Second-best articles when you have nothing to write about

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Neil Conway - Research

One guy I like to follow online writes, from time to time, very good articles on how to write like:

From time to time, I suggest other people – “Hey, you should write, too! Start a blog! Just start writing, start from somewhere!”.

And, sometimes, I get this reply “But I can’t write 10x better articles than my competition!”.

This blog post is dedicated to those people.

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Soluție pentru adăugare diacritice foarte bună – https://diacritice.ai/

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readerwalker - Tough primitive little writing machine

Dacă aveți de adăugat diacritice într-un text, există o soluție care, pe baza inteligenței artificiale, poate face asta pentru voi automat: https://diacritice.ai/.

Pur și simplu, adăugați un text, și site-ul va adăuga diacritice pentru dvs.

Site-ul are însă numeroase limitări în varianta gratuită (dimensiune text, număr încercări), și dacă aveți un text foarte mare nu este util.

De asemenea, ca orice lucru automat, poate face unele erori, e bine să verificați diacriticele adăugate, sau, poate, și mai bine, să scrieți direct cu diacritice.

Sunt și alte site-uri, dar mi se par mai puțin performante. Pe de altă parte, libertățile de lungime text sunt mult mai bune.

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On productivity

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Dhruv Patel - TIME is Important

Some people say to make a quadrant with important/less important and priority/non-priority tasks:

  • Important and priority tasks – do them first;
  • Less important, but priority OR important but smaller priority tasks – do them later;
  • Not important, non-priority tasks – postpone them until forever.

I don’t agree with this model. By following these principles, there are some things that will only get done months after they were supposed to.

I suggest you also put in your program less-than-important tasks.

What is more relevant to me is dividing time into the following types of tasks:

  • Tasks to be done when you have a lot of energy (to me, that’s the morning and first part of the day); in here – put the most difficult tasks; creative tasks, tasks which require attention;
  • Tasks do be done when you have less energy, but, still, you can finish tasks (the second part of the day); in here – put some tasks which may be a bit boring and repetitive;
  • Finally, some tasks for which you have no energy (later in the evening); in here – watching movies, reading books, reading online journals.

The thing is, at times it gets difficult to schedule tasks. Putting limits helps, forcing now to waste time on some web sites, to only reply to some messages, not to do distracting activities, help. But, at times, I plan to do X, and, still, not manage to do so.

Anyhow, the planning based on energy level works much better for me than planning based on importance.

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In-kind gift

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Jani Halinen - Gift

In May 2020, I took part in an online event by “Biz” magazine, in which it was told that it matters more to make donations with products, rather than money.

I think that may hold true.

A lot of companies advertise in their job postings that they offer all sorts of small things, like free fruit and tea, a Kindle, things like that, even if the monetary value of thos products can be quite small.

I know a person who wants to give a physical gift as an inheritance.

On December 1st, some years ago, eMAG gave with all the orders a free flag of Romania.

Some real estate players give a “free” car with an apartment.

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And the list goes on.

It may look like a more impact to say “As a company, we’ve donated X tons of food to people”, rather than say “I gave X amount of money to people”.

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There is no free lunch

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Don Harder - Free

I found three solutions to enjoy various media online:

  • For free courses, you can use free online courses. The catch? You need to visit the web site pretty much every day, and it takes a while to join the courses.
  • For free games, you can visit daily: 🎮 Games on Sale – Save money with GG.deals. The downside? You need to visit the web site often.
  • For free, downloadable, classical music, you can see YourClassical. An issue? Once a week, you need to visit the web site and download, you can’t download music older than around 10 days. Miss one week? Miss one week’s worth of songs.

Yes, all of the above are free, but if you pay for courses, you don’t need to wait. A similar thing applies to the other elements.

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Tattoos and courage

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Tattoos and courage

I recently read on a web site about a person’s who’s friends were having tattoos, while that person didn’t.

And that person said that he had a bit more creativity, a white canvas (the skin), which left some room to creativity.

And I wondered – why do people have tattoos? One reason would be for aesthetics, but yet another one could be courage.

It might look like a person proves courage by having a tattoo.

But what if there is also courage in not having a tattoo? What if the courage was soft, calm, and relaxing, rather than all-powerful?

What if courage meant you do the right thing, you choose a path to you that gives you flexibility for the future (what will you do with your skin when you’re 10 years older?).

Sure, having a tattoo proves you have courage. But, to me, not having one proves this even more.

Also, there’s this: “Confidence is Silent. Insecurities are Loud!“ “Încrederea în sine e tăcută. Nesiguranța de sine e vocală!” – Blog de Olivian Breda.

“Răul poate să-l facă oricine, cât de nevolnic ar fi. Binele însă e numai pentru sufletele tari şi firile călite. Răul: lapte pentru copii; binele: carne pentru adulţi.” (Nicolae Steinhardt »)

There was once a conversation on TV between Andrei Pleșu and Andrei Gheorghe, and Andrei Pleșu said he doesn’t generally swear because he prefers the liberty of swearing from time to time, but not once every two sentences.

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