Here are two simple things I’ve been told which had a big impact on me:
* If you struggle with conversations and small talk all you need to do is ask questions. An entire conversation can be you asking a question, listening, and asking another question to what they just said and repeat.
The more someone talks during a conversation, the better they feel the conversation went. If you meet someone for the first time, ask questions, let them talk a ton and they will likely feel the conversation was enjoyable.
* Go to a place like a coffee shop or conference or park and sit for an hour and just watch people. You notice that no one cares. And I mean that in a good way. No one cares what anyone else does. A really shy and awkward person could walk into a coffee shop and feel super awkward about waiting in line and then mumble his order and fumble with his wallet and worry that everyone else is looking and judging them. But truth is no one cares. So don’t worry about random strangers.
I have a hobby of trying out different project management software and I even went back to a pen and paper notebook for a while.
But I’ve become a huge fan and advocate of Todoist. So lightweight yet very flexible.
*sorry if this sounds like a marketing message. I don’t work for the company or know anyone that does. I’m not invested in the company other than a happy customer.
I've been a serious Todoist user for years. I even built an extension app[1]. Todoist wins on number and ease of interfaces. Today I've used it on a desktop app, web app, phone, watch and CLI. It totally loses on complex cases (many people, subprojects, dependencies, integrations). I've found that using it with just one other person (an assistant) is stretching it, and a team is right out.
I’m really surprised that some people here don’t understand the value of smart contracts.
Contracts and rules and regulations are made by humans. Humans can sometimes be unfair and biased and error-prone.
Code on the other hand does not discriminate. Ethereum smart contracts are open source and auditable.
Technology can be used for good or bad. But I would much rather an industry be run by fair, auditable code than (unfortunately faulty) humans.
If I apply for a mortgage, I would like to know the process if driven by code which is applied transparently and equally to everyone, so things like skin colour isn’t a factor.
Competition will always remain. If a company uses unfair smart contracts, there will always be alternatives.
But I would much rather an industry be run by fair, auditable code than (unfortunately faulty) humans.
The only thing "auditable" gets you is "certain to have the intended outcome". It doesn't make the intended outcome good or ... uh, fair.
If a company uses unfair smart contracts, there will always be alternatives.
Why would that be? You have plenty of situations right now where a given company will offer you an ordinary contracts where there are no alternatives. Google's monopoly on Internet advertising has gotten a lot of press, there are plenty of places where a single ISP is all that's possible. What kind of contract would hospitals offer a person right before surgery?
I find it remarkable someone would make this sort of statement.
"Certain to have the intended outcome" goes a long way in aligning people's expectations with outcomes, and removing sources of unfairness.
>>Why would that be? You have plenty of situations right now where a given company will offer you an ordinary contracts where there are no alternatives. Google's monopoly on Internet advertising has gotten a lot of press, there are plenty of places where a single ISP is all that's possible.
That's not the fault of the provider who steps in to provide the service. If there is a natural monopoly, it's the public's job to come together and collectively fund a public option to ensure that the economic rent from being the monopolistic provider is distributed to the public rather than captured by a private party.
The solution is not to restrict people's right to engage in mutually voluntary private interactions.
You want to know what happens to Israelis who are “suspected” of talking to Palestinians, or foreigners who arrive or leave Israel and are suspected of having done that?
Given the sheer number of both Israeli and foreign NGOs and activists that do it on a daily basis and that quite a large number of non-Jewish Israeli residents and citizen have families in the territories - nothing.
Heck before the situation in Syria had escalated out to an all out war it wasn’t unheard of for Israeli Druze to wed Syrian nationals.
Not exactly. They were arrested by the government. Now, I don't hold governments in very high regard, and certainly don't think the arrest is legitimate, but it's as though you had said that if the German police arrested some people then "it's the fault of the CDU - the group that arrested them".
But is in no way a standard across companies.
Sounds horrific to be honest. Having to BS employees on the fly?