This was a recommendation from a very good friend that was sitting in my kindle for a while. I dont normally read Sci-Fi. Apart from Foundation, Dune and Three body problem. And honestly I liked the book. It was engaging, you wanted to know how things were going to finish, and I really like the end twist, the different personalities, etc.
And with all the new rocket companies trying to reach the moon, mars, etc. Maybe we will have a situation like the book in the long future: Earth, Mars and the Belt.
I bought this ebook as an offer and I was surprised about how short it was. It is easy to digest as it is not a hardcore science book
The most interesting lesson was the last one about “Probability, time and heat”. “the difference between past and future only exists when there is heat”. And the reason the heats from from hotter to cooler things is just probability…
And I dont mean I fully understood everything but It was a nice and light read.
It is quite dense and practical. The author cuts most of the technical terms and make it easy to understand. It is a about psychology and the split between Human/Rational brain and Chimp/Emotional brain. It reminds me again to this book. Although he adds the concept of the computer too inside our brain. The Chimp is the strongest so you need to learn to tame it and live with it, you can force the chimp as he always beat the rational side. The computer is the fastest answering and it is used by the chimp so you need to have a good programming on it: your live values.
So the whole book runs around those three concepts so you can build a balance between them and live a stable life.
I liked it as I felt resonated with several concepts. I think they match a lot with Stoicism in the sense to accept the world, create your values and take action.
This year I travelled to the Azores Islands. Somehow I was a bit apathetic, I wasn’t in the mood of a big trip, not sure.
I followed this blog to make my planning. And didn’t check much as I wanted to go a bit with the flow. My main goal was to see whales (because swimming was not possible), trekking and see the sea. I visited Sao Miguel, Faial, Pico and Sao Jorge.
Although I made a couple of blunders in my planning (expired credit card, booked flights for something that I could take a ferry), it turned very good. I liked a lot, I trekked in the morning, and then I chilled in the natural pools in the afternoon. It was simple. I like the bread with corn flour: tasty, moist, fluffy, I need to try. As well, I tried the local banana and pineapple, and they were great! I dont like to go to restaurants alone so I mainly bought food in supermarkets.
I used this page for all treks, being the one linked the hardest one I did (go and back)
I didnt socialise much apart from one hostel that was really focus on that. But it was good to think on myself and refresh/recharge.
