Archive - Ricard Torres

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Work from home: good or bad?

May 24, 2020 Rant Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

I was reading Om Malik’s Real reasons why tech giants are hugging “Remote Work”, it has some fantastic points. Those fancy offices, catered lunches, and all the other luxuries that allow people to pretend that they are still in college …

Weeknote 20 (2020)

May 15, 2020 Weeknote COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

🏃‍♂️💨 This week has come and gone very fast. So fast I forgot to write my weeknotes until Friday. For your information, Barcelona’s situation hasn’t changed much in a week. Still in lockdown without an end near ☹️ 🎮 Pokemon …

Weeknote 19 (2020)

May 8, 2020 Weeknote COVID-19 2 comments Reading time: 2 minutes

Since the lockdown has somewhat been lifted in Spain and we can start going out (for sports or walking) 1 hour a day, I would stop with my Isolation posts series. We are still a long way before we can go …

Moving companies in Japan

May 4, 2020 Story 2 comments Reading time: 2 minutes

I thought that after 2, three-week trips to the land of the rising sun not many things would surprise me from them. It’s not a perfect country, none is. Some of the things I truly love about them is the …

Isolation, day 49

May 1, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

🔓 Unlocking the lockdown When the government gave the green light last Sunday to have a parent (1 not 2) have a 60 minutes walk with up to 3 children the streets of Barcelona were flooded with families breaking the …

Review: Homeland Season 8

April 29, 2020 Review TV Show Leave a comment Reading time: 1 minutes

It’s done. Homeland, the TV show, has come to an end. After 8 years, which I’ve followed along since the beginning. When you think about it we did not have to commit much time during these 8 years. The episodes …

Isolation, day 42

April 24, 2020 Personal COVID-19 2 comments Reading time: 1 minutes

🏠 🔒 Most of us are very well prepared for this. Prepared to to live through this unprecedented lockdown most of us had never experienced before. This tweet made me saw it from a different perspective, no doubt. First, because …

Isolation, day 35

April 17, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

🥚🐰 Easter break This week was a little bit easier. Shorter. Here in Barcelona we had last Friday off all the way to Monday included. Four full days of vacation 🌴 A total shame we could not go out, the …

Horrible human beings

April 14, 2020 Rant 2 comments Reading time: 1 minutes

📺 🙀 I’ve recently watched an original documentary by Netflix called: Don’t F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer It’s a quite well-done documentary about the horrendous story that unfolded around 2010 when a deranged person posted videos online killing …

Isolation, day 28

April 10, 2020 Personal COVID-19 Leave a comment Reading time: 2 minutes

I’m about to lose my concept of time and space 🤪 The worst thing is I feel it’s going to be another month at least stuck at home. I don’t know, nobody knows. I have been twenty-eight days with minimum …