Zerebria

I have blogged several times about the virtues of admiration, and the greatness of being a polymath, so I thought it would be nice to show that I practice what I preach by introducing here some of my heroes. (more…)

“What the world needs is…” A common sentence, with probably 6,500,000,000 different endings, one for each of the inhabitants of this troubled world of us. I recently had a ‘gestalt’ of my personal answer, one of those moments in which you see the whole picture as a whole (snap!). Here it goes for what is worth. (more…)

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It looked like a good idea at first, but I hesitated a lot and in the end I did not add the following quote by Charles Darwin to my database: (more…)

“I am through with it. I wonder which sick minds could conceive that I am in charge of this world, and how such a nonsensical idea can have become so popular. I cannot stand the pressure anymore, (more…)

Let’s put the authority argument first, for they still seem to keep some value in this age of mobs taking the power. The poet Paul Valéry, refined human being and one of my literary heroes, affirmed in his diaries that museums seemed to him disgusting (more…)

There is nothing more loathsome in films than those stories where everything intends to be “clockwork-like”, and characters are just puppets to make the story happen. (more…)

The correct adoption of the Getting Things Done methodology, besides a boost in our outcomes, can also cause some important psychic side effects. David Allen himself frequently acknowledges it, sometimes (more…)

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The best way to organize documents is alphabetically.211221230 But when the stuff to classify is more voluminous or heterogeneous, the task usually becomes harder. One thing that I had some struggle with was stationery. (more…)

I used to think of photography as a minor art. In comparison to music or literature, my all-time beloved ones, it appeared to me that photography granted a lower degree of choice to the artist, and was, thus, not that praiseworthy. It made me think of the old joke of the (more…)

There were so many times when I wished I was dead in the “perfect” world we had 10 or 15 years ago, that my views on what we now call “the crisis” might have, at least, (more…)