Non-practice

There’s an antivirus solution that has a bit of a strange pricing policy – they have some prices on their own website and other, smaller, prices on various retailer websites, like eMAG.

I thought it was just me noticing this, and perhaps I was wrong, but others saw this, too.

And that’s just strange.

You sell an antivirus trying to protect naive clients from bad things, and you abuse their naivety in other ways.

That’s one twisted model of business.

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While in the UK, some people used to give money to celebrate people’s birthdays. The sum of money was tiny at times, less than £1.

It made me think – this helps with your inner state of mind „I donated, I’m a good person”.

Even if you don’t give a lot of money, you feel good.

A lot of NGOs ask for small amounts of money, to be paid via SMS – I always wondered why do people choose to only help with €2?

The reason is simple – even if you give a small amount of money, you will feel good – „I helped the society”.

You certainly did, and it’s much better to donate a small amount of money than nothing.

Still, consider doing more.

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I think there’s just a little relationship between Toughness and Power.

As I view it, you can be a humble person, and, still, a very powerful person.

And you can seem very tough, always trying to impress others, and not have powers.

To me, having power is related mostly to having the ability to follow your pursuits.

If you’re persistent and ambitious, to me that’s a powerful thing.

You can lose minor battles, but, in the long run, you’ll likely succeed if you have power.

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Each year, during December Holidays, there are some people singing carols.

Sometimes, they travel in a group of more than 5 people, rather than 1-2.

This year, I saw this habit, and read about it online – some singers use large portable speakers.

Sure, it’s their right – they can adapt to modern times and not sing.

But, the question arises – what’s the added value? What’s the advantage of a song from a portable speaker, more than what I already have at home.

And, another question – if they upgrade to modern times, why wouldn’t I be more modern, and break the connection with the past, by not listening to such songs at all?

Yes, you can be modern while listening to carols. But not on portable loud speakers, there’s too much tradition being lost, right there.

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I’m part of some WhatsApp groups.

What amazes me is the lack of respect for the fact that a lot of people read you.

It’s so often that irrelevant messages occur.

A lot of times a person asks something, and the replies have little added value, some emoticons occur, and, at the end of the day, little is said and done.

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It gets, to a point, so boring that in a lot of their animated movies, it’s mostly about „Magic”:

„Here we have a magical creature doing magical things”.

Compare this with the Pixar universe, where the script gets complex.

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„Exception that proves the rule” – let’s say you hear someone badmouth another person.

What they really mean to say is: „I agree that most people are fine, but I found a flaw in this person’s behavior. This doesn’t cancel in any way the fact that most humans, including this person, are doing fine”.

So, there you have it – the world is nice and good, and whenever something bad happens, that’s the exception, not the rule.

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Terence reads: „Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto„, or „I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me.”

I like, for self-improving, to just do a lot of things.

Various things, from exposing myself to various forms of entertainment, to writing on the blog and posting things.

Constantin Noica used to tell Andrei Pleșu that he (A.P.) is collecting models (he, A.P., went to see a lot of important people).

I guess that’s what I also try to do – collect things.

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