Anti-viral writings for financial resilience, location independence and meaningful relationships.
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. Zen quote When I first heard this, I strangely resonated with it. Just the sequence, the words, what it implied in the moment, everything just felt ok. Over the years, I went through many levels of understanding. From this point of view, it’s … Read more
When was the last time you used a computer? Wait, you’re using a computing device right now, aren’t you? Of course you do, you’re reading something on it. Maybe in the background you have some music playing, and maybe you have some other tasks in the lingering around, like sending an email, finishing a report, … Read more
There are events in our life which are to be fully experienced, and there are events which really work as “deflectors”. They are there to switch the path, to move us in a different direction. For instance, today. We were planning for a few days already to go out during this weekend, to check one … Read more
In a famous discourse, a Commencement Address at Caltech in 1974, Richard Feynman mentioned a phenomenon known as “cargo cults”. During WW2, a few small island populations in the Southern Pacific witnessed an unusual situation: airplanes landed from the sky, bringing with them food, strange, magical tech and precious stuff. The cultural gap was big … Read more
The other day I was out exploring Lisbon’s surroundings, namely Sintra. If you don’t know about this area, it’s a very interesting place. Not only it is surrounded by a fabulous natural park, but it also features intriguing pieces of architecture, many of them carrying symbols not yet fully understood. There is a castle on … Read more
One of the reasons for moving to Valencia was that here you get more 300 sunny days per year. The temperature is most of the time above 25 degrees and, overall, you get an astonishing weather. Well, “overall” should come with a little bit of a disclaimer. While it’s true that for the vast majority … Read more
If you’re defining yourself as a geek, then the term “continuous integration” may sound familiar to you. But for all the others, let me clarify some things. According to Wikipedia: In software engineering, continuous integration (CI) is the practice of merging all developers’ working copies to a shared mainline several times a day. The main reason for this is, as … Read more
As I already wrote in the first post of these series, the concept of Karma is at the same time simpler, but more inclusive than the popular Western belief “justice shall be made”. There is no external judge, applying some external “justice”. It’s just that the consequences of your own actions are inescapable: if you … Read more
