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I once had a talk with a work colleague about who’s the most economically developed country in the world.

I kept insisting it was the US.

He kept saying that there are other countries, more economically developed.

What I meant was national GDP. What he meant was GDP per capita.

Even if the US is the largest economy in the world, for the everyday citizen, it’s more important the GDP per capita since it reflects the state of an individual.

In sports events, there are countries that get a lot of medals (USA, China), since they have large economies and populations.

But when a small country earns a medal, I think it’s more relevant since the medal per capita is an adequate comparison.

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There’s a quote that argues, „Nice guys finish last.”

In a nutshell, when applied to the romantic field, there are two types of connections:

• Other than sex, where nice guys do fine.
• Sex, where nice guys might not be that attractive.

And, the quote argues, nice guys can’t get into a „good” relationship due to their being too nice.

First, I would doubt right from the start the concept of nice. You might be weak, you might not be aggressive, but you also might not be nice. This is a question to be posed, but not in this article.

Then, considering, yes, a nice person might not be attractive sexually.

In this case, I would separate the women into those who care about this thing and those who aren’t that interested in this aspect.

As a personal preference, I would look for women who like nice guys more than others. From other people’s stories, I hear they might be in lower numbers. I don’t care that much about that.

“I wouldn’t want to belong to a club that would have me as a member” ― Groucho Marx

(in my case, this is the opposite situation)

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For FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar venues, there are 8 stadiums in total, and for each stadium, there will be 7-10 matches in total.

„Eight stadiums will host matches at the tournament, seven being newly built and one being refurbished.” (via: The Most Expensive World Cup Ever »)

Surely, there can be other events, but to consider building a stadium for 10 matches so that the whole planet can watch some football games looks like a poor allocation of resources.

A solution? Make the World Cup last longer and reuse some stadiums.

Another solution? Run some matches at other times than when the whole world is watching.

The big problems are with the group stage matches, and solutions can be found.

But, of course, you could also build 7 stadiums, so no one gets upset (this was sarcasm).

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It seems to me that if a task takes 15 minutes online, I see this as a moderate time, while 15 minutes waiting at a queue in the physical world, 15 minutes seems much longer.

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There’s a quote by Constantin Brâncuși:

„Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.” – Constantin Brâncuși

When writing the code, in my opinion, the difficult part comes from imagining you can do something, then figuring out a mental algorithm.

Implementing and testing is not an easy task, but in my opinion, that’s the easiest task.

Similarly, if you are looking for something on the Internet to solve an issue you have – the most difficult part would be imagining, „hmm, but perhaps this thing I want has been previously solved by another, and all I need to do is look it up.”

For example, I like to work with tabs. I found some extensions for Chrome/Firefox that I like using. But imagining that such extensions exist was the difficult part.

Another thing is persisting in the search – so, you have an issue, and you want it solved. You have multiple options (externalizing, for example, or postponing/not doing it at all). But if you want to solve the issue by yourself, you need to be persistent – keep insisting and trying to solve the issue.

A thing that helps with this is the experience – you need to find a solution and try various things (Googling things, doing things yourself, externalizing). You get more experienced with this as time passes by.

But the simple, straightforward, and easy solution to „How do I solve the big, difficult issue?” is not straightforward and simple. Persist in trying to solve it.

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