Unfollow, guaranteed

Dan Zarrella writes a piece about how making yourself bigger helps to get more followers.
He's for sure right that modesty is not very helpful if you want to become famous, but I don't think that calling yourself Guru, Expert or Author is the most sustainable way...

Whenever I have a few spare minutes, I browse through my timeline and unfollow everybody who uses one of these words in his bio.
I'm almost done.

 

Generally, it's less about calling yourself things, but about doing things - and talking about that.
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Dog's Diary...

This video is the winner of the Vimeo Video awards. It documents the last minutes of a dog that is going to be put down. 

It's very beautiful, haunting, and really really sad. To all who are into dogs: Take care where and when you watch it... 

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/8191217" width="400" height="300" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/8191217">Last Minutes with ODEN</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user814889">phos pictures</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

But I don't agree with the story: 

I would never put a dog down just because it has only three legs. That's a human problem: I'm pretty sure that a dog, as soon as the pain is gone, does not care anymore. 

I don't think that dogs are here to serve.They pursue their own idea of fun; sometimes with us, sometimes not. 

These are the main reasons why I am into dogs. They truly live for the moment, and as long as they can breathe, they are pure lust for life and 100% energy. They always go full throttle (according to their temper) and they are very bad in being pissed.  

And I think it does not make sense to talk much about it: You're either into it or not. Not my business - another thing we can learn from dogs. 

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