On Living A Better Life, Screwing It Up, And Everything In Between
How you act, and, most of the time, how you react to other people.
A year ago, having the police storming your place for spending time with your extended family, would have been unconceivable. Only extreme, totalitarian regimes would have resorted to something like this, and probably only in very targeted cases. Now, this is the norm. Like, literally, if you spend time with more than 6 people from … Read more
First of all, people would take way more care about their opinions. Instead of keeping them unchanged for years, they might check them out at least weekly. “Hm, I feel a little bit triggered today, let’s check on my opinions down there, I might have gotten some opinion chlamydia. And I’m not even aware of … Read more
A couple of months ago, a friend from Valencia, Duane, invited me to brew beer together. I never did this before, although I witnessed other ways to make alcohol, like distillation (which is quite popular in the country I was born, Romania, where basically every family has – or has access – to a device … Read more
Traditionally, there are 3 recognized powers in a modern state: legislative, executive and judiciary. Or, in other words, government, which implements the laws created by the parliament (elected by popular vote), under the scrutiny of justice, which makes sure there are no slippages. These 3 powers are usually separated by what we call “checks and … Read more
A while ago, “fake it till you make it” wasn’t a very popular topic. In the last decade, though, it became some sort of a mainstream avenue for many young (and not so young, either) aspiring entrepreneurs. Even more, it pervaded the social fabric, and “fake it till you make it” applies not only to … Read more
2020 was the Fear year. 2021 might be the Hunger year. I’m very well aware that this is an awful oversimplification, but still, I think there’s value in exploring a little bit this path. 2020 was the year in which, for weeks, all airplanes on the planet were grounded and the sky was free from … Read more
We live in a time when it’s extremely easy to form and propagate opinions. Just 20-30 years ago, the speed at which we could form and dissipate opinions was an order of magnitude slower than what we have today. And by that I mean that now an opinion can be formed and spread to literally … Read more
If a person is really toxic for you, just leave. Get up, get your stuff (if you have any) and leave. That’s it. If, after careful analysis, after weeks, months, or years of attempts to make things right, to balance out the exchange, nothing happened, then walk away. Slowly, no drama, no arguing, no rationalization, … Read more