7 best ideas by Cal Newport
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.…
Different Glasses
See your life through different lenses
Different Glasses
See your life through different lenses
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Our limited time
“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…
Producing notes from a course 101
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,…
“News of the world” threaten our intentionality
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…
Searching like an Intelligence Analyst – Part 1
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…
Intentional Life & Deliberate Learning – impromptu example
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…
How much should I earn… abroad? Money and the Countries
“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…
What I can suggest after 100+ certifications from Coursera and EdX
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…
2023: equilibrium
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…
Why are we so superficial?
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…
