Posts tagged with:money

I think a lot of people got life wrong. Life is not about gathering stuff (cars, money, houses, gadgets), but rather about living a full life. What is the point of having a lot of money if you work 16 hours a day? When will you enjoy life and your money? Or how? Buying an […]

I’ve read two articles in the last weeks asking the question if blogs are on their way out. They are not. But it’s getting harder for the new blog reader to find good blogs to read. The blogosphere got crowded in the last two years with a lot of so-called experts, people with unclear expertise […]

Last week a had a lovely job offer. Twice the money i make now, plus benefits. I had to move back to Bucharest and work in a big company. I had to say no, but the man asked me to think about it. On the drive back home i started thinking. The money are never […]

Bogdan Gavrila, well known stain on Romanian internet, had a problem a few months ago. While he was the dark force behind the World Blogging Forum, none of the respected bloggers from his native country gave him and WBF any love. Some of them questioned the line up, which was inexistent at the time of […]

I was on the toilet, reading one of the few magazines i still buy on a regular basis. And realized why people are buying fewer and fewer newspapers. The web did not kill the press. Press killed itself. It was a combination of lack of professional journalism and news overload. Almost all of Romanian economic […]

Let’s say your combined fortune ranks in about 2 billion Euros. You have several businesses that are doing ok. You are 59 years old and made all this fortune in Romania, a second world country. What would you do? Slow down? Enjoy life? Retire?  I asked this question on my primary blog (in Romanian) and […]

So, in order for me to fill a DMCA complaint, i must send an actual letter to Google. Of course, 99% of the people do not do that. And Google bets on it. So, blogger.com and youtube.com and picasa is filled with copyrighted material. And Google makes money on it.

With the economic chaos waiting to hit Romania, I have made some plans. First is not to keep all my eggs in one basket. Not one source of income. Second is preparing to have my income drop by 50%. Sounds reasonable, I think. And I hope it will not go beyond 50%. After I’ve done […]

That people still live in a walled garden. That they are not informed. That they jump head-first in areas they do not know anything about. For example, everybody knows we are facing a crisis, right? Almost! Because if you ask Romanians on the street, chances are that half of them do not know about a […]

So I was looking for “tiger attacks” on YouTube. I watched 20 videos and I did not see any tiger attack. I saw a lot of noise, a lot of pixelated video, a lot of talk and a lot of misnamed videos. But I did 20 page views and 20 video views. So I contributed […]