Sep 1, 2022It’s practically impossible to avoid the news of ecological crises (plural) these days.It’s practically impossible to avoid the news of ecological crises (plural) these days. I’m not talking about Russia strangling Europe this winter by cutting gas flows. That will be a politically-made crisis. I’m talking about the epochal droughts afflicting the entire planet. …Climate Change5 min readClimate Change5 min read
Apr 2, 2022Confessions of a DoomscrollerThe more you want to get away from it, the easiest it finds you. Bad news and ominous signals have an inexorable way of powering their way to your skull. Regardless of how badly you want to get away from them. …Ukraine4 min readUkraine4 min read
Jan 4, 2022Messi Jersey GuyToday I saw a man wearing a Lionel Messi jersey. It was weird. It was not the ubiquitous blaugrana jersey that you see everywhere. No. It was the new Paris St. Germain one. It felt foreign. It got me thinking. How dares the emblem of Culés betray his tribe? And…Psychology3 min readPsychology3 min read
Dec 29, 2021Schrödinger PeopleAnother cycle around our star and we’re still stuck in the same rut. …Covid-194 min readCovid-194 min read
Sep 5, 2021StorytimeWe’re instinctive animals. We act in accordance to what we feel: anger, happiness, compassion, pain. Your body is an evolution-optimized “soft machine” whose actions can be traced and explained by specific emotions. You are cold? You get a blanket. The pain your nerves communicate to your brain prompts you to…Psychology5 min readPsychology5 min read
Jul 18, 2021The Wave You RideWe can’t predict the future. Chaos always reigns. The unpredictable compounding of events is inevitable, and we can always count on surprises occurring, which is why it pays to build our lives (and invest) with the certainty that something will inevitably go wrong. Accounting for the certitude that something you…Parenting3 min readParenting3 min read
Jun 17, 2021Foragers and FarmersKnowledge accumulates throughout generations. It travels through time as long as there is always someone at the other end of the arrow to time to absorb it, assimilate it and apply it. Language helped it transcend — first in oral traditions, then in written form. Sure, there were some instances…Philosophy4 min readPhilosophy4 min read
May 30, 2021Have’s vs Have-Too’sOne of the most ironic things about the political revolution that manifested itself with battle cry “Make America Great Again” is its inherent ideological contradiction. Although Trump supporters never explicitly explain what “America” they want to bring back, implicit is the notion that they want to see again the dominant…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
Jan 25, 2021Government 2.0Out of all the forms of societal organization (the tribe, bands, the Kingdom, The City-State, The Empire, etc), the Nation-State seems to have been the most stable and successful way of human association. The competition was somewhat settled after WWI with the collapse of the last of the great empires…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
Oct 27, 2020We’re All ConservativesWe are nothing more than little ants fighting disorder in our immediate environment living in a universe trending towards chaos. From our insignificant, unilateral (human) viewpoint, we are always striving to minimize surprises. That’s the brain evolution gifted us. And when surprises appear, we learn, hoping to apply what’s learned…Politics5 min readPolitics5 min read
