Carlos Rodrigo

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance. – Naval RavikantQuotes
Como escribir una buena entrada de blog / Qué es lo que define que queramos leer una entrada o post. Internet (es)
Zero to one by Peter Thiel / Highlights from Peter Thiel’s business book. Books
My Early Life: The Autobiography by Winston Churchill / Notes on Churchill’s first part of his autobiography. Books
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian / Notes on David Christian’s book on the origin of the universe. Books
Energy: A Beginner’s Guide by Vaclav Smil / Notes on Vaclac Smil’s introductory book on energy. Books
Familiar quotations by John Bartlett / Some of the quotes and aphorisms from Familiar quotations. Books
Big Data Now: 2012 Edition / Notes on Bigdata. Books
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature / Highlights on how ro be inspired by nature through biomimicry. Books
Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life / Highlights on Gretchen Rubin’s biography of Winston Churchill. Books
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 HawkingQuotes
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca the Younger / Highlights of Seneca’s book on living a good life. Books
Book notes: Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky / Highlights from the book on rationality by Eliezer Yudkowsky. Books
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki / Highlights on Robert T. Kiyosaki’s book. Books
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott: From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford / Highlights from Sir Walter Scott’s Journal. Books
The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought / Highlights from the book on two great scottish thinkers by Dennis C. Rasmussen. Books
American boys’ life of Theodore Roosevelt / Highlights on a short biopgraphy of Teddy Roosevelt by Edward Stratemeyer & Charles Copeland Books
The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason / Highlights from the book by George S. Clason on how to grow rich. Books
Poor Richard’s Almanack by Benjamin Franklin / Highlights from Benjamin Franklin’s compendium of aphorisms. Books
13 Virtues of Benjamin Franklin / In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character. Inspiration
The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed. – William GibsonQuotes
Education isn’t something you can finish. – Isaac AsimovQuotes
Earth is the cradle of humanity & you can’t stay in the cradle forever. – Elon MuskQuotes
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 FergusonQuotes
I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which have happened. – Mark TwainQuotes
Como grabar un podcast / Una breve guía sobre como grabar, publicar y distrubuir un podcast utilizando unicamente un telefono móvil. Internet (es)
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.
– EpictetusQuotes
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.
– SenecaQuotes
Most geniuses—especially those who lead others—prosper not by deconstructing intricate complexities but by exploiting unrecognized simplicities.
– Andy BenoitQuotes
You could easily spot any Religion of Peace. Its extremist members would be extremely peaceful.
– Ricky GervaisQuotes
What society runs on is not reality. What society runs on is expectations of future reality.
– Aubrey de Grey Quotes
Mental Models / A compendium of more than 250 mental models. Projects
Douglas Adams’ Rules of Technology / Douglas Adams came up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies. Life
Famous people in History / How far in time are we from famous people in history? History
CO2 Footprint / My CO2 footprint seems to be 8,95tn/year. Climate Change
A powerful algorithm for happiness is to be wealthy but anonymous. – Scott GallowayQuotes
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
– Soren KierkegaardQuotes
The Summer Day / What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Inspiration
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 EmersonQuotes
Christmas / Since 2014, Mar and I make a Christmas’ card to send to family and friends. About Projects
CV / My CV, currently only in spanish. About
Places / A list of places I have visited. Projects
Newsletters / A list of my favourite newsletters. Resources
Online tools / A list of my favourite online tools. Resources
Restaurants / A list of my favourite restaurants. Resources
Podcasts / A list of my favourite podcasts. Resources
Documentaries / A list of my favourite documentaries. Resources
Films / A list of my favourite films. Resources
Series / A list of my favourite of tv series. Resources
My life in months / A diagram with the most important events from my life. Projects
Principles and Beliefs / A set of principles, rules and beliefs that inform my decisions. About
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. – Stephen HawkingIntelligence Quotes
There is no cloud – It’s just someone else’s computer.Quotes
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 HawkingQuotes
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 RavikantQuotes
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. – Winston ChurchillQuotes
Your entire life runs on the software—the models—in your head. Why wouldn’t you obsess over optimizing it? — Tim UrbanQuotes
Relax, no one else knows what they’re doing either. – Ricky GervaisQuotes
You get further in life by avoiding repeated stupidity than you do by striving for maximum intelligence. — Charlie MungerQuotes
Tboti – The best of the internet / Articles and posts that everyone should read. Resources
Blogs / A list of my favourite blogs. Resources
Worrying does not take away tomorrow’s troubles. It takes away today’s peace. ― Randy ArmstronQuotes
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. – SenecaQuotes
The Parable of the Fisherman / An eye-opening story on how to live life. Inspiration
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 MallochQuotes
Serenity Prayer / […] grace to accept with serenity, the things that cannot be changed… Inspiration
Browser extensions / A list of my favourite browser (Chrome) extensions. Resources
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 TaylorQuotes
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 PalahniukQuotes
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. FranklQuotes
Shortness of Life / It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Philosophy
How much is a tree worth? / It turns out putting a vlue on tree is more difficult than expected. Climate Change Money
The story of Ubuntu / Do you know what «Ubuntu» actually means? Internet (en)
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 JobsQuotes
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor RooseveltQuotes
