Am petrecut mai multe vacanțe din copilărie la Curmătură, un sat de munte, aflat chiar în munte, undeva în Buzău. Satul e la câțiva kilometri de la cea mai apropiată șosea, ca să ajungem la casa bunicilor din partea mamei în trecut mergeam pe jos câțiva kilometri, mai mult de jumătate în urcare.
Non-practice
ONG-uri în București?
Cauți ONG-uri în București? Dacă vrei să găsești niște ONG-uri în București, sunt mai multe resurse pe care să le iei în seamă.
Îmi place în special Gala Societății Civile, că ai un fel de vot pentru niște proiecte mai speciale.
Dar dacă vrei să faci bine, e bine primit oricum ar fi el, către orice cauză.
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Number of matches for FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar venues
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).
Passing time – online vs. physical world
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.
How do you know how to program?
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.
Cerc virtuos pentru mindset (Cum negociezi un deal bun – Adrian Cioroianu)
Există cercuri vicioase (duc situația din ce în ce în mai rău) și cercuri virtuoase (duc situația din ce în ce spre mai bine).
În prezentarea din cadrul conferinței The Freelancers, Cum negociezi un deal bun, Adrian Cioroianu a prezentat următorul cerc virtuos: Atitudinea (ce gândești) duce la Comportament (cum te manifești), care duce la anumite Acțiuni (ce faci efectiv), care vin cu Soluții (rezolvi o problemă), care aduc Rezultate (se întâmplă ceva concret), care duc la Performanță (rezultate de top), care, la rândul lor, întăresc Atitudinea (și cercul se reia).
Mi-a plăcut metafora.
Aveți mai jos o imagine cu Mindsetul, determinat de acest tip de soluție.
Am făcut o românească
Aud uneori expresia “Am făcut o românească”.
În multe contexte, e folosit în sens peiorativ. Când spui despre o persoană că e neetică, zici ceva în genul ăsta.
Sărim peste faptul că e o afirmație cam rasistă, chiar dacă e zisă de membri ai categoriei.
Punctul deranjant e că e eronată. Nu toți românii fac gestul respectiv, cu siguranță.
Gala Galaction’s rats and the good people
In the novel “Papucii lui Mahmud” (Mahmud’s shoes), Gala Galaction (I wrote a detailed article here »), at some point, speaks about a monk who lives in a place alongside rats. I think it’s safe to say that the author (pr. Grigore Pișculescu) considered the repulsion we generally have for rats to be debatable.
In real life, people tend not to like rats for two main reasons: they carry diseases, and they bring damage.
Still, rabbits are seen as cute & nice; foxes have a better view, etc.
There’s more to not liking rats than mere economic reasons, health & hygiene.
I think Gala Galaction tries to signal that this disgust is misplaced. We have reasons to prefer squirrels to rats, but this logic might be wrong.
A parable of the SEO and the church
In SEO, some techniques work for a while until the search engines (Google, mostly) decide to do something about the issue, and the technique no longer works.
Still, people who don’t do SEO might not be aware of the change, and they might still do SEO based on obsolete practices.
For example, keyword stuffing. Or use lots of keywords (later on, transformed into adding lots of blog post tags). Or trying to show content visible only to Google. Or manipulating backlinks. Or adding <h1> to the logo. Or bolding things just for Google. The list could go on.
Similarly, there were some practices in the past in the church that are no longer true today. People’s minds might be difficult to adapt to the new realities.
