Category Archives: Organization

A moleskine notebook filled with text next to a coffee.

Personal knowledge management

The thought of being capable of managing my own knowledge have always been present, in some way. It was, in fact, one of the main reasons I started this blog: I wanted to store my ideas, yes, but I wanted some place to store everything created from the development of such ideas. I was starting [...]

Movement in a busy street.

Take a moment to think about moments

Every moment you do something or don’t do something is different. That’s obvious, but what’s not is that we usually don’t think about time as a series of moments. We think about years, about months some times. We think about weeks as a separated time unit, more attached to days than to months or years [...]

A cubicle office walls

Productivity: Using the walls

Something I always thought when changing my computer’s wallpaper was the absurd of applying a wallpaper to a desktop. It’s supposed to be a desktop, where you put important things that need to be “on top”, at sight, and not in drawers (which could relate for computer’s folders). Now, taking that out, a computer could [...]

A sun clock-shaped person writing on a computer. Drawing.

Break the rules, not the laws – Monotony

At some points in your life you’re going to realize you’re starting to fall into routines, into monotony. I’ve got to be honest, I can’t follow routines even if I wanted to. I can’t say everyday starting tomorrow I’ll dedicate 3pm-4pm time to study, because I won’t; I can’t break that rule, because my “system” [...]

Home office with tons of architect works

The mental apartment – Constant study analogy

Constancy is supposed to be a state of no changes. Something to be constant is to be unaltered in any way, by anything. That’s why, in math (and other areas), there are things called constants, that generally are specific numbers that never change. Pi, which is 3,1416… is a great example. But when we use [...]

Similarities, not related to the trial

Patent Wars and Creativity

With al the talking about Apple’s recent victory against Samsung (in that trial relating patent infringement), I got a little interested in the topic. What’s a patent? Why do they exist? With what purpose? I even read what Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-Founder) said about the trial: he didn’t like the outcome; he said he doesn’t [...]

A man in a writers' block, struggling with himself to find words.

How to Get a Super-Productive Hour: 6 Steps

Productivity is something related to doing, doing more in less time. You are productive when you’re doing more, in quantity, not reducing quality, in less time (some would object on the quality part…). But what do your mind has to say? Being productive is a matter of being conscious of yourself, doing stuff regularly and [...]