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 CoorayQuotes
No code has fewer bugs than no code. – Kevlin HenneyQuotes
The blind and the elephant / This parable has been used to illustrate the inability of man to know the totality of reality. Philosophy
Living in the present / We can only truly live in the present. Philosophy
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 CoxFrases
When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras. – Dr. Theodore WoodwardQuotes
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him.Quotes
Nassim Taleb on being black swans / On the odds on being born and being grateful. Inspiration
Conflicts / Siempre ha habido y habrá conflictos. History
Unnaturality of Anger / We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes… Inspiration
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. ThompsonQuotes
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. – Albert EinsteinQuotes
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and a few to be chewed and digested. – Francis BaconQuotes
Concentrate all your thoughts on the task at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. – Alexander Graham BellQuotes
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching. – Satchel PaigeQuotes
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry. – Winston ChurchillQuotes
The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent. – EisenhowerQuotes
Those who can imagine anything, can create the impossible. – Alan TuringQuotes
If you want to make a living flower, you don’t build it physically cell by cell. – Christopher AlexanderQuotes
Work hard at your job and you can make a living. Work hard on yourself and you can make a fortune. – Jim RohnQuotes
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 SnowdenQuotes
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. – AristotleQuotes
St. Crispin’s day Speech / We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; Inspiration
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity…The grave will supply plenty of time for silence. – Christopher HitchensQuotes
Tim Berners-Lee’s proposal / Vague but exciting… Internet (en)
Youth is wasted on the young. – George Bernard ShawQuotes
We should do away with the notion that everybody has to earn a living.Quotes
The minute you choose to do what you really want to do, it’s a different kind of life. – Buckminster FullerQuotes
People never leave a sinking ship until they see the lights of another ship approaching. – Buckminster FullerQuotes
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Buckminster FullerQuotes
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. – Albert EinsteinQuotes
Wabi sabi / Wabi sabi is a Japanese design concept. Inspiration
The man in the arena / It is not the critic who counts… Inspiration
The lucky ones / We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Inspiration
All things in moderation, including moderation. – Oscar Wilde (?)Quotes
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 ChurchillQuotes
The tale of two wolves / A Cherokee legend about life. Inspiration
Purpose of life / The purpose of life is right in front of us: It’s to create a reality we want to inhabit . Inspiration
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 BostromQuotes
Lo único que tiene valor es vivir una vida de forma sincera y correcta. Y sé paciente con aquellos que no lo hacen. – Marco AurelioQuotes
The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed. – William GibsonQuotes
Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others. – Otto von BismarckQuotes
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me. – Isaac NewtonQuotes
El fracaso es simplemente la oportunidad de empezar de nuevo, esta vez de forma más inteligente. – Henry FordQuotes
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan KayQuotes
Nadie se ha convertido en pobre por dar a los demás. – Anne FrankQuotes
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 LamaQuotes
I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. – Woodrow WilsonQuotes
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 DoyleQuotes
The more you use your brain, the more brain you will have to use. – George A. DorseyQuotes
Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved. – D.H. LawrenceQuotes
Invictus / Inspiring words from William Ernest Henley. Inspiration
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. LawrenceQuotes
If / How to become a man, by Rudyard Kipling. Inspiration
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. – Primo LeviQuotes
Any advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic. – Arthur C. Clarke / Larry Niven *Quotes
To make much of time / Gather ye rosebuds while ye may… Inspiration
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 VonnegutQuotes
Human History / Human history rarely changes. History
El peor enemigo del conocimiento no es la ignorancia, es la ilusión de conocimiento. – Stephen HawkingQuotes
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. – Isaac AsimovQuotes
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 GatesQuotes
Sólo un necio confunde valor con precio. – Antonio MachadoQuotes
¿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? – EpicurioQuotes
Cuando dices SI a otros, asegúrate que no te dices NO a ti mismo. – Paulo CoelhoQuotes
El universo tuvo un día sin un ayer. – Georges LemaitreQuotes
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 PaineQuotes
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; Who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; Who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; Who has never lacked appreciation of earth’s beauty or failed to express it; Who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; Whose life was an inspiration; Whose memory a benediction. – Bessie Anderson StanleyQuotes
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. – Alvin TofflerQuotes
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 FryQuotes
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor FranklQuotes
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 SmithMoney Quotes
To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men. – Ella Wheeler WilcoxQuotes
If we saw tomorrow’s newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen. – Kenneth BouldingQuotes
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 ThoreauQuotes
Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. – Patti SmithQuotes
How to fall asleep in 2 minutes / Learning to fall asleep quickly is a useful skill. Resources
How to tie your shoes / A short video on how to tie your shoes Resources
Kwangmyong / In North Korea there is no internet access as we know it in the rest of the world, there is Kwangmyong. Internet (en)
What Is Intelligence, Anyway? / A short story by Isaac Asimov. Intelligence