We all want to be somebody different. We all look up to someone we would like to imitate. There is so many people, me included, that feel inadequate, not good enough. All what we want is to be better, improve ourselves. No wonder why self-help books abound in the New York Times’ list of Best [...]
Being quite a procrastinator and a time wasting guy is not easy. Many times I feel guilty for wasting my time and my employers money. At least it looks to me I am wasting them. This procrastination guilt kept piling up day after day and the feeling was not a nice one. When the end [...]
A cook talking about innovation, in general? Can you learn something from a food maker? Well, if it is Ferran Adrià who shares his wisdom you can learn more than in MIT. Nevertheless, Ferran Adrià has revolutionized how topnotch (and not so topnotch) restaurants prepare their food. Adrià is the owner of El Bulli, the famous 3 [...]
Do you want to have an alternative income while working as a scientist? Do you have some spare hours and you want to get extra bucks? Is your graduate scholarship not enough to pay for your lifestyle? Do you find exciting to work in different scientific and consulting projects in your free time? The following [...]
(Photo: jazzaray) We rarely think why we what we do. It is a fast world where we are living in, no time left to think, just act. Everyday we take thousands of actions: open the door, put your shoes on, grab this, move that, … We do them because we saw our parents doing them [...]
If you want to publish in Bioinformatics you should follow 3 unwritten rules: Submit a tool Give your tool a name Make it available through a web service The funny part comes when scientists, those that are known by their imagination and creativity, have to give a name to their precious tool. When faced with [...]
I have finished reading the book Getting Real by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier, the guys from 37signals. This book is just awesome, really, just get it. It proposes ideas to create web apps and how to make them viable. Ideas such as having less features, less code, less employees, and less documentation, but more [...]
In the Internet world, it seems that if you are not an entrepreneur or you do not develop cool Web 2.0 apps you are a nobody. There are lots of people that make a living from and inside the Internet, maybe freelance designers, web developers, full time bloggers, or even ebook writers. You have the [...]
