On Living A Better Life, Screwing It Up, And Everything In Between
In my 2020 year in review blogpost I mentioned 2 failed writing challenges: one on the blog and one about a book I’m still working on. I regret none of these failed challenges, but I do feel a bit incomplete. Like I carry around some unfinished stuff, if you know the feeling. So, I decided … Read more
This was a good year. Different, for sure, but it was a good one. In fact, it was so good that I felt compelled to write a review of it, something that I didn’t do in other recent years. So, without further ado, let’s see what went well, what went not so well and what … Read more
A few months ago I posted something about learning to play the guitar. It was on June 18th 2020. In all honesty, I didn’t start on that day, because I decided to first go on Camino de Santiago (which, in hindsight, proved to be a very good decision). But a few days after I returned … Read more
If a person is really toxic for you, just leave. Get up, get your stuff (if you have any) and leave. That’s it. If, after careful analysis, after weeks, months, or years of attempts to make things right, to balance out the exchange, nothing happened, then walk away. Slowly, no drama, no arguing, no rationalization, … Read more
Today I turn 50. That’s half a century. Not bad. This event falls in 2020, a year some people labeled – in a somehow regrettable burst of enthusiasm – “the start of the twenties”. I am sure those people thought about the 1900s twenties, expecting the same amount of glamour, wild life and expansion. An … Read more
Failure is the best teacher out there. We don’t learn too much when we succeed, because we tend to take it for granted. We’re biased by our own expectations so we welcome success without examining too much the steps that led us there. But when we fail, oh, the drama! The hurt, the loss, the … Read more
When I’m not traveling, and I get to spend the weekend in the city, Sundays are usually dedicated to good coffee and gentle recharging. There are quite a few good coffee shops in in Valencia, some of them toasting their own coffee and, in the last couple of years I extensively tested them. One of … Read more
I had my first computer when I was 18. It was called CIP, and it was a communist clone of the famous ZX Spectrum. Same processor, almost the same board. You would load the operating system from a cassette tape, which made such a strange , acute noise. Any other programs (or games, mostly) had … Read more