When we moved to Poland I did not speak a lot of Polish. In fact, I still don’t, but that’s another story. I definitely was not close to the level where I could actually function in an office environment. When it came to finding a job there I had to ask myself: would a Polish software company hire a foreigner without any industrial experience who does not speak Polish? Also, would there be any interesting work for me in the city we decided to move to at all, or would I have to compromise?

About a month or two ago, me and my wife got a present from friends: a 1000 pieced puzzle version of this Escher drawing: Yesterday we decided to give it a shot. Have a good look at this picture, 60–70% of it is shades of gray. The pieces are small enough that only a few pieces by themselves contained anything recognizable: Escher’s eyes and parts of the window in the background.