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As you buy more and more cups of ice cream, the price decreases.

So, for example, one cup of ice cream is 12 lei, if you buy another one, it’s 10 lei, and the third one is either 10 lei, again, or 8 lei.

The thing is, just by looking at the above pricing, it makes sense to buy more and more cups.

But we know from psychology that we tend to derive less and less pleasure from something.

So, the first cup of ice cream brings you lots of joy, the second one a lesser amount of joy, while the third one – lesser, even.

There’s a tendency to just look at the pricing (“But it’s so cheap to buy the third cup!”), instead of also taking into account personal satisfaction (“You’ll likely enjoy the third cup not-so-much”).

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“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” (a non-Chinese proverb)

Sometimes, there is a task to do. It’s not mandatory to do it that day. The following day, still not mandatory, but the task becomes a bit more urgent.

This goes on for a few days. 5 days pass, no improvement.

There are two ways to look at this situation:

• I had to do the task five days ago. Since it’s not that important, it can wait further.
• I waited for 5 days to do the task. Now it’s URGENT and IMPORTANT.

I do this, I see others doing this.

Two ways of looking at the same situation.

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Coming back to the subject of Power – I see this more and more often – people Set themselves Up to be Up-Set.

So, you have two options:

#1 Be upset;

#2 Be happy.

Sometimes, it’s not easy to control, but a lot of time I see others (and, also, myself) choosing to be upset instead of choosing to be happy.

There’s an entire course on being happy: The Science of Well-Being | Yale Online.

I’ve watched it, I consider it very nice, all good.

Yet, sometimes I choose to be up-set, instead of setting-up happiness.

Set-Up for Up-Set. Mind-blowing.

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“Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” (author unknown)

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I notice that on the Bucharest subway, the timings until the arrival of the next train don’t always correspond.

That’s a bit of a shame.

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I recently went to a large entity to help with software/hardware issues, although this is far from my first specialization.

Someone, at some point, bought a printer for the entity and made it work for a computer, then another.

Someone else bought another printer and made it work for a couple of computers.

Yet, I am almost certain that there have been issues with connectivity on the new computers.

The people who initially installed the printers left no written procedures.

How do you install another printer?

The computers I worked on had almost always the same issue: how do I install the printer?

No one from the original IT team left a written procedure on how to solve this.

Nicolae-Iordache Iordache has written about procedures and written documentation for doctors.

Computer doctors also need to create procedures and written documentation.

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“Carpooling is the concept of sharing your car to accommodate more than one person at a time, eliminating the need for riders to drive themselves in separate vehicles.” – Liftango | What is Carpooling?

Seth Godin once said:

Self-driving cars are going to be a huge transformational disruption, and they’re probably going to happen faster than most people expect.

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Starting in cities, starting with car-sharing, the economics and safety implications are too big to avoid:

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* Instant and efficient carpooling, since the car knows who’s going where

I’m surprised that this hasn’t happened yet.

We have Bolt, we have Uber, we have people paying for a new form of taxis.

Yet, I see almost no one carpooling.

There are options:

Carpool & Bus Travel Deals | BlaBlaCar:

No matter where you’re going, by bus or carpool, find the perfect ride from our wide range of destinations and routes at low prices.

Yet, these seem to be much less popular than Uber/Bolt.

Hopefully, with self-driving cars, carpooling will rise (from almost zero, I dare presume).

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