Căci nu vă pară șagă: de la Neamț până la Iași e câtu-i de la Iași până la Neamț, nici mai mult, nici mai puțin. – Ion Creangă

The road from Constanța and Năvodari takes around 20-40 minutes, by car/bus. It’s around 20 km.

What’s the difference between the two?

I’d say it’s a different mentality, a different way of relating to things.

I know people from Năvodari, claiming they’re from Constanța.

Quite the opposite, I feel that I’m from Năvodari, I’m part of a community that’s different from what I’ve seen in Constanța.

You can’t generalize, if I know some people in Năvodari and some people in Constanța, I can’t say “All people in Năvodari”.

But I can make that generalization for myself only, and I can say that I’m quite happy being from Năvodari.

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“Reading is a basic tool in living of a good life.” – Joseph Addison

Reading can be difficult. It takes time, it takes an effort of the mind, and a will to do it.

But, despite this, it can be a rather cheap solution to improve your life.

As for myself, I’m trying to read some things, only to find that I end up in front of the TV, a lot of times.

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I tend not to read what do others say about companies before joining them.

So, if, theoretically, I were to apply to Microsoft, I wouldn’t go on forums where people share insights on what’s inside (besides Pentium).

Why so?

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When I was little, I discovered one cool trick.

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I find that it’s rather easy to send a large file via Google Drive, or another solution. Most of them are free and offer good upload/download speeds.

On the other hand, I see people using services that allow people to use services (I won’t name them) that allow sending of tens of GBs (gigabytes) of data.

The downside? The download speed is very slow, it takes hours to download a few GBs of data.

Why do people prefer this?

It’s easier to send files via such services than to use Google Drive / One Drive / Dropbox / other services.

But that “easy” comes with a drawback – slow speed.

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At various moments in my life, I was the first at some things.

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“Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.” – Nat Friedman, former CEO of GitHub

It’s good to have the ability to do critical thinking, to analyze and debate.

On the other hand, if you wish to start a new project, to begin from scratch, it’s better to be an optimist.

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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” – John Quincy Adams

I like this quote a lot.

“A leader is a person who has followers.” – Jim Bagnola

You can inspire others in many ways.

Force is not inspiration, though.

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