Month: March 2021

Magic thinking is a “shortcut” we, as species, used many times throughout history, and we’re still using today. When we weren’t able to generate a reasonable, verifiable explanation for a series of facts, we placed them under the “blanket” of magic thinking. For instance, we couldn’t understand, in a rational way, how thunder and lightning … Read more

The smartphone. This tiny object that has become so entrenched with our lives that we can hardly live without it nowadays. A micro tool, connected with hundreds of millions of other micro tools via invisible waves, storing every second tons of data about our locations, habits or interactions. An augmenting reality lens, overwhelming us constantly … Read more

It’s a lazy Saturday morning in my childhood city, somewhere in the middle of Romania, close to the mountains. I’m just a teenager, going to meet my buddies for our regular soccer game at the end of the week. As I prepare to cross the street, I suddenly spot Emil, coming from my left, and … Read more

Let’s start by saying that I’m an admirer of the blockchain technology and a very early observer of it. Please note I said “early observer”, and not necessarily “early adopter”. When it comes to blockchain, I’m more of a “just in time adopter”, to be honest, and not an early one, because, sometimes, early success … Read more

Or how to have a little bit of fun on a Saturday morning. Now, really, this is a funny story and I honestly don’t know what other meaning can I derive from it, other than well, being funny. But since it’s still a story, and I’m on a writing challenge, iI thought to write about … Read more

Attachment theory is a psychological approach to emotional development, based broadly on the type of connections we have early on in life with our caregivers. Depending on which book you read, you may get up to 6 types of different attachment types, but the most important ones are: secure attachment, anxious attachment and avoidant attachment. … Read more

I don’t know about you, but for me Mondays have always been a bit… peculiar. I know there’s noting intrinsically wrong with them, and it’s all because we chose this circaseptan rhythm, which is arbitrary. It could have been a 3 days “week”, or 12 days one, but it just so happens that we chose … Read more