It’s not good for your mind to ruminate on the past.
You keep thinking of specific events; you come back to them again and again.
That’s got to be bad, right?
On the other hand, there’s a silver lining – you find out what went wrong, and you focus on solving issues.
So, not just focusing on the wrong things, but trying to make them improve.
Mai jos, resursele cele mai importante, pentru mine, din luna septembrie 2023. Pot fi suprapuneri de la o secțiune la alta. În general, predomină știrile de SEO.
Notă – intenționez să postez de acum încolo nu lunar, ci ceva mai des. Nici săptămânal nu cred că voi posta, dar nici lunar, undeva între.
I like this quote:
The trick for most ambitious pursuits, I’m afraid, is simply doing the obvious thing much, much more than most other people are willing to do—and not minding that it’s hard at times.
The Simple Rule for Achieving Ambitious Goals – Scott H Young.
It happens everywhere, even in SEO (Why Good Unique Content Needs to Die – Moz).
I wrote about this here:
I don’t think the work-life balance exists. If you want to succeed a lot in any of it (life vs. work), you’ll need to make sacrifices.
Hello there!
Are you a problem solver? A storyteller? An innovator? Or maybe you have some amazing ideas about how to solve real-world challenges on Earth and in space?
We know the perfect event where you can turn your ideas into reality. 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧: NASA Space Apps Challenge Romania, the largest international hackathon.
Don’t be fooled by the name; everyone is welcome, even the ones who have never „hacked before.” 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐛𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐨𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦. We’ll make sure we’ll match you with the best team players.
When? October 7-8
Where? Offline in Bucharest and Cluj and online in Timisoara, Iasi, and Oradea.
Our theme is Explore Open Science Together this year, and you can already check out the 31 brand-new challenges. You will find so many non-technical ones you will love immediately!
I think it’s worthwhile to be the only person doing a certain thing.
Why keep voting, even if your vote doesn’t seem to count?
Why keep an Eco-friendly life (as much as you possibly can), when the planet seems to go down?
Why keep insisting on doing what you perceive is good despite the seemingly low impact?
Read and see The Hummingbird Parable: What We Can Do For Earth.
Also read: The starfish story – The Robert D. and Billie Ray Center.
The answer is this – because it’s worthwhile. Because it’s the right thing to do. Because you can set an example even if no one follows it.
On a practical level, a new iPhone appeared recently. Do you think that people who weep at Avatar (franchise) would think twice about buying the most powerful and newest iPhone?
„Yes, the planet is doomed, but I need the iPhone!”.
No you likely don’t, while the planet will likely suffer.
The iPhone might look like a silly example, but pretty much no one seems to comment, „Oh, by buying an iPhone, you doom the future of the planet!”.
All people seem to think is along the lines of „Oh, but I need it!”. Likely, you don’t.
I’m not saying you should live in a cave, but most people living today don’t need the most powerful phone.
And if you say that Apple does good things for the planet, I’m not to judge that, but it’s impossible to create a $1,000+ product and not have a big impact on the environment. No matter what.
Tell a person buying cryptocurrency that they’re harming the plant. „Who cares?”.
It’s disheartening.
There’s just one solution in life – keep insisting on the good things. Keep doing it. Save the starfish and matter for that precious little being’s life!
Be the lone ranger who keeps doing the good things.
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
― Mother Teresa
I like The Lone Ranger (2013).
You can listen to one specific song I like.
I find the movie funny & entertaining, despite being a not-so-serious look on life.
I found it enjoyable & pleasant to watch.
I liked this part of a talk a lot:
„Now, that’s the secret to the pure oxygen of a true companionate love, the mystical love of the romance where you feel truly chosen for each other. It has to be based on honesty. It has to be. And a lot of people are like, yeah, yeah, good luck with that. And there are lots of things. That doesn’t mean you have to say, by the way, “Sweetheart, your butt looks fat in that.”
Tim Ferriss: I was just going to ask.
Arthur Brooks: Yeah. No, no, no. It doesn’t mean you have to volunteer every single thing that you’re thinking because you’re not insane. But when there’s a direct question, there’s a direct answer. What I comes down to. Okay, that’s fine.” – Source: The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Arthur C. Brooks — How to Be Happy, Reverse Bucket Lists, The Four False Idols, Muscular Philosophies, Practical Inoculation Against the Darkness, and More (#692) – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss.
Legat de videoul: „I Make $1.3M/Year With One Skill”:
Ce model de business are?
Plătești un abonament ca să îți facă webdesign.
Nu are întâlniri, are un sistem de ticketing (Trello), clienții pun tickete acolo, și face taskurile în termen relativ scurt.
Nu e plătit per task, ci clienții plătesc per lună niște ore.
Probabil are și un setup fee, în rest, plătești lunar pentru abonament la niște taskuri.
Problema nu e atât să tarifezi, problema e să muncești atât de bine încât să demonstrezi că faci treabă bună și să ai clienți.
Tariful lui minim e 300$ / oră dacă folosești toate orele alea, dacă nu le folosești plătești oricum pachetul.
Dar 300$ / oră la un pachet de ore, e un tarif mare, și pachetul lui e foarte scump, chiar dacă folosește cineva toate orele lui.
Cea mai mare problemă la el nu e să copiezi modelul, ci să găsești clienți care sunt dispuși să dea 5.000$ / lună pentru mentenanță site.
Problema nu e dificultatea de a copia modelul, ci dificultatea de a vinde modelul.
Om cu Om – Festival de Cartier brings together residents from Buzești, Icoanei and Mântuleasa neighbourhoods
Bucharest, 20th of September 2023: Om cu Om – Festival de Cartier (Neighbourhood Festival) will bring together people who live, work or study in the neighbourhoods of Buzești, Icoanei and Mântuleasa through networking, civic involvement and community art workshops that will take place every weekend in October. The mission of the event, now in its first year, is to cultivate civic spirit, combining fun and creative activities with the impetus to form a network of vicinity to revitalise the three neighbourhoods.
I like this quote:
Cînd vezi, de aproape, un sportiv profesionist antrenîndu-se ai sentimentul că face parte dintr-o specie diferită. Că vine de pe altă planetă. Dacă Gabi Szabo și-ar arunca pantofii cu toc de la recepție și ar lua-o la fugă dinspre Romană spre Universitate n-ai prinde-o nici cu bicicleta.
Faceți această experiență o dată. Asistați la un maraton de undeva de aproape, pentru ca plutonul să vă treacă prin fața ochilor! Veți avea sentimentul că ei aleargă 42 de kilometri cum alergăm noi suta de metri.
Cătălin Tolontan: Mircea Badea, Lordul John și un simulacru.
I think in chess you can see the top players playing. There are match databases with games of Magnus Carlsen, for example.
The thing is – try and imitate some of the player’s moves and try to understand them.
To me, at least, most moves seem out of this world.
Trying to anticipate – „Oh, he’ll move so and so” – generally leads to me making errors and bluffs.
Yet the top players generally can anticipate a good move.
Chess top players are really out of this world.