See your life through different lenses
See your life through different lenses
“Divitiæ bona ancilla, pessima domina” (Wealth is a good maid, a bad mistress). And you can’t make “good use” of collaborators (money), if you don’t know what the collaborators can do and how many of them you really need to…
Among all the opportunities I can think of, when talking about high-quality courses, there are MOOCs (I already wrote here: MOOC: the cheap (or even free!) yet powerful and stimulating way to learn). Close friends of mine know my fiery…
One of the courses I completed this month is “Philosophy, Science and Religion: Religion and Science“, provided by the University of Edinburgh through Coursera. It’s a course I recommend to everyone ready to question the reality. So sad that during…
One of the courses I completed last month was “Weight Management: Beyond Balancing Calories“, provided by Emory University through Coursera. It’s a course I recommend to everyone. It’s incredible that all the things that Prof. Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD explained…
Usually, I prefer to make a plan on the new year before the end of the previous one, but last time I was quite busy (and/or quite lazy), so… since “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years…
One of the last course I completed this year is “Biohacking Your Brain’s Health” provided by Emory University on my beloved elearning platform Coursera.The main reason I was not skeptical about a course with “biohacking” in the title is because…
The more I read about how our mind works and how we evolved and the more I observe that we are going far away from the understanding of first principles; it seems like we keep “biting” things, quickly tasting everything…
Here I am.I thought I’m not the kind of person who likes job hopping, the increasing phenomenon (specially in some IT fields) in which you keep riding the wave of new opportunities, for several reasons, but mainly because (one or…
If you are reading this, you are probably already familiar with the world-famous acronym SMART related to personal/professional goals. For those of you who still don’t know, S.M.A.R.T. gives criteria to guide in the settings of goals, a mnemonic acronym…
The last book I read in the last couple of days is one of those I can group in what I call “the meta-content”: like similar study-related materials, this one is about a skill we always take for grant, since…
There’s something we need to transmit information to others (at least until someone finds a way to realize telepathy): that thing is called “communication”.In its basic form, it’s something natural, innate within us: a child starts crying out loud when…
It could happen, at a certain point in your life, that you just feel you want something different. It could be a voice inside you (e.g.: after a journey inside your mind, listening and discovering yourself, realizing you stepped into…
I just finished reading “Memory” (3rd edition) by Baddeley, Anderson and Eysenick. A great book (great in content, but also in number of pages: more than 600) suggested by a friend of mine, working with Cognitive Psychology. Professor Baddeley’s studies…
The book I read last week is “Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence“, by the American psychiatrist Anna Lembke. The author may appear a little bit moralist and judgy and there are minor controversial issues on some “scientific”…
I was trying to help some of my friends in the search for references and notes for Master’s Degree thesis, as I tried to help others in “reading books for them” (non-fiction books that are, as words suggest, not novels…
Let’s face the obvious truth: we are overwhelmed by information. I’m not talking about low-quality social media streaming where the SNR (signal-noise ratio) is extremely low, like one decent piece of information every 100 funny videos of kids reacting to…
There are fictional and “Nonfiction” books and there are “practical” books. This New York Times bestseller is something like a well-ordered chain of guidelines, but not just a set of instructions to tell you how to build a life the…
The book I read this week is “Why We Sleep” by Matthew Walker, an English scientist, and professor of neuroscience and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. As a former military officer, I still remember the long periods of…
As I described in “Painless culture and life-changing skills now available for everyone“, one of the most effective ways to learn new stuff or deepen your knowledge, from basic to pro level, is following a MOOC. A Massive Open Online…
The book I read this week is “Peace is every Step: the Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life” by Thích Nhất Hạnh, a Vietnamese Thiền Buddhist monk born in 1926. I also read other books written by him, like No…
The book I read last week is “Das Parfum: Die Geschichte eines Mörders“, a 1985 literary historical fantasy novel by German writer Patrick Süskind. Even if it’s “just a novel”, like many other books it explores new worlds in a…
