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101 Screts For Your Twenties: Loneliness

Published on April 11, 2019.

Continue with my notes of Paul Angone’s “101 Secrets For Your Twenties”, another cluster of secrets is about when “you’re in a very intense season or place of questioning”. Paul wrote

But don’t allow loneliness to become isolation.

Don’t pull your head inside your shell thinking only you can protect yourself. Don’t got on a dangerous Great Alaskan Adventurure to live off the land all by yourself. That’s not a search for life, that’s suicide.

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101 Secrets For Your Twenties

Published on April 10, 2019.

My best friend Renato recommended me to read Paul Angone’s “101 Secrets For Your Twenties”. The books is, to say the least, very interesting and I read half of it before go to sleep and the other half waiting to board my flight the day after. It covers a variety of topics without clustering them together which helps with the flow of the reading. I bookmarked some of the secrets and I will share it by clustering them together.

Toltec Wisdom

Published on March 24, 2019.

Today I read The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz. It was an interesting reading that connects with other books that I read.

My first highlight is

Children compete for the attention of their parents, their teachers, tehir friends. “Look at me! Look at what I’m doing! Hey, I’m here.” The need for attention becomes very strong and continues into adulthood.

This is one of the reasons that social media is so addicted, it gives opportunity for us to ask for attention and provide us with the illusion that we have someone’s attention.

Trust

Published on March 23, 2019.

I have been climbing for more than a year now. Most of the time I go to Manchester Climbing Centre because is a walk distance of my place and they have awesome indoor lead climbing walks. Unfortunately, they only have a small indoor bouldering area which means that if you are starting climbing you might end up bored because you can only climb a few of the routes, this was what happen with me when I started.

Principles app

Published on March 10, 2019.

Ray Dalio, in Principles, mentions a couple of apps used at Bridgewater:

• Coach: a library of common situations which are linked to the relevant principles to help people handle them;
• Dot Collector: used to allow people to express their thoughts and see others’ thoughts in real time;
• Baseball Cards: data visualisation fo a person’s strengths and weakness;
• Combinator: staff-job assignment based on staff profile;
• Issue Log: recording of mistakes;
• Pain Button: record emotions for later reflection;
• Dispute Resolver: paths for resolving disagreements;
• Daily Update: improve communication;
• Contract Tool: make and monitor commitments;
• Process Flow Diagram: visualisation of processes;

Some of the apps (e.g. Dot Collector and Issue Log) can be implemented on top of other online services (e.g. Google Docs) but others can not. Would be great to have free and open versions of those apps.