Rewire your brain to beat procrastination.

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Turn off the phone, tune into yourself, and be productive when it counts. Have you ever found yourself staring at your phone or laptop, mindlessly checking social media or going down an internet rabbit hole when you’re supposed to be doing something else? So have I. My name is Brian, and I’m addicted to information. More […]

Ordinary People Focus on the Outcome. Extraordinary People Focus On the Process.

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In his autobiography, Bryan Cranston (Walter White of the renowned Breaking Bad) described the lesson he learned that helped him go from an average actor to an extraordinary one. Here’s what he wrote: “Early in my career, I was always hustling. Doing commercials, guest-starring, auditioning like crazy. I was making a decent living…but I felt I […]

Why you shouldn’t tell people your goals.

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How many times have we sat in solitude and then…BOOM! inspiration ,a brilliant idea pops-up, a new goal, a new venture that you want to take on and you’re so excited because of these new insights that you want to share it with the world. Now if you’re anything like me, you probably want to get it […]

How To Find Clarity When You’re Stuck.

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Questions Can Give Us The Insight We Need To Move Forward. Do you ever get stuck? Do you ever have times when you’re working hard, doing all the right things and still you can’t seem to make progress? If you’re an entrepreneur, a creative or you’re simply trying to branch out into new areas then I’m sure you’ve […]

“Carpe Diem”, el bellísimo y encantador poema de Walt Whitman que te motivará a luchar por tus sueños.

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Aprovecha el día. No dejes que termine sin haber crecido un poco, sin haber sido feliz, sin haber alimentado tus sueños. No te dejes vencer por el desaliento. No permitas que nadie te quite el derecho de expresarte, que es casi un deber. No abandones tus ansias de hacer de tu vida algo extraordinario… No […]

What Hurts Most About Disillusionment.

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And why it’s not about losing trust in people. As with anyone who hasn’t glued on their rosy glasses with super glue, I find disillusionment a recurring companion of life experiences. There’s no pathos to this fact, and just a little sentimental sadness. Mostly, after the smoke subsides and the embers cool down, there’s always […]

The deepest problem with deep learning.

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Some reflections on an accidental Twitterstorm, the future of AI and deep learning, and what happens when you confuse a school bus with a snow plow. On November 21, I read an interview with Yoshua Bengio in Technology Review that to a surprising degree downplayed recent successes in deep learning, emphasizing instead some other important problems in AI might require […]

How email can actually enhance your productivity.

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Confession: I love email. It’s not exactly a popular opinion these days. As Don Norman said in a 2015 Fast Company story, “email is the office memo turned cancerous, extended to home and everyday life.” Google “I hate email” and you get everything from cartoons to blog posts to active Reddit threads. More drastically, some companies have […]