A Canary on the Front Line Everyone knows the ubiquitous advertisements for pills that promise to fix male problems. Online, they seem even more persistent. Algorithms know very well that I am sixty-eight years old. Compared to their more expensive and more effective...
When in my previous article I was praising the latest technological marvel—artificial intelligence—I subconsciously skipped over what, for me, is the most crucial device. The one that completely reshaped my life and even redirected my trajectory away from a...
Here we go again. I’m caught up in it all over again. I suppose I’m more sensitive than most, and I feel things deeply whenever a major technological breakthrough appears. I’m always amazed at the contrast between how those around me react and how I behave—like a...
How to Defy Fate Our generation knows the saying which, although it’s awkward for me to use the crude word in it, simply wouldn’t hit the mark without it: "Everything is crap, except for bees — they make honey, and that’s crap too." It’s a quote that, when...
People often ask me: "And how are your joints holding up?" Some doctors were quick to warn me, right from the start of my running journey, that joint problems would catch up with me sooner or later. This question keeps popping up, and it just...
Since 2006, I have been registered and treated as a patient with type 2 diabetes. With my 88 kg of body weight at a height of 172 cm, I became part of the club of one million Czechs suffering from this disease. Another approximately 300,000 people are not yet...