Have a look at this video (Romanian): „Dosare de presă” cu Cornel Ciomâzgă. Calea spre trezvie a unui fost jurnalist. – YouTube.
About: Ostrov (2006) – IMDb.
I enjoyed this perspective.
Language: English
Specialist vs. Generalist
Analyses revealed that (a) adult world-class athletes engaged in more childhood/adolescent multisport practice, started their main sport later, accumulated less main-sport practice, and initially progressed more slowly than did national-class athletes; (b) higher performing youth athletes started playing their main sport earlier, engaged in more main-sport practice but less other-sports practice, and had faster initial progress than did lower performing youth athletes; and (c) youth-led play in any sport had negligible effects on both youth and adult performance.
I think Nicolae Steinhardt also went for a similar idea – a monk should not just read Orthodox books.
Blue Ocean companies
I heard some years ago at an event Marius Ștefan from Autonom saying that sometimes money is not made where there is major competition (digital agencies), but in the blue ocean (car rentals).
It’s simple – it’s rather easy to start a digital agency, and they’re lots of players on the market.
A car rental company? Harder to launch, more difficult to manage and grow.
Why buy from eMAG?
I’m a fan of eMAG.
Why buy from them and not elsewhere?
- You can see which are top sales (sort products by sales). This is even more relevant for a huge seller like eMAG.
- Generally, there are real discounts. A discounted price is mostly a real discount.
- Free delivery within certain conditions.
- Most of all, trust that the process of sales goes well, and if you have warranty issues, they’ll help you out.
Three columns for years on forms
A lot of times, when developers choose how the users can pick the year of birth, they go for a single column.
How about this alternative? When you choose the year of birth, on your mobile phone, don’t have it in one column, but in three.
Example – create a mobile account on Solved Now – Apps on Google Play.
You’ll get to see an option to pick the year from three columns, as opposed of just one.
Poor jokes
You should write bad, terrible jokes until you write mediocre ones.
Then write mediocre ones, until you write average jokes.
And so on and so on.
Exceptional jokes don’t come with the first joke you write, but with many failed ones.
Essential Orthodoxy
Nicolae Steinhardt read a lot of literature and in „The Happiness Diary” he synthesizes the most beautiful ideas of Orthodoxy.
If you start reading for yourself, some notes that you’ll take will be his.
Of course, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your own research.
Nicolae Steinhardt read a lot and consumed a lot of art forms to finally reach his level.
Happiness in Christianity
Why are Christians joyful and happy?
- Because they see themselves as the most joyful in the world. Everything is bad about you. So you see that the one in front of you is better. You also want his good and you don’t give him any of your bitterness. Also if you sit in pain, over coffee you can sit in laughter.
- Because being dark and cynical generally brings bad emotions. If you’re happy and smiling, it’s easier to think good things of others.
Two quotes from the Happiness Diary by Nicolae Steinhardt:
„Tu, ateu? Aida de, ești mult prea vesel*. (Dostoievski în Adolescenții)
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Există mijloace obiective, în artă, de a recunoaște autenticul și a da deoparte copia. Pentru a deosebi creștinul de caricatura ori imitația sa nu există procedeu mai sigur decât a cerceta dacă postulantul este sau nu vesel și mulțumit. Dacă ipochimenul e intolerant ori morocănos ori agitat ori mahmur ori necăjit, nu e creștin oricât de perfect de fidel ar fi virtuții. E virtuos, dar nu e creștin. Creștinul e liber, așadar fericit.
Why do I blog?
Forgetting to write down less important things helps me write down a lot more very important things.
It’s good to have experience, especially by mistake you learn, even if it hurts.
Some of my blog posts are really silly, I think.
But they help in creating better ones.
„The gold is in the dark. And one does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light but by making the darkness conscious.” ~ Carl Jung
