One and a half years ago, I wrote Why I Keep My Kids Away from AI (For Now) As you can probably guess, things have changed. My convictions, as I wrote back in April 2023 are the same. My concerns are the same. But as we move forward and AI creeps more and more into […]
Category: Health & Lifestyle
Journalling is great. But I failed every time I tried.
UPDATE: this project was discontinued I lost track of how many times I started a new daily journal, with or without some special journalling methodology. The benefits of journaling regularly are well-known. Many famous personalities and great people also kept a daily diary of some sort. And I don’t even need convincing, I really do […]
25 lessons from Rory Sutherland
Stolen from a LinkedIn post. 1. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. 2. Consumer research is great at telling you what people did, it’s terrible at telling you what people will do. 3. To reach intelligent answers, you often need to ask really dumb questions. 4. Highly targeted advertising merely finds customers: […]
Fact or Myth: playing video games while sick is bad for your kids
A couple of days ago I found an interesting post on my country’s subreddit, where people shared the most common childhood myths they remember growing up with. These were things that our parents, grandparents, and uncles, would say to us to discourage certain things. It was a fun read because I was familiar with most […]
October in Review
October was a “disaster” if I would rate it by the standards I had set in place in September. But I’m giving myself some slack here since lots of things have been going on. I started a new job at a different company, and that, by itself, was a big thing. Well, half because of […]
My productivity system in 2022
In this past year, I’ve done significant changes to my whole “productivity system”. These changes were impulsed by two major life changes. One, I abandoned my work life as a freelancer, switching to a full-time position. This greatly reduced my need to track many independent projects and endeavors to explore work opportunities (which I’m very […]
Getting back to writing more
A few days ago I was revisiting my old blog and found it funny that one of my last posts was about going more offline, less dependent on cloud services, and having more time for important things. It is funny because I feel that 3 years after I’m reliving the same thing again. Well, perhaps […]
You can’t improve what you don’t track ⏲️
As part of a recent online book club, I spent my last three weeks re-reading Darren Hardy’s “The Compound Effect” on my Kobo eReader. «No gimmicks. No Hyperbole. No Magic Bullet. The Compound Effect is based on the principle that decisions shape your destiny. Little, everyday decisions will either take you to the life you […]
De-smartphonifying
(not sure if this is even a valid word, but let’s go with it for now) I recently concluded my 3rd JoMO (Joy of Missing Out) week. More and more I’m finding that spending less time on the smartphone and social media is bringing tremendous value and quality of life (nothing new here, tons of […]
A review of my JoMo week
I started my JoMo week on the 25th of June, and as I wrote on my initial post, I was planning to write on the blog my experience throughout the week. Well, no posts were made since then and now its the 20th of July. I guess that can say a lot about how it […]