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For the first time, we can see how an algorithm decides who receives aid

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The Supreme Court has condemned the Government to deliver the Bosco source code, the application that automatically decides which vulnerable families receive the electric social bonus. The sentence responds to Resource of the Civio Foundation after seven years of legal battle. Why is it important. This decision creates jurisprudence and establishes that citizens have constitutional right to know how algorithms that manage social rights work. The sentence raises algorithmic transparency to the level of fundamental, inseparable right of the democratic state. The context. Bosco has worked as a black box that emitted binary verdicts. It was limited to two results: Without more explanations, leaving thousands of vulnerable families in helplessness. Civio detected errors that harmed groups such as widows or large families, but The government refused to reveal the code alleging intellectual property and national security. The panoramic. The “Bosco Doctrine” establishes two principles: Transparency improves security by allowing experts to detect failures, rejecting the argument of “dark security. Public interest exceeds intellectual property when it comes to algorithms that manage social rights. Between the lines. The supreme has invested the burden of proof: now it will be the administration who must demonstrate specific and serious risks, not theoretical possibilities. The sentence quotes the precedent of Covid radarwhose code was published by the government itself. And now what. Public authorities have the obligation to explain “understandably” the functioning of all algorithms that affect citizens. This doctrine will apply to future cases of AI and automated systems in the public administration, creating a new era of transparent “digital democracy”. In Xataka | Access to positions of officials A1 and A2 in Spain is broken. The government wants to solve it … with a master’s degree Outstanding image | Judicial Branch

The science of sleep is clear about the ideal time to go to sleep

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Under normal conditions, six out of ten Spaniards sleep little and badly. What happens is that we are not “in normal conditions”, we are in September: a month in which the return to the routine and the autumnal asthenia They shake hands to immerse ourselves (hopefully temporarily) in a dreams of bad quality. And yes, that is a problem. Lack of sleep is related to immunological problems, Metabolic, Cardiovascular emotional and cognitive; With disorders such as diabetes or of the obesity. Not just that sleeping little causes us to be more tired and irritablebut Raise our stress levels And it makes us Assume more risks And make more wrong. But what is “lack of sleep? To get an idea, although optimal amounts change from one person to anotherall medical associations specialized in sleep recommend sleeping between seven and eight hours of sleep every night. Well then, According to the Spanish Sleep Societythe Spaniards sleep an average of 6.8 hours during the week. In addition, “75% of Spaniards wake up at least once At night, and 3 out of 10 directly affirm that they suffer from insomnia. “And, eye, the scientific evidence available tells us that we tend to think that we sleep better than we really do. Reality, surely, is much worse. And what do we do? The tips to improve “sleep hygiene” are known: Monitor food: A balanced diet, a light dinner and limited consumption of caffeine, alcohol or other stimulating substances. Create an adequate space: Quiet, pleasant, little illuminated and with a pleasant temperature. Exercise strategically: Fundamentally, playing sports regularly, but always a few hours before sleeping. And, above all, establish regular schedules: Go to bed and lift, as far as possible, always at the same time (including weekends). Although, of course, that leaves us a clear question: When are we going to sleep? That is, if we want to establish a clear and inflexible schedule, we need to know not how many hours we have to sleep, but what is the best time for it. And yes, this is hardly generalizable. Above all, because sleeping hours collide directly with things like our work, our family life or our leisure habits. However, we have some ideas that can help us. Let’s go to the data. The best study we have was carried out in 2021. In it, The European Cardiology Society used UK Biobank records, one of the most important medical and lifestyle information repositories in the world (with more than 500,000 volunteers between 37 and 73 years old). They selected 88,926 adults (with an average age of 61 years) that had taken some type of wrist device capable of registering the physical activity of the person for at least seven days. After analyzing a period of 5.7 years, they discovered that going to sleep between 22:00 and 23:00 at night is associated with a lower risk of developing heart disease (already other related problems). In comparison, going to sleep between 23:00 and midnight entails 12% more risk of having this type of disease. Risk that rises to 25% for those who go to bed after twelve at night and stands at 24% for those who go to bed before 22:00. Can we move it directly to Spain? No, the truth is that no. It would be naive to think that the recommended schedules for a culture of copious and early dinners (such as English) are the same as those of a culture of light and late dinners (such as Spanish). However, they are the best data we have and, as María José Martínez Madrid saysCoordinator of the Chronobiology Working Group of the Spanish Sleep Society, the key relationship “comes mainly because of the mismatch that produces falling asleep late in the biological clock.” Therefore, it is a good indicator to reflect on our sleep guidelines. Especially now that, after summer, the world “starts again.” Image | Shane In Xataka | Thus influences the time to go to bed in the risk of developing a heart problem: these researchers believe they have found the exact time to go to sleep

