Zerebria

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…)

The issue rose in a recent conversation with a close relative of mine: “philosophy is not necessary for life”, said the relative, in a somewhat disdainful tone.

It is important to notice that, in the context of this conversation, the word “philosophy” was indeed used (more…)

During his interview with Solomon Shang, the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung tells a very revealing story about two patients of him.

The man was of the extroverted type, and the girl was introverted, “so, naturally, (more…)

Yes, we read a lot more than before. But is it quality reading? The spirit of each age modifies our habits and perceptions, and (more…)

In these days I am engaged with the passionate task of drawing some detailed vision boards. Some subtle but very relevant effects have appeared already (more…)

I want to share with you a wonderful quote from the Dhammapada, one of the traditional Buddhist texts. I am not looking for converts of any kind here, firstly because Buddhism is not a theocentric but an anthropocentric system of belief, so it does not (more…)

Humor was once defined as “distance that approaches”. It is one of the best existing relieves for our tortured and overwhelmed left brain (it is (more…)

I’ll admit it: everything I do, I do it for my fiction. I honor writing as the art with the biggest powers, when considering its effects, and the degree of intimacy, elevation and sometimes “possession” it grants (writing, in its finest hour, becomes invisible, the words stop being “black boxes” with a meaning inside and become something similar to music). (more…)