Zerebria

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…)

Here is a simple house tip you can apply to your most loathed chores (and maybe to another ones, too).

In my case, the chore is washing the dishes. I don’t (more…)

An inbox is a placeholder in which we put stuff we want to deal with in an ordered manner. In a way, that definition applies to our mouth cavity, a highly specialized inbox which also starts right away the first processing stage (more…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

Imagine one day you decide that you will consecrate Mondays to do the perfect vacuum cleaner session. Formulated that way, the chances are (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…)

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…)