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The Dangers of being a "Snob" - Part ll Not an expert, but... In the previous article of this series we have seen the description for a particular kind of person, the "Snob", those who are constantly trying to prove their intellect or cutting edge sense of trends by demeaning others opinions and making themselves pass as something they are not, an ultimate connoiseur, by just imitating the behavior and views proper to figures they admire and disguising them as their…
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You only have a limited amount of focus per day My head is spinning in all directions Ever had that feeling after a hard and long test where you can't just focus in any task afterwards? This might have to be with the fact that you just spent all your energy and focus in the demanding work that just concentrating and answering the incognites of the exam asks for, leaving you with a reduced amount of "concentration" to get other challenging cognitive tasks done. In the…
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There might be good and bad days One day you're on the top, the other you're back in Mom's House When you propose yourself to learn any discipline in order to be proficient in It, there usually is a long and difficult road ahead of you, where you can be more than sure that there are as many pits as mountains are. The first days can be actually a pretty enjoyable process, where you're getting to learn the fundamentals and don't have any expectations of your capacities…
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Quick Article - How sleep affects our health for the better - Part l Coffee is not the solution to all problems: With the rising demands of life, we find ourselves in a constant hurry about how to get the most things done and also have time to check our phones, which leaves us at the end with less and less hours to dedicate to something which is really important to us and that we sometimes can forget is a human need, sleep. In this little article I'll talk about the many…
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How sleep affects our health for the better - Part ll Nothing like a good night's rest In the previous article of this series, I've talked about some of the many benefits that having a complete night of sleep (4-5 cycles or 7-9 hours) can bring not only to your body in a physical way, thoug also in a phycological way, making you more able to perform throughout the day, have a better mood and be able to feel with more energy than ever. In this continuation, I will keep going…
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Reverb It all depends on where you stand on Reverb is one of those things that you instinctually know as you experience it all day with all the sounds you listen to. Some of the sounds, being voices, instruments, weirds noises or others have a particular characteristic: Depending on the place they are generated and where you're actually hearing them from, they will sound very different, having more presence as you get closer and less as you get farther from It, while also…
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Signal Communication Channels Where do I get cable from? All of the devices we use for receiving information, whether It is a radio, a TV with standard cable, Smartphones, PCs and many more have an intricate system behind the way they get this data. All this is done through networks that are established to send signals through different mediums from the source of It (Your service company/station) to the comfort of your home or car. In this article I'll talk about the many…
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Reference Tracks Putting your instruments at the same volume than your favorite rapper won't make your song a copy. The world of music production is mainly subjective with respect to the ideas It wants to achieve, as long as It has a niche, you can do It. Also, Art is theft, even If that theft is from various sources, so, in music, don't be ashamed to compare what you do to others, though If you're gonna do It, do It in a productive way. This is where the concept of…
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Electrical Noise Why my Audio sounds like a COD MW2 lobby? Ever wondered why in some places electricity might fail? Well, you might blame It on a lot of factors, like shortcomings in the electrical wiring of your house, your electrical provider, though sometimes the real cause of all might just have to do with something apparently simple, noise. In this case we refer to electrical noise, that which can cause for our electrical signals to be distorted and just make our…
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Delay (In Sounds) Echo echo As I have explained in a previous article, sounds have particular characteristics that make them appear different from one another depending on the space they are played, one of these being reverb, where the reflections of the sound on a closed surface play along with the direct interpretation of the sound, making It sound like It's slowly fading away. Another one of these characteristics, and one that is notoriously apparent and understandable to…
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Chorus How to make It sound bigger than life Here we go with another effect that can be applied to sound, In this case not too different from delay, though with an extra characteristic. Its action can be appreciated in day to day situations, for example when you go to church and hear a lot of people singing in unison, where all the voices compliment each other and even though there are slight time separations between each other, they still sound like a big voice with many…
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Problem Trees An animated way to figure out the bills As simple as they might look from afar, we all know that when a problem strikes us, we're prone to overreact and pass through different stages before accepting It and thinking about It in objective terms. That's why we have used a lot of methods through history to make our decision making process better when It comes to handling obstacles in the way. In this article I'll talk about a specific method to diagnose a…
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Facing the Unknown That which you most need will be found where you least want to look We always find ourselves facing points in our lives where we feel really unhappy with our current situation, where things seem to go nowhere and It looks like we're not making any progress, though at the same time, we already know why we're not advancing, It's just that we don't go for It. This might have to do with a lot of things, It might be because It's really hard to do, It's…
