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It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
– Lena Horne

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
–Jackie Robinson

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
-Harper Lee

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest.
–Warren Buffett

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. –Aristotle

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
–Abraham Lincoln

The time is always right to do what is right. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. – Amelia Earhart

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
–Epictetus

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.
–Margaret Thatcher

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.
–Teddy Roosevelt

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.
–Henry Ford

What gets us into trouble is not what we don’t know. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.
–Mark Twain

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
–Helen Keller

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
–Henry David Thoreau

Okun’s law

Okun’s law is an empirically observed relationship between unemployment and losses in a country’s production.…

Socratic method

The Socratic method (also known as method of Elenchus, elenctic method, or Socratic debate) is…

Cistercian numerals

The medieval Cistercian numerals, or «ciphers» in nineteenth-century parlance, were developed by the Cistercian monastic…

Pending

Todo lo que se de finanzas Client adquisition How do companies track things How do…

Vox populi, vox dei

«Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima…

Shakespearean fools

Shakespearean fools are usually clever peasants or commoners that use their wits to outdo people…

Telos

Telos is a term used by philosopher Aristotle to refer to the final cause of…

Life is toil

«Conceptio culpa, Nasci pena, Labor vita, Necesse mori / Conception is sin, birth is pain,…

Acronyms

asap  As soon as possible    btw  By the way    ceo   Chief executive officer   cfo   Chief financial officer    cto   Chief technical…

Aphorisms

A major cause of depression may be a sense of helplessness in our life situation.…

Why I am not a Christian

Written by Bertrand Russell The Lecture that is here reproduced was delivered at the Battersea…

The way to wealth

Courteous Reader, I have heard that nothing gives an author so great pleasure as to…

A history of Violence

Violence has been in decline over long stretches of history, and today we are probably…

2025, If…

Written by R. Buckminster Fuller You ask, «where will the world be in 2025?» Sometimes…

Misc

The internet was supposed to make the world a better place. Web browsers have been…

Barter disappears

Barter collapses because of two reasons: indivisibility and lack of coincidence of wants.

Weighing machine

In the long term the market is a weighing machine, but in the short term…

The Intransigent Minority

Despite Taleb’s penchant for black turtle necks, I mean is there anything that screams, “I’M…

Regla Chatham House

La regla dispone que las personas que asisten a un seminario pueden discutir los resultados…

Power down ritual

It is a fixed set of actions and behaviors that mentally and physically mark the…

Monty Hall Problem

Suppose you’re on a game show, and you’re given the choice of three doors: Behind…

Notes on renewables

Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is allowed to go everywhere. People are not. The true…

Wealth as desirable

The Nobel Prize–winning developmental economist Amartya Sen describes income and wealth as desirable “because, typically,…

Veil of ignorance

The philosopher John Rawls once offered up a thought experiment, building on the classic question:…

Constellations

There are 88 official constellations. 48 of them are regarded as «ancient», having been catalogued…

Barbarian

The word barbarian is really just ancient propaganda. The Greeks used it to describe non-Greek…

Happiness

“Happiness” as shorthand for whatever your ultimate utility function and end objective might be: fulfillment,…

Skills

– Making $$$ while you sleep – Writing concisely – Picking your partner – Developing…

Disputandi pruritus ecclesiarum scabies (An itch for disputation is the incurable disease of the church)

Pascal’s wager

Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to…

Ubi bene ibi patria (Where it feels good, is where home is)

Quotes by Epictetus

“No man is free who is not master of himself.” “Men are disturbed not by…

Connectome

A connectome is a comprehensive map of neural connections in the brain, and may be…

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world. – Noam Chomsky

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. – Epictetus

We don’t have to be smarter than the rest. We have to be more disciplined than the rest. – Warren Buffett

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.

It’s not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it’s a day you’ve had everything to do and you’ve done it.

