Category: Blog

Today I updated the system that runs my blogs and I encountered some issues.

After that, I rapidly wrote a small post regarding how to fix them.
Why?

I always search google, and some time I don’t always find what I want.
When I do find it, I forget about it really fast, but it’s clear that without the search results I would often be hopeless.

Sharing how you do things is much like the amazon reviews. It allows people to get a greater knowledge of a topic, of a problem, of a product.
In the old times sharing was all about word of mouth which was restricted by the place you lived in.

There were no ways to compare prices, no ways to know if a product was good and so on.
Now we can compare it, although we’ll have to grow apart from the fake reviewers syndrome.

That’s why sharing is critical. It allow us to move even further, to help others.

PS: the fake reviewers syndrome is that issue you see on some amazon products.
Basically companies send free products to try it out, and you see these amazing reviews, super-long, extensively detailed, that are too good to be true.

They’re not fake per se, but it’s unusual. Rarely you would spend that much time in reviewing a product. In real life it could be compared to talking for like 20 minutes on a kitchen table, which, you know, it’s crazy.

Also, they’re often good and don’t show the bad sides enough, they are not critics enough.
This will probably be the next step in the consumer review industries, avoid the fake reviews.

What will remember 10 years from now? Will you remember the shopping list, the urgency to clean the house, your friend angry at you?

Will you remember the moments you spent looking at facebook or the catchy phrase that was on your mouth all the time.

What seems important now, doesn’t seem so important later on.

I read this today and it really opened my eyes.
It’s rarely the work the problem, if people get fed up with their work, it’s mostly because of the boss or the workplace, it’s always a human problem, not a technical, not a thing about complexity.

It all starts with human.

And the strange thing about all this is that it’s not new. We’ve always had this problem and we’re not even close to fixing it. years have passed and although some companies are better than others, we still have a long way to go.

Why is that?
Because we don’t treat people with kindness and because we don’t respect them enough.
Let’s be clear: Respect in both ways. Both from employer and employee.

Today I got the news that a friend needed to make a rule like “we don’t pay you if you don’t finish the job” and it’s such a sad thing that we even need something like this.

It all starts with respect, maximum dedication, and kindness.
Are we too lazy to realize it?

If you’re good, then someone will try to copy you and if they’re better they’ll win.

The thing is: this is reality. If other people can improve your idea, why not? What we have now is the result of the evolution of “products”.

It’s a shame, I know, and it sucks, but we should all adapt and learn.

Change, improve again, rinse and repeat.

When you want to give a present to someone, a present made with love, then you have to play in advance, maybe even one year.

Look for the little things, the likes that go unnoticed, write them down and use them when it’s time for a good present.

That’s it. The better gift you can do is to care.