“How do we inspire ourselves to greatness when nothing less will do? How do we inspire those around us?” Nelson Mandela

Overtone – World In Union

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley

Sa spunem ca merg si cheltuiesc 50 de lei pentru tine. Ei bine treaba asta este o activitate laborioasa din mai multe puncte de vedere, unul ar fi pentru simplul fapt ca trebuie sa-mi imaginez cumva ce iti trebuie, cu toate ca tu stii de ce ai nevoie…

Cum, as putea simplifica lucrurile ca sa ne intelegem toti … eu as putea sa iti dau pur si simplu 50 de lei, dupa care tu ai putea sa-mi dai tu 50 de lei de ziua mea, si uite asa o tot tinem, pana cand unul din noi moare, lasandu-l pe celalalt batran si mai bogat cu 50 de lei.

Si te intreb eu pe tine, se merita?

Se merita efortul depus? Dar mai noi suntem prietenii tai! ar spune cineva Noi ca si prieteni ne oferim cadouri intre noi! ar fi o continuare plauzibila. Ei bine pot accepta punctul de plecare dar ma tem ca va trebui sa resping concluzia.

Una peste alta toata tarasenia asta este o conventie sociala non-optionala din pacate, astfel ca incercati macar sa cumparati ceva util, … sau amuzant

A nomad through life, or a nomad life?

The answer is given by the followers!

Un nomad prin viata sau o viata de nomad?

Raspunsul este dat de urmasi!

KISS means Keep It Simple Stupid, but what does really KISS means? It first appeared in the journalistic circles and then emerged also into the blogosphere. Now we all know (at least I hope you do) that the main purpose of any publication, whatever the medium or moral values, is, ultimately, some sort of profit, any kind of profit. I will not argue that the profit shouldn’t come first because it does and it will for a long time. So what is the idea with KISS.

KISS is the idea that any message (whatever the type) you put into the wild should be made and phrased is such a way that even a 9 year old could understand it. And from here everything goes wrong, or at least in a bad direction. I have no problem with the KISS philosophy itself, it can serve it’s main purposes well, but at the end it’s those purposes that some have and get me out of my nerves.

Some say that they trust their readers, trust them not to be stupid, and to make it more interesting they say “I trust my readers, but not all of them“. What the hell is that? How can you trust your readers not to be stupid, but well let’s just say not all of them. I don’t trust my readers, I can’t possibly trust any of them, an the reason for that is KISS at some point, and what it became during our existence.

KISE – Keep it Simple Everyone

But someone got smarter and started to do something about it, OR NOT. So keep it simple everyone, because KISS seams to be the main engine fuel for the mainstream news media even if it’s on television, radio or any other sort of source of so called information. The only target for them is, … well pretty much everyone on this Earth, and this is because the subjects approached can penetrate even the more specialized fields like design and blogs.

Why is this working, and is not failing so bad as we could expect? Why we are not keeping it simple everyone? Well I personally think you can’t take anything serious from your writer or from your readers because it doesn’t matter on what side are you on as long as you are being talked down upon. None of you will accept this kind of language and attitude if the conversations are face 2 face. So why are we so stupid to put up with it and forget any values and self esteem when it comes to the written word?

This is why I can’t trust my readers, I can’t make the difference which is which, which is the one that has something to say, or the one that tries to/is stupid. I got along with the fact that we are feed with information using a spoon as we do with infants, but why take the same idiotic language when feeding the information?

Search for Your Readers and Find the Niche

Don’t venture to far and say “Well this is very hard to do, there are lots of strategies and marketing projects behind all this stupidity!” because it’s not. Don’t make the mistake to mix things up like market research or some sort of research and what we are talking about, I am speaking about the writers and the readers period. Every blog is build (ok most of them) with one thought in mind “Just make the damn thing, and they will come with out no problem!”. And sadly they come, by hundreds, or by thousands, but their value as readers is 0 (zero).

So searching for your readers is not so hard, build the damn thing, talk down to them, and say everything is bad all around you and that you are the only person who has the guts to say it. Finding the Niche is not so hard is it? All your readers will pump up the page views and will go along with the ride, but your blog grows in … something useless, meaningless, purposeless, something that we won’t remember after some time. You will keep a keen eye on analytics and you will become a master of data analysis when it comes to what to bla bla about when your numbers are going down.

