Take a break: A weekend in Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain's gateway to European culture. Innovative architecture, modern art, smart urban planning that elevates the pedestrians experience with splendid boulevards deeply immerse in the spanish tradition.

Barcelona the city where Picasso found his artistic fuel that launched him towards Paris and world renown. City that gave birth to Mirò and his flamoyant art and where Gaudì started expanding Art Nouveau in art and architecture.

If you enjoy art, Barcelona a city to be visited more than once in a lifetime since there is so much to explore and discover.

La Pedrera

But for those who want to experience the city in a weekend, this guide will give you some hints on what to see and where to be.

Friday

Picasso Museum (Carrer de Montcada) has the richest collection of the artit's early works (Cubism, Rose Period, Blue Period). Sense the presence of the artist embodied in the city buildings. You will find it fascinating.

Once done, join the friendly crowd gathered at La Vinya del Senyor (Placa de Santa Maria 5) for tapas and a glass of spanish wine while enjoying the view of the Basilica de Santa Maria del Mar, an elegant and fine detailed church from the mid-14th century. While is this beautiful setting listen affordable classical music concerts held in the church.

Saturday

Joan Mirò is one of Barcelona most renown exports. Get of at Parc de Joan Mirò travelling by metro and gaze upon his Dona i Ocell, a sculpture commisioned by the city. From here make your way up to Montjuic (or take the funicular from the Paral-el metro stop). Embrace the warm feeling while overlooking on the colorful Barcelona and the Mediterranean sea. The Fundaciò Joan Mirò (Placa de Sant Ui) hold a great collection of Miro's surrealistic work, a must-see.

Now move towards the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC - Parc de Montjuic). The gallery looks like a palace that reigns above the park. Here you may enjoy the Romanesque paintings and early 20th-century art by Rusino, Casas and many other artists that inspired a young Picasso.

By now it should be lunchtime and you're probably starving. Bar Mut (Carrer de Pau Claris) offers casual lunch feasts loved by local people. Steamed herb-infused muscles and canas (beers) are a must amongst the four cheese risotto.

Once fueled up, you are ready to experience Barcelona's most famous monument, the mastodontic Sagrada Familia (Placa de la Sagrada Familia). Consecrated as a basilica in 2010 it's completion should be due in 2026. The one-of-a-kind building has become one of the symbols of the city signed by Gaudì himself.

Don't miss other famous buildings by Gaudì: Casa Battlò (Passeig de Graca) and La Pedrera are equally eye-catching and can't be missed.

La Pedrera

Time for some relax. Barcelona has a beatiful beach: Platja de Sant Sebastià, found at the end of la Barceloneta. Cool down your feet in the Mediterranean sea while sipping on a fresh beer and you should be ready for the evening.

Have dinner in one of the many Catalan restaurants. La Fonda Espana in the Hotel Espana (Sant Pau 9-11) is a spectacular place where to dine if you can't decide.

Sunday

On Sunday head to Parc Guell, Gaudì's mosaic-carpeted gardens located on a hill near Mont Tibidabo. There you'll find probably the most fascinating views of the city before a last goodbye.

Barcelona offers a vibrant experience for all travellers and design-art lovers. There is plenty of discoveries to be found here and you'll sure be amused by your surroundings. A city full of intense life, a gateway open to the past and future.

Look. Ask. Learn. Live.

Have you ever walked in a crowded street, minding your own business, when all of a sudden, your attention is drawn towards a single person, maybe an awkward old man, or a beautiful lady, or maybe even a kid playing with the shadows projected from his hand. You may even stop and glare and the reflection of the sun on a tall skyscraper or the architecture of a flower placed on top of a table of a bistrot.

For a moment, a blink of an eye, all your attention is focused on that detail, that person. Your mind starts wondering, you start randomly asking yourself: “Why is that man acting weird? How much of the life of that splendid woman was improved because of her beauty? Is she sick of succeeding only because of her appearance? What is that kid imagining while playing with such a simple material? Why that flower has that specific color, where does it come from, how did it get here?” And as fast as these thoughts arrived they immediately disappear, like a breath on a window.

Everybody travels, everybody loves to see new places, it helps us confront the place we call home with other destinations. How many time did you ask yourself: “How my life would have been if I were born here?”. You question yourself in a passive way. And end up by not getting to know who actually lives there, and can answer your question in the best of ways.

I always travelled, since I was born, I have been very lucky to have this privilege. And I love travelling. But I recently understood that I was just a spectator, of this beautiful show that’s called “World”.

