It’s common knowledge that when you exercise, you become stronger. You increase your power.
There’s a book by Maria Duduman, “Exercises of love”.
The title might let you think that it’s an exercise of love, that you will know how to love more, by exercising small but continuous acts of love.
It might be.
But, to me, the book is about courage.
“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask “What if I fall?”
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?” ― Erin Hanson
– Îmi pare rău, vecine, de nenorocirea care ți s-a întâmplat: din cauza focului, ți-a murit și nevasta, și vaca.
– Da, sunt amărât. Toți îmi spun: lasă, îți găsești tu altă femeie, ia-o pe văduva cutare, uite, cunosc eu pe una tare gospodină. Unul n-ar veni să-mi zică: na, mă, și ție altă vacă…
As a personal observation, people tend to ask others to do things but rarely offer their work.
It’s rather easy to tell someone “do this and that”, but it’s not that easy to be proactive and do things yourself.
For example, I received a lot of feedback on how to improve my videos on YouTube (sound, for example, or moving the camera, or rotating the camera).
I don’t remember receiving any offer “Hey, I want to help you with your videos”.
Thanks? OK. Help? Not so much.
“This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right and to realize of a sudden that in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy tale.”
― Zorba the Greek(via »)
When considering estimating a performance over 1 year, you should take into account:
1. Google’s algorithms are constantly changing; it doesn’t change overnight, but in a few years, things vary;
2. Competition changes, too; your competitors change from one point to the other;
3. Your goals change – if you target a keyword now, perhaps you will target a different one 6 months from now.
So, while some things in SEO remain intact, there still are some changes to be done.
“Bert: Let’s sit down. You know, begging your pardon, but the one my heart goes out to is your father. There he is, in that cold heartless bank day after day, hammed in by mounds of cold heartless money. I don’t like to see any living thing caged up.
Jane: Father in a cage?
Bert: They makes cages of all sizes and shapes, you know. Bank-shaped, some of them, carpets and all.”
There are different types of cages.
You can be a prisoner in a physical realm. But also inside you.
You can be surrounded by things and people and be in a cage. And you can be all alone in a small space and be free.
If someone asks you to vote for a friend.
What should you do?
My first instinct – ignore it.
When they ask for a vote, the request is not “vote for the best, according to your opinion”, but “manipulate your vote”.
If I would vote based on my actual opinion, my friend would be upset.
The solution? Ignore the request.
Don’t tell them you won’t vote, but also don’t vote for anyone.
Voting for the best option would like them do them wrong.
I think this is the best option.
The region’s elite in SEO, AI, and E-commerce will gather in Bulgaria for one of the most anticipated conferences, which this year will be held in both Bulgarian and English.
I enjoyed listening to a podcast with Theodor Paleologu.
During the interview, Theodor Paleologu mentioned the difference between being a leader and a follower.
It made me think – all this time, I’ve been doing follow-ups, this means I’m a follower.
And I enjoy it very much and think it’s adding some value.
But the leadership is the event itself.
I’m doing a follow-up (an article with videos & photos) to a leader (an event in which ideas are presented).
Baron saves himself from being drowned in a swamp by pulling on his own hair.
There are limits to the human intelligence. We can only go so far.
Yet, people can create AI, a system that, in a few years, will likely be much smarter than even the smartest people who ever lived on Earth.
We are able to create something that is better than us.
Baron Munchausen was a fictional character with fictional deeds. Well, it seems humans have achieved fixing this.