In My Not-So-Humble Opinion

As it usually happens, we learn from our own mistakes, or as they say where I come from: "If you get bitten by a snake, you will be afraid of the tiniest of lizards".However, it is waaay better if we learn from other people's mistakes, knowing upfront that snakes have a sharp set of teeth will save you some trouble, will it not? Use that wisdom that other people gathered, trust those few good friends you have when they start telling you about snakes and how badly the snake bite hurts. That said, here are several good points from Debbie Millman, an american writer/designer, followed with some of my comments and opinions. I read these opinions of hers and I find them being a subtle example of eternal wisdom. All of the points are well worth the effort of achieving them: If you are not making mistakes, you are not taking enough risks .  True as it gets. There is no such thing as success without leaving your comfort zone.The ship is very safe when it sits in the harbo...

The forever battle, good and bad, yin and yang, light and darkness. Some of these epic face-offs are figurative, philosophical even, others are as real as your appointment with the dentist, or your attitude toward some real-life thingy. I mean imagine your inner war when it comes to adopting new things, new people, adopting change for example? Is this change good for me? Should I go with the flow or just go straight against it? While the philosophical face-offs are a great way to start a discussion and kill (read: lose) time, the real ones affect your lives, my dear friends, they mingle their fingers into the very essence of your character, they mess around with your destiny as if it's their own, and if their meddling means success for you, they get all the trumpets and a parade, and if they fail......meh, it's not their ass on the line isn't it? Imagine yourself, waking up one day and having this fantastic idea that could change the world. You are not completely ...

The beauty of the internet.This wonderful spaghetti network of cables, routers, devices enabling billions of billions of electrons to interact and form those beautiful 1's and 0's rushing through them like cocaine through addict's veins, right up to our laptop/tablet/smartphone screens. This wonderful place where unicorns feed on rainbow stripes and shit colorful M n' M candies. The place REEKS from cries for attention, lost souls searching for their last stand before they vanish, and those others that are in the process of losing their soul. With all those social networking sites anyone of us can make a simple reality check: read the posts from your friends, followers or whichever social drug you're on, and try to think about why did they post just that photo or that status on their profile. You will then see how much pain, how much cries for help are there wrapped up in a song lyric or a vintage-effect photo labeled with a "Keep Calm" clic...

It is really fucked up how real life is so similar to politics.And I am not talking about the life we see on TV in all of those dumb ass reality shows, I'm not talking about a hip hop video, I'm not talking about a crying teenager who is angry that she got a Lexus for her 16th birthday while all she wanted was a Benz (this actually happened, it's somewhere on youtube).I'm talking about a real, ordinary, every day life of someone trying to make it in this world and maybe live through a couple of nice moments here and there.So, in this every day life you meet so many politicians, most of them very close to you, and you don't even know this until they show themselves in their true light. I mean what is politics really?? It is a fight for obtaining and holding power,a fight sometimes verbal, sometimes physical, sometimes without casualties, sometimes through genocide. Sometimes subtle like a silent chess move. But if it is a fight for obtaining power, how is it any d...

Our lives are all just a bunch of beginnings and endings.We are born,we live, we evolve, we grow, we eat, sleep, shit, we do everything and then we die.And that very same day thousands of others are born and they live,eat,sleep and they die as well, and for each one of them thousands of others are born and so on and so forth.... Everything that exists must come to an end, each atom, each corner of our galaxy, each piece of physical matter or abstract thought ends at some point after it begins. Some endings are happy, most of them are sad. Some are as easy as "see you tomorrow" others are as hard and smelly as the heavy silence of guilt.There are endings that people do not notice as they have no value, like the ending of a low budget movie, or the bottom of an empty beer as, fuck it, you will get another one.And then there are endings that people do not understand how destructive they are until they actually happen.It is mostly because people do not want to ...

It's the usual thing, you know? You are about to do something and you kill yourself by thinking it over before you do it, but when you need to quit you're out of that door as soon as you see trouble. Yep,you guessed it right, we have more thinkers then doers, and most of all we have quitters. Never quit just to solve the issue.Quitting is the last resort, so think hard before you run from your problems. Think hard are you really that person that is about to leave his life just to solve an issue, or are you born to resist and fight back.Very often the people will get the best of you, and you will feel as if you are surrounded by enemies. Well you know what they say, once it's happenstance, twice coincidence, three times it's enemy action, so you might even be right.And so what if you are? That does not change the facts that by running away from problems you will not solve a thing. All of you have probably heard of Maria Kiri, which in one occasion said: Life is no...

During an event I attended recently, I spoke to a student with great ambitions, and a company of his own.Really liked the kid,just thought he lacks experience to lead a proper business.When I told him what I think the holes are in his products,well, he kinda became pale and left me to go look for a chair to sit in.Soon after, he left the event. I'm not sure if I did him a favor or killed his dreams, but one way or the other it sure was an experience for him :).Hopefully he learned something from our conversation cause if he did not,he will have to learn from his own mistakes. My point in this text is that I think that there are things kids should be taught in high school (or not later than college) as a lot of stuff around us today promise us a future world where talk is not cheap and money is easy to get. A fast buck for nothing. That will NOT happen. To all high school kids, college students, and everyone that finds any single one from the following 11 ...