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Awareness comes from learning

As I dive into the controversial ideas in de Mello’s Awareness, I read something insightful, which gives sense and meaning to the purpose of this blog. “in order to wake up, the one thing you need the most is not energy, or strength, or youthfulness, or even great...

The power of learning

Do you ever think about studying yourself? If we could learn fast and well, learning would be our real superpower, but it depends on how much we know about ourselves. Knowing yourself does not mean thinking only about you and disregard everything else. Quite the...

Imagination

I expected a lot of things, but not the importance of imagination on interpretation. Today was the final exam of the discipline I lecture on Heat Transfer. There are no recipes, even with methods which we can deliberately practice. In any heat transfer problem,...

The Future of Transhumanism

When I look at how much companies like Apple invest in Augmented Reality, I think about the next step in human evolution. This morning I woke up thinking about transhumanism and the possibility of two factions: cyborgs and ”learnorgs”. Cyborg is an organism with both...

Learning Online

We live in the Age of Self-Experimentation. Learning online can be part of that lifelong journey. But… … it doesn’t replace how you can learn at the University. It’s not so much a matter of content as it is of guidance. We live in a culture...