If there’s one thing that never cease me to surprise is when someone gets amazed.

When their faces light up for an unexpected gift, or when they can’t find the right words to express the deep gratitude they feel.

That sensation is something humans are born with, but we often forget that feeling.
There’s work to be done every day, and that is important.
But that glance… isn’t that glance in the eyes worth too?

Many times in this blog I talked about doing things, rarely I talk about asking, that’s because we should be the first ones trying to change the rules.
Even this time, I realize there’s only one advice I could possibly give.

Amaze someone today.
Allow the world to amaze you later on.

I feel guilty sometimes.
This usually happens when shit happens, like arguing, like a bad discussion.

I would have never wanted to live a situation like a harsh argue, but who would?
Every time it happens I wonder if I could have been better, and every single time the answer is yes, I could’ve done better.

I believe this is true for everyone, we are the variable in the equation of our life, we are the ones who can make a difference in the course of events, that’s why we can always do better.

But we don’t, and I didn’t.
I just went with the flow, as it has happened many times before, and after that all I got was some guilt.
I felt guilty, I feel guilty.
I feel guilty because I didn’t respect my potential, I let the events decide for me.
Deep inside I knew it wasn’t a good decision, but the outcome was very clear, I chose that over a more human resolution, a resolution that wouldn’t involve pride.

But all in all, I really feel guilty because I lowered down my potential, my energy and what I am and want to be.
I missed an opportunity to become a better human in this world, and that opportunity won’t come again.
There will be others, but that single lonely chance is vanished forever.

I also believe it’s alright to think about guilt and its implications. What other way do we have to improve if we don’t review our actions?

We need to measure ourselves with our best part, and then do the next move.

On June 2nd, the EU Cookie law will become effective.
This is a law that requires every site owner to put a warning, sometimes a disruptive one, to inform users of cookie usage.

In case the usage of cookies tracks the user personal data then it is imperative for the notice to be as much disruptive and different from the website style as possible.

This is making many people freak out.
It’s understandable because the Law language is not understandable.

We don’t talk the way legal documents talk, because it’s inhuman.
Therefore when we have to interact with a law that has such a wide audience we are scared.

Scared because we don’t understand, scared because we fear the consequences.
Some people even shut down their websites in order to feel safe.

Only because of one single law.

This is the power of fear, the power of the unknown, but more than the unknown is that Law, and legal documents are something beyond the “normal human”, and they also add one spice to our dish, the “responsible” spice.

Who will be responsible for this?
That’s the freezing question.
No one wants to be responsible for doing nothing.
I just installed analytics to see how many visitors I have, how could I have been responsible of tracking users?

There’s a fine line here, the website owner just wants some stats, a number.
222 visits today.

That’s what matters to him (I’m talking about the simplest case).
But the analytics is much more than that and now he has become responsible without him truly understanding the consequences.

I don’t think this is a bad law, but I do think things might have been done better.
This law doesn’t move towards improving the web experience, which is why I consider it imperfect.
The web can’t be just controlled by this, we need something adaptable, flexible, otherwise many people fears will control the future of the web, making it useless, inaccessible, worse.

Today I thought that we too often forget to plan for the life we want and desire.

Many things we need aren’t actually very needed, and in fact we can trade much of them for things that are way better in our life.

Planning requires making choices, defining what you want and work towards making it a reality.
Will you be willing to make that change?

Today I started a new journey towards a small side project, one that could really change many parts of my life.

I might fail badly, but it will be an experience that’s worth the try.
When I think about it I always recall that old advice: “just improve 1% every day, and by the end of the year you’ll be rich”.

Improving by such a small percentage sounds like a silly thing to do, we are all fascinated by 2 decimal numbers, or even more, but behind those numbers there’s always a different story, a story we might not even be part of.

The story of big organizations with big money, the story of one person’s luck, or the story of an excellent skill set.

That said, I believe in the common ones, the normal people, the one that aren’t special.
I believe that any of them (of us), has a possibility in this world, to do things worth seeing.

We have been told to search for the geniuses, because they are such a good story to tell, what nobody tells us is to look for the common ones, the rich that aren’t on newspapers, the great minds no one has ever heard of.

For the common ones talking about 1% improvement is not a big deal, but over a year, even for them, it might make the difference between success and failure.

I wish you a 1% better day every day, I wish you to do the same with yourself, improve every single day by a small fraction, so you’ll always be better.