Margaret Thatcher

We are what we repeatedly do, Excellence is therefore not an act but a habit. – Aristotle

Georgia Guidestones

Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and…

Three laws of politics

Robert Conquest is known for his «Three Laws of Politics», which were not published by…

Prinicipios y reglas de vida

Sobre estos principios Este es un documento en constante evolución. Siempre está incompleto. Los beneficios…

Algorithms

While hard to precisely define, an algorithm is generally an automated set of rules or…

Algernon’s Law

IQ is nearly impossible to improve in healthy people without tradeoffs. If we could get…

Algebraic Equivalence

The introduction of algebra allowed us to demonstrate mathematically and abstractly that two seemingly different…

Agnosticism

The view that the truth values of certain claims-especially metaphysical and religious claims such as…

Affective forecasting

Predicting how happy you will be in the future contingent upon some event or change…

Adaptation

Species tend to adapt to their surroundings in order to survive, given the combination of…

Ad Hominem

Attacking your opponent’s character or personal traits in an attempt to undermine their argument. https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

Active Listening

Requires that the listener fully concentrates, understands, responds and then remembers what is being said.…

Activation Energy

The minimum energy which must be available to a chemical system with potential reactants to…

It’s not that I’m so smart. It’s just that I stay with problems longer. — Albert Einstein

Stock vs Flow

A stock is measured at one specific time. Flow is roughly analogous to rate or speed in this sense.

Noetics

Noetic sciences as «how beliefs, thoughts, and intentions affect the physical world»

Sólidos platónicos

Los sólidos platónicos, regulares o perfectos son poliedros convexos tal que todas sus caras son polígonos regulares iguales entre sí, y en que todos los ángulos sólidos son iguales.

Conjetura de Kepler

Esta conjetura afirma que si apilamos esferas iguales, la densidad máxima se alcanza con una apilamiento piramidal de caras centradas.

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. – Carl Sagan

Libros

Un listado de libros. Leídos, leyendo y por leer.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
― Dante Alighieri

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule. ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

This too shall pass

The sentiment which, amidst the perpetual change of human affairs, was most descriptive of their real tendency.

Naval’s Razor

If you have 2 choices to make and it’s 50/50, take the path that’s more…

Hofstadter’s Law

It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.…

Bragging Razor

If someone brags about their success or happiness, assume it’s half what they claim. If…

Discomfort Razor

The more uncomfortable the activity, the more likely it will lead to growth. The more…

Skinner’s Law

If procrastinating on an item, you only have 2 options: 1. Make the pain of…

GPT3

GPT-3: generative pre-trained transformer 3

The Cobra Effect

There’s a famous story of British colonialists trying to reduce the snake population in India.

The Lucas Paradox

The Lucas paradox or the Lucas puzzle is the observation that capital does not flow from developed countries to developing countries.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested. But when it is wasted in heedless luxury and spent on no good activity, we are forced at last by death’s final constraint to realize that it has passed away before we knew it was passing. So it is: we are not given a short life but we make it short, and we are not ill-supplied but wasteful of it… Life is long if you know how to use it. – Seneca

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

What matters most is whether one is extending one’s life or merely delaying one’s death. – Seneca

Web development

Best way to structure a website best speed of website SEO

XML

XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a markup language similar to HTML.

The Red Queen Effect

The evolution-by-natural-selection model leads to something of an arms race among species competing for limited resources.

Polanyi’s paradox

Human beings understand intuitively how to perform but cannot verbalize the rules or procedures behind it.

Russell’s teapot

Russell’s teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.

Ides of March

In modern times, the Ides of March is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC.

Work is of two kinds:
1. Altering the position of matter at or near the earth’s surface relatively to other such matter.
2. Telling other people to do so.
The first is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid.
—Bertrand Russell

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
– Buckminster Fuller

I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: ‘Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.’
— Maya Angelou

Memex

Consider a future device, a sort of mechanized private library in which an individual stores…

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will instruct his patient in the care of the human frame in diet and in the cause and prevention of diseases.
—Thomas Edison

Good days give happiness, bad days give experiences, worst days give lessons, and best days give memories.
— Richard Feynman

DRY

Don’t repeat yourself

Civil inattention

Civil inattention is the process whereby strangers who are in close proximity demonstrate that they are aware of one another.

