About me

I am a Spanish mathematician living near to Barcelona. I'm midway through my PhD on invariant manifolds in infinite dimensional lattices.

I have been interested in programming since I was 7, when I started with Basic in an Amstrad PC at school, and I started looking for ways to improve my time management and productivity when I was just starting high school.

Since then, I've improved a lot my programming abilities, and slowly, my time management. I have also done a lot of unrelated things:

• Learnt Common Lisp by myself, starting in 2003. Kept it as my second language of choice after C (I learnt that in the University), which is where I do most of my personal projects. After that, I got a basic working knowledge of these programming languages just for fun: Java, Javascript, PostScript.
• Grew a bunch of lemon trees at home. Also a dragon tree (Dracaena Draco), which is now threatening to bring down the balcony.
• Learnt French and German to acceptable levels before getting into undergraduate studies.
• Got two personal Origami designs published (Flower-Box and iPhone case)
• Finished my undergraduate studies in Mathematics on due date, only failing one exam. The year after that failure, I registered to the advanced class, where I scored an A-. Since then, I have published a paper in a closely related field.
• Learnt shorthand writing in 2009.
• Fulfilled a childhood desire to learn karate, got my green belt in Shito-Ryu karate before time constraints in the University forced me to give up (temporarily, I hope).
• Currently learning Icelandic and Irish by myself, when I finish I have Norwegian and Swedish.
• Named my cat after a mathematician (Fatou, for Pierre Fatou)
• Found a girlfriend as geek as me (she crochets amigurumis, loves a cat she didn't want and accepted to read The Little Lisper to learn some programming)

I have written guest posts in several blogs, among them:

• Luck Favours the Procrastinator at The Friendly Anarchist
• Have You Bent Your Spoon Yet? at Freestyle Mind
• Why the 80/20 Rule Could Make You Less Productive at Dragos Roua's blog
• Water & Technology Through History at Iwith.org (Improving Internet technologies for NGO)
• How to Train Your Brain to Flip to a New Language at Bitesize Irish Gaelic (was in the top spot in Hacker News for a while)

Here in mostlymaths.net I write mostly about time management, productivity, my programming and Linux projects and very occasionally, some maths. I do also occasional book reviews (about the previous themes), and I have written a little about my trip to Iceland. Among my all time favourites you can read:

• Linux is a time killer
• And 'e' appears from nowhere!
• Timeboxing: you will work like never before
• How to control your computer by whistling
• Grow lemon trees from a seed in your lemons

You can also read some of the posts in the sidebar if you don't know where to start. I also write in 100perZen about my practice of sitting meditation and mindfulness.

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