Category: Personal

  • Anticipating the Future: Becoming a Data Engineer

    As I work on becoming a data engineer, I decided to apply inversion and anticipate the future. Inversion is about going backward, starting where I want to be and asking what happened and what I did to get there, then asking again what was the previous step until I get to where I’m today. I’m…

  • Hello, 29

    When I met 28, I told many people that I would celebrate my 29th slim. My goal was 97kg, met the goal two weeks before. By telling people, I convinced myself and said that this was happening. Telling others about my goal really helped me. Today I want to share the goals I have set…

  • On meditation

    Four years ago, when I read about Yuval Noah Harari meditated and was a big promoter of (More). It seemed like I needed to try for someone like me who gets distracted quickly by my thoughts–I wanted to tame my monkey mind (still want!). To give you an idea, I checked other articles, opened a…

  • 8 tips that help me fast for 20 or more hours

    Today I’m in the middle of a 40 hours fasting; I’m hour 20 right now. Some friends ask me how I can do it, so I’m going to list a few things I do before and during my fast: Eat well the day before: I like to eat a lot of protein, green stuff. At…

  • How I built the habit of exercise

    At 28 birthday, I made a promise to get as fit/slim as possible, but more than this, to become a healthy person, this included: Fasting Healthy dieting Excessive It wasn’t about doing it until I hit a certain weight; I wanted to be sure that I created habits that would stick with me and be…

  • Better than a king

    I’m sitting at a place that is not home, just a few blocks from the beach, waiting for my food to arrive. I ordered some Mexican food via uber because I didn’t want to walk today. So what?  It reminds me that I had a better life than a European king 200 years ago; that…

  • What I’m going to write about?

    I want to be on this website about things I enjoy, this will help me understand, share and store thoughts. Software architecture Chess Stock market Wealth Personal finance Traveling Food Books Sunsets Mindset Technology Me Eventually, I’ll move some of this topic to external blogs that will be specific and focus on a topic, and…

  • We are becoming a multi-planetary species

    Something that has amazed me lately is where we are heading as humans race, in order to survive we need to move to space: The idea makes a lot of sense, the earth is a dangerous place for species including us, we have had natural disasters, meteorites, and many species had died, we can be…

  • Just Write

    here I’m at a hostel sitting at the social area, working on this “writing” thing that I have tried a few times before, let’s see how it goes this time. I will just write.

  • hubris

    Excessive pride or self-confidence, often entailing a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one’s own capabilities, especially on the part of those in positions of power. Webster’s dictionary, 8th Source: http://www.crossingwallstreet.com/archives/2012/08/how-to-spot-financial-fraud.html