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Too many messages!

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Thomas Hawk - Facebook HQ

Sometimes, people complain to me: „You post too many things, you send too many things, you add too many things!”

How do I interpret this? There is an issue with the quality of the things I post, not with the quantity.

You can go to a long movie and watch it in its entirety if it’s a good movie.

You can read a news website with lots of daily news.

You can visit a humor site and read a lot of good jokes/see funny images.

Doing the same with a low-quality information source? It’s just not the same thing.

When watching a boring movie, even one hour is too much.

Low-quality news source? You close it.

Read/see something not funny to your taste? You leave the website.

The trouble is, while it’s easy to fix the quantity issue, it’s very difficult to fix the quality issue.

So, as a conclusion – I wouldn’t worry about posting hundreds of photos in an album or posting 10 posts on Facebook per day.

But I would worry about the postings being quality ones (or less so).

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David Popovici’s aftermath

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Adam Drewes - 006 FSU Swim Meet

David Popovici recently lost a race. He was first for three lengths of the race, then lost momentum and the podium in the final length. He was 4th, in the end.

When looking at this, people might say, „Oh, he lost because of so-and-so.”

But what would the same people say if he got a gold medal and set up a record?

It’s easy to come after a battle and make an analysis.

The trouble is that the fight’s result determines the analysis’ contents.

And I consider this to be wrong.

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As You Like It – National Theatre Live – decorum flies through air (2016, London – United Kingdom)

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As you like it - William Shakespeare

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In 2016, while in London, I saw a play: As You Like It – National Theatre Live.

What did I mostly like about it? The decorum flies through air.

I liked this play for this reason, I thought it was impressive.

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Details about the play:

As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the First Folio in 1623. The play’s first performance is uncertain, though a performance at Wilton House in 1603 has been suggested as a possibility.

As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle’s court, accompanied by her cousin Celia to find safety and, eventually, love, in the Forest of Arden. In the forest, they encounter a variety of memorable characters, notably the melancholy traveller Jaques, who speaks many of Shakespeare’s most famous speeches (such as „All the world’s a stage„, „too much of a good thing” and „A fool! A fool! I met a fool in the forest”).

Via: As You Like It – Wikipedia.

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On attractiveness

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La grande bellezza (2013)

„Attractiveness was negatively correlated with body mass index and with height (only in males). Attractive individuals reported being in a long-term romantic relationship more than others. Self-rated and/or other-rated attractiveness were positively correlated with self-reported social status, self-esteem, and past-positive time perspective, and negatively correlated with trait anxiety, neuroticism, and past-negative time perspective. ” (Study: Physical and psychosocial correlates of facial attractiveness.)

It’s nice to choose your partner, among other criteria, on attractiveness.

On the other hand, some people tend to only look at this and ignore other traits.

Sure, it matters; we’re built like this. But it should not be the main criterion, in my opinion.

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Follow-up: Diplomacy, culture and economics: Indian and Romanian perspectives – learning from the experience of Indian diplomats (Embassy of India, Bucharest, 2023.06.15)

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Diplomacy, culture and economics: Indian and Romanian perspectives - learning from the experience of Indian diplomats (Embassy of India

Ambassador hosted a discussion ‘Diplomacy, culture and economics: Indian and Romanian perspectives – learning from the experience of Indian diplomats’ on the ties between India and Romania, welcoming participants from ASE (Bucharest University of Economic Studies), including students and lecturers. The students expressed a keen interest in gaining deeper insights into Indian diplomacy and politics. They posed queries on India’s foreign policy and functioning of Indian missions abroad. The event was coordinated by Lector Dana Radler.

Below are photos from the event and participants’ testimonials.

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