Strategy, development and knowledge
I divide humanity into two groups: the people who cut the nails on the left hand first, and the people who cut the nails of the right hand first. My theory is that the people who cut the nails of the left hand first, they are more light-hearted.
“Escape velocity” is a physics term referring to the speed at which a body must travel to break free from or “escape” the gravitational pull of another, larger body. In simpler, more down-to-earth terms, it is the minimum speed...
Around this time of year, it is always the same argument. From among the moths and cobwebs of their decrepit graves emerges a group of people who protest against the few Halloween-related celebrations that take place in Mexico and desperately plead for the rescue of our beautiful Mexican traditions.
The topic of the week on the Internet was undoubtedly ad blockers, those browser extensions that can block advertising banners on websites, pop-ups, commercial videos, and even prevent advertising platforms from using cookies to follow our movements around the web.
I have been planning this post for three years. Three years ago I started running, and I do not know how I got here. I did not start running because I wanted to run a marathon; it had never crossed my mind, and I would not have believed myself capable of it.
Do newspapers dedicate themselves to informing people or to selling advertising space? I took a screenshot of the newspaper El Informador, whose name indicates that it is dedicated to informing, and analyzed the content.
A few days ago, I watched a vlog by Casey Neistat in which he talked about his perspective on productivity and how the hours in his day were divided among different types of activities.
At first we invented things to survive, then we invented things to live better, and now we are inventing things so we do not have to do anything.
In both public and private schools, they teach us only one side of Mexico: the side of war. They insist on telling us about the conquest, La Malinche, and the torture of Cuauhtémoc; they teach us about independence, Father Hidalgo, Juan Aldama, Ignacio Allende, and José Mariano Jiménez, and how their heads were cut off…
Something that tends to be a problem for most professionals in creative fields is finding a good method for pricing their services. Whether they are designers, developers, photographers, video producers, illustrators, or something else…
Six years ago, when Steve Jobs unveiled the iPhone, the industry responded largely by mocking it. Companies such as Blackberry, Nokia, Palm, and Microsoft said it was impossible to sell such an expensive phone. Who does not remember Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's CEO, laughing loudly and saying that the iPhone was a joke?
Lately I've been hearing a lot about people trying to censor porn so I decided to write some of my thoughts on the matter.