In this video Eli the Computer Guy talks about something I’d love more people to understand. He explains that most people expect to get money out of their first business idea. But most people don’t see beyond that initial decision. We have to consider things like:
Normally I’m suspicious of list of steps to success because success is very hard to sum up like that. Even if you get it right, it’s likely to be misread by people. But these points come from a Software engineer which I admire for his deep insights. [video]
Quiero escribir brevemente sobre algo que acabo de leer en el libro Mindfulness, finding peace in a frantic world. Trata sobre overgeneral autobiographical memory y es algo con lo que puedo identificar porque lo he experimentado.
Otra de mis recetas favoritas son los cookies de avena. Son tan fáciles de preparar. Sólo necesitamos 1 taza de harina de avena, 2 bananas, 1 taza de harina blanca, una pizca de canela, y media taza de harina de lino (opcional).
Así como el mbeju, otra de mis recetas favoritas son los panqueques. Son fáciles de preparar, y si le pongo harina de lino y avena, super nutritivos.
Este mbeju vegano alto en proteínas es una de mis recetas favoritas porque el tiempo de preparación es super corto. 3 minutos preparando los ingredientes y 15 minutos de cocción.
In this last year, I noticed my social media usage dropped roughly inversely proportional to my meditation practice. I found that very interesting. It wasn’t that I hadn’t heard or read about the harm of heavy social media usage, but I didn’t consider myself to be a heavy social media user at all.
Today a colleague asked me for help. The boss asked him to type in about 6000 registers of Name/Phone number on to Google Contacts. I thought, “there must be a better way” (borrowed that one from Raymond Hettinger).
In this talk, Justin Searls breaks down the basic process a programmer follows while coding. Suppose we have a big, very complex problem. So much complexity scares us, we feel overwhelmed. So it’s much better to not tackle all at once.
This interview with Firas Zahabi popped into my feed casually, didn’t know him but I’m glad I watched it. Damn, he has a lot of wisdom. The main message he explains is that it’s consistency over intensity when it comes to training. I learned this in the last year from natural bodybuilding channels mostly. Here some quotes from Firas.
Training should be fun, it should be addictive. It should be like a pulling force for you. The volume is far mor important than the intencity. High intensity needs to be done periodically. Bodyweight exercises are very easy to recover from. It doesn’t cost as much neurologically. Crossfit is too fatigue seeking for an mma fighter. There is no way the guy who goes all out every day is going to add up as much workout and as much training time as the guy who is going 70 to 85% of his max. The champion, the best guy, he’s training for the long run he’s far more intelligent he’s getting far more workouts in than me. It’s consistency over intensity.
I recently made a post about Daphne’s Ted Talk about how the brain benefits from video games. I loved that talk but Jane McGonigal’s talk is as good in a different or shall I say more epic way. The things she talks about are just brilliant, go watch the video after reading this. I’ll just briefly list the key points here. Jane is a game designer, and her goal as she explains in her talk is, to make it as easy and exciting to save the world in real life, as it is in games. I’m awestruck from this idea because our thinking differs so much between the real world and games. Jane sums that difference up in a picture. 
This picture was taken by a photographer who wanted to capture the emotion of gamers and it represents the emotions of a so-called ”epic win.” Notice the nuances such as optimism, and an intense sense of shock and surprise as the person accomplishes something which was almost on the threshold of imagination. The gamer is shocked by what he is really capable of. This is the face we need to see on millions of problem solvers across the world if we want to tackle the challenges we face. Unfortunately, as Jane explains, the face we see more often instead is that of people who think they are not fit for life and the challenges they are presented with. We just don’t feel those feelings, anxiety, depression etc when we are playing games. So what is it about games what makes it impossible in games to feel these negative emotions? A big factor is this sense of an epic story and you as a player, capable of making a difference and face whatever comes your way. Here is how Jane explains something gamers are very good at.
“Think of this like extreme self-motivation. Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately. To tackle an obstacle combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success. Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible, and that it is always worth trying. And trying now. Blissful productivity is the reason why gamers play so much hours. It is because in the game, we are actually happier doing hard and meaningful work, than we are by relaxing or hanging out. Epic meaning is something we humans love. Gamers are super-empowered hopeful individuals. These are people who believe that they are individually capable of changing the world. The only problem is they believe they are capable of changing virtual worlds, and not the real world. That’s the problem that I’m trying to solve.” Jane McGonial