Find the More Personal Niche

Is this approach the solution? And then again why there needs to be a solution? Some will keep it simple for the stupid, some got re-branded _{(the easiest way get back on your feet after failing)} and are keeping simple for everyone and some are exploiting the Keep it personal Niche. But we are doing it all wrong (seen this before?) that personal thing is not kept to a specific type of reader or writer for that fact, we are keeping it personal to everyone, and this gets us back to the so beloved square one. It doesn’t matter you don’t give a damn thing  about what your readers are saying or who they are ,  you are just speaking your mind and who wants to read will read and understand. This is not Keep it Personal this is pointless idiocracy.

Then what is the freakin Solution?

If you have the same question in your head then all you read until now is a waste (I am surprised you are still reading) from my point of you view you are just another brain dead reader who got it all wrong. The masochistic type of reader that either wants to believe he finds himself in the chromatic aberrations of the writer or the lazy brain reader who wants a solution, no matter what cost for everyone but free for him.

There is no solution and there is no hope until we get rid of the numbers and all the analytics pages from our point of perspective. There won’t be a revolution until we get the profit from conversation not from conversion. Of course I am a dumb fool and an idealistic numb nuts that is not capable to understand the real world, but then again who is more happier the crazy one or the reality hanged one?

They kept it Simple, stupids

The Conclusion

The smart ones will say I am an idiot, I don’t have something to say, I didn’t promote here open talk or open mind creativity (for crying out loud I used toolbar screenshots in some tutorials _{many not presented here}, this is a classic proof of closed minded person restrained by a particular something) so I have no right to say anything. The idiocracy worshipers will agree with me, say I am perfectly right and they will promise themselves to change for about 5 minutes until they will forget everything. But I know for sure the crazy ones will agree with me. A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? A. Einstein

Cutie de chibrituri de la PD-L

Ce as putea face cu ea domnule presedinte?

Sa dau foc la pliant?

Sa imi dau foc in piata?

Sa dau foc la aragaz?

Sa dau foc la casa?

Sa dau foc la lege?

Sa dau foc la buletinele de vot?

Sa va dau foc?

Ce sa fac cu o cutie de chibrituri de la PD-L?

Cuvintele sunt de prisos.

Locul copilariei noastre?
Amintiri trecute.
OARE?
Reintoarcere in timp.
TATA…

Asta scria intr-un un mail de la tata, iar mai jos in mail 6 fotografii cu locul unde am copilarit pana la 7 ani cand am plecat la oras la scoala. Nu stiu voi dar eu dupa ce au murit cei doi bunici care m-au crescut mi-am intiparit pe creier o imagine de basm. Totul pentru mine pana in aceasta clipa nu se schimbase cum absolut nimic, casa in care am dormit era la fel, curtea prin care am alergat pana scoteam toata apa din mine cautand liliurile mele, totul era la fel cum le-am lasat acum multi ani.

Acum totul pur si simplu este schimbat, transformat, metamorfozat in ceva … ceva pe care nu pot sa il concep.

In acest loc eu am crescut

In acest loc l-am cunoscut pe Rahan pentru prima oara

In acest loc am invatat sa merg pe bicicleta

In acest loc am invatat ce inseamna sa iti iubesti copiii

In acest loc am invatat sa stric aparatele electronice

In acest loc am invata sa “bat mingea”

In acest loc am invatat cum sa imi stresez dadaca (verisoara) ca nu imi gasea liliurile

In acest loc am invatat ca visinele din curtea bunicilor nu sunt la fel de bune ca celelalte

In acest loc am simtit primul cutremur

In acest loc mi-am rupt pentru prima oara oasele

In acest loc mi-am facut primii prieteni

In acest loc am pierdut doi oameni pe care i-am iubit foarte mult

In acest loc am vazut primul film cu samurai, de fapt primul film

In acest loc am descoperit lupa de la aparatul de developat

In acest loc am descoperit ce inseamna pirogravura

Cred ca pot sa o tin asa pana maine doar despre mine, dar eu am fost doar o mica parte din acest loc.

Acest loc este ceea ce sunt … Acum seamana cu un monument vechi de peste 10.000 de ani care incet incet este revendicat de natura.

Pentru cei care au inteles ce vreau sa spun, un ultim cuvant: Nu uitati ce ati fost si de unde ati plecat.

Multumesc…