What is more important: the way a message is delivered or the message itself? There are messages for which their impact go well beyond the way they are delivered: “Your father has died” “You are terminally ill” “I don’t love you anymore” I don’t think those events will necessarily be less painful for the individuals […]
Only four agreements to live by, sounds simple, it is not always easy, sometimes you fail miserably, but I keep trying.
Sometimes you have to take two steps backwards before you can start moving forward.
It seems counter intuitive but most oppressive regimes stay in power because of the support of the very same people they are oppressing the most. Doesn’t make sense, right? Wrong, let Morpheus explain it: … that system is our enemy but when you’re inside and look around what do you see? businessmen, teachers, lawyers carpenters, […]
This is a quote from Plato referring to the final days of the Atlantis civilization. The quote is mentioned on this video with audio from Graham Hancock: Most times I wonder what could our civilization accomplish if we had a common goal other than our current thirst for greed, unlimited expansion and consumerism combined with […]
I frequently ask myself how this virus would have been handled 15 or 20 years ago. While science and technology are going to play a fundamental role in digging ourselves out of the situation where we find ourselves in today, I wonder how much of a part they have in also taking us there in […]
Because of my engineering background, I approach most problems in a similar way: find the biggest bottleneck, optimize it, repeat. Avoid micro-optimizations. To me, the way this virus attacks (and kills) the elders is the biggest bottleneck that we still have to solve: Those who are 80 and older account for 72 per cent of deaths in Canada. But only 18 per […]
By now, the COVID-19 global pandemic has affected, in one way or another, all living things in this planet specially the dominant species, humans. You can always find positives in any kind of situation, even in the mainly negative ones. Collateral positives, in a way. Since I am mostly a positive person, my first post […]
Naming things is hard. Some names bring people together, others drive them apart. I am too familiar with trying to find names that are descriptive, that reveal purpose, that don’t transmit the wrong intention. I do it every day when I code. But what happens if I don’t do a good job at naming a […]
I recently took the test at The Political Compass site and was very surprised with the results. Here is what I got: For reference: For someone that experienced a communist regime for more than 20 years I am very surprised that my results are leaning so much towards the left….. at least I am more […]