Berkeley, Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:58 AM This week, I have learned two important things, both were advices, but the second one was part of experience. Yesterday, in a discussion with Joe McBride, a Emeritus Professor who I admire, a topic regarding the preparation to the qualification exams was in the table. Joe has traveled […]
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Understanding the Path I am Walking on, which also can be beyond me.
What is the schedule of talented people?
Berkeley, Tuesday, October 9, 2018 1:25 PM What is the routine of positive talented people? How is possible that one person could be the center of audience of hundreds, thousands, or sometimes millions of people who pay or make a trip and pay or make an space in their time for watching or listening to […]
What are sediments? and should we care about them?
Berkeley, Sunday, October 7, 2018 3:54 PM Since we have lived in a built environment, it is harder to realize about that the soil is on continuous movement. However, it moves very slowly, it geological times. The landscape is shaped by several force drivers such as: water flow and rainfall, wind velocity, earthquakes, gravity, chemical […]
Hey, please do not hit your head
Berkeley, Friday, October 5, 2018 12:30 PM I have not paid fully attention to all the risk of heating my head, although, of course I have acknowledged how important and sensitive is it, as the brain is there, until learnt about further details about concussion. On September 24, I was diagnosed a mild concussion, 2 […]
How was the talk today? Oh, where did the audience go?
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 3:30 PM Know your audience, but how, when invited? I run a colloquium of series of Lectures in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. I receive speakers every week. Some of them has spoken to a filled classroom, which capacity is 25 students. Some others, like today, Rafa, started with 20 […]
How much to ask before annoying or being annoyed?
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 10:35 AM The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943), when had a question never gave up until the question or request will be answered. I, usually, have the same approach, however, there is a point when my instinct, or whatever internal voice I have, alert me to do not […]
Clarity, a need for writing
Berkeley, Wednesday October 3, 2018 10:06 AM I write for clarity. I need to write daily about decisions, failures, ideas, challenges, questions. I need to catch up with my blog posts. I have not been writing in a daily basis, and rather sporadically, since September 15. I often speak my mind, and in previous days, […]
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 3:20 PM One of the favorite quotes from my PhD advisor, Matt Kondolf, is “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail”. This proverb promotes to expand ourselves to a larger set of tools and methods available to analyze a case or to solve a problem. Often, […]
First step. A key habit to take it to keep life moving on
Berkeley, Monday, September 24, 2018 00:42 AM Perhaps simple to say, but this is the most pragmatically habit for getting things done. Just start it. There is a lot of resistance in our comfort zones for doing difficult things. Sometimes, I used to delay things, which I could have already started, for a better time. […]
Beyond the fluid mechanics a lesson from Evan Variano on how to teach when the technology from the host fails
Berkeley, Thursday, September 20, 2018 11:07 PM This post belongs to Wednesday, September 19, 2018 Thinking clearly is an art that can be developed by experience and by taking challenges, reading, and writing. Staying cool under adversary situations is an extremely good talent. Yesterday, Associate Professor Evan Variano gave us a lesson on how to […]
