Some thoughts at the close of 2016

Thursday, December 22, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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You don’t “succeed” because you have no weakness; you succeed because you find your unique strengths and focus on developing habits around them.
Tim Ferris


In the end, winning is sleeping better
Jodie Foster


Fasting before chemotherapy is definitely something that should be implemented in our oncology wards......Fasting essentially slows (sometime stops) rapidly dividing cells and triggers an 'energetic crisis' that makes cancer cells selectively vulnerable to chemo and radiation
Dom D'Agostino 

Globalization is an inherently deflationary force. In a globalized world, if a country experiences an idiosyncratic shock which raises domestic demand, this can be met with more imports rather than higher prices.
Peter Berezin, BCA


“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.”
A. Nonymous

 Notes from me:

 What are the big trends that the world is facing in the last 30 years?

 faster discoveries and new inventions. A new scientist starts his carrier with a huge knowledge that a scientist 50 years ago didn't have.
Doing more with less
we don't need everybody to work
Deflation
specialization
less & less crime
less wars
less poverty
longer lives
a lot of free time 
a more & more clean world.
lack of purpose, some people do't contribute at all

 If trade is not impaired the world will continue to march forward. That is my visium.

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So I dare you to detox

Monday, December 19, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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Addiction is when an action becomes compulsive to the point where you pick up your phone constantly to check updates, it becomes like scratching your nose or biting your lip. You do it without thinking, you need it to cope. So I dare you to detox


Gabi Kahts

Yes i need a detox. I have tryed two things lately. I don't sleep with the i.phone in the room and i go out to the movies without i-phone.

so far so good. i will try one day a weekend without taking the phone out. when i get home i check the messages but not carry it with me.

i will report


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The best revenge is massive success

Friday, December 16, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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The best surprise is no surprise
Holliday Inn ad

Good news is no News
Only catastrophic news sell

There is solid experimental and theoretical evidence that within a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution….by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half
Life Magazine, 1970

BY the time my young sons reach retirement age, half the world’s species will be extinct, the air radioactive and the seas polluted with oil
Jared Diamond, scientist 1995

The ten worst sources of contagion are our fingers
Mayo Clinic Slogan

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is

Vince Lombardi

Without discipline, there's no life at all.
Katharine Hepburn

"The best revenge is massive success."
Frank Sinatra

Notes: 

yesterday i order some toys for my 2 year old son at Amazon. I was amazed that they email me later in the day saying that Your Amazon.co.uk order of "Orchard Toys Red Dog, Blue Dog" and 3 more item(s) has been dispatched! Amazon is a very good logistic business they can pack and ship my items in a matter of hours. 


Good news is no news. Unfortunately it's true. If i own a TV channel i would give notice to the wonderful things that are happening in the world everywhere. yes the world is getting better in everything for 200 years non stop, from poverty, to crime, to air pollution, hunger, disease , child mortality, longevity, quality of life, leisure time,  everything ...........but the media always tries to crate a view that the Good old times where so much better. There where never good old times, only struggle and pain. People love to complain.

what could disrupt this 200 year march of progress and prosperity? only one thing, lack of commerce, lack of globalization and treat to property rights. Yes just look at the only place in the world where progress and improvements are almost frozen for 70 years. Africa. NO property right and the borders are close to commerce.


Have a wonderful weekend. Here in Lisbon i hope to cycle outdoors. 



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How to sleep better

Monday, December 12, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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I read the book from Nick Littlehales (Sky team coach) and some other articles about the subject. I fall asleep easily but i wake time and time again during the night.
What do i take from all this reading that i can use in my life

 1.you sleep less and less as you become older
2.you feel sleepy during some parts of the day even if you slept a perfect night the previous day
3.If you sleep one night really bad there is no problem, as long as on a week basis you have some days with normal sleep
4.there is only one good position to sleep well. Side to your weakest side (my case left). i use to sleep belly down.
5.you should wake up everyday, weekends included at the same time
6.if you have a party and get to bed later that usual don't compensate and sleep late
7.don't overeat & drink before going to bed
8.Don't have phones , i-pads or tv in the bedroom
9.Don't check your phone in the middle of the night
10.Don't have a too hard mattress
11. Do some exercise, get some natural light during the day. 
12.Keep your room dark, cool and quiet
13.nap as much as you can but for a short time each time.

 I will try the side position and to cut a bit on the coffee!




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Weekend Edition

Friday, December 09, 2016 Francisco Carneiro 0 Comments

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If you were allowed one wish for your child, seriously consider wishing him or her optimism.

Optimists are normally cheerful and happy, and therefore popular; they are resilient in adapting to failures and hardships, their chances of clinical depression are reduced, their immune system is stronger, they take better care of their health, they feel healthier than others and are in fact likely to live longer.
Daniel Kahneman, Nobel laureate in Economics


Most environmentalists still haven’t got the word. Worldwide birth rates are in free fall…On every part of every continent and in every culture (even Mormon), birth rates are headed down. They reach replacement level and kept on dropping
Stewart Brand


Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
William Penn


That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest
Henry David Thoreau


You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Henry Ford


One of the first duties of the physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine.
Sir William Osler, Aphorisms from his Bedside Teachings (1961) p. 105
British (Canadian-born) physician (1849 - 1919)   


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