Keeping a job for 30,40 years or until retirement was commonplace until a decade ago. But as Generation Y seizes the scene, this way of making career is facing extinction. As opposed to Gen X and Baby Boomers, Gen Y chooses vertiginous -and sometimes unstable employment- change, to slow and steady growth. Nowadays, for those [...]

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No, I’m not talking about my place. I’m talking about real black holes. What you are about to read, if you dare stick around what could be a very boring post, is no science fiction. One of the biggest mysteries of our times is what happens inside a black hole. According to a researcher from [...]

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Hi everyone, The site is experiencing technical difficulties. It has been up and down all weekend. Apparently, there’s a plugin (WP Super Cache) that has gone rogue and is eating as much memory as it is given. One solution would be to delete everything and start from scratch but getting back to where I am [...]

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Health Care Workers Rejoice: Scientists Invent Paint that Kills Deadly MRSA Bacteria

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MRSA is a bacteria that breeds in hospitals, nursing homes and residential treatment facilities. Every year 880.000 people in the US become infected and 5% of them die -between 20,000  - 40,000-. Per year, MRSA infections generate losses for $8 billion US dollars to both the private sector and government. Between 1993 and 2002 the [...]

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The Blog’s 10 Most Popular Posts of All Time

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Almost an year has passed since the blog moved from its former -and now defunct- home at WordPress.com.  Although  some of the most popular articles from Psi Xperience survived the migration, they never caught as much traction as those born in this domain due to the lost PR (page rank) juice. That may be a [...]

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The 5 Free Essential Android Apps for the XXI Century Professional

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Android has just surpassed iOS (iPhone’s OS) in the US and it’s on its way to be the top dog in the world’s mobile scene. In 2 years, Android went from being a promising underdog to becoming a mobile juggernaut with a bursting app community. These are the essential apps every professional  should have in [...]

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When Interviewers Don’t Call Back

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You had an interview 3 weeks ago and no one has gotten back to you yet. You start crawling up walls, you wonder if it’s OK to call or if you just have to wait. You don’t want to be a pain in the butt but you also want resolution. You need to know if [...]

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What to Expect at Your New Job

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Getting comfortable in a new position is no easy feat for anyone. You may not know the people you are now working with, you will not be familiar with the reporting channels and who does what. Even the most trivial daily duties could pose a challenge to your intellect. The byproducts of all these obstacles [...]

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Keeping Up with Expectations at Work

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Some people are specially good at selling themselves during  job interviews and -are also capable of- maintaining the expectations set during it, once they get hired. But there’s a group out there that once they are hands on with the job, they miserably fail to keep up with the expectations they generated during the interview process. Do [...]

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Internet Archaeology: Life in The Web 15 Years Ago (and How it Looked Like)

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If you were trying to spend your free time browsing in 1995, there wasn’t actually much to do. Nowadays you could say that if it’s not on the internet, it doesn’t exist. Fifteen years ago the online world (AKA cyberspace, for the old-schoolers) was a far smaller place. One problem that used to make the [...]

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Comments policy – Fighting Comment Spam

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Along with traffic, comes spam. Since there’s been a surge in spam comments lately, I’ve added a few guidelines for comment posting in the About this Blog section to help maintain a healthy atmosphere within the blog and protect those of us who enjoy having mature, constructive and decent conversations.

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148: Interview with Andrew C. Abraham

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Gradkin, a startup from Singapore, is aiming to fill the gap between behemoths like LinkedIn and Monster, providing a more personal and community based experience by bringing together Gen-Y job seekers and employers. Here’s the interview with Grakin’s founder.

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Work Ethics and Etiquette: Leaving Your Job Through the Front Door

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About an year ago, my friend (and former co-worker) Steve was having issues with a manager. He is -or used to be- prone to bursting into flames when he disliked the way he was talked to or when he felt that something was unfair. One August afternoon, he had enough with this supervisor, confronted him [...]

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What Do You Think? – An Invisible Sentence in Many Managers’ Handbooks

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Managers  (and people in general) have a tendency to directly ask for things or direct people to do something. Some of us practice this on a very consistent basis and by doing so, a great opportunity to trigger ideas, solve problems faster and empower people is wasted. Imagine if Don Quixote had asked his squire, [...]

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The Science Behind “Having a Bad Job Interview” (and How to Solve It)

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My friend and blog zealot which never comments @jrapoport (well, I’m exagerating here. In fact he’s the one that fixes the blog every time I mess the code up), suggested me the article The Science Behind “Having a Bad Day (and How to Solve It) -link here- and prompted me to give it a twist. Last [...]

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