Camilo Garavito

Architect. I tweet, I retweet. And I care.

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

Acá un mensajito para todos los que les encanta la foto del trancón de la 95 con séptima.

[21st Century City @urbanthoughts11]

BIKE LANES ONLY LOOK EMPTY BECAUSE THEY ARE DAMN EFFICIENT
This stretch in Copenhagen conveys 8 times as many people on bikes compared to cars - still it's mostly cars we see.
vid @anderspreben

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

Definitivamente los Españoles son los mejores en lo de venir a América a llevarse el oro.

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

Totally bored with the algorithm here at “X”. Just receiving ads, porn and right wing propaganda, which I’m not really interested in. Lost touch with the interesting accounts I was following. Time to jump off the boat. Will give threads a try for a while and see how it goes…

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

2024 Commencement Address by @rogerfederer at Dartmouth
https://t.co/05nFXTwvgD via @YouTube.

I definitely love this guy.

[Dylan Jardon 🌈 @DylanJardon]

"Perfection is impossible.

In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches.

But what percentage of points did I win?

54%

In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play.

When you lose ever second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

You teach yourself to think:
'Okay, I double faulted...it's only a point.'
'Okay, I came to the net and I got passed again...it's only a point.'

Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's top 10 playlist – that too is just a point.

Here's why I'm telling you this.

When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is.

But when it's behind you, it's behind you.

This mindset is crucial – because it frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus."

–@rogerfederer

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

Hundimiento - Columna de Ricardo Silva Romero https://t.co/vgUcbjPozW

[Andrés @andresmayr]

Un sicólogo que nos explique por qué Gustavo Petro, el Presidente de la República desde hace 20 meses, no quiere salirse de su zona de confort de eterna víctima.

[Natalia Riveros Anzola♉ @RiVeRiToS]

¿Y quién romperá ese círculo vicioso?

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Powerful words by 102 years old philosopher Edgar Morin, one of France's most revered intellectual figures, as well as a Jewish WW2 resistant who fought as a lieutenant in De Gaulle's France combattante.
https://t.co/SJXMywTXb5
Here are his words on Gaza: "I am both astonished and outraged by the fact that those who represent the descendants of a people who were persecuted for centuries for religious or racial reasons... That the descendants of this people who are today the decision-makers of the State of Israel, that they could not only colonize an entire people, partly drive them out of their land and seek to expel them for good... But also, after the massacre of October 7, engaged in a real massive slaughter on the populations of Gaza and continue, incessantly, hitting civilians, women, and children.

And to see the silence of the world, the silence of the United States, protectors of Israel, the silence of the Arab states, the silence of the European states who claim to be defenders of culture, humanity, human rights.

I think we are living through a horrible tragedy because we are also powerless in the face of this thing that is unleashing. At least, I say: bear witness! The only thing that remains if we cannot resist concretely is to testify. Let's resist in our minds, let's not be fooled, let's not forget, let's have the courage to face things head-on."

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

@Danisandovalp “Bonito y atrevido.” Me gustan esos adjetivos. Ojalá los políticos se atrevieran más para hacer de nuestra ciudad más bonita, agradable y vivible; y que tanto ellos como los ciudadanos dejaran de pensarla simplemente como un proyecto de infraestructura.

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

Qué envidia de los chilenos que tienen a un líder sensato y ecuánime como @GabrielBoric , mientras pareciera que en Colombia estamos todos, desde el presidente @petrogustavo hacia abajo, viendo cómo incendiamos el país.

https://t.co/TKUqMaxWYr

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

@MazzucatoM If you like this one you should also read his book about the Amazon: One River. It is absolutely mesmerizing.

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

Acá pensando con @paoforero lo divertido que sería que @agaviriau y @RSilvaRomero hicieran un podcast de tercera vuelta live desde el @hayfestival_esp en Cartagena…

[Ana 💜 @anajuegaconnada]

$2.072.933 es el costo real del salario mínimo mensual en 2024 en Colombia. Ese es el salario.

Siempre me ha molestado que una parte del salario no sea explícita porque terminan vendiéndonos el cuento de que esa la pone el empleador y no nuestra capacidad de trabajo.

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

@CadenaAnaMa @CarlosFGalan Mucha suerte @CadenaAnaMa !!

[Camilo Garavito @camilogaravito]

I miss this guy

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

President @BarackObama on the violence in Gaza.

Full interview out Tuesday.

[DianaUribe.fm @DianaUribefm]

Conflicto Entre Israel Y Palestina
Aquí explicamos algunos de los hechos que están en el origen de la tensión entre estos dos pueblos y algunas de las razones históricas que esclarecen la situación del día de hoy.
Disponible en:
🏷Spotify
🏷https://t.co/hn4GktMMzD
🏷YouTube

[Arturo Pérez-Reverte @perezreverte]

Es asombrosa la multitud de expertos en Israel y Palestina que hay en Twitter (o como se llame ahora) tan seguros todos de quién es el bueno, quién el malo y todo eso. Y explicándotelo desde su casa con toda naturalidad. Cómo les envidio esas certezas de las que yo carezco.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

When I was a kid, my grandfather told me the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant:

(everyone needs to hear this)

Six blind men are brought to examine an elephant that has come to their village.

The first man touches the trunk and says that the elephant is like a thick snake.

The second man touches the tusk and says that the elephant is like a spear.

The third man touches the ear and says that the elephant is like a fan.

The fourth man touches the leg and says that the elephant is like a tree.

The fifth man touches the side and says the elephant is like a wall.

The sixth man touches the tail and says the elephant is like a rope.

Each of the blind men is convinced that he is right and that everyone else is wrong.

American poet John Godfrey Saxe’s version of the story concludes with a simple, beautiful line:

Each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong.​

So, oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance, Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant, Not one of them has seen!

The moral of this story is that the information we have about the world represents a tiny fraction of the information available, yet we use it to form a view of how the world works.

The world is always infinitely more complex than our narrow observation windows would allow us to understand.

I'm reminded of David Foster Wallace's famous This Is Water speech in 2005 (emphasis mine):

"The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded."
You can either choose to (A) cling to the notion that your view is the absolute truth or (B) embrace a degree of humility about your views and open your mind to change.

The goal of Path A is to preserve the notion of our own intelligence. The goal of Path B is to broaden and improve our view of reality by acquiring new and better information.

We should all choose Path B...

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” ― Mark Twain

At the end of every quarter, ask yourself what you've changed your mind on recently.

If you can't think of anything, that's a bad thing.

Fighting back against perspective blindness and opening your mind to new ideas is a tried and true path to consistent, compounding growth.

The next time you want to reject an alternative viewpoint without thinking, remember the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant:

The world is much more complex than any of us can possibly understand.

[Boyan Slat @BoyanSlat]

My hope is that, soon, we will see a day when it has become unthinkable that we just let plastic leak into our oceans uninterrupted. People will look back at today's status quo in disbelief. If we can flip the definition of what's 'normal', our scale-up will become inevitable.