How Fast You Walk May Predict How Long You’ll Live

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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From Isis Tsee Life Sciences

 Those who walked 1 meter per second (about 2.25 mph) or faster consistently lived longer than others of their age and sex who walked more slowly, the study showed.
"We're able to show that a person's capacity to move strongly reflects vitality and health," said study researcher Dr. Stephanie Studenski, a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh.

 However, the researchers also emphasized that the purpose of this study wasn't to get people to walk faster in hopes of living longer.
"Your body chooses the walking speed that is best for you, and that is your speed, your health indicator," Studenski said. "And that's what it really is: an indicator. Going out and walking faster does not necessarily mean you will suddenly live longer. You still need to address the underlying health issues."
The researchers showed they could reliably predict the 10-year survival rate of a group of people based on how fast they walked along a 4-meter track.

 I don't agree with this idea that you could change nothing, if you walk faster if you exercise more if you do weights you will live longer. why? because your body improves every time you push it more.

 yes you should test your limits and stress your body a bit. The body was designed to run & to chase animals. we were not made to sit and rest. Go out and walk fast. Do that everyday and you will live longer. I don't have any study but i feel that this is the reality.

 Move and start today.
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Important people don't multitask

Tuesday, August 30, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 1 Comments

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This year, I decided to do something radical that I hadn’t done for almost a decade. I took a proper holiday. I disconnected myself from work altogether. I didn’t open any work messages. I spent time reading, walking, looking at the sea — and sometimes getting into it — while I thought about not much at all. When I returned to work and reacquainted myself with email, it was perfectly straightforward. I deleted almost all of them unread, responding only to the things that looked interesting. Far from feeling overwhelmed, I felt a certain excitement in the sudden immersion in work. It was a new-shoes and sharp-pencil sort of feeling that used to go with the beginning of a school term.
Over the past week it has started to dawn on me that my radical action was not radical at all. I was merely following the latest fashion.


Lucy Kellaway, FT

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/18e67e2e-63b3-11e6-8310-ecf0bddad227.html#axzz4IjqIxAA6

I have noticed during my career that the really important people are not always online and do one thing with 100% focus. The people that multitask sometimes don’t go very far ahead. Perhaps it’s a wrong impression but it’s my experience.

People that multitask are sacrificing Focus for some surprise. It's a big cost.



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Energy will be free in 25 years

Friday, August 12, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Scientific American published an article in 2011 asking whether Moore’s Law applies to solar energy, and if so, might we already be on the course of a paradigm shift in energy similar to what has occurred in computing. The answer is an unqualified yes.


Jeremy Rifkin


I guess it's going to happen the same as with communications. There is a set up cost to install the infrastructure but after that the cost of use is zero! The marginal cost is zero! you will have to pay a flat fee like the connection to the net and then just use.




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What the world needs?

Monday, August 08, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Tight Labour Markets are the best social programme, as they force employers to hire the inexperienced

 Larry Summers, FT Today
without growth (GDP growth) there will never be tight labour markets. Governments have to create growth. That should be the highest priority.

 there is excess supply everywhere. what the world needs is more demand.

 how to create more demand?

 raise interest rates and the people who have savings will start spending again.

 automation and Globalization are strong forces that prevent Tight labour markets. Governments have to engineer strong growth. 
Wars and plagues that slash populations have historically led to higher wages for the survivors

 A Gary Shilling

 fortunately we don't have many wars and plagues anymore , therefore the supply is growing and growing . the solution is higher interest rates that should put some companies out of business.

 higher Interest rates should cut supply and increse demand

 and that is what the world needs
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Money and slimness are never too much !

Friday, August 05, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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A good friend from Banco Santander (the sponser ) invited me to watch live one stage of the Tour of Portugal!

Here is a pic with Rui Vinhas the yellow jersey. I guess i am 20 kg too heavy and 25 years too old!



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It was always bad to be average but in the digital world it's even worse

Tuesday, August 02, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Learning will be totally free, soon

 And what if millions of students around the world who had never before had access to a college education were suddenly able to take courses taught by the most distinguished scholars on the planet and receive credit for their work, all for free? This is happening.

 Zero Marginal Cost Society, Jeremy rifkin

 yes this is happening now

 Get 1200 free online courses from the world’s leading universities —  Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more. You can download these audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites) straight to your computer or mp3 player. Over 30,000 hours of free audio & video lectures, await you now.

 25 years ago no one would predict that you could communicate almost for free with anyone in the world through what's up, Skype or email. No one would guess that you could send videos or pictures to a friend in the other side of the world for free.! No one.

 Jeremy Rifkin predicts that Culture & learning will be totally free. Why pay huge amounts of money to attend a second tier school if you can learn from the best teachers worldwide on-line and listen again and again until you get it? Don't pay a lot to take a course the old fashion way.

 Learn to learn online, it's the future (not to distant)

 In music no one will listen to a lousy orchestra if you can listen to Yuja Wang or Kissin online for free.

 Average teachers and musicians/performers will be without job

 it was always bad to be average but in the digital world it's even worse. 
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Waiting for the SUN

Monday, August 01, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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My oldest & youngest boys waiting for the sun to show .


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