We have been discussing the change of time for years and we have managed to be in exactly the same place where we were

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Almost every year for almost 20, Someone has taken To the United States Congress the idea of ​​ending the change of time. In Europe, We have spent hours and hours engaged in the discussion of what to do with him. Many countries, in fact, They have sent it to the history drawer (Others, on the other hand, They have recovered it again). I am still surprising that such a simple thing can unleash such great passions. Passions and, above all, reasons. Because there are hundreds of researchers trying to understand which time policy is better. That is why we talk about it again: because the Internet has filled with holders that ensure that “a study reveals that the change of time contributes to thousands of brain infarctions.” It’s true? What do we really know about the subject? How can the time change affect our health? The body has an internal clock of (approximately) 24 hours that helps regulate our physical and mental functioning. And not, It is not a way of speaking: As is in charge of innumerable physiological processes, the time we eat depends on that clock, to which we sleep, it even determines when we go to the bathroom. Ignore your permanent tick can cause discomfort or even a certain moment, serious diseases. Is What we call circadian rhythm. With this in mind, during this century, scientists have suspected that the hourly change should have some impact on those rhythms and, moreover, on health. The problem is that one thing is to intuit that impact and a different one is to be able to prove it. And what has this last study done? Stanford Medicine researchers They have compared how they affected circadian rhythms and general health in different different time policies (the winter schedule, summer and schedule with biannual change). To do this, based on the local exit and sunset hours, they analyzed the real exposure to the light under each time policy, the circadian impacts and the socio -health characteristics of each American county. It is not easy and has a high statistical component (and, in some segments, speculative), but it is an interesting exercise What have you discovered? In general terms, The team found that “maintaining the standard schedule or summer schedule is definitely better than changing twice a year.” According to their data, the winter schedule “would avoid about 300,000 cases of stroke per year and reduce obesity in 2.6 million people.” The summer schedule, meanwhile, “permanent would achieve approximately two thirds of the same effect.” And why would it happen? “When there is light in the morning, the circadian cycle is accelerated. When there is light in the afternoon, it slows down … explained Jamie ZeitzerProfessor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Standford. “The more light exposure is received at inappropriate times, the weaker the circadian clock is. All these factors that influence the life cycle – for example, the immune system and energy – do not synchronize so well,” He continued. The question we must ask ourselves, according to these researchers, is what time policy helps to better adjust circadian rhythms. And the answer, at least for the US set, is that most people would support a lower circadian mismatch with the winter schedule. Does that mean that winter schedule is better? Actually, no. It is possible that it is the most complete study to date, but (As the researchers themselves recognize) There are many factors that researchers did not take into account and that, by itself, can reduce gain very substantively. But even giving the methodology good and accepting that citizens behave as researchers suppose, we would have to reproduce the analysis in Spain (or our reference countries) to know what the final result would be. After all, The countries that change the time are a minority And it makes sense to think that there are scenarios in which the time change could help reduce that circadian mismatch. One of the problems of countries as large as the US (or realities as diverse as EU) is that making joint decisions is difficult. And then? I’m afraid that we are a little better than before, but almost in the same place: we still have no remotely if it is good or bad, and that we attribute more and more things. Image | Sonja Langford | NCI In Xataka | The “Spanish Ornitorrinco” exists and is on the verge of extinction: the very rare animal that only lives in the Peninsula

