I know someone who likes to speak about politics.
Yet, when taking action, that person has room to improve – it rarely votes, doesn’t volunteer in the field, doesn’t start a party.
Yes, it’s nice to know a lot of things about sports, but how about doing sports, instead?
Instead of watching a 90-minute match of football, how about running for 15 minutes and doing some push-ups?
I don’t think most people can predict what will happen.
Many years ago, a friend asked me – “I want to launch a website with funny videos and things like that”.
I told him such a website has no chance, there are plenty of websites doing this already.
I was wrong, 9GAG later went on to become a successful website with just funny things.
It wasn’t that known in Romania back then, so there was a niche worth exploiting.
The solution? Do a lot of predictions in lots of areas and some will stick.
Most – won’t.
I like to save the jobs I apply to.
I have an Excel file with the following columns:
Date Job Title Company Location Job Listing Job Listing #2 Cover letter Link Portfolio sent? Response? Optimism-level
I save in it the date I applied, the job title, company, where the job is placed, a link to the job posting (and a second one, in case there are more), my cover letter used for the job (so I’ll know, later on, what I wrote to the company), whether I sent a portfolio or not if I received a response, and how optimistic am I of getting the job.
Having a centralized system for this helps with organizing stuff.
I used to make a long list of URLs.
I delayed opening those links to add them to an internal procedure.
When I opened them, because years passed, some of them were no longer relevant.
If you postpone a task long enough, it might solve by itself.
Sometimes, if you’re on time for a meeting between a few people, you’re already late.
The reason? You’ll miss the quite pleasant discussions prior to the meeting.
This is one of the reasons why online meetings tend to be stressful – everyone is on point, trying to focus on getting a result.
A better solution? Give some time for small talk, for chit-chat.
I liked this solution:
For removing an action hook you should use the same action name, callback name and the priority that was used to add a action in parent theme. And register it on init
add_action( ‘init’, ‘remove_my_action’);
function remove_my_action() {
remove_action( ‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop’,’storefront_sorting_wrapper’,9 );
}
So, if you need to remove a specific action on WordPress, that’s how you do it.
My husband and I decided we don’t want to have children. We will be telling them tonight.
For NGOs, I find that donation-matching is a strong incentive to donate.
So, if I’m an NGO and I want to get more donations, I could use it quite a lot if I would be able to convince a company to do matching donations.
It’s likely not an easy task, but it could be worthwhile.
Multiplying the good in the world.
I have this habit – I want to watch movies to be able to carry a good conversation.
I think this is part of my job – I work in online marketing, I need to know what’s in popular culture.
This doesn’t mean watching all of the superhero movies, but, still, I need to know the basic stuff.
I heard Bogdan Naumovici saying (approximate quote): “I watch advertisements, it’s part of the job description” (he’s in the advertising business).
Related videos, as far as I know, are a big part of YouTube’s success.
Having a huge library of videos is fine, but there’s always the question – “What to watch next?”.
YouTube algorithm might be a huge accomplishment, but sometimes a viewer wants to watch specific things.
This is why I like the option of filtering results by type.
If I watch a video: Smile (1992 Digital Remaster) – YouTube, YouTube will ask me – would you like to view this or that kind of video?
It looks simple – ask people what they want and just offer them those things.
In practice, though, not that many websites do.