See your life through different lenses
See your life through different lenses
This post will be “an easy one”, basically a quick recap or a recap by professor Andrew Huberman on what “science” (that means: according to studies’ results, so far) tell about what’s good to better learn. You can find his…
This is one of the books I read from same author of “Deep Work“, professor Cal Newport. Like many other books about “personal growth” (not to be confused with useless books that promise you to become rich and famous in…
After a deep dive on the author of “Deep Work” (and many other books), professor Cal Newport, I decided to summarize some of his best works – as usual, with some of my comments, that you can find within parenthesis.…
This post is about the 3rd (and, so far, the last) volume about the Great Mental Models by Shane Parrish, so following The Great Mental Models – General Thinking Concepts and The Great Mental Models, vol. 2 – Physics, Chemistry…
I already wrote about the Great Mental Models by Farnam Street, you can read about the first volume here. The published volumes are 3. I greatly appreciate the first one, but – with all the respect for the author(s) –…
I’ll immediately explain my irony about 2×2 matrices, but before a little bit of context: last week, a friend of mine lent me a book to read; he had it in his (anti-)library for years and never read it. Since…
One of the courses I completed recently is “Everyday Chinese Medicine” from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, available on Coursera (along with many MOOCs from other universities and companies).A necessary disclaimer here: I am not a practitioner of Traditional…
(My) intro I’m not new in this “meta-thing” of learning how to learn, knowing how we see and perceive reality (from a neurological and psychological perspective), what it still amaze me is how some people live without being aware of…
Following the study of books about critical thinking, obviously I couldn’t miss this book by Dan Ariely – yes, I know he was recently accused of forging data, but please remember: behaviors and social science (in general: in soft science)…
I was suggested this book by a great friend of mine, a man who strives each day to follow a stoic and rational way of thinking, to live an intentional life avoiding (or minimizing) cognitive biases and all the fallacies…
There are some books that you can see as an important piece of a puzzle (sometimes even pivotal and completing more puzzle in several disciplines, since in my mind things are multi-dimensional, like in reality), or you can see them…
“Memento mori” (“remember that you have to die”).There are 2 ways to react: That our life is limited in sense of time. If you believe in eternal life or metempsychosis or you see everything as a big continuum in a…
One of the book I read last month is “Buy Back Your Time” by Dan Martell. I came across this book listening to a video of Ali Abdaal, but this is exactly why I just decided I won’t follow Ali…
Hi everyone, this one will be a quick and easy one. Not much a heavy conceptual work, but something extremely practical: how is it possible to produce notes (note: “produce” is different from “take”, since not only I can re-elaborate,…
It happened. Again. Despite my strong will (or at least my intention), I suddenly found myself reading news. Which news? Well, the ones everyone in my bubble talk about, mainly gossip, trash and everything I can define “as valuable as…
One of my “secondary jobs” was the one of data analyst – “secondary” means that I always provided metrics while doing something else (it’s quite common for an officer to be involved in more than just one “job position”), and…
We live immersed in information. They are everywhere. We stumble upon them even when we don’t want to see them. Sometimes they are so many that we feel overwhelmed and disoriented. Should I name two of the main issues that…
Every now and then, when you tend to slip in a disorganized way, it’s time to put yourself back in place. So, in a totally random evening, I take stock of the situation of what I’m doing right now in…
One of the quotes that a professor of mine used to repeat is “Measure what can be measured, and make measurable what cannot be”, attribuited to Galileo Galilei (actually everyone of us in STEM, engineers most of all, are obsessed…
When someone (mostly: a parent or an educator) think of the development of children and young adults, the reaction falls in the range between those 2 extremes: You can easily recognize the first case when you see parents calling the…
“Atomic Habits” by James Clear was on my huge books list since at least a couple of years, but I started reading only when a friend of mine asked me an opinion (it’s not that I am more intelligent than…
