Practice – tutoriale

If you have a lot of meetings set up in a short amount of time, consider going to Google Maps, visiting a location, and then shortening the links with the help of bit.ly.

You could then open the links in Google Maps application on your smartphone.

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Let’s say you want to scan a card in a non-compatible app on your smartphone.

So, you have an old smartphone, you can’t install app X, but you have a card in there you need to scan.

How to do it?

I found a solution: install the app on a compatible phone, take a screenshot of the card, add the card as an image to the non-compatible smartphone, show the card as an image.

Atypical, but it works fine.

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Let’s say you’re in a cab, you don’t have your cell phone with you, and you need to memorize a phone number the cab driver gives you.

How to do it?

In Romania, we have some major telecommunication providers, so, for example, 0743- would belong to Orange, while 0724- would belong to Vodafone.

The lines of separation got very blurry once a person can move the phone number to another provider with ease, but, still, there are some general rules (at least in my mind).

So, the first step – associate the phone number with the provider.

Then, for each provider, remember just the final digit – So 0743, the last digit is 3 (it can differ from the same provider, they might have 0741, 0742, and so on).

For the remaining 6 digits, try and form some associations. „1 less than the birthday of”. „Double of a bad luck number”. „The first two and last two digits are similar due to”.

In my opinion, it’s much easier to remember a rule between digits, rather than try and memorize 6 unique digits.

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Microsoft Office has been available for years.

In the past years, a lot of Internet users use the Google Drive suite.

Why do I prefer Microsoft’s version?

• It’s much more snappy and responsive.
• It works great with long documents.
• It has more functionalities.
• It’s faster to work with a lot of documents, at once.

Yes, it lacks a lot on the collaborative part. Also, check spelling on Google Docs is better, due to add-ons such as Grammarly.

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I think that adding „don’t know/don’t want to answer” in questionnaires is a good catch-all phrase.

Sometimes, people have issues with the simplest questions.

You ask their phone, but they prefer leaving only an email address.

You ask for their name, but they prefer the questionnaire to be anonymous, without using false data (like giving a false name).

You ask „For how long have you lived in City X?”, but you miss some important detail which makes the question hard to answer.

I’m all in favor of adding „don’t know/don’t want to answer” to questionnaires.

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Let’s say you want to move into a new city.

I know people who, when doing this, they first look for a place to stay.

Afterward, they try to find a good job, not far from home.

In 2015, when I went to London, I stayed in cheap hostels until I got a job, and only then looked for a place to stay permanently. In 2018, when I got to Bucharest, I first looked for a job, and only then I found an apartment nearby. Doing a Master’s nearby also helped.

I chose the current college I attend based on distance to  home.

One of the criteria for deciding the high school was closeness to home.

It may look that distance should not be such an important criterion, but in my opinion it is.

Researchers in England found adding an additional 20 minutes of commuting per day has the same negative effect on job satisfaction as receiving a 19% pay cut. (via »)

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