I discovered this, on the 2th of October 2011, while sitting in a bar in Santo Domingo killing time before my flight to Madrid, the world we live in has given us the ability to be seen and experienced like never before, and being a passive spectator just wasn't sufficient anymore.

While having the the same will to travel as before, from that moment I started asking whatever questions I thought about to whoever I encountered, discovering the hard way to live in a specific place, adapting myself, questioning myself actively every single moment, discovering, looking, living.

It’s a simple task, just look around yourself, see a person or even a simple object, a chair. Ask yourself: “Why is it built that way, why in those colors, who created it, is his life changed once he projected it?” Wouldn’t you be intrigued of meeting this person, get to know him, try to understand is brain and work flow.

I love to watch documentaries, but I always felt a passive viewer and it always frustrated me the fact that I couldn’t ask my own questions or live on my own skin the experiences they were describing.

Sometimes, when I travel, I challenge myself to depart with no information what’s so ever on my destination. In this way I can truly experience a land, asking people to live there what to see and do (if I’m on vacation), and maybe get to know so much somebody new that he will be my own Virgilio during my trip.

Life should be more like a RPG, something like Final Fantasy VII (if you don’t know what it is Google it up, buy it, play it and finish it before continuing, it will be worth it). In an RPG you can live a story, but at the same time you are willing to discover the more as possible to fully enjoy the experience of the game. You start looking for secret treasures, you bump in to NPC(non-playing-characters) wondering what kind of information they will give you, maybe they’ll tell you a joke, maybe they’ll give you an important detail on a side quest. You want to know everything. And once it’s finally over you’re left frustrated since you are so attached to that world and experience that you would like to continue to discover new adventures and talk with new characters.

What if your life could be like this? Why aren’t we curious enough? Why most of the time we are passively living our lives, watching things pass by, maybe entering a routine that might chain you forever until one day, you will regret that you didn’t see as much as you would have had to. This was the main reason I stopped playing videogames long ago. The world was my sandbox, I only needed to stop reading it’s manual.

We are constantly trying to earn time, just to have more time to work, to sleep. Have you ever asked yourself, i.e., why do you keep sending SMS? To earn time? Time for do what? With an SMS you are actively proclaiming that your time is not worth to spend talking with the person you wrote to. I find it tremendously irritating and not respectful. I’m a huge time-management geek when it comes to organize my productivity at work, but I forget everything about earning time when out from the office. My biggest concern now is trying to keep on my tracks. It isn’t easy if you settle down for a while. My mind might stop travelling as my body. So I need to keep moving, keep looking, keep questioning…

I know my words may seem pretentious to the most of people. But I can’t stop wondering what world it could be if everybody wanted to knew everything and everyone.

I hope to stay this foolish as people sometimessay for a long time, I know very well that one day I’ll settle down too, but my mind will keep travelling with my experiences.

“Travel isn’t about the destination, it’s about the journey.”

iPhonography - My must have Apps for iPhone Photography

"iPhoneography", the act of taking photos with the iPhone, has evolved drastically in the last years since. The iPhone is in fact the most popular camera used to take pictures on Flickr, making it clear that the saying "The best camera is the one that’s with you" is true. The iPhone has given us the chance to follow our most  serious photographic endeavours making our inspiration boundless.

I too love iPhonography, I feel it personal, since I can take pictures when I want and edit them on-the-go to perfectly mirror the emotions of the moment on the capture.

My "Capture" folder (I name folders on my iPhone based on the purpose of the Apps in them) is probably the most updated one, and I try to upload every day at least one photo on Instagram, because yes, "Sharing is caring".

Many people have asked me on Twitter "What App did you use to take that photo?". For this reason I decided to share a list of my favourite photography Apps for the iPhone.

Capture

KitCam - $0,99

When it come to serious photo capturing, this app does it all. Besides the ability to edit your photo even before taking it with real-time previews, the App gives you the change to fine-tune your shots to the maximum. White-balance, Exposure, Focusing and even an fully customizable HD recording mode. All edits are non-destructive so you can tweak your shots over and over again.

Analog - $0,99 

From the creators of the to-do list App Clear, Analog is the fastest and easiest way to take, process and share photos. While it doesn't give you in-depth editing capabilities it's gesture based interface really get's you going.

Edit

Snapseed - Free
Sometimes you need to focus on your editing to obtain quality from your capture.
Created by Nik Software, leader in digital photography software, Snapseed give you all the fine tuning tools you need to get the most out from your photo while preserving it's quality.

