I think of a lot of things, lots of things pass through my mind. Thus, I forget things.
I don’t consider it a big problem, just a little annoying.
Also, this has implications on long-term vs. short-term goals. I tend to focus a lot on short-term things, even though I would like to give more emphasis to long-term priorities.
Sometimes, it’s as if I have no history with person/brand X.
There’s a quote:
— Leşii sunt! striga tanarul ce venise de curand şi pre care l-am auzit vorbind; şi-au schimbat drumul şi vin aici…
— La porţi, flacai! zise batranul. Încuieţi-le şi gramadiţi bolovani pe ziduri. Aşezaţi-va toţi pe la metereze. Sa nu zica leahul c-au intrat într-o cetate romaneasca ca într-o ţarina pustie.
— Dar noi suntem numai nouasprezece şi asta-i o oaste întreaga, observa unul; cum se…
— Taci mucosule! îl curma batranul. Te temi ca-i peri? Mare paguba! Un mişel mai puţin.
Vanatorul astfel înfruntat se trase ruşinat şi se sui pe ziduri.
which says, basically, that if you care too much for your life you will not be able to do good things.
In a portfolio, in my opinion, there should be two things, at the same time:
These two go hand in hand.
You need some case studies, to go deep and make the visitor have an idea of what you can do.
You also need to list your experience, so that the viewer of your portfolio understands what’s your overall knowledge.
Don’t miss either of them.
One thing occurs a lot when talking about Romania:
I think the counter-arguments are these:
“What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
I’ve read this first in „The happiness diary” by Nicolae Steinhardt.
It surely happened to you – you entered a room with a dilemma, and the first thing you say is, after a „Hello!”, „How can we solve the dilemma?”.
While this might appear a fine in solving the issue, it might actually be a wrong step.
What I suggest instead is to take a while.
Enter the room, ask a silly introductory question (about the weather, for example), do some small chat, take a sip of water, and only afterwards confrunt the elephant in the room.
Don’t rush it in, don’t jump right to the conclusion, don’t force things into solving hastly.
While it might appear that you’re losing precious time if you don’t go ahead and jump to the conclusion, you might actually be losing a step in the right direction for solving the problem.
So, don’t stand and solve the issue, sit, drink some tea, get into the amtosphere, and only then solve the issue.
While I might be wrong, I associate Turkish people with this kind of approach. And I applaud it!
Mai jos, resursele cele mai importante, pentru mine, din luna ianuarie 2021. Pot fi suprapuneri de la o secțiune la alta.
Sometimes, I get invitations to connect on various social networks. But there’s a maximum limit on the number of people you can add to your network.
Sometimes, I meet new people, some of them at the start of their careers. Who should I consider to be more successful in the future?
Sometimes, I need to evaluate a website on its future value. How will it grow, how will it decline?
Sometimes, I need to evaluate a partnership between a YouTube channel and a sponsor. How will the partnership go?
The thing is, life, both personal and professional, is full of surprises. A hard-working and bright person has the future in their hands, and a website, business, or YouTube channel that does things correctly now, will likely do so in the future.
But it’s very very hard, for me at least, to correctly predict luck and fortune. I don’t easily evaluate what would the career of a person look like 10 or more years in the future. It’s hard, close to impossible, to know if a business will be still on the market 5 years later, or if it will be a hit 10 years later.
The solution? Accept invitations to connect, do meet the people, do consider them capable of success in the future, do consider the potential of a business / YouTube channel / website to grow.
When I was young, I wanted to know a lot about everything.
I had a (sort of) computer when I was around 8 (1990/1991), and after a while, I started writing code.
When I had a real PC (1997), I started figuring things out. I’ve done some mistakes, I crashed the computer a few times, but after a while, I knew some things.
At school, while I didn’t like all the subjects from the curriculum, I felt there was nothing I couldn’t learn if I wanted to.
Fast forward to today, and the realm of unknown things got so big, that it’s a bit frightening.
Sure, I can learn things, but it takes so much time, in some areas, there’s so much to learn, and, in some fields, the knowledge evolves so fast, that I feel overwhelmed at some point.
The solution? Right now, all I can think of is „Pretend you have it all covered”. Act as if you can learn, you can keep up, you do know some things. Pretend, and the fake piece of clothing will fit you well.
There’s a problem:
În camerele din închisori — pentru că acolo e violent amplificată, exacerbată — am înțeles cât de mizerabilă e situația noastră în lume: prin simpla noastră existență deranjăm pe alții.
N-avem încotro. Se cuvine să înțelegem că orice am face și oricât ne-am strădui, tot supărăm. Singura soluție e resemnarea. Ce putem face? Să tăcem, să tăcem. Să nu facem răul, și nici binele cu sila. Dar și trecând, tăcând, tot nemulțumim. Odată pentru totdeauna se cade să ne băgăm bine în minte: deranjăm doar pentru că suntem prezenți. Și să nu ne oprim aici: mai trebuie să recunoaștem că și ei ne deranjează pe noi! Gând înfiorător: Căci nu suntem mai buni ca ceilalți, tot în aceeași oală ne aflăm și fierbem înăbușit.
Absurdul e unul din parametrii condiției omenești.
Ieșim din obezi prin dragostea de Hristos, cale ocolită, dar sigură către iubirea de aproapele — și îndurarea prezenței lui.
And a solution:
In the (perfect) movie adaptation, Hannibal calls Clarice on the phone, and he says it just a little differently: “The world’s more interesting with you in it.”
I think about this line all the time in our contemporary era.
Yes, you may annoy some people just by being on this Earth.
The solution? Think of it this way – the world can be more interesting due to this.