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Surprise! You learned…

Leaving surprise notes to yourself is a wonderful way to increase your awareness and learn or remind yourself things without effort.

Like most of the best techniques, it is very simple; take a small piece of paper and write on one side the thing you want to be reminded of. Make sure you write it as a question. This is important because (more…)

The 15 seconds sneaking

It’s happened all my life, so along time I’ve managed to figure out its working, its pattern. It comes on occasions, when I fall asleep. It can be during (more…)

Clicking buttons of the mind

I am always very aware of my inner space (I am not sure it is that ‘inner’ anymore). There are days when I feel some kind of abstract uneasiness, something that is not feeling right, some kind of fuzzy open loop, (more…)

First time ever: my admiration board

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…)

Dance to nature’s music: Autumnal Equinox

Tomorrow is the autumnal equinox: the moment in which, after the bright Summer, day and night equal their forces. From then on, days will become shorter, and darkness will gain ground.

There is a change of patterns in nature and we should change ours, too. (more…)

Those “left brain-ish” scripts…

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…)

On being inter-connective

It always happens as a surprising yet pleasant accident: I suddenly find myself interconnecting fields that have very little or nothing in common. I cheer up my 80 years old aunt using (more…)

How I organized my stationery

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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…)

The Bechdel test

Gender is one of those issues that has been so shitted that it is difficult to know how to tackle. I came the other day across this test for films, which makes for a great start. (more…)

Considerations on the dump

I try to be optimistic, I really do, but obviously, being interdependent as humans are, one cannot pretend to be almighty and fully detach oneself from (more…)