I've been writing at josem.co about happiness, habits and technology since 2012.
Here are my most recent articles. To explore all of them, head over to /articles.
From Simple to Ornate and Back Again
Art history shows us that we tend to move between adding "unnecessary" elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. It's almost an endless cycle repeated over and over. This cycle happens in the different arts and other fields where design is involved, like software. Let's trace it in architecture first....
Why Parenting Makes You Human
What it means to be a parent and why it forces you to connect to a human and natural side of us that very few other things can....
How I Overcame My Addiction to Sugar
Overcoming any addiction is hard. Sugar is very addictive and bad for your health. Here's my journey fighting with that addiction so far in case it can help anyone out there....
Breaking Free from the News
Our attention and capacity to think are finite like a small battery draining out every time we get another piece of information. So, it's important to be selective about how much, how often, and in which form we get this information to have more mental space to focus on what we want....
You're Wearing the Wrong Pair of Shoes
I read somewhere that we should invest a lot in whatever separates us from the floor: our mattress, our car (or tires, more specifically), or our shoes. When it comes to shoes, most of them are the wrong choice for your feet. Let's see why....