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Solving things smoothly in movies

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Solving things smoothly in movies

I like Crash (2004) for this reason: things go smoothly in the movie. Things evolve easily and naturally. You expect certain things to happen. You find it naturally that X situation develops into Y. There are no sudden changes of plans. In lots of other movies, when situations change, they do so suddenly. It’s an abrupt change which occurs, the situation is upside down, things are solve with a harsh. Not in Crash.

What to write on the blog? 70 tips

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“The best way to get over writer’s block is to write. Sit and type something. Even if it doesn’t make any sense. Even if you are just transcribing the lyrics to a song. Just type. And eventually, the words will come.” “You can write a post for just one person, and still find that a lot of people want to read it.” “When you have a good idea far from your computer, write yourself a note. My home is littered with scraps of paper that Rand and I have scribbled on. We’ve learned to check with one another before throwing them away. “Is this important?” “Yes. That’s the start of the next great American novel.” “… on the back of a Safeway receipt?” “Yeah.”-“ “At some point, you’ll spend hours looking for something online. A guide, a piece of information, some help about some topic that’s pressing on you. And if you don’t find it, you need to sit down and write the post yourself.” “Bad is better than boring.” “Done and mediocre is better than unfinished and brilliant.” “This is a leftover tip from journalism school, and I still love it: if the first paragraph of a post is holding you back, then start with the second paragraph. Then you can either write your lead paragraph later, or realize that the second paragraph is a perfectly okay place to start.” “Stop trying to be deep. Stop trying to elicit an emotional response from your readers. It will feel heavy-handed or manipulative. Just tell your story – …

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Why am I irritated?

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Two states:

  • Happy in non-intese way, joyful, pleased with the world, not caring, zen-like. Not productive.
  • One of the two:
    • Extremely happy about everything, motivated by extreme happiness, laughter, positive states. Productive. I argue that this is a very hard to keep state, and instead people go to…
    • Upset, annoyed, unhappy, non-pleased, motivated by stress, irritated. Productive. I argue it’s the place where most things in life lead you to. I am in this state.

I discussed about these two states (zen, and either extremely happy or extremely irritated) in what I consider to be the best article I’ve written (it’s in Romanian).

I am upset. Why is that?

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The truth. 100%. Neaaaah. No fun!

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Consider these:

  • “Our cars have a market share of 32.3% worldwide. We receive 89.5% of times a very positive feedback, 5.2% of times a positive feed-back and only 5.3% a feed-back which is either neutral or negative. Our clients return to us and buy a second car from us 54% of the time.” versus
  • “We have the best cars in the world. Everybody talks nice about us. Our clients are so happy!”

Which is better?

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Planes (2013)

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Planes (2013)

Planes (2013) – IMDb – the problem with this movie is that they kept exaggerating. You can’t go from first to last, then again last, then again first (everybody else just seems to keep their positions, the real fight is only for the first place). You can’t take a few training lesson from an ex-military and all of a sudden be much better than anybody else who flies in the competition. You can’t have a problem with heights the whole movie, and then you just stop having this. You can’t lose your place in the formation in the previous-to-last step in the race and then continue the race in the last stage as if nothing happened. You can’t have a stalled engine, and via the mere power of high altitude currents be better than the top performer. You can’t beat your system so easily (a plane built for agriculture be better than another one built for races), with no reasoning for this. You can’t get to be the second to finish the race, milliseconds behind the winner, and everyone to boo you. These are questions you can’t answer just like that – “well, it’s not anymore”. You can beat your condition, but it shouldn’t be at a blink of an eye. You need more than this. Things are soooooo much exaggerated.

Follow-up: SmartWeb – web design & development (2013.09.24, Marriott Hotel)

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Follow-up: SmartWeb - web design & development (2013.09.24, Marriott Hotel)

On September 24, 2013, at Marriott Hotel, took place SmartWeb – A conference for east-european web designers and developers, bringing you an exquisite lineup of speakers.

Respected, industry leaders provided experienced based, future-tech talks.

SmartWeb presentations covered the need-to-know topics of the moment, such as Responsive Web Design, HTML5 & CSS3, writing CSS the right way, JavaScript, working with a distributed team, and generally included best practices, tips and tricks and much more.

The conference was conducted entirely in English.

SmartWeb was a conference organized for web designers & developers, interaction specialists, UX designers, and web entrepreneurs. During the four session program, attendees discovered the latest trends in modern web and mobile development, and meet your peers and great people from web industry.

Official web site: SmartWeb Conference, Bucharest.

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Below, photos & videos I made at the event.

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