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Apparently the world financial crisis is becoming more acute  instead of redressing. That scares us all and makes it even more important that we educate ourselves in economic matters. You want to make the best decisions when you’re in sailing in a storm.

Stumbling around the internet, I found this informative editorial posted on a website that I’ve never visited before. The article is called “Gold is money; therefore a hedge against inflation and deflation.” Even is some may already know the things it presents, I believe there are many people who don’t read such informative articles too often (myself included) and would therefore benefit from it. Read the rest of this post »

Our only security is our ability to change.
— John Lilly

Whether you want a better car, a better paying job, a bigger house, or a fluffier cat, you will have to face one big ugly spiky scary thing:  change. It’s not that scary though.

As living beings, we are constantly changing in order to adapt to our environment and live good thriving lives in it. Some changes are massive and difficult to make, while others are small and simple. But no matter the size of the change, there is a common pool of factors affecting almost all individual changes: Read the rest of this post »

For at least 12 months, I have had this routine of staying up late in the night working on this blog and gaming, and then, with no reason to wake up (see the post on how I lost my purpose), sleep a lot and wake up very late in the next day.

That’s a dangerous sleep schedule. Nasty productivity killer that could make your life gloomy (quite literally). Read the rest of this post »

When I started working on this blog in June 2007, I was excited and motivated. Used to spend a lot of time working on it - content, marketing, networking, the usual stuff. That drive lasted for approximately seven months (until the end of December 2007), because seven months after starting it, I was tempted to try a MMORPG - you know, like some people are tempted to try coke, out of curiosity. I couldn’t believe people would get hooked on a game and actually play it for years, so I went on and tried one for myself to see what the deal was, ignoring all the warnings signs about addiction.

Soon after doing that, I was hooked too (maybe I thought I was special and would not / by the way, don’t try drugs). Read the rest of this post »

There’s a lot of buzz around the word “green” these days. Green collar jobs, green cars, green industries, green buildings, green people from Mars, and so on. Obama has been talking a lot about green, and is investing a lot of money into it. But there are some ignored things about this green. Ignored at least in some public circles.

From an article published in Yale Environment 360:

For the new urbanists, building an eco-town is not a matter of building “green” buildings. For some, in fact, green buildings are non-starters, taking 25 to 65 years to recoup the energy used to build them; and once built, they can become quickly obsolete, saddled with already out-of-date technology.

“Everyone gets seduced by the ‘green bling,’” Stephen Platt of Cambridge Architectural Research told me. “Making the houses energy-efficient is the easy bit. The key problem is making this a long-term socially acceptable place where people will want to live and prosper.” More important is creating places that, like Vauban, encourage people to change their unsustainable behaviors and then enable them to do it.

Do you think we’re ready for green living? Do you think the green technologies are ready for us?

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