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐏𝐌, then 𝐅𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭. 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 (early-stage deep tech HW+SW; athletics), – 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟 𝐏𝐌 (monolith to microservices migration; sport & wellness). – 𝐏𝐌 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 @ 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐥 with 2000+…

Richard Feynman was one of the most important scientists of the 20th century, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, and a unique, multifaceted individual (drummer, raconteur, teacher, and scientist). He had a framework called 12 Problems, which has become the heart of the work of many note-takers, digital gardeners (people taking (some) notes publicly to learn in…

In the moments when you lack focus or motivation, or when you procrastinate, maybe just the right thing to help is a change of the workspace – with virtual coworking. Last week, I stumbled upon the website Focusmate*. It’s a community of people trying to boost their productivity through an interesting activity – virtual coworking…

I recently took the stage at Data Science Conference Europe to discuss a massive shift occurring in our industry: the evolution of the Product Manager into what I call a Full-Stack Product Developer. In this post, I’m recapping that talk briefly, and sharing the slides. Traditional PM Role and Changes in Expectations We are moving…

It’s been a two-week ‘sprint’, so I thought I would share a quick update. If you don’t know what/who Pagey is, check out my previous blog post about him here. Basically, I built a personal book recommender (Štivoje) to get good book suggestions every week or so, based on my ‘taste profile’ built on ca.…

I couldn’t find a tracker that works perfectly for me, and everything on the market seems to be missing that ‘something’… With Lovable, in 2-3 hours, I got myself a full-functioning time tracker that follows my ‘methodology’ (area->project->task), and is super minimalistic. Then I worked gradually over a few days on additional features and logic,…

“Found some stories you might want to dig into! 🐛” – Every Saturday morning, I get an email like this. It’s from Štivoje, my personal book recommender, powered by machine learning. I fed Štivoje with 334 books I liked, so that he suggests 5 new books for me, out of 52.5k titles. The project took…