Onus probandi

Expresión latina del principio jurídico que señala quién está obligado a probar un determinado hecho ante los tribunales.

A Pale Blue Dot

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.

OKR

Objectives and key results (OKR) is a framework for defining and tracking objectives and their outcomes.

Brocards

A brocard is a legal maxim in Latin that is, in a strict sense, derived from traditional legal authorities, even from ancient Rome.

Monte Carlo simulation

Monte Carlo simulation is a computerized mathematical technique that allows people to account for risk in quantitative analysis and decision making.

Earth’s critical zone

The Critical Zone, surface and near-surface environment, sustains nearly all terrestrial life.

Attebytes

Concept for a unit that could be used in measuring and quantifying our brain’s activities.

VTOL

A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can hover, take off, and land vertically.

The Brier score

The Brier score is a proper score function that measures the accuracy of probabilistic predictions.

The backup rule of three

Here’s the rule of three. It’s a long time computer-person rule of thumb that you can apply to your life now. It’s also called the Backup 3-2-1 rule.

Allow

There is no controlling life.

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.
– Naval Ravikant

Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence … Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. – Stephen Hawking

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.
– William Gibson

Education isn’t something you can finish.
– Isaac Asimov

Earth is the cradle of humanity & you can’t stay in the cradle forever.
– Elon Musk

The dead outnumber the living 14 to 1, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril.
– Niall Ferguson

I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which have happened.
– Mark Twain

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived – and dying I will tend to later.
– Epictetus

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardships of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die. For this reason, make life as a whole agreeable to yourself by banishing all worry about it.
– Seneca

Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.
– Andy Benoit

You could easily spot any Religion of Peace. Its extremist members would be extremely peaceful.
– Ricky Gervais

What society runs on is not reality. What society runs on is expectations of future reality. – Aubrey de Grey

A powerful algorithm for happiness is to be wealthy but anonymous.
– Scott Galloway

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

– Soren Kierkegaard

The Summer Day

What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Online tools

Un listado de las herramientas digitales que más uso.

Podcasts

Un listado de mis podcasts favoritos.

Películas

Un listado de mis películas favoritas.

Series

Un listado de mis series favoritas.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
– Stephen Hawking

There is no cloud – It’s just someone else’s computer.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.
– Stephen Hawking

Happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles. — Naval Ravikant

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. – Winston Churchill

Your entire life runs on the software—the models—in your head. Why wouldn’t you obsess over optimizing it? — Tim Urban

Relax, no one else knows what they’re doing either. – Ricky Gervais

You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence. — Charlie Munger

Blogs

Un listado de los blogs que más leo.

Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace. ― Randy Armstrong

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
– Seneca

Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.
Douglas Malloch

Serenity Prayer

[…] grace to accept with serenity, the things that cannot be changed…

Extensiones

Un listado de las extensiones que utilizo en Google Chrome.

We’re up against ecological limits, not monetary shortages;
we are constrained by a carbon budget not a federal one,
and we need to remake our economy to reflect this reality.
– Astra Taylor

It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness.
We learn so little from peace.
– Chuck Palahniuk

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. – Viktor E. Frankl

Shortness of Life

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it… Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again. – Steve Jobs

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
– Eleanor Roosevelt

Equality of opportunity provides in a sense that all start the race of life at the same time. Equality of outcome attempts to ensure that everyone finishes at the same time. – LJM Cooray

No code has fewer bugs than no code.

  • Kevlin Henney

El problema con el mundo actual es que todo el mundo cree que tiene derecho a expresar sus opiniones y que los demás tenemos que escucharlo.[…]todos tenemos derecho a tener nuestra opinión, pero esa opinión puede ser ignorada e incluso ridiculizada, especialmente si es demostrablemente una tontería.

