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Today marks the end of the seventh month of my 365 days writing challenge. For the last 211 days I published an article every day on this blog. At the end of each month I decided to write a little “checkpoint”, both to evaluate the course of the challenge, and to outline its benefits (or … Read more
It looks like these days I’m experiencing a variety of ways to think differently. Whether it’s thinking outside of the jar, or realizing the obstacle is not the bottleneck, I’m exposed (luckily) to all sort of different perspectives. Todays was no different. The Benefits Of Working From Coffee Shops No, this is not going to … Read more
If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. Banksy If you ever ran an ultra-marathon, this quote will hit you as common sense. But not many people ran ultra-marathons. So let me try to break it down for you. An ultra-marathon is a race longer than a traditional 42km marathon (which in, and … Read more
Time to publish another installment of the weekly “Monday Moving Forward” series, a series in which we post, surprisingly, only Mondays, because that’s when we have more chances to feel unmotivated. Mondays have a bad reputation, and, to a certain extent, it’s justified. That’s why I decided to try out various approaches, tips and tricks … Read more
Sometimes you have great ideas. And, if you’re lucky, you even get the energy and resources to make those ideas real. Other times, not so much. And yet, we tend to put more weight on the great times that we have, on the big ideas that we stumble upon, on the fantastic projects that we’re … Read more
You may remember Jeremy Clarkson from the days of Top Gear, a car show mixing (obviously) cars, humor, sarcasm and weird ideas. But he’s way more than that. A journalist, writer, TV host and a few other roles, Clarkson has become a quite popular public person, albeit a bit controversial (which I like, to be … Read more
I’ve been working mostly from home for the last week, which means I had to solve the morning coffee differently. I don’t have an espresso machine, so I resorted to an old coffee making technique, in which the coffee is “scalded”. You put a teaspoon of coffee in a normal mug, then add boiling water … Read more
When you move in a new place, everything changes. Among the first things, the grocery shopping. Back in Spain, I used to do all my groceries from a supermarket, 500 m from where I lived. Quite convenient. Every once in a while I was visiting a Mercado (one of Valencia’s 3 main markets, which are … Read more