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, […]
Wonderful life
Berkeley, Friday September 28, 2018 11:28 PM Tracking back in the learning curve of my life, since 2008, the curve has been going in a accelerated beautiful positive steep slope. Although, there have been many difficulties that I have encounter in the way, and as I described life has a sinusoidal shape, it does not […]
Back to perform at full capacity
Berkeley, Thursday, September 28, 2018 12:26 PM I was able to convince myself and to convince the Doctor that I back to work at full brain and energy capacity after being diagnosed a mild concussion on Monday, with mild brain injury, as a result of hitting my head against a bended tree on Saturday, September […]
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, […]
Life experiences in a duck shaped curve. I welcome a frequent recurrence of the curve. Thus, the lifetime curve has a sinusoidal shape.
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:14 PM Fig. 1 is a more detailed version from a chart that I was instructed about what to expect during my academic journey in my program. I was instructed about it in a Fulbright orientation seminar ‘Pre-departure’, in Quito, Ecuador. I think the exact date was June 9, 2016. […]
Accounting and balancing number of blog posts to reach one per day.
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:00 PM I have written 34 blog posts since August 18, 2018, which is 39 days ago, when I was determined to start my daily blog. Jian was one of the persons who challenged me, plus my personal motivation to fulfill this activity. Since, 11 days ago, Friday, September 14, […]
Concussion. The results created confusion, but what is the conclusion?
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018. 11:31 AM I hit my head to a bended tree in a hike on Saturday afternoon around Lake Anza. It was a foolish hit. We were a group of four, who went for a picnic lunch. After the lunch, we started a short hike finding our way out by surrounding […]
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 […]
Planning and the importance of scheduling
Berkeley, Thursday, September 20, 2018 10:34 PM I aimed, when I started to write this blog post, to write everyday. I do not recall any wasted time since last Friday, since when I have not been writing my blog in a daily basis as the three previous weeks. I stick to my goals, I am […]
