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Tudor Cosăceanu, Vice President UiPath Romania and Moldova, Fuckup Nights Bucharest speaker: „You shouldn’t be afraid to express your ideas, even if you can get fired for it.”

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Tudor Cosăceanu, Vice President UiPath Romania and Moldova, Fuckup Nights Bucharest speaker: "You shouldn't be afraid to express your ideas, even if you can get fired for it."

Oana Pascu – founder Complice.ro, Tudor Cosăceanu – Regional Vice President UiPath Romania and Moldova, Dragos Ekart – founder CyberAxo Agency and Călin Cindea – co-founder Maidan talk at Fuckup Nights Bucharest, on May 23, about what they learned from their professional failures

Bucharest, May 20, 2024: Oana Pascu, Founder Complice.ro, Tudor Cosaceanu, Regional Vice President UiPath Romania and Moldova, Dragos Ekart, Founder CyberAxo Agency and Călin Cindea, Co-Founder Maidan, talk about how they turned challenges and setbacks into valuable lessons that contributed to their success, at the 21st edition of Fuckup Nights Bucharest (FUN).

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On time

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It is hard to understand why you would call people to an event more than 15 minutes before the start.

The event should start on time.

In my opinion, it is not ok to call people at 9:30 and start at 10:15.

Another thing – ending a call prematurely and waiting for people who are late.

Let’s say you wait for someone who is late. You should extend an activity so that if someone else comes late, there is more time for the others in the end.

It’s not OK to wait for someone 10 minutes, then end everything abruptly due to lack of time.

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Not my job

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Learn from mistakes

Sometimes, I talk to customer support people.

From time to time, I encounter issues in various systems.

Perhaps they tell their superiors, „Hmm, that’s an issue with our system; you’ll need to fix this so our clients don’t have an issue.”

I suspect most of them don’t, though, as some problems persist.

There are two issues:

  • They don’t report issues (I suspect this);
  • They don’t tell me whether they will report the issue or not. I’m never told – „Yes, we have a problem, I’ll be reporting this.”

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Anger management

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In the past, people tended to be more angry. Direct feedback, physical punishments, people with nerves.

I find today’s people quite a bit friendlier, happier, and with less anger and upset.

On the other hand, they can be offended by small things, like getting a call.

The thing is, society evolves, but some people don’t. It’s likely to meet an older person that has a different behavior than what’s expected in the current society.

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Go to the grand final

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K.H.Reichert [ ... ] - Federal press conference building | Bundespressekonferenz - Kronprinzenbrücke| Berlin - Germany

There’s a lot of emphasis on the big games – Real vs. Barcelona, the grand final of the Champions League, or the match that determines the World Champion in soccer. It’s the same with conferences – there are some big conferences everyone wants to attend.

While it’s true to some degree that the big games have a higher probability of being enchanting, great, and beautiful, there could be more minor games with great intensity.

You can have a match with 4–5 goals, while another can end with 1-0.

The same goes for conferences—yes, while a big-name conference may lead to ideas, you can likely get ideas from smaller conferences.

Pick a big one if you go to a single conference in 5 years.

But if you have a large budget, consider spending it between more events. You might get more ideas from attending multiple, smaller events.

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” ― Beverly Sills

Also, if you want to prepare for a big concert, go to smaller ones, first.

It’s fine to go overseas and see Metallica in a concert, but try some local concerts, also.

Don’t go just to Metallica and Pink Floyd.

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What differentiates a succssesful man from an ordinary person?

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I often see this – a lot: „What differentiates a successful man from an ordinary person?”.

Lots of gurus will try to tell you, „Oh, the successful person does so-and-so, unlike the regular persons.”

In my opinion, a lot of such assertions are false.

Being successful is generally a combination of hard work, intelligence, human skills, motivation, and luck. It’s actually quite simple—put in the work, be motivated, have some intelligence (social and general), and hope for luck.

But it’s much cooler to imagine, „Oh, the successful people are different from me on a few specific points.”

But I consider the assertion to be false.

Sayings like „Find out here what separates the very successful people from the unsuccessful ones” are aimed only at sounding fancy, not providing value.

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