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I was reading, somewhere online, but unfortunately I’ve lost track of it, a suggestion to me as a reader: “record your thoughts”.

If you apply a certain force to someone, expect a force of at least equal magnitude to be exerted on you. To paraphrase Newton’s third law, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” Bringing the whole thing back to a less philosophical and low-level level, I could say that it’s absolutely foolish not to imagine that an action will always have consequences of equal or greater intensity.

I always enjoy reading Manuel’s posts, along with P&B interviews, about the lives of bloggers around the world, what they do, and how they ended up writing online in their own space, independent and extremely personalized.

I’m about to leave for the Netherlands. I’ll spend a few days there with my family. It was a coincidence: Amsterdam wasn’t on my bucket list, but I’m very happy to be going.

I just returned from a beach vacation. I needed to rest, and a place and way to spend my time that wouldn’t even make me think about what to eat. I made it, but it was so boring.

I quit my job. I am no longer an employee of the company I manage, but I remain, for the moment and to accompany it during a phase of financial adjustment, the CEO. During this period I have received several job offers, and I chose the probably most complex one. Partly because I like professional challenges, partly to get out of my comfort zone and take a bit of a dirt road, and partly because, evidently, I am a masochist.

Have you ever had to fire someone? I mean, have you ever been forced to tell a colleague that from that day he or she will be able to stay home because it is no longer sustainable? And have you ever put yourself in that colleague’s shoes, slipped into his or her life? Have you ever identified yourself with a bedridden mother, or without a partner and a child to take care of, or with a wife without a job and multiple children to support, or with a mortgage just signed, or with a newborn child, or a wish just wished for?

For so many days I have written nothing. Nothing on the blog, nothing in my journal, nothing but emails and reports and analysis and bullshit to keep alive a professional social media account that I am already thinking of closing. Nothing.