home is where the heart is (1)

writing

"Escritor: não somente uma certa maneira especial de ver as coisas,

senão também uma impossibilidade de as ver de qualquer outra maneira."

Carlos Drummond de Andrade (31/10/1902-17/08/1987)

forecasting (?)

"I give the Stones about another two years..."

(Mick Jagger, 1963)

(at Somerset house, London)

in need of some serious travelling

(this goes for argentina, australia, austria, budapest, the caribbean, berlin, brasil, new zeland, south africa, lisbon...and home.)

[plus, everywhere else]

happiness is simple (3)

Buffett wisdom

“There comes a time when you ought to start doing what you want. Take a job that you love. You will jump out of bed in the morning. I think you are out of your mind if you keep taking jobs that you don't like because you think it will look good on your resume. Isn't that a little like saving up sex for your old age?”

“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.”

“No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.”

“Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill. ”

 “I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection."

“It's nice to have a lot of money, but you know, you don't want to keep it around forever. I prefer buying things. Otherwise, it's a little like saving sex for your old age.”

“You know ... you keep doing the same things and you keep getting the same result over and over again.”

"You never know who's swimming naked until the tide goes out." 

“Never ask a barber if you need a haircut.”

hindsight

distance is a variable that tends to move along 2 axis: time and space. as we move along any of them them, thus getting further away from events and people, things start becoming clearer.

time takes away the contingencies that make an experience subjectively harder or better, turning it into (more objective) facts. it is only in time that I can regret what ever I did or did not do (mostly the former), understand the true motives behind decisions and learn from my most unfortunate judgment calls - only to try again.

physical distance can provide one of two things - it can either make things quickly fade away from easily accessible memory, or highlight who and what is important in full color. regardless of where I might be at a given moment - that tends to be the best sanity check, pointing to where home is.

[all in all, whenever I'm questioning whether I'm doing things for myself, and/or if I'm not missing home whenever I'm away from it, it's never a bad idea to take a step back and have an honest talk with myself.]

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