In my last Amazon parcel I got the book with the largest name I know: “The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers“. It’s really amusing! It shows you all kind of farm related techniques, from sowing plants to building gates, from butchering a cow to installing wind mills. Moreover […]

Here it is a morning conversation with my new Hindi junior coworker. He is in New Delhi, working for us remotely, and I’m teaching him quite a lot of things, and love to discuss about programming problems…
Me - have you read about Composite Pattern?
He - i use to say to my friends that am good […]

“NAIVE.
Naive you are
if you believe
life favours those
who aren’t naive.”
- Piet Hein
It’s curious to see that some very logical people are poets and abstract creators (maths, music, games, etc) at the same time.
Peeking at Piet Hein’s biography, inventor of the game of Hex (also independently invented by John Nash), I discovered his poet side. He […]

Eventually I read the book “The World Without Us“. In the last few months I’ve read quite a lot of essays, like Freakonomics, Philosopher at the End of the Universe, Wikinomics… but I really wanted to assault this book. Last month I found a copy in Liverpool airport, after looking for it almost 1 hour […]

The other day I was speaking with Jordi, while looking for a firewood heater in Encants flea market, when I realized I’m reading a lot of books at the same time. I knew I was reading more than 1 book, but I didn’t notice the exact amount of reading threads.
Let’s enumerate them:
· La Costa de […]