VSCO Cam - Free (with in-app purchases)
Sleek, clear and fast. Developed by Visual Supply, VSCO Cam is the go-to app for vintage lovers with it's top-quality vintage filters. Now the team realeased a brand new app with more than 50 professional filters to tweak and edit. It's simply great.

Mextures - $0,99 
"Viva la grunge", "Toxic", "Sunfelt", "Mummify"... these are just some of the intense effects available on Mextures. The App helps you recreate a filmy, grainy look typically created in old -and severly damaged- analogue film/holga camera.

Over - $0,99 
Sometimes, you just need the urge to place text over bad photographs with intense vintage filters applied to them. For those urges Over comes in to rescue.

Share

Instagram - Free
Is there anyone who doesn’t know what Instagram is?
Instagram is THE photo-sharing and social networking app. It enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on virtually every social network.

Flickr - Free 
Now powered with 1 Terabyte of free space, Flickr has become the must-have social network profile for photographers. 

500px - Free 
Similar to Flickr, 500px give you a social profile where to share and sell your captures too! 

Interested in viewing my iPhonography?

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The power of creativity

Communication is at the centre of everyday aspect of life. Communication knows that it doesn’t take much to surprise us. Walk and you suddenly realize that the wall you come across every day has changed color, new faces smile at you and the sun shines brighter than usual. Walk and think of how those little changes have caught your attention, making your day different.

In that precise moment you discover that the power of creativity lies in the wonder that grows in you when you see the usual things from a new perspective. Effective communication envelops you, knows how to conquer you. Sometimes, it does it with ease and imagination, sometimes with revolutionary ideas that change us forever.

In my works, I'm not looking for perfection I'm chasing a dream. A dream to create a better world and paint it in different shades of colors. I do not want to invent a color that does not exist, but I want to mix up two colors I love in a way that the result will create an even more unique experience to be viewed. I want to abandon my origins without ever forgetting them.

Only by following these guidelines I have learned to work with curiosity through worlds that I really wanted to know and make them my own. I always find passion in what I do and have often followed a road that was not the easiest, but at least it was my own.

The world is my study subject and sandbox. Born curious, I love discoveries, evaluate things and situations with my own eyes, get involved and take risks, laugh for no reason and stay up late thinking of an idea that I could give birth to without any rational logic but with only pure inspiration. I love everything that enriches me and changes me, makes me think and change my path. I love the unexpected and impossible challenges.

I want my actions to be part of the change that you want to see in the world.

“All glory comes from daring to begin.”

— Ware, Eugene F.

Why work doesn't happen at work

Ever felt over-distracted, overwhelmed and over-extended? Are you used to work at a light speed pace all day long, only to find that you haven't completed the most important tasks on your daily to-do list when you leave the office?

I felt like this once, I actually still feel like that sometimes. But when I feel like that it is simply because I drift away from my productivity rules applied after years of usual working habits and routines.

Jason Fried, co-founder of 37signals makes a good point in his book Rework:

Work simply doesn't happen at work.

We are used to have employees going to offices each day. Buildings erected by employers with the expectation to make employees do good work.

But the truth is that if you ask someone: "Where do you go when you really need to get work done?” the answers will usually be: "In a café", "on the porch", "on my desk at home, late at night", "while commuting, in the train or in airplanes"...and so on. For my knowledge nobody answers: "In the office".

But why is this so?

Work has drastically changed in the last years. People are now constantly being distracted by far too many forms of communications: Emails, IM's, Conference calls, meetings, Tweets and so on. Gloria Mark, for example, a professor at the University of California at Irvine, found that the technology workers she studied would make it, on average, only 11 minutes into a project before being distracted. It then took 25 minutes to return to the task post-distraction.

People now are living in a state of continuous partial attention. And this state is simply toxic, for mind and body.

I am a technology and creative centric worker, for me focusing on my task vital. But to focus, you need uninterrupted time.

Work is somehow similar to sleep. You will never sleep deeply and charge your batteries efficiently if you keep being interrupted.

When I work, I forbid project managers. Meetings and managers are toxic. They are people paid to make sure you are working by making you stop doing so. It has no sense.

But how to fix this problem?

1. Start to focus more on the quality of your connections than on the quantity of them.

2. If you are a project manager or an employer, no interruptions is a perfect gift for your employee.

3. Favor Passive communications such as emails instead of active communications during work time.

4. If you need to really focus on a job, negotiate a work-from-home arrangement. The important thing is communication. Make sure they know how to get in touch with you - and be available. And most importantly, show results.