I have tried iOS 26 for the first time and I have removed the transparent icons in minutes, but Liquid Glass is much more than that

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The day has come, iOS 26 It is already available and last night I left my cell phone updating while I slept. I did not installed the public beta, so when I woke up I have encountered A totally changed mobile. With the illusion of who opens new shoes, I have begun to navigate All news And these are my first impressions. Liquid Glass is more than icons (and less bad) Design is the great novelty of iOS 26. This is the most important change since iOS 7 in 2013, there is nothing. Apple has redesigned the entire interface, menus and native apps with the new design language to which Liquid Glass have baptized. My feeling in these first hours is that I had a wrong idea. Let’s see why. Icons by omission, dark, translucent and tired. The most striking thing is that we can now change the icons and, in addition to putting them with a light or dark background, it allows us to make them completely transparent. Transparent icons completely change the interface and is the first thing I have tried. I think it took three minutes to return to the “by omission” mode. Beyond tastes, transparent icons make everything be applauded and cost a lot to differentiate some apps from others. A design that costs us to read, is not a good design. If I had left them, I would have ended up getting used to where each app is, but it seems to me an unnecessary effort for something that I also do not find it especially groundbreaking. More than iOS, they remind me of any Personalized android theme. They called her Liquid Glass because “I can’t find my apps” it didn’t look good. The icons are optional, but transparencies affect the entire interface. My partner Ricardo was in charge of trying the beta when she was announced and had to suffer a much less polished interface. The contrast problem has been minimized And now notifications and other elements are more legible. Of course, if you choose a clear wallpaper, readability worsens. I recommend betting on a rather dark background. The Glow is subtle, but left over in normal icons What is still there is the effect Glow Around buttons and icons. With transparent icons it is necessary for us to see the edges well, but in normal icons with a clear background It gives the feeling that the edge is not well defined. Again, it is perceived more if we use clear wallpapers, even becoming annoying, as if there were a glare effect. Another striking novelty of the new design is the lock screen, especially the New elongated watch. This has seemed more interesting to me and I have left it configured. In addition, the depth effect is very achieved and is especially good if you use a portrait or a photo of your pet as a wallpaper. I had come countless times the starting screens with transparent icons and, without realizing it, I had formed the idea of ​​the interface was going to be illegiblebut beyond the icons, I think the design language is consistent and there are very interesting changes in some apps. Camera app and photos System applications have also been redesigned for the new visual language of Liquid Glass and I want to stop especially in the camera app and the APP photos. The camera app has changed a lot The first thing you think when opening the app is what has happened to the portrait or slow camera mode. Apple has reduced the options that are seen on screen to video and photo, which now look larger. Only when you slide on them the others appear. I don’t think it’s an especially intuitive solution, But it is not a drama either. The camera options has also changed and now a floating window with quite large round icons is deployed. Design is coarse, although a priori it seems quite a lot more comfortable than the previous one. However, I find it inconsistent that these buttons are so large and instead the direct access to the flash or the night mode (up to the right) are tiny. In fact, trying to open the emerging menu I have activated the flash unintentionally. The good news is that we can also open it sliding from the bottom. The APP photos makes more sense in iOS 26. On the other hand, the photos apptho has received a redesign that I loved and that It finally makes sense. I had become accustomed to using it in iOS 18, but it has been to install iOS 26 and realize that The previous version was a real disaster. With iOS 26 we have two eyelashes again, one with all the photos in chronological order and another with the collections, that is, albums, memories, prominent photos, etc. The interesting thing about this second tab is that it is customizable. If we go down to ‘reorder’ we can choose what we want to be shown above. If you let us eliminate some of these options, it would be ten, but at least we can leave them folded so that there is not so much noise. Most accessible menus Settings, notes and app store with the search at the bottom. Another novelty of the new interface is that the Search Bar in the system apps and menus is at the bottom. Here is a lot more comfortable access to it With one hand, especially if you have an iPhone of the biggest. Another change that I liked of the APP adjustments is that now Apps settings are grouped into a block. We no longer have that endless list on the main screen, but is nested in its own section. I think it makes much more sense. The new safari design can be customized. Safari is one of the apps that has been completely redesigned and also bets on the search bar and controls at the bottom, with a Very compact … Read more

