Karl Niebuhr 
I’ve never really followed Mark Cuban, but somehow my instinct told me I should read his book that I had bought about 3 years ago. The book did not disappoint me. I love the succinct and practical no-nonsense approach Mark has. Here are the most important lessons from his book. Dream about the future you … Read more
With the level of self-awareness, confidence, kindness, and practicality of Gary Vaynerchuk exudes, and his great ability to teach, have made me a big fan of him. I absorb his content like a sponge. But how did he become that way? He says that he got lucky and has good DNA. Besides that, he put … Read more
Mi hermana me preguntó qué opino de la dieta cetogénica y pensé que las dietas serían un buen tema que tratar en mi blog. Todas las dietas tienden a funcionar en el principio, no porque de alguna forma representan a una alimentación superior, sino porque cuesta acostumbrarnos a nuevas formas de comer. Una dieta suele … Read more
I work in a company where we as engineers often also are the decision makers. We often listen and talk to our customers asking them for feedback. In fact, as of yet, we don’t really have a help-desk between our customers and our engineers. It baffles me how some of the bigger companies, or should … Read more
Manuel J. Smith’s book has quickly become one of my favorite books. Reading it is an eye opener and excellent immunizer to manipulation. Here is one particularly useful technique that will help you to be more assertive. To enforce your assertive rights and to halt manipulation of your behavior, you seed to change your own … Read more
If you are in a situation where you feel stuck and bad because it seems like you can’t get where you want to be while other people seem to easily make it, highly recommend you go watch this interview with Gary V. and a 22 yo girl called How One Video Can Change Your Life. … Read more
In his book How to Win in at the Sport of Business, Mark shares some of his insights he gained over the years while becoming one of the most successful Businessmen. Everyone is a genius in a bull market Do you remember the crypto hype a while back? All of a sudden everyone seemed to … Read more
I’m a big fan of Gary V., particularly his message. But don’t like how some people try to copy him and other succesful peole 1:1. You might get better at some things copying people, but it isn’t really the best thing you can do. The best asset you have is being yourself. I learned this … Read more
Un tiempo atrás hablé con un amigo sobre el destino y dije que no importa si crees en el destino o no, cuando te preparas podrás aprovechar a las oportunidades que vendrán. Hoy leí un artículo en donde se habla de eso y pensé escribir algo porque me parece tan importante. El problema es que … Read more
For years a little voice told me that I should read about Positive Psicology. I never even came across it really, but it is one of those examples of really good intuition I guess. Fast forward some years, I read the first book of the father of positive psicology Martin Seligman. Learned Optimism had a … Read more
Me encantan las recetas simples. Hace un mes empecé a experimentar con panes. Primero hice Naan, un pan de origen Iraní que se cocina en un sartén. Salio bien, un poco húmedo al principio pero luego ya me salía bien. El único problema es que requiere de más trabajo manual ya que debes dar la … Read more
2018 was the second year of daily meditation practice. It was the year I was able to get out of the dark hole, and things started to get finally a little easier. It was a year where I accomplished great things professionally at my job, but had to sacrifice a lot of free time in … Read more
This post was inspired after listening Tai Lopez talk about how most people are delusional or over-confident, what he calls the American-Idol syndome. The problem of course is that when people are over-confident they don’t listen, don’t learn. He names Michael Jordans coach Dean Smith who said that he never met somebody more teachable than … Read more
This part of the book Learned optimism shows how optimism can be influenced by a political system. Explanatory Style Across Frontiers IN 1983 I WENT to Munich to attend the Congress of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development, and on the second day I fell into conversation with an intense young German … Read more
I bought this book at a moment where I had to make a decision between going to a summer course I had won a 50% scholarship for, or not going and being able to do a lot of different things in the next year which were also very important for me. In other words, I … Read more
When having problems with latency the first advice is to check the distance of the server and issues with your Internet Service Provider. But there is something that might cause you problems if you have a slow Internet connection, bandwidth (BW) usage. To illustrate how BW usage can cause a rise in latency lets take … Read more
Even though optimistic people live more successful lives, pessimism has its place in the short term. Pessimism can support the realism we so often need. Confused? Think about a pilot, for instance, you’d rather have him an upbeat outlook at security or a mercilessly realistic one? Let’s call it practical pessimism because it serves us … Read more
Do you remember how you felt as a kid playing your favorite games? I do, and for me, it is like one of the best feelings I’ve experienced in my life. Somehow I’ve to a great deal, unlearned the skill to enjoy games as I did back then. I have a much better PC now … Read more
Mindsight is an interesting book because it has a very interdisciplinary approach which opens up many new ways of seeing how human relationships work and how we depend on each other. At the same time, the author sometimes makes claims just because they seem to fit his framework without providing solid studies to back those … Read more
Tradicionalmente el trabajo fue visto como algo que se toma en serio y con disciplina pero los tiempos cambian y con ello sus paradigmas. Actualmente dominan los trabajos que demandan creatividad y razonamiento. En cuanto a lo anterior, estudios demostraron que en trabajos intelectualmente intensivos la presión tiene un impacto negativo sobre el rendimiento y … Read more