Let’s go again. For a third year on row I did a kind of visual balance of my year in various dimensions. This time around, I added “Frameworks” to last
27 Sept 2025
Hitchhiking through Degrowth
(Article written O Caracol Summer 2025 — the quarterly newsletter of the Degrowth Network) In January 2024, following a friend’s tip, I walked through a door on a street in
22 Jan 2025
Visual and Data Balance of my 2024
After 12 months since my last post, I did again an annual balance. This time, instead of a dashboard like last year, I focused on charts and notes. The goal
17 Jan 2024
Visual and Data Balance of my 2023
I love the way a number, chart or image can tell you something surprising or insightful about yourself. To get these data self-insights, I have been storing more and more
13 Aug 2023
Balance and Results of My Sabbatical
Done! Sixteen weeks of giving myself time to explore new, or in a deeper way, diverse dimensions of my life. In this post, I cover what I did, how it
28 May 2023
1-27 May | A Month of Unplanned Diversity
May was the most mixed and uncharacteristic month of the Sabbatical. To be expected, since I did little preparing at the end of a family-intense April. To compensate for the
30 Apr 2023
01-30 Apr | Seven Optimistic Visits
This post is longer, as it covers an entire month. April was a very different month from March, like March was different from February. I didn’t write a single post
31 Mar 2023
23-31 Mar | Mid-Term Check and Plan April
I am Officially in the middle of my Sabbatical Leave. 8 weeks behind. 8 weeks to go. In this post, I look backward at achieved milestones and unplanned changes, trying
22 Mar 2023
20-22 Mar | Creatures of Habits or Purpose?
There is recent hype around Personal Habits and their power to improve our busy lives but, as with many other things now, something is not working as it should, and
17 Mar 2023
15-19 Mar | How do we Reach out to Others?
In these two months of Sabbatical, I have done a lot of different reaching out to others. In brainstorming meetings, in reading several books and listening to podcasts, in writing
14 Mar 2023
09-14 Mar | The Brain, ChatGPT and Teams
I finally invested consecutive days in one of my Sabbatical key topics: Complex Systems and Collective Intelligence. This somehow exotic topic comes down to the idea that groups of interconnected
8 Mar 2023
08 Mar | A Better & Shared Life Alignment
Using the focus mode of these first two weeks of March, I did a deeper attempt to explain why I believe is important to explore and create something new in
7 Mar 2023
06-07 Mar | Writing’s Great but Takes Time
I think this will be the shorter post of my journal. I just want to make the point, for myself later and others, that writing is great to organize ideas,
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