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Guidelines: Dealing with Anxiety Don't exaggerate reality To say that I was a little shy when facing my teenage years was an understatement. I was the type of person that just avoided any social situations and didn't go outside of home because of my irrational fears. Along with this was an already reduced circle of friends and relatives that didn't make the experience any better. I just spent days and days in front of the computer hoping not to find anyone or having to talk…
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Statistics: Frequency Charts Not as frightening as they make them seem Ever had a great amount of values dispersed in a test questions or inventory and suddenly they ask you to tell which one is bigger/smaller, how It grows or how It decreases? Well, you surely wouldn't be able to do It by just sight, so different methods might be needed to accomplish the task at hand. One of these are the diagrams known as frequency charts, a table with a set of items that can help you…
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Working Hard vs Working Smart - Part l It turns out just sweeping the floor won't make you rich One thing is right, and that Is the fact that if you work hard enough you can anchieve your set goals. However, working hard is only a part of the equation, as there are many more factors that influence your success, such as the quality of the decisions you're taking, what kind of habits you have, the relationships you have and what is your disposition towards adverse situations.…
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How to optimize your environment for a more productive day (Work Hard v Work Smart, Part ll) Phone in a safebox if possible In the previous article I talked about the differences between working hard and working in a smart way, where in the first case you just worked "hard" by just doing anything that means work to you and not leaving much quality time to the parts of the job that are really going to make you advance further in your projects. You will end up distracted and…
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How an Analog Signal is converted Into a Digital One (Part l) From your keyboard to a letter in the screen We all know that technology has helped us in more ways than we can imagine, to the point where now we can't even picture our lives going forward without It. However, for most of us, Its functioning is akind to sorcery as to how our devices can interact with the external world and produce something coherent. In this little article I will provide you with an…
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The importance of little pauses between work. Solutions come when you less expect them Many times I've found myself stuck in a particular situation. Whether It was thinking about how to solve a difficult problem or deciding which was the best option to get the most out of my projects, I did spent my time ruminating for hours and hours that didn't get me nowhere near the desired result, in some cases even bringing me further from It. Then, as I grew more tired and frustrated,…
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How to manage your salary easily (The 50/30/20 rule) The first rule to having a happy life is to have a nice wallet Many people find themselves suffering from pay check to pay check. As they go on buying sprees constantly without properly tracking what's their current balance and what they spend their money on, they usually end up with a bunch of unnecesary items in their home and a lot of necessary expenditures not being covered by the end of the month. Before jumping to…
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The dangers of lifestyle inflation Where did that raise go? A trap most of us find when in the laboral world is the pressure to spend more and more as we raise up the corporative ladder, where by each increase to our salary we end up spending twice as much, leaving us in the short term with a little sense of satisfaction for all that hard work earned us, though in the long run leaving us more and more stressed as bills, debts and mortgages begin to come for that expensive…
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Strategies to combat lifestyle inflation (The Dangers of Lifestyle Inflation ll) How do I keep the money in my pockets? In the previous article of this series we've talked about the dangers of lifestyle inflation and how getting crazy with your expenses as you get a promotion in job can leave you with more misery than joy in the long run, putting the point across with a series of examples where the most common demographics get affected by this phenomena. Well, In this…
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You're the result of who you follow online A twist to the common phrase In the past, all of our lives revolved around our physical relationships with other people, specifically the ones we most spent our time and hanged around with, influencing to a higher or lesser degree our general behavior and viewpoint towards the world. By being in a group of people, we slowly acquired their own perspective, activities and even goals, even coming to the point of doing things just to…
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Speeding Up (Getting more time to live) A short life or a long life I know for sure that everyone of us has probably spent days where we can achieve all our set tasks in question of just a few hours and have the rest of the day free, as there are others where we just can't get a thing done after 7-8 hours of work. Well, as monotonous as this might sound, we are actually making our life shorter with this. I'm not talking in terms of It compromising our health and making us…
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How the way you watch videos can make your life worse Not even knowing what you want Have you ever spent nights where you just thought that you will watch a single video about a particular field and then end up at 2 am in the morning watching DIY wooden houses video? Well, I think It has happened to all of us at some point, and the reality about this is that sustaining these kind of habits when consuming content in the internet can make our lives miserable. Apart from the…