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Reading people

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One of my teachers said at one point – „I just looked at one person, and I instantly knew that there’s an issue with that person.”

I don’t especially like this way of „reading” people.

I think it was Rand Fishkin who said something like „we tend to have more and more prejudice, as we meet more and more people.”

I think Rand is right, and it’s unavoidable to think about others, to judge them, to have prejudice.

But you could at least refrain from making statements like „I know he’s weirdo.” in front of a class.

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The case for memes as a new form of comics

„It’s undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as a profession, giving cartoonists both new tools and a new publishing and/or distribution medium. Online culture also spawned the emergence of viral memes in the late 1990s. Michelle Ann Abate, an education professor at The Ohio State University, argues in a paper published in INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, that memes—specifically, image macros—represent a new type of digital comic, right down to the cognitive and creative ways in which they operate.”

The case for memes as a new form of comics – Ars Technica

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Making people happy

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There are two ways of acting:

  • Making all people happy. This likely leads to making no person happy. People pleasers. People who tell an exaggerated number of „Yes”-es. eMAG and Amazon, when trying to answer every possible product.
  • Making very few people happy. Some newspapers do this when they cover an event – they choose a very specific angle, and assume that if 60% of people like this, that is the only solution. Or online stores – they focus on the majority only. Or Google – only the majority.

The solution? As always – the paradox. From time to time, try not to make anyone happy. From time to time, try to make all the people happy.

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Strange

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I know people who use this word a lot – „this is strange”.

The thing is – they tend to be strange, themselves.

From Seth Godin:

We Are All Weird: My new book launches today. (Link includes translations to three languages and worldwide availability, too).

What are you going to do with your weirdness? Or the weirdness of everyone around you?

We Are All Weird | Seth’s Blog

My advice?

Don’t even try not to be weird. It’s pointless.

We are all like this.

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