  • Brian Cox

When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.
Dr. Theodore Woodward

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

Conflicts

There have always been conflicts.

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!’
Hunter S. Thompson

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
Albert Einstein

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and a few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.
Alexander Graham Bell

Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
Satchel Paige

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Winston Churchill

The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.
Eisenhower

Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible.
Alan Turing

If you want to make a living flower, you don’t build it physically cell by cell. You grow it from the seed. This hinges on a simple scientific proposition: the great complexity of an organic system, which is essential to its life, cannot be created from above directly; it can only be generated indirectly.
Christopher Alexander

Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune.
Jim Rohn

The world we choose to build is the one we’ll inhabit. Technology empowers both the powerful and the powerless, and if we want a world with more liberty and less control, we’re going to have to fight for it.
Edward Snowden

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Aristotle

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity…The grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
Christopher Hitchens

Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw

We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Buckminster Fuller

The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life.
Buckminster Fuller

People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching.
Buckminster Fuller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.
Buckminster Fuller

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. 
Albert Einstein

Wabi sabi

Wabi sabi is a Japanese design concept.

The lucky ones

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.

All things in moderation, including moderation.
Oscar Wilde (?)

This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Winston Churchill

Purpose of life

The purpose of life is right in front of us: It’s to create a reality we want to inhabit .

Llama la atención que hasta ahora hemos utilizado principalmente nuestra mayor productividad para consumir más cosas en lugar de disfrutar de más tiempo libre. El desempleo se debe en parte a la falta de ingresos (fundamentalmente un problema de distribución), pero también se trata de una falta de autoestima y estatus social.
Nick Bostrom

Lo único que tiene valor es vivir una vida de forma sincera y correcta. Y sé paciente con aquellos que no lo hacen.
Marco Aurelio

The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.
William Gibson

Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.
Otto von Bismarck

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton

El fracaso es simplemente la oportunidad de empezar de nuevo, esta vez de forma más inteligente.
Henry Ford

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay

Nadie se ha convertido en pobre por dar a los demás.
Anne Frank

Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
– Dalai Lama

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to need, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use.
George A. Dorsey

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
D.H. Lawrence

Invictus

Inspiring words from William Ernest Henley.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D.H. Lawrence

If

How to become a man, by Rudyard Kipling.

Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition which is opposed to everything infinite.
Primo Levi

Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke / Larry Niven *

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.
Kurt Vonnegut

El peor enemigo del conocimiento no es la ignorancia, es la ilusión de conocimiento.
Stephen Hawking

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov

La primera regla de cualquier tecnología utilizada en una empresa es que la automatización aplicada a una operación eficiente aumentará la eficiencia.
La segunda es que la automatización aplicada a una operación ineficiente aumentará la ineficiencia.
Bill Gates

¿Por qué debería temer a la muerte?
Si yo soy, la muerte no es.
Si la muerte es, yo no lo soy.
¿Por qué debería temer aquello que solo existe cuando no lo hago yo?
Epicurio

Cuando dices SI a otros, asegúrate que no te dices NO a ti mismo.
Paulo Coelho

El universo tuvo un día sin un ayer.
Georges Lemaitre

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.
Thomas Paine

Success

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much…

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Alvin Toffler

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing…an actor, a writer…I am a person who does things…I write, I act…and I never know what I’m going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.
Stephen Fry

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Viktor Frankl

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner,
but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith

To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.
Kenneth Boulding

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Walden – Henry Thoreau

Basic Rules

Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making…

Conocerse a uno mismo

Creyente o no + qué religión Filosofía + qué filosofía de izquierdas o de derechas…

Kwangmyong

In North Korea there is no internet access as we know it in the rest of the world, there is Kwangmyong.

Valor y precio

Una de las distinciones más importantes que debemos tener muy presentes, es en mi opinión, la diferencia entre valor y precio.