Hey!
Thank you for staying here for the past eight weeks! I am switching things up and will be sending the issue every Tuesday.
This week I have an important thought I have been mulling about and a discovery I am not very happy to have made.
KINDNESS & LOVE SHOULD NOT BE A PRIVILEGE
A non-toxic workplace that respects individuals and encourages work-life balance.
We are fortunate to work in such a company.
A loving relationship where the partner is honest, supportive, and shares workload.
We are lucky to find such a life partner.
Friends that encourage your dreams and supports you in your mistakes.
We are blessed to have such friends.
And it goes on.
Every act of kindness, love, and goodness is a privilege. The default of the world is the opposite. We expect workplaces to value money over people, relationships to have an imbalance in roles, and friends to be superficial.
It is something I never understood. I always expect people to be kind and nice, why should we think the opposite?
The strength of humanity is in its empathy. But over the years, history will tell us, that humans have been more inconsiderate and cruel. Capitalism has made us value assets more than humans. So while I feel fortunate to have kind people around me, I cannot help but feel enraged that the default of kindness has become a privilege.
But I have hope. To one day live in a world where love and kindness are the default. And it all starts with each one of us.
“In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”
– Anne Frank
GOOGLE SEARCH HAS FAILED ME
Over the last week, I have been researching a subject for my new job. It was a project I hadn’t done before, and I was looking for starting points.
Naturally, I went to Google!
I entered my search query. After 0000.234 seconds later, I scrolled down four advertisements to reach the organic results. Four titles matched my query, and I visited each. After 30 minutes of reading, I learned nothing new. Instead, I had four emails coming into my inbox with the how-to guides. I went to the never visited 3rd, and 4th page of Google results too. Yet nothing.
I later reached out to someone on Linkedin and got links to some fantastic newsletter posts and articles. Beyond me, how Google couldn’t find them.
So I had an epiphany!
Google search is no longer the sea of knowledge it claims to be.
Today, good quality knowledge is found in Twitter threads, niche newsletters, and even Linkedin articles. Google does crawl these sites, but they do not have any search optimizations and rarely feature on search pages.
So, if you need quality content, you need to make our system to capture information on different platforms, save it and use it for reference in the future.
Google is failing in its mission to “organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
P.S. That’s my rant on Google, but I am curious how it works for other search engines? Let me know if you have any views!
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Stay safe, stay healthy! 😷
Gayatri.