Zerebria

The really extro–verted ways of our human society oblige most of us, its members, to be kind of self-taught about how to deal with our inner worlds. There are increasing and very brave attempts of acknowledgement of such worlds, but for most of the people emotions, feelings and ‘all that stuff’ are regarded as a world of ‘ghosts’, and ghosts are (more…)

I don’t remember the exact details of the joke (maybe that’s why I’m so bad at telling jokes: details are always the most juicy part). It was something about a group of people who had all their jokes arranged in (more…)

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If you have been round here for a while, you’ll know that individual consciousness, and its relations with the mob, is a recurrent issue in this blog. I consider it key to our current situation as a community. Well, the other day I had an insight about this and my first thought, of course, (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…)

The problem

GTD fan as I am, I usually put a strong brain effort at the planning stage of a project, so I can later enter ‘executive mode’, following my self-instructions in a Robocop-like manner. Working like that guarantees (more…)

Here’s a story about the difference between efficiency and effectiveness. A few summers ago, I was spending some days with my family at the beach. One morning, I went to the balcony and found certain relative of mine, not very intelligent, who was (more…)

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Here’s an original suggestion for thinking outside the box: how about using a different search engine? It makes all sense of the world, from the point of view of a computer being an extension of one’s own brain. O.K., so Google is the best one, its search algorithms combine (more…)

I’ve recently come to know that there is a name for what I do, which is always a very (more…)

Say you love David Allen… (O.K., say what you want). Long and steep is the road from messy to productive, but gratifications are spread like sweet fruits all along the way. It is not about upgrading; it about growing. Once you get  it, Allen’s Getting Things Done system is a very tight tool to use; as he himself states in “Making it all work”, with a delicious lack of false humility, (more…)

As it was mentioned in previous adventures (for example here or here), I love walking. I love walking even in quite a hostile an environment as a big city. I find it necessary, not only for the body, but as mental hygiene. And by walking (more…)