Ideas, Reflections and Speculations
Seeing clearly hurts, that's why you see cloudily
Self-help is always an invitation to submit one's own thinking, critical thinking, to the thinking and experience of another. Critical thinking is the exercise of questioning one's own thinking. Only after that should you even think about directing your attention to someone else's thinking.
A perspective on sustainability
It is convenient to close or at least half-closed our eyes to the problems that exist around us and our own contribution. Sometimes it is good not to see reality clearly, lest it make us depressed or give us even more work.
Let's pay attention to what we pay attention to and learn to distract ourselves better
When we feel lonely, bored, angry, frustrated, worried, we distract ourselves with the shiny screen that is more accessible, that shows us often irrelevant things. We distract ourselves with distractions. Let us distract ourselves better.
The (sad) story of the chatbot who knows me better than my mother
Machines have already freed us from many heavy jobs and make our lives easier in so many others. How much better is our life? What have we done with this (supposed) evolution? We have created new problems instead of solving other important and avoidable problems. What problems are we neglecting as the myopia caused by our dazzle worsens?
The sales people
The sold are the ones unable to see the falseness of their absolute and indelible truths. They are the ones blinded by the need, which has become belief, to always be right. These are the ones who accumulate truths without ever surrendering to the possibility of being wrong.