The digital detox has been fashionable for years. It’s time to start talking like what is: a myth

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Social networks have helped us in many aspects of our life, allowing us for example to strengthen some social relationships, or taking a way to express our creativity. But all this has come with a price to pay. A cost that has noticed our mental health, which has led many to try with a time to “digital detoxification.” The problem is that it may not be too useful strategy. Not so effective. Withdraw a time from social networks It is not an effective “disconnection strategy”according to a meta -analysis carried out by a Belgian team of researchers from the universities of Antwerp and Gante, at least if we are looking to improve Our well -being. The good news: at least we do not have indications that disconnection does us badly. “The findings (…) suggest that temporarily separating ourselves from social networks may not be the approximation (…) optimal to improve individual well -being,” Write the teamwhich also points out in his study the need to continue research on alternative disconnection strategies. Ten studies. The new work is a meta -analysis, that is, a “quantitative study of studies.” The team conducted a systematic search for scientific literature that addressed the relationship between social media abstinence and one or more than three variables: positive and negative affections, and vital satisfaction. They found 10 quantitative works with a total sample of 4,674 participants. The analysis showed no significant effects of refraining from social networks in any of the three variables studied. The team also did not find indications that the duration of the period of “Digital detoxification“It will be relevant. The details of the study were published In an article In the magazine Scientific Reports. Need to investigate more. The team emphasizes the need to advance in research on this issue. According to the team itself, the study presents one of the usual problems in the meta -analysis, and is the diversity in the methodologies followed by the works included in it. A radical change. Social networks have remarkably changed how we interact with technology, for better and for worse. The problems that this poses have appeared so suddenly that our ability to adapt, to look for solutions with which to repair the possible damage has exceeded in many contexts. In Xataka | How to recover the concentration that social networks and multitars have taken us Image | Xataka with Gemini

There was a time when we went to supermarkets to fill the fridge. We do it more and more to eat in them

