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An often overlooked aspect of choosing whether to go to college, pursue other studies or enter the job market is the kind of people you'll be surrounding yourself with. That's because when you go to college or go  to work you'll have to go there, and the mood and beliefs of the place will affect you. I personally noticed great differences between Law Degree students, more focused on work, and Political Science ones, who tended to be more curious, creative, and didn't want to think about the job market. In Law classes conversations tended to be about holidays, in Political Science they could easily turn political and even philosophical. I also  I won't go into specifics because beliefs can change enormously from time and place. I simply suggest you take this into account in the same way as you check the price of a student programme or the annual salary of a job. The best way is to talk with somebody who has already done what you are evaluating whether you will do, or...

My friend, What follows is a reflection intended for you. I publish it in this blog as a better alternative to sending you a Drive. Plus, I might need to retrieve it. The topic in question is not precisely niche nowadays. It was your impression that in America there is less social cohesion than in Europe, that is, that in America there is a weaker union among the inhabitants of a given place in favour of their particular ideological and religious groups. If I was mistaken, I beg you correct me. Social cohesion is not a luxury, but a necessity, among the individuals that share a given territory. Social cohesion is not simply living amongst eachother, to coexist. Trading, having a beer and sharing the same streets are part of the economic and social categories. Social cohesion, I argue, is the domain of politics. And, as the always polemic but always lauded Carl Schmitt always defended, that is the difference between friend and enemy. A professor I had described an anecdote of a Jewish s...

  (Header image by Steve Cutts) Why are many of us in the digital world more than we want and than is good for us? Do you remember any specific moment from all those hours in the digital world, or is it all a blur? Have you learned a language, played an instrument, some deep life lesson, or laughed your guts out through the digital world? What does the Internet bring you? If all your digital devices were broken, would we lose anything important? If the Internet limits our ability to pursue what is good, we are not free, just as an addicted person is not free. Persuasive design "Persuasive design is an area of design that focuses on influencing human behavior through the characteristics of a product or service" (taken from a website that offers persuasive design courses). "Customer engagement is the direct route to all relevant business objectives. It's the path to all the good a business could want" (a Consumer Experience Expert) The persuasive design makes use ...

Original article in Catalan published in 2022: La integració a un poble Edited Machine Translation In 1964 Els altres catalans  (The other Catalans) was published, a book in which Francesc Candel addresses the Catalan reader of the time to make him understand the perspective of the Castilian immigrants who had arrived in Catalonia during the 20th century. The book was an immediate success. It touched on an unresolved issue in Catalan society at that time and offered a rather optimistic perspective, describing how the second generations of immigrants grow up knowing how to speak Catalan and identifying to a greater or lesser extent with the land where their parents had emigrated parents Candel's implicit thesis is that time dissolves the identity of the first generations and increases the sense of belonging among the new ones. The demographic reality has changed over the course of the last sixty years, but we still haven't been able to solve the enigma of integration. Today, the...

Original article in Catalan published in 2024: Qui és català? Edited Machine Translation. At the beginning of the 2000s, my mother worked in an automotive factory near Abrera. Part of the new immigration that arrived and was added to the previous one, the Castilian, was known as "Catalan". Ciutadans still did not have a great media push and, practically everywhere, or at least in a large part of the metropolitan area that had received the flood of immigration from the Franco regime a few decades earlier, the distinction between Catalans and Castilians worked perfectly. Catalans were, obviously, all those who spoke Catalan and had integrated it in all areas of life, mainly in the fact of passing it on to their children. Castilians, those who, wherever they were from, spoke Spanish. The distinction did not, in fact, have a negative connotation, but merely descriptive. Despite the official story of a single people and the particular interests of parties such as the PSC, which d...