We live as long as we fly
I realized that it’s very important to focus my efforts and achieve my goals, even if they lose their importance along the way.
Otherwise, it always turns out that I get carried away and do all sorts of things, but never finish anything.
Who the hell knows how to overcome this. Define my goals more clearly, I suppose.
And another thing I want to say. Over the course of my LJ-life, I've stumbled across a few of Galkovsky's posts. If you ask me, he's no philosopher at all, just a convoluted windbag.
Generally, the more a person lays claim to the lofty and intellectual, the less they pull it off, as a rule. Whereas those who make "entertainment", but do it with technical meticulousness and wit, earn a lot more of my personal respect. For example, I really love reading Denis Yatsutko, and looking at his drawings at https://heffalumpf.livejournal.com/.
Good ideas come to me at night, when the PC is already off, and I really want to sleep. How do I transfer them to LJ? Record them on a dictaphone?
Nevermind. Anyway, don't forget that in LJ, provocations of all sorts—both obvious and subtle—have always mattered a lot and still do. You shouldn't fall for them, like even the big names sometimes do.
Here, for example, is what sci-fi author Gromov writes:
"Russian Lasso" has already been pirated. Go take a hike, you funny people trying to train pirates to treat copyright in a civilized manner! I hope you just genuinely screwed up, freeing up an "ecological niche" for more pushy figures. I really hope so.
And the glamorous hack writer Bagirov replies to him:
Buddy, you're an asshole. I, for instance, rejoice at every downloaded copy of my book no less than a bought one. Because I write so that people read, not to peddle books. And you're not a writer, you're a huckster.
Gromov reacts like a normal person, but it's not a given that this is the best option:
You could have said the exact same thing even more offensively, but at least civilly. For your rudeness, you get a well-deserved ban.
It's obvious Bagirov is pulling this crap to promote himself. If you go to his LJ (I won't provide a link for obvious reasons), you can see this is the norm for him. At the same time, he does it crudely and vulgarly, unlike masters like Apazhe.
Of course, there is no universal recipe for how to act in the event of a provocation. The only thing that comes to mind is to not react at all, but that's boring. Either way, if you do get involved, be confident in your abilities, otherwise you might end up looking like a sucker in the eyes of the public.
As a fan of e-paper technology, I can't help but share this news, vague though it may be.