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There was a time when people went to supermarkets to fill their pantry. Not anymore. Or at least not only does it for that. As The tastes changedhabits and especially Rhythm of life It has also been doing our relationship with retail chains. When today we go to a super we can do it to take food that we will then cook at home, but also to buy already prepared dishes or even (increasingly) stay lunch inside the premises, as if we were in a bar. In 2025 the super do not compete only with neighborhood stores, they do it with restaurants to which every time They cost them more Offer profitable menus. What happened? That our way of consuming is changing. And with her the super. Black left over white A report of the consultant Worldpanel by numerator Efe revealed that it confirms that hypermarkets are no longer just places we go to food to prepare food at home or already prepared dishes. In addition to all that, every year hundreds of thousands of people cross their doors to do something else: breakfast, lunch or snack right there. Yes, as if they were in a restaurant or a bar. What do the figures say? According to Veronika Khurshudyan clarifiesspokesman for the consultant, throughout the last year (at the end of July 2025) 6.9 million people have gone to hypermarket and supermarket coffee shops to buy food they have then consumed away from home. The data is interesting, but the report includes another that is still more: about 1.3 million customers chose to stay in the establishment and eat food in situ. The data is significant for two reasons. First, its reach. Second, the trend. Those 1.3 million consumers double the figure of the previous year. “Shows an increasing interest in enjoying the experience within the establishment itself”, Notice Khurshudyan. The most common is still that we buy food to consume it at home (31% of the time) or in the place where we work (16%), but the data reflects a growing business for large chains. “The coffee shops in the hyper and super begin to consolidate as a flexible point of consumption that combines the practical ‘to carry’ with the possibility of staying and enjoying at the time,” insists the consultant’s spokeswoman. Is there more data? Yes. And while they are not so clear about where we eat and if we do it inside or outside the hypermarkets themselves, they show a clear trend: we are increasingly going to the super search of cooked food. No paste packages, tomatoes or minced meat trays. No. What we want is the ration of carbonara spaghettis already prepared. Dishes that we can devour instantly. Another report by Worldpanel by numeraton, Posted in August by Five daysshows that food sales ready for consumption have shot in the last three years in the Spanish premises 49% in terms of value. Where do we eat? The report reflects that although in most cases (80%) we realize those dishes already ready in our own homes, it is increasingly common for us to consummate them, far from the table of our living room or kitchen. That study Specifically, I did not delve into details, but it did slide that the ‘extra -adomatic enjoyment’ was growing double digit: with the data and April in the hand it was 15% if we talk about frequency and 29% in terms of sales value. Worldpanel is not the only one who has found the growing interest in already cooked dishes. In his Sectorial Report In March, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Map) points out that the consumption of prepared dishes increased 6.4% in the last year until leaving the average consumption per person in 17.47 kg. Not just that. If we take into account that indicator (the average per capita intake) the prepared dishes are the ones that grow the most between the categories identified by the map. While the food set was reduced by 0.5%, with falls in the case of fish and vegetables, already ready foods grew by 5.4%. Why do we do it? For comfort. Or rather, changes in priorities to Manage our time. Worldpanel and the Promarca association contributed Some keys A while ago with a survey that reflects that 47% of Spaniards consider that they lack time throughout the day, which provides a golden opportunity to those known as “convenience” products, those who focus on the ease and comfort for the consumer. According to The same study “convenience” is the main motivation that moves customers in 45% of the occasions when they demand food and drink. It may seem little, but it exceeds other reasons, such as health (18.6%) or pleasure (22.6%). The trend is clear enough to A few months ago The president of Mercadona, Juan Roig, recognized his conviction that in not much time the Spaniards will feed ourselves with the food we bought outside the home. Not with the ingredients, no, but with the already prepared dishes that we take to our home. “I said and kept it: in the middle of the 21st century there will be no kitchens”, He settled. The data of prepared dishes manufacturers suggest that it is not disenchanted: in 2024 its consumption increased in Spain 6.6%. How do companies respond? Roig has not only shared his forecast. His chain has been preparing for that stage (gastronomically speaking) apocalyptic with his line ‘Ready to eat’a branch of the company whose origins can be traced to 2018 and that is committed to the sale of dishes, from incoming to pizzas, lentils, or meatballs, between a long etcetera. In your last Annual Report Mercadona pointed out that last year the service was extended to a hundred and a half of premises, which raises the network to 1,260 supermarkets, 1,200 in Spain and the 60s of Portugal. Moreover, the chain ensures that the section “has not stopped growing” and Keep incorporating it to more premises. 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“Maximum extraordinarily high temperatures for this time”

