I like this website a lot: SwissTransfer – Send large files securely and free of charge.
The functionalities tend to change, but the ability to send a password-protected 50 GB online, with an availability of 15 days (you can get 30, a bit more complicated, though), is, quite frankly, astonishing.
No ads.
No kidding, I keep asking myself – how do they do this? How are they able to operate.
Very good speed of download and upload; the service is very reliable, a pleasure to use the website.
Let’s say you want to build an online portfolio.
There are two major ways of doing this:
Even if it’s a portfolio website, I prefer the latter approach.
Reasons for this?
Young people (and, dare I say, not only them) increasingly struggle to maintain sustained attention for an entire hour, especially when they are expected to passively listen to a lecture, presentation, or class.
The problem is not necessarily that they are incapable of concentrating. Rather, they have become accustomed to a very different way of consuming information.
This does not mean that young people cannot learn complex subjects or engage deeply with difficult ideas. In fact, they can spend hours playing games, watching series, creating content, or researching topics they genuinely care about. The key difference is active engagement.
The solution may not be to make educational content simply shorter. It may be to make it more dynamic.
A better presentation structure might alternate between explanation, questions, examples, stories, images, demonstrations, short activities, and moments of interaction.
The question should be: How can I give people a reason to pay attention again and again during a one-hour presentation?
James Bond walks into a bar and looks around… it’s packed. After a while, he spots an empty seat at a table where a guy is sitting. He sits down and introduces himself:
— Bond. James Bond.
The guy gives him a sideways glance:
— Damme. Van Damme. Claude Van Damme. Jean-Claude Van Damme…
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As I view it, LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and others have already replaced, at least partially, the job of personal assistants and interns.
Entry-level jobs in some fields can be fully automated with AI, with less costs and better output.
There’s a catch, though – let’s say no company hires interns anymore.
How will anyone become an advanced user if they don’t get the chance to first try things, improve as time passes, put questions, and learn from mistakes?
I don’t think, at least at the current levels, AI can replace interns.
Students in Bucharest, Constanța and Oradea can take part in practical journalism workshops and pursue a paid internship at independent newsrooms through the Pressing programmeThe Pressing programme takes place in three university centres – Bucharest, Constanța and Oradea – and includes workshops led by experienced journalists, newsroom mentoring and a six-month paid internship;
Bucharest, 7 October 2026 – The Friends For Friends Foundation, organiser of the Superscrieri Awards Gala, and ING Bank Romania are continuing the Pressing programme, an initiative dedicated to the professional development of the next generation of journalists. The programme is aimed at students in Bucharest, Constanța and Oradea, offering them access to practical workshops and mentoring in independent newsrooms, as well as the opportunity to be selected for a six-month paid internship at Buletin de București, Snoop, Info Sud-Est or Bihoreanul.
In a recent Instagram post, I really liked this idea: between the grasshopper’s decision to have fun all summer and the ant’s decision to work all the time, the best solution is to work and still have fun at the same time.
You should enjoy the summer, not work 100% of the time.
Put some importance on fun, not only on work.
I’ve read in this book that shopping stores have a strategy – they tend to put items that can be compared with other shopping stores at a lower price. And items that can’t be easily compared at higher prices.
For example, milk, eggs, tomatoes – these tend to be generic products, and have lower profit margins (have smaller prices).
But a specific olive oil, or wine bottle that is not so common – this is a specific product, and they tend to put a higher markup price.
Nice book, not only for this fragment!
I heard Bishop Robert Barron saying something like this: he once saw a teacher, likely an older person, saying that he didn’t prepare his sermon for the day during the past week.
The pupils were shocked – how could you go and hold a speech without being prepared?
The answer came quickly – you don’t prepare your speech one week before it, but your whole life.
Sure, for a speech you can prepare some things, read some documents, experiment with some phrases.
But, all-in-all, you can’t prepare as you would prepare by doing lots of readings, getting used to thinking, being exposed to culture, and, all-in-all, living a full life.
At some point, I was assigned to give a speech to an NGO. I didn’t prepare anything. The speech was considered good, based on the feedback I received.
But even if I didn’t purposely prepare some ideas, I did prepare by generally doing things like reading, going to events, meeting people, and doing NGO-type of activities (volunteering).
I asked one person why they prefer the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, and they said beaches at the ocean are generally very inhospitable, and swimming in the Ocean is not the easiest thing to do.
I like to go the Black Sea and swim for about 20-30 minutes at a time. Going to the ocean and not being able to swim is not the best option for me.
I found out about the book via Vali Petcu (Zoso.ro): “The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America’s Wealthy” – by Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko.
Some thoughts?
I wholeheartedly recommend it!