If you’re firm and tough, and strong, there’s an excuse for your behavior – If you have a good reason, you may be right to be upset.
I’ve seen people getting upset. If they had a reason for it, I tried to understand their reactions.
Generally, I don’t like verbal aggressiveness. But I can try and understand it. And, in the end, tolerate it.
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In the past, I used to look at journalists with admiration.
CHIP magazine, game magazines, 22 magazine.
Even today I do so but to a much lesser degree.
I feel that, at the same time, I grew wiser and the press, in general, decreased its quality.
I’m not the person I was 10-20 years ago, the press, again, is not the same.
And, with the Internet there are so many opportunities to know, read, view, interact with.
Îmi e greu să spun cât am investit în educație în ultimul an, pentru că mult din ce fac e în sensul ăsta.
Nu am asta cu “am cumpărat 5 cărți și 3 cursuri”.
Am cumpărat cărți, nu am o sumă anume în minte. Am cumpărat acces la Netflix, unde încerc să mă uit la lucruri legate de educație. Am fost de câteva ori la teatru, post-vaccin.
Uite, mi-am petrecut o vacanță de 9 zile în București în august 2021 (eu locuind în Năvodari) întâlnindu-mă cu diverse persoane. Am organizat excursia asta strict în sensul ăsta.
Pentru mine, asta e educație.
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Aloc timp pentru cursuri, uneori în defavoarea unui profit imediat.
Nu am un răspuns clar – “investiția mea în educație este atât”.
Sectarians vs. Orthodox people are like people doing SEO to each other.
If the sectarians believed in the Holy Tradition, in the Saints, they would have a basis for discussion with the Orthodox.
In vain do I say, “This is what Holy Tradition says,” if it means nothing to them.
Likewise, SEO discussion. If I say “That’s what Moz.com says,” if it means nothing to X, that he knows better, we have no way of talking.
Why isn’t good to compare yourself with many small competitors, and it’s good to look at the big ones?
The big ones are testing.
If Amazon puts something in black and white, it’s clear that you need to do something similar.
They make the best decisions because it costs them a lot to be wrong, so they spend time on each issue.
5 of your small competitors don’t do that.
If you are poor, you make the wrong financial decisions. It’s not easy to make the right decisions.
“The core demographic of dollar stores—lower-income families who earn less than $40K per year—are often living paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to buy in larger quantities, even if it means getting a better deal,” Crockett explains.
Desperation breeds profit for these dollar stores, and it’s a business model that has, perhaps unsurprisingly, proven extremely successful—there are more of these stores than all the Walmarts, CVS, Walgreens, and Targets combined. So yeah, you might wanna consider buying your pool floaties and Chef Boyardee Spaghettios somewhere more ethical like… well… um… damn.
It might be a bit counterintuitive is to write blog posts describing some secrets in your industry – for example, if I’m an SEO teaching people how to do SEO.
These kinds of things might look will leave you without clients.
The advantage? They have a tendency to position you as an expert.
Trust is a powerful thing to be able to gain:
Simon Sinek Performance vs Trust – YouTube.
When you write a blog post, a page, or any other type of content, consider this: try to look for a balance between positive (promise, future, hope) and negative (past, analysis, criticism, fear, fear suggestion) in most texts. For example, you can be negative in describing a problem or potential problem and positive in expressing a solution.
You can even use these two in the same phrase:
“Reading blog posts can harm your eyes, on the other hand, it can give you fresh new ideas”.
“Our products avoid issues with ecology, and are also child-friendly”.
Or, write two phrases:
“I love this new pair of shoes. They help me avoid knee issues”.
“I really enjoy the glasses. They are lightweight and also help me with costs”.
O rață intră într-un bar:
– Aveți pâine?
– Nu, răspunde barmanul.
– Aveți pâine?
– Nu!
– Aveți pâine?
– Nu, nu și iar nu!
– Aveți pâine?… Barmanul, înfuriat la culme :
– Dacă mă mai întrebi o dată dacă avem pâine, te iau de cioc și ți-l bat în cuie pe bar! Să vedem atunci!
– Aveți cuie?
– Nu.
– Aveți pâine?(via »)
I once attended a workshop with Jim Bagnola.
He asked us some complicated questions and told us – “You are free to do as you please, at the end the person who can tell me the most answers wins 5$” (very approximate quote).
The game was before the heavy use of smartphones, so we had to pick our brains.
And while some people, me included, focused on answering the questions by ourselves, some people formed groups.
The winner of the game stood in the back, listened to people’s answers, and wrote them on a piece of paper.
What’s the lesson, here?
It’s very hard for an individual to know everything on a topic. Use the group’s knowledge and create a powerful team for answering questions.
Note – this does not refer to cheating at exams and tests in school.