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After one of the hottest summers that are rememberedthe arrival of Dynamics of meteorological autumn It was literally a “fresh air breath.” Therefore, many have begun to ask ourselves if we could take the summer dead, start getting the bedspreads and keeping the controls of the air conditioners. And for our tranquility, Aemet He has just responded To our questions: or by chance. As? To be precise, what Aemet tells us is that “the temperatures planned at about 1500 m altitude will become higher in the next few days than any record of the 1991-2020 reference period for these dates.” That is, everything seems to indicate that “the mass of air on Spain will be extraordinarily warm.” Since approximately, on September 10, temperatures have been rising throughout Spain. As they pointed out at the time“We will talk about a clearly summery environment, with August temperatures.” And, although the worst forecasts were not fulfilled, “of the 30 degrees They will not go down in a few days. ” We can’t say it’s a surprise … Although it has been A rare year at the weather level (As already We have discovered in the worst possible way) There is something that we have learned over the last years and that we should not forget: heat every time comes before (“Between three and four weeks In almost the whole country “) and leaves later. With the only exception of the city of Alicante, summer It has lengthened in each and every of the provincial capitals of the country. In some more than a month. And that, of course, has its most direct correlation in medium temperatures well above of what was normal in the previous decades. However, it is a surprise. If the forecasts are fulfilled, in many areas of the country the days They will be surprisingly warm For these dates of the year. And not, We are not talking about the “Veranillo de San Miguel”. Unless we are willing to recognize that what we have been calling for years is nothing more than a way to normalize that is getting hotter. What can we expect? In principle, from Monday to Friday We can expect A “full summer environment with extraordinarily high temperatures for this time.” The only exception will be the Peninsular Northeast, which will contain the climb thanks to some more than probable showers during Monday and Tuesday. The good news is that the arrival of the weekend It will bring one “Notable temperature drops” (and some rains) throughout the peninsular north. That will be noted in the rest of the country. What will happen later? It is not very clear, but The spring of 2025 insisted in being different from the others, for now nothing suggests that autumn Go to follow that same path. Image | Aemet In Xataka | Aemet has been registering the hottest days in history since 1950. I had never detected as many as this August

In 1975 they buried “the worst car in the world” under a 45 -ton concrete vault. Now, they have opened the time capsule

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Is it possible to maintain an unchanged object over the years, the decades or even the centuries? This is what the time capsules try to get, containers in which a sample of various objects is saved with the intention of checking years later if they have resisted the passage of time. Or with the intention that, in the future, the descendants of our descendants have objects that allow them to understand how we lived. Those Time capsules They have buried themselves for scientific purposes (The MIT has several distributed by their facilities that celebrate special events) or have been sent to space. But they have also resulted in crazy particular projects such as Harold Davisson, a local merchant who decided that his was going to contain a car. Specifically, a completely new Chevrolet Vega. Finally open This year, summer in Seward (Nebraska) began in a different way. Hundreds of people gathered in this town of less than 7,000 inhabitants to contemplate what life was 50 years ago. They did not project a documentary on the wall, neither did any of the people live then. They simply opened the one that, in their day, was the largest time capsule in the world. 50 years ago, Harold Davisson, a city place decided to bury thousands of objects so that their grandchildren had a first -hand contact with the past. How did he? Simp NBC News. Among the thousands of objects were letters written by Trish Davisson’s parents, the son who fulfilled his father’s dream when he opened the time capsule. But also thousands of objects donated by neighbors 50 years ago. One of them, they collect in the American environment, was excited to discover the invitation of their wedding. But, without a doubt, the most striking object recovered was a completely intact Chevrolet Vega. The car was a purchase of the creator of the time capsule, who looked around the cheapest car he could buy. Its price was not accidental. The Vega gave so much reliability problems that was known by the nickname “Worse car in the world”. Released in 1970, it is not uncommon for the creator of this time capsule will find the car at a good price. He Chevy Vega was born to be the best car among the most affordable options on the market. From maintenance to fuel consumption, with the Volkswagen Beetle and the first Japanese compacts pressing in the market. But Chevrolet wanted to hurry to throw the car that the result was catastrophic. Fifty years after your purchase, now nobody knows what will happen to this Vega so particular. In MotorpasionTrish Davisson’s words rescue who points to this Vega could be the model with less kilometers from all over the world. With small damage of rust on the hood and in the steering wheel, they now consider if the car will end in a museum although nothing has been confirmed. The Chevrolet Vega was, last July, the crown jewel of the opening of the time capsule. This has also been surrounded by a certain controversy because for years it was the largest time capsule in the world. In 1983, however, Guinness record judges withdrew this category after Oglethorpe University (Georgia, United States) protest ensuring that its time capsule not only It was bigger, it was also older. Angry with the situation Davisson decided that he was going to build a new pyramid -shaped appendix to recover the throne. Since 2000, however, the record has a time capsule designed in Guilford (Surrey, United Kingdom) in which representative objects have been kept on what life was like during the change of millennium. Photo | Isommerer and Sentemalan In Xataka | For Shaquille O’Neal the biggest obstacle to conducting a supercar is its height: they have manufactured a tailored corvette

