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Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.

  • beauty is in the little things

    One day you’ll figure it out all, you’ll know what causes life, what destroys it.
    One day, everything will be clear and all the question will be answered.

    Until that day, I hope you’ll start seeing the beauty of life in a small, a helping hand, a compassionate friend, a good deed or just the time you spend with your family.

    I hope you won’t see the world as a superhero does, full of big actions and great powers and results.
    I hope you’ll notice the beauty in the small things the ones we are already submerged into, the one we live in.
    The beauty of life.

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  • the dirty secret to laziness

    There is no person around the world that isn’t lazy.
    We all are, maybe on different degrees and topics, but we all are.

    So, what’s the matter with being lazy? In fact, not so much.
    Being lazy isn’t a problem by per se, it’s a problem when it affects your life and when it doesn’t help you living a richer life.

    I suspect there are not so many other rules to this game.
    Being lazy can be good if it means to nurture yourself for a while.
    It isn’t so good when you do it everyday to avoid decision, to avoid change, to avoid improving.

    The next time you see a super-active person doing so many things remember this: we are all lazy.
    You might not know where that person is lazy, but he or she is and the issue in that case is that you somewhat feel inferior because he/her can accomplish so much and you don’t because you’re lazy.

    Sadly, laziness isn’t the problem.

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  • how to lose customers

    This is the only guide nobody would like to read and learn from it, but overall we are flooded by examples on how we can lose loyal customers.

    I recently switched from my old telephone company to a new one.
    Not because I didn’t like their offer, but because they promised something, failed to deliver it, failed to acknowledge the problem, failed to solve it.

    There were many things they could have done to fix it before this situation, but they did none.
    Today I received a call that offered me a good offer, somewhat better than the one I have with my new carrier.

    I gladly rejected it.
    It’s not about the money, it’s about the ability for a company to follow the customers, to threat them correctly, to behave.

    I don’t expect the new company to be a human example of kindness, nobody would.
    But they haven’t betrayed my trust, so for now I’m staying.
    Having your trust betrayed after something like 10 years is bad. It makes you wonder.

    So, all in all, if you don’t want customer, there are a few thing you must do

    • Ignore them
    • Don’t acknowledge their issue
    • Don’t solve their problems
    • Don’t help them
    • Keep working only for the money
    • Let the company outgrow your power to control who’s in and who gets to talk to the client

    Seriously, it’s not about the price, it’s about the behavior.
    Recently I was unsure of which VPS provider use.
    I checked out VPSIE and DigitalOcean, and I went with DigitalOcean even though they were offering me less and they didn’t have live chat support.

    Why? Because one of the reply email I got from VPSIE used a tone I didn’t like.

    I would say they “Fu**ed up” the entire tone of the email, but hey, it’s a matter of what tone you use after all.
    DigitalOcean, on the other hand, has a stellar record of good customer support, even with me that I wasn’t a customer.

    Keeping customer, losing customer, is often a matter of behave.

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  • the road to sharing

    I always wondered what it takes to share with other people what you know.
    It took me almost 6 months to start doing it, to understand the simple basics, to be what many might call a newbie.

    I haven’t become an expert by any means but know at least I understand the reason, what moves this decision and what makes it worth it.

    Sharing knowledge is both something you do for yourself and for others, but what really surprised is the reason for the former.

    You don’t do it for fame, you don’t do it for glory.
    Personally I do it to not forget and to enjoy the sharing.

    Why? Because I tend to forget, and my knowledge changes over time. By writing down passages you are forced to create a diagram of the actions, you basically improve your memory.

    Also, by writing, you allow the information to be searchable, making it more accessible to yourself, not only to others.

    All in all, I can’t find a reason to _not_share.

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