Karl Niebuhr Por supuesto estoy muy en contra de la censura. Pero si entendemos como funciona la censura, también nos podemos defender. Así que decidí aprovechar el conocimiento que adquirí sobre RouterOS en la certificación de Mikrotik para tratar de cortarme el servicio de Torrent con un Router Hap Lite. Como el tráfico de torrent mayormente ya … Read more
Hoy encontré un video de Julieta Galante, una investigadora de Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience que realizó un estudio sobre mindfulness de altísima calidad en la universidad de Cambridge. El estudio fue ciego y aleatorizado, haciendo uso de una aplicación que automáticamente randomiza a los estudiantes en grupos para evitar cualquier tipo de interferencia por los investigadores. … Read more
YouTube is another big learning place for me besides books. Today I casually watched this video and wrote down a quote which is very much how I think. So much so that I thought it worthy of a post. “When you’re faced with a decision that says this-or-that and you don’t like either choice, refuse … Read more
I’m into improving my brain through meditation, exercise, and nutrition. Now I found another great way to improve my brain, by playing video games. What? Yes! And a fun way it is. I’m sure fewer people would object to playing video games than to sit down and meditate, lol. This Talk from Daphne Bavelier gives a … Read more
I’m currently reading three books in parallel, Mindsight, Buddha’s brain and The Buddha walks into a bar. All three books show how we can rewire our brain with practice although, from slightly different angles. That’s what makes it so interesting to read them at the same time. Yesterday I read a few chapters of Mindsight in … Read more
Otra receta de @poepam, let’s try it 😉 Ingredientes: 500 gramos de choclo en granos 2 cebollas 5 cucharadas de aceite 50 gramos de margarina Ajo a gusto Sal a gusto 1cucharada de azúcar 2 cucharas de levadura sabor queso 15 gramos de no egg 150 cc de agua Rehogar la cebolla cortada en cubos … Read more
Últimamente leo mucho sobre la ciencia de la felicidad que está desarrollándose cada vez más en diferentes disciplinas. Si aún no sabes de qué se trata este tema y quieres aprender, creo que esta publicación que casualmente encontré es una buena introducción. Para entrar en más detalle recomiendo a los libros The happiness advantage y … Read more
In the following paragraphs, Shawn Achor explains how he managed to form a new daily habit by planning ahead and making it easier for him to play his guitar every day. THE 20-SECOND RULE How to Turn Bad Habits into Good Ones by Minimizing Barriers to ChangeD uring one of the first trainings I ever … Read more
I recently stumbled on Shawn Achor’s Ted Talk about Happiness. I immediately liked what he presented when he talked about the Cult of the average in psychology. What the cult of the average does is, in simple terms, ignore the outliers in our data. Actually in psychology for many years attention was paid to the … Read more
Leí muchos libros sobre meditación y hasta hice un curso de Mindfulness. Aparte de Mindfulness, también practiqué mantra meditation y muchas meditaciones guiadas. Con el tiempo refiné mi proceso y aprendí algunas cosas muy útiles que quiero compartir. El tipo de meditación que más me gusta hasta ahora es el Mindfulness y además me gusta ser … Read more
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I live in Paraguay where labor is cheap. Everywhere you see people performing work which could easily be automated or done more efficiently. That is what I noticed when I moved to Germany. There weren’t security guards in front of every medium to big business, not even in the banks. Sure, it is safer over … Read more
Alguna vez te frustraste al leer libros PDF en tu computadora porque no se abrieron en la última página que leíste? Para los Epubs OSX lleva una buena aplicación pero tampoco funciona con PDFs. Para Windows, acabo de encontrar una solución. Hay una aplicación que se llama SumatraPDF que recuerda hasta donde leíste. Funciona perfectamente, … Read more
This little book widely surpassed my expectations. It is very concise and easy to read and I particularly like that it is completely science-based. The author dives into a recap of the history of research on the topic of self-esteem. In the 50′ Carl Rogers from the University of Chicago introduced the concept of self-esteem. His … Read more
Today I felt very good in the morning, not that I usually don’t, but it may have something to do with this plant, Camellia sinensis. All the most consumed teas — white, green, oolong, and black — come from the leaves of the same plant, Camilla sinensis. We will focus on green tea because it is the least processed tea … Read more
“That year, 15,000 people came to Omaha’s Woodstock for Capitalists. Buffett’s $36 billion fortune was once again exceeded only by Bill Gates’s. He had bounced back, almost to the top of the heap. “What is the ideal business?” a shareholder asked when the questions began. “The ideal business is one that earns very high returns … Read more
“Buffett had written an article for Fortune, “Why I’m Down On the Dollar,”20 in which he explained that he had made significant investments in foreign currencies out of a belief that the dollar would decline in value. The reason was something called the trade deficit: Americans were buying more from other countries than they were … Read more
Desde que aprendí sobre minimalism y essentialism soy un gran fan y estoy aplicando a esos conceptos y estilos de vida. Esencialismo y minimalismo son cosas similares aunque las definiciones de los inventores varían un poco. Greg McKeown escribió el libro Essentialism, Joshua Fields y Ryan Nicodemus escribieron el libro Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life … Read more
Cuando hablo sobre alimentación en base a plantas en las redes sociales suele surgir la pregunta. “Pero y qué pasa de mi hijo/a si necesitan carne para desarrollarse?” Primero recomiendo buscarle a otra nutricionista que si esta familiarizada con la ciencia. Dar de comer carne a niños les hace daño como explica el doctor Michael … Read more
The general way education works in our society is that we learn X amount of years and then we execute on the acquired knowledge. In many cases, this methodology is necessary. Doctors and pilots need to learn a lot of things before they start practicing. Buf often careers are only partially useful and applicable in … Read more