Avoid “Time Traps”

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Often during the working day there is a risk of falling into certain habits and situations that make the workday extends more than planned for not completing the planned tasks. Most of these “time traps” arise from everyday behaviors that They wear the concentration And they are stealing a few precious minutes that accumulate at the end of the day, affecting both productivity and personal well -being. Understand what these practices are and how they influence Time management It is key to preventing the day from eligging unnecessarily and recovering control over working hours. 1. Informal conversations that continue One of the most common reasons to stay until later at work are the improvised talks in the coffee machine that becomes long conversations. According to He counted to Fast Company Kiki Ramsey, CEO of POSITIVE PSYCHOLOGY COACHING AND DIVERSITY INSTITUTE“Quick coffee conversations can easily become 30 -minute talks” The expert explains that, to avoid This type of interruptionit is advisable to program these interactions as conscious breaks. That is, stay with that person with whom you want to comment on something to pause coffee or planned lunch. In this way, it is avoided that they interfere with the concentration and labor agenda. In this way, the social component between colleagues is maintained, which contributes to the good work environment, without interfering with their own productivity or that of the rest of the classmates. 2. Look at an email and finish watching kittens videos Another frequent trap is in the pauses, initially short, which are transformed into long periods of distraction. In this sense, the Unlimited mobile use It is one of the main culprits of the loss of time during the working day. Ramsey advises to establish a timer or an alarm To control these breaks and make sure they are brief. Apps are designed to catch your attention, so it is not strange to take the mobile to consult an email and spend an hour watching videos of kittens. Maintaining control over these moments is essential not to fall into the voluntary overextension of working hours. 3. Attend personal issues during working hours Telework has blurred Classic scheduleswhich can make personal issues attend during the working day. This includes calls, efforts or any other procedure that diverts work attention. Although it seems harmless, Ramsey points out that this type of distractions affects the concentration and extends the day more than necessary. “Although the boundaries between the labor and the personal have blurred, the calls or personalrs can reduce concentration and productivity,” said the expert. The recommendation in these cases is to reserve specific blocks on the weekly agenda to address these issues, or attend them before or after the working day. This will help maintain the concentration and quality of work, preventing personal interruptions from ending up making it come out later. 4. The importance of saying “no” Accepting tasks or responsibilities can alter your own priorities and extend the work schedule. Ramsey advises reject with kindness those tasks that do not correspond to the assigned responsibilities, and redirect them to the right person. If that is not possible, include that task in the day planning Next to avoid interfering with your goals. The lack of capacity to put clear limits generates an overload that causes more time to cover everything. This ability to say “no” is one of the greatest Learning Millionaires like Elon Musk or Warren Buffet. This Difficulty saying “no” It is an important cause of the unplanned extension of the work day, since it forces to add extra activities to the routine without having planned time for them, which lengthens the day without providing real value to your own work. 5. Unnecessary micrognition A factor that consumes a lot of time is excessive surveillance or micrognition of what your classmates do. “Supervising too much the tasks of others is a loss of time and generates unnecessary stress, both for you and for them,” says Ramsey. Instead, try to trust the processes, it offers support for colleagues with less experience only when necessary. Focusing attention on your own tasks improves general efficiency and prevents the extension of the schedule. In addition, this type of management not only delays the progress of your tasks, but can double the workload and create an atmosphere of distrust which makes more hours be invested than necessary. Strategies to avoid these traps and recover your time To avoid falling into these “time traps”, the productivity expert recommends planning in advance the Tasks of the week. At least the most important. “Take time on Sunday to plan your week. It doesn’t have to be sophisticated. It can simply be a rapid review of your prioritiesprojects and objectives for the week. Thus, when I arrive on Monday, you will be ready to start, instead of spending part on Monday morning thinking about what to do first, “says Ramsey. This technique opens a way for better time management, as it allows you to address the tasks in an orderly manner and avoid distractions caused by improvisation, stress or ultimate urgency. The urgent and the important thing do not always go hand in hand, but the first tends to eclipse the second hindering the progress of weekly objectives. Joe Galvin, research director of Vistagean advisory consultancy for managers ensures that Align circadian cycles With the tasks that require greater concentration it is also a way of accelerating the execution of tasks. “Some employees are more alert in the early morning, while others reflect better in the afternoon,” Galvin explains. The ideal is to reserve the complex and strategic tasks for these energy peaks, and leave for other moments the small personal efforts or those tasks that require less concentration. Identify when you are more concentrated or at what time of the day You are more prone to procrastineit also contributes to being more efficient when addressing daily tasks and finishing them in the assigned time. In Xataka | The return to the office has … Read more

The rains in the Mediterranean have arrived at a very delicate time for the reservoirs of the region

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The Mediterranean basin is living a new episode of heavy rains. The extreme of the episode led yesterday to the State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) to Issue several red notices For extreme risk, while numerous yellow and oranges notices remain in force today. Despite the obvious risk that this is, there is the circumstance that rainfall arrives at a delicate time for one of the hydrographic basins of the region. The arrival of the rains. The Mediterranean basin rains They monopolize the looks of meteorologists. Aemet today maintains several notices associated with storms and rainfall in much of the eastern coast, notices that also cover interior provinces. Notices that, during the morning they will still remain in the Balearic Islands. A delicate moment in the safe. After several years of drought, almost a year of high rainfall between autumn of 2024 and Spring of 2025 served to allow most of the country’s hydrographic basins to recover water. Many even saw unprecedented filling levels in years. This It wasn’t exactly The case of the Segura Basin. The state of The reservoirs of this basin From southeast peninsular improved with respect to 2024, but did not reach the filling level of 2023 or its average of the last 10 years. Such is the situation, that a few days ago, the Segura Hydrographic Confederation He pointed out that the scarcity index index had crossed the threshold of the pre -alder and was approaching the border of the alert situation. A dry August. Except in some specific areas, August has been A dry month on the peninsula (Not so much in the island communities), even by this point of the year. Precipitation in peninsular Spain were around 34% lower than those that could be expected for a month of August, and that has been noted in the water reserve. The Spanish reservoirs went from being, on average, 67% of its capacity At the end of July to be at 59.3% At the beginning of September. Of course, summer is a time when Reserve descent Water is expected, but weather has not helped stop this trend. In the case of the Safe Basin, the Last data availablethose of last week, indicate that the reservoirs of this environment are found at 22.5% of its capacity, making it the dry basin in the country. It is also at a distance from the next, that of Guadalete-Barbate, which was last week to 44.5% of its capacity. We will have to wait. One of the areas where orange notices have been issued for important risk is precisely that of the Vega del Segura, in Murcia, where they are expected 30 mm accumulated in an hour. Other areas of this basin have also seen yellow or orange warnings are activated during yesterday and today. In Xataka | A Norway reservoir began to release millions of liters of water without anyone ordering it. Months later, we already know why Image | SUPERCHILUM, CC by-SA 4.0 / ECMWF

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