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Let’s take it to the extreme. Let’s say you hate cockroaches, you think the world would be much better off (more…)

Bitter experience has shown me that, whenever you have an issue with the administration that requires (yikes) interaction with a public servant, a sure way to frustration is (more…)

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…)

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I have a few cases of depression going on in my world (I myself practice depression now and then, but just as a humble amateur ), and there is an important improvement opportunity that I have noticed, common to all of them. (more…)

It’ll never get enough said: David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology to get organized is based upon principles that are simple, but not evident (for more about GTD, check out my GTD First Aid Kit series, or the ‘GTD’ tag at the right column).

One of those principles is dividing lists into (more…)

Something that really grabbed my attention in Stephen Covey’s ‘The seven habits of the highly effective people’ was the concept of overcompensation. He does not dedicate more than one or two pages to it, but it is such a inspiring fact (more…)

Recently, as the issue arose at a forum, I had to explain, making it clear to myself at the same time, that my geekery level is nowadays round 3/10. Anyways, I have my gratifications now and then, like the other day, when I was trying to (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 learned this sentence while looking for some information on empathy. I did not believe much in it at first, it looked kind of naive to me. Here’s how it was supposed to work: (more…)