For those who’ve been reading my (often) senseless raving, you may wonder why I changed the name into hankka. Simple. At school I was called “Hanka”, a abbreviation of my surname (Hankiewicz) and short for Hanna/Hannah. Hankka is a sum of my abbreviated surname and name. That’s it. No big philosophy in it.
As I’m unifying my tech company’s brand and making it more neutral, Amuse.tech (Amuse) will shortly become untrite.com and start trading under the name Untrite.
On February 2016 I decided to start another company – this time, involving my kick-ass entrepreneurial friend Anna. Japana was born out of my new fascination with Damascus steel knives and the Japanese culture. Plus, I wanted to do something different, outside of the tech craze I’m operating in. Seeing huge demand for Japanese knives …
Reading the latest A16Z article “It’s time to build” got me thinking about the challenges that ‘builders’ face. “The problem is desire. We need to *want* these things. The problem is inertia. We need to want these things more than we want to prevent these things. The problem is regulatory capture. We need to want …
#3 I am a huge believer in people and their good intentions. I give credit of trust straight away, but once you lose it – you’re on your own. This, however, has its downside. I clung for far too long to certain projects and people, hoping things will change. I’ve done the job which was …
