OK, so you travel. What foods should you take with you? Drink: Plain water. Food: Citrus – from oranges to mandarin oranges, from grapefruit to pomelo, these tend to go OK with travelling. Yogurt – it tends not to spoil easily. Boiled eggs – again, rather easy to carry. Seeds – sunflower may be great, but others are fine, also.
I heard one person he doesn’t need an iPhone, since a 10-year old knows how to operate it better.
I like Facebook‘s functions for birthdays a lot. I can synchronize it automatically with Google Calendar, and I can set Google Calendar to send me an email prior to the event. Great functionality. Unfortunately, LinkedIn is much more restrictive, and not only it doesn’t send me notifications of birthdays (or shows me the list of following birthdays), but also isn’t allowing exporting to an application like Google Calendar. Here’s where LinkedIn Birthday Reminders comes along. The application, in a few simple steps, allows you to download the data in a format which can then be later imported into Google Calendar. I find it very effective. The use? Telling people „Happy birthday” is a great way to stay in touch. Also, some people don’t display their birthday on Facebook, but do so on LinkedIn, and you’ll have an advantage if you use this.
I recently had this issue on a web site I manage (data is a bit skewed, for simplifcation):
How to solve this?
In The Great Dictator (1940), there is a character called Garbitsch (Garbage, but funny). :)
I started thinking I know the answer to this question – reduce the already little time I spend with my friends to zero. Unfortunately, this is not a solution, this will not leading to anything worth pursuing. So, how to save time? In my opinion, the ultimate solution is this – have deep focus & intense work for some period of time. Focus a lot on a given task for a small amount of time. Then, have a break. Repeat.
(spolier alert!) I’ve had quite a few insights while watching Life of Pi (2012):
Still, why don’t I like the movie?
Microsoft works on annoying people. In advertising, in marketing, in their products. „Bing!”. Let’s be annoying.
Have a look at the first seconds of this video:
What you may notice is the fact that they place the brand name at the very beginning of the video. In my opinion, people are very interested in seeing the video, but at the very end, they don’t pay as much attention.
Sometimes, I see people with criteria around them – „In order to …, you will have to …”. My criteria is this – „In order for me to consider you a top-notch person …, you will have to …”. On the other hand, I try to put no criteria on behavior. So, my thought above is an internal one, not an external one. I try not to request people to do actions, in order for me to treat them right (or how I perceive right). Some people do request certain a behavior to receive a certain behavior („you have to act like this, in order for me to act like that”). Über-cool thing: even if I do meet the criteria, I tend to despise that thinking. It’s a faulty logic, no matter if I fulfill the criteria or not. My logic goes like this: „I generally don’t ask people to do something, in order for me to do something. But for you, especially, I will apply the same criteria you apply to others. Take it as a gift”.