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My experience with Coffee - Part 1

It's pretty common parents to offer different foods to their children. Sometimes it's their intention that the young one start eating these food; for me it wasn't different. Though, I didn't like coffee at all, I hated. The bitter-taste was awful and I felt sick for short period of time. Thanks mom and dad! My great experience with coffee began in university. I had classes in varying periods of the day, so it was more practical stay the entire day at the college than go back home. As an academic, I didn't have enough money to spend in good food.. so soda or coffee was the cheap way to stay wake up the entire day to study, and coffee was the cheaper than soda and more healthy. If I enjoyed bitter-taste or not it didn't matter for me that time, I had to drink coffee if I want to stay awake and study. As you can see, my first and second experience weren't great at all. But, as I written, my great experience with coffee began in university. It was a fight

Sapiens - Part 5

How believing in immaterial things changed our economy system? Today's post is about money as well, but the focus is the grow of our economy. Last chapter I wrote about money and our faith behind it, you can check it right here . The capitalist creed changed the way we manage money and helped us to improve our knowledge and technology. During most of human's history in this planet, the economy didn't changed that much. Human's production increased but the main factor was the demography expansion and not the evolution of economy system, the production per capita was static. What really make the economy increase monstrously was the faith in the future. What!? Yeah. Let me exemplify: Mr. Monopoly decides to found a bank in Hokkaido. Armond L. is an architect who lives in Hokkaido and received payment from one of his buildings. He decides to deposit 1 million of dollars in Mr. Monopoly's bank. Now, the bank has 1 million of dollars in capital. Meanwhile