How to shield your writing process to prevent the unpredictable — Your note-taking and writing are constantly at risk of Back Swans. A Black Swan is a very unlikely event but highly catastrophic. Some catastrophic events are not extremely unlikely. …

Against what my teachers and Aristotle taught me, via negativa is one of the most powerful forms of thinking for learning and making decisions. Some examples. When you choose a career, for example, you decide through via negativa, especially in nonconventional careers. …

Building a writing that gains from disorder — Fragile is the property of things that aren’t good with any kind of stressors. Glass is fragile. Resilience is the property of things that can go back to its original state after a stressor is applied. Metal is resilient. Robust is the property of things that resist stressors. …

When the map is useless and the GPS doesn't work — The easy part There is a lot of literature about decision making, from the individual to the organization, from the rational and logic, even mathematical, to the emotional and irrational. To buy a house or move to another city, there are plenty of books and websites with advice and tips, even apps to…

How a Japanese word can inspire us to start over again — During these days of isolation, I meet again with a beautiful Japanese word. I couldn’t be more appropriate for the current times. I have been thinking, like most of us, in what are we going to do after this crisis. I have been thinking about the economical side of the…

We will be heroes after this journey of chaos — Let’s say you lived a very traumatic event. A car accident, a violent experience, a house fire, a pandemic. Your mind and body are going to react with stress. Good stress. Stress activates all that your mind and body need to face the crisis. Let’s say that the traumatic event…

Let’s go “one step at a time”. — We systematically avoid hard decisions. We can make them, but we prefer to do it from a controlled situation, prior to the moment when the decisions ahead have consequences. For instance, it’s relatively easy to think about changing jobs when we have a job. …

There are two ways to be prepared for future scenarios. Do you prefer chess or foosball? — The future is trendy now. You can listen or read the same couple of questions in every news and analysis medium. Could we anticipate what’s happening now? Can we anticipate what’s going to happen next? Both questions try to resolve the old necessity to be prepared for the future and…

The myth of the marshmallow experiment or how to learn to forget the uncertain future and enjoy the tangible present — — Kid, you have two options. Eat this marshmallow now or wait 15 minutes and have 2 marshmallows instead of one. — Wait. What? — If you can wait, it means you are going to be a successful person in ten years, have a great SAT score, an ideal body…

Should I stay or should I go? — I’m watching at a distance to my three-year-old daughter climbing the little ladder that gets her into the playground. It has five steps and is one of the access to use the slides and fireman tubes for little kids. She used to take one of the little stairs but today…