Often people don’t say what they mean. However they do often relate to the sentiment. If they really wanted you to know something they will usually repeat it once. Never rely on a passing comment as the source of wisdom. If anything it’s just the social norm of the time.
I now make websites and apps as part of my job. I like the work I do and for the most part it is challenging. The thing is, everyone can make a website… Or can they?
A website is such a loosely defined term these days. Everything has become and will become even easier to build. For example, 20 years ago maybe if you said you made PowerPoint slides people might think that was really cool. These days it is so easy to do, you wonder if it was something to admire in at all.
Therein lies the challenge. People don’t want to pay for skills for something you can make in 30 minutes – that’s the truth about a lot of websites out there. And then we have the biggest and best websites to contend with. The likes of Facebook and Google. There needs to a new term for making challenging websites. They call them web apps but it doesn’t quite have the kicker.
You are stuck with a problem and you are in a hurry or have many other tasks to complete. Is your first response good enough? Share it with someone else before you finalise. We are better than we think but often we can’t see things clearly while you are right in the middle of it.
The problem doesn’t necessarily get easier but it helps you to see possibly missed perspectives. And if it gets easier, then it’s a pure win!
If you are rich would you go out of your way to show how big your bank account is? Well I guess what’s the point of having the money then right? Or would you play it down so you don’t attract unnecessary attention.
If someone robbed you because you were showing off, would that change things? Or if you start getting attached to certain groups of people and you lost good friendships.
I think today we have lost this consideration. Doing it all and showing it off seems to be the motto. And when things go wrong, who do we blame? The state. The government. Humanity.
We have been here before, or have we? I have to say that I have been in Melbourne for over 10 years yet I never adequately explored the bar scene. It felt like a different place. Like going into another dimension. It helps me to appreciate where I am a little bit more.
Is there something you have made up your mind about and will not revisit because you let the thought hold for many years? Maybe it’s time to revisit it.
I subscribed to Time magazine. It is much cheaper than getting it from a news agency. The thing is I would collect them. It would come to my mailbox then I would put it aside. I have a whole stack of them. I was not reading them at all, most of them still in plastic wrapping.
Then I thought I will read one article. Just the article that is on the front page. Then I ended up reading a bit more but my focus was at least finishing one. I ended up reading from three magazines in a row.
Sometimes we just need to convince ourselves to do the bare minimum. The rest might just come on its own.
There will always be someone smarter than you or who has more experience. They will tell you how it should be instead of what you did. Quite often this is useful if the person has already done what you did. Others just want to give you their opinion and should not be taken too seriously. Yet no matter how wrong you were, it is most important that you took action.
A lot of us just sit around thinking who is right and who is wrong. Don’t be that person.
You will never get a good discussion going in forums with gamification. The first few people set the tone of the discussion. Then the middle people get in just to have an opinion. The real gold actually comes at the end where people give really thoughtful ideas. Unfortunately at that point nobody reads it.
Often we learn things by sitting in front of a class or reading a book. Sometimes we are also given an exercise. This learning is only the first step and is more like allocating the knowledge in your brain. We must take our own action to really learn anything. This is because the exercises that are given are usually a means to an end to make you feel that you got to do something. In most cases when we need to do things again we will struggle. This struggle is very important.
Take action without being prompted and you will learn for real.
I just got back from Sydney and I realise my mind will start shifting elsewhere back to my comforts soon. In reality, I feel that Sydney is a city that gives me inspiration from so many facets. This includes the harbour, the beaches, the buildings, the landscape, the calm and clean weather etc. In Melbourne, the inspiration is almost non-existent…
The government has purposely made Melbourne the sports and cultural capital. This includes sending the Australian Open and Grand Prix to Melbourne. Also they decide to hold the Comedy Festival and some unique theatre shows here. It has also been dubbed the fashion capital. If we really look at it, there was no reason for them to do that, it could have been held anywhere.
Really, the strength of Melbourne lies in the people. It is perhaps why Melbourne people are more friendly. It is perhaps why the tall-poppy syndrome is so prominent. It is perhaps why people are considered more cultured. I believe Sydney-siders who move to Melbourne will have loved to stay there if housing was more affordable. If the Australia housing mania truly dies down, we will have a way of quantifying if the non-existing natural pulls of Melbourne can still hold up.