Distracting opportunities have to die for your most important goals to live.

My Must-Have OSX Apps for UX/UI Designers and Developers

Some people think I’m just a photographer, others think I’m a web developer, some think I mainly work as a designer and others haven't got a clue of what I do for a living. In the past 6 years I did all my best to improve each single perk without leaving not a single one behind.

My work is my passion, and it couldn’t be otherwise. I spent the last year finding a technological nirvana, working hard to identify a seamless workflow pattern that could help me improve drastically my productivity trough devices, apps and websites. One of my main tasks was being able to free myself from the slavery of being in front of a pc monitor the whole day, this made me become an iPad/iPhone power user, but many tasks were not achievable on my faithful iDevices.

Lately I've been working a lot on User Experience and front-end web development. By doing so I tried all sorts of Apps and utilities to better achieve my goals in the most efficient way as possible. But it takes time to achieve efficiency. I want to help you speed up your quest for efficiency by highlighting you, what I reckon, the MUST-HAVE OSX apps for UX/UI Designers and developers.

Apps

Google Chrome: for Internet browsing and testing. Mastering the Chrome DevTools will make you a web developer rockstar in no time. 

DropBox: for backup and shared file storage. Since I switch my workstation many times during the week, a shared folder environment with a secure cloud backup makes me work faster and eradicates the fear of loosing my project files.

Google Drive: for backup and online document editing. Since I use Scrum as a Software project managament workflow I need to keep my weekly sprints and project backlogs updated and shared with my team to assure constant updates.

Sparrow: as my default email client. It seamlessly syncs with my Gmail Account. But I'm waiting for the Mac version of Mailbox.

Things: for task management. One of my favorite apps of all time. I use it to manage all my work and personal related project in to actionable task using the Getting Things Done method.

Trello Board: for team collaboration. Trello keeps track of every aspect of my projects and helps me update with my team. I sometimes apply the Kanban method for better performances on complex projects.

Evernote: for general reference gathering and storage. It syncs with my iDevices and now also with my Evernote Moleskine. I never loose a note.

Adobe Creative Suite: for virtually doing anything creative. Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, InDesign. Without it, I would be lost.

Coda 2: for coding. Coda 2 comes with: an improved editor with code folding, auto completion and workflow improvements, new tabs and sidebar UI changes, Git support, a full file browser, improved clips (code snippets), changes to CSS editing, live code hints and a full-blown GUI for MySQL management.

SublimeText 2: for quick coding. I use SublimeText 2 when I need to quickly fix or edit code snippets. Smart, quick and efficient.

Espresso 2: for CSS editing. With it's wonderful WYSIWYG editor for Css, Espresso 2 boosts my front-end development productivity to the maximum.

Transmit: for FTP file transfer. Transmit makes my days easier with an intuitive interface and a clear ftp management.

1Password: for password storage. With hundreds of Social Networks, credit card credentials, ftp addresses and back-office logins, 1Passwords has become one of the first App I install on a new terminal. A true gem.

Balsamiq: for general wireframing. A no-brainer app I use when I need to enhance my hand drawn website sketches.

ByWord: for text editing. Markdown syntax has become my most reliable form of text formatting. ByWord helps me focus on my writing with it's minimal yet functional interface.

Sketch: for website and app design. A new addition to my toolbox, Sketch is a is a professional vector graphics app aimed at graphic designers developed especially for UI designers.

Briefs: for interactive iOS prototypes generation. A new addition, Briefs is an iOS prototyping tool for professionals. It comes with a standalone Mac app that allows you to build and test live prototypes, and a free Briefscase iOS app that lets you test prototypes directly on your iPhone and iPad.

DayOne: for your personal journal management. DayOne can be used as an honest and personal Dev log to review in the future.

OmniGraffle: for diagramming, charting, and general visualization. I mainly use it to create complex UMLs.

Mindnode: for mind mapping. Mindnode can be used to create site-maps on the go during brainstorms.

Skype: for instant messaging and conference calls. Even though I prefer to limit availability to three precise moments during the day.

Utilities

GuideGuide: for making grids directly in Photoshop.

Uber Layer: for overlaying jpg layouts to Htmls during Css editing making your designs pixel proof.

Adobe Inspect: for cross browser testing. Adobe Inspects makes you preview & inspect web designs on your devices.

Page Layers: for layered website screenshots. It converts web pages to Photoshop files with separate layers for all page elements. 

