You want to make your writing easy, right? You want to write in calm, almost in a state of illumination, like if you were meditating, don’t you?
When you think about being in the flow, heaven, nirvana or paradise comes to mind, isn’t it?
What about when you imagine having…
Clarity. That’s the word that comes to mind when in the middle of overwhelming problems I ask myself, what do I want?
Not whiteness, nothing completely blank, but just clarity.
Clarity in the middle of darkness. Why do we associate our difficult moments with darkness?
Clarity’s what rises from those…
Once upon a time, you needed to write something.
You have been looking for a good place to write down your ideas, notes, and discoveries, to keep track of your plans and projects, tasks, persons, readings, or any other kind of list.
There are plenty of very good apps for…
“Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?”― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
We construct, we build our beliefs.
Since we were children, we needed to believe in a set of basic ideas to survive.
To…
I’m writing this in a very unusual, exceptional, and unprecedented space. Well, if you compare it with our daily lives before the great pandemic of 2020.
Unusual because at the same time I’m typing on my computer I’m recording the session to share it with my online students and then…
Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his. …
These days, it looks like we are living in the quest to design and build the ultimate frictionless experience. From boarding into an airplane to configuring an app, through shopping online or playing music, everything seems to be around getting a frictionless experience.
This trend can go to extremes. In…
“A writer is whoever that writes”, I remember reading when I was a teenager.
I don’t remember exactly where that phrase came from, but I knew it was one of those phrases to get you in the doing instead of the thinking. …
Consciousness is born in the pause.
In an operative mode — washing dishes, checking a budget, driving, programming, shopping, house cleaning — , the brain is just trying to resolve every little task as it comes, glance at the situation, taking little decisions. In other words, just doing.
It’s until…
Hi!
How are you? I hope everything is good for you.
There are a lot of things to catch up on here.
• Articles about graph databases, writing, thinking, emotions…
• Videos explaining concepts, giving tips, in a new Youtube channel.
• 4th cohort of the Antifragile Writing course (reloaded).
• And more……