CssHat: to instantly turn Photoshop layer styles to CSS3.

Slicy: for Photoshop slicing. Slicy exports layer groups independently, giving you total freedom to move, overlap or even hide design elements. 

QuickCal: for quick agenda management.

f.lux: to save yourself for going blind. Is your computer keeping you up late? f.lux is free software that warms up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting.

ImageOptim: for image optimization. By finding best compression parameters, ImageOptim optimizes images so they take up less disk space and load faster.

CloudApp: to quickly share screenshots and files with auto-generated links.

Kuler: for creating and picking colors and palettes.

DevRocket: to quickly create and export iOs UI elements.

Instashare: to seamlessly beam files from Mac to iPhone/iPad and vice versa.

Parallels: for running Windows Apps. You could ignore it, but you eventually need to try your web project on Internet Explorer.

Way Out is an escape route. It's goal is to achieve constant inspiration and create truly meaningful things. See this post as a small digital tool-set to start planning your escape as I planned mine.

What is inspiration?

You need to ask yourself that. I did, and discovered something. I like the being constantly being inspired, sensing that I'm always doing something worthwile. I need to know that what’s achieved by my actions excites and thrills me, every single day.

At some point of our life, we felt pervaded by a powerful force that moved us with extreme violence towards a specific task. A force that we couldn't ignore, and had to embrace fully. At some point of our life, we've all felt inspired.

Feeling inspired for me now, is like feeling the same emotions I felt as a kid on Christmas day. I always woke up early full of energy, ready to enjoy the special day, knowing that there were only actions to love doing and only great feelings and joys to experience. I couldn’t wait to see what was going to happen next. It was magical. And my imagination could not have any bonds. (In fact I still love Christmas time and I still react in the same childish way).

But, now, just like at Christmas, if you couldn't open those parcels and couldn't search for what you were looking for, your excitement would run off.

As on Christmas day, life is the same. You won't be able to explore all of the opportunities to complete great projects because you're not actively searching for them.

As a kid you were used to have a one-track mind, focusing only on what you desired the most. Once you had a purpose, a goal, nothing could stop you reaching it.

That motivation, is the foundation of inspiration. Once you get excited, as when you were a kid, you will never find insurmountable walls on your way to achieve your dreams and goals.

Find again that energy, and use it as a tool to get things done.

“You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.”

— Jack London

Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine: How I started sketch noting again

I drew a lot as a kid, and I mean, a LOT. But since I became a Designer, my visual muscles suffered an intense mass loss.

As a technology enthusiast I ditched my notebook and pen for shiny iPads and expensive Apps like Paper.

Recently, while note taking on my iPad or iPhone, I felt alienated. I was frustrated by the highly detailed, text-only notes that left no space to emotions or personal thoughts. Meetings and conferences became a source of stress, since I had to capture every single detail. I was obsessed with details.

Last week I gave up. I took some time to think. Relaxed a bit and decided to go back to the basics.

Note taking made me focus on capturing big ideas. To write and draw made the activity fun and enjoyable. Concepts, ideas, thoughts, emotions were captured with drawings and type blended together by creativity. Since your mind and body are acting together, you are able to recall more of what you hear and draw. Kids draw constantly to express ideas, and guess what? You were a kid too once.

Drawing an idea can often take just a fraction of time needed to describe the same idea in verbal detail.

To help me get back in to practice and to soothe the stress of going back to analogue I bought myself the Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine.

I started using again Evernote only recently. Before today I couldn't seem to find a place for the service in my workflow.

Buy once I applied the GTD method to Evernote, suddenly, magic happened. To achieve the GTD structure in Evernote, I created five notebooks: 1. Inbox 2. Active Projects 3. Backburners 4. Archive 5. References

I now use Evernote to store literally everything. Business cards, phone numbers, restaurant menus, sketches, references, etc... It has become the ultimate digital Archive folder in my daily workflow.

The Evernote Smart Notebook by Moleskine perfectly fits it's purpose. It turns your written ideas and sketches into digital notes. The Evernote Page Camera works with the specially designed pages of this book, and with the included Smart Stickers, to make everything searchable and shareable.

Though pricey for a Moleskine, the notebook comes with a free 3 months subscription to Evernote Premium (value: 15€) allowing you to boost your monthly uploads to 1GB each month, offline notebooks (wonderful for the ones that like me travel a lot) and an enhanced PDF & document search.

How to write a Travel Journal

When I first started to take photographs during my travels I soon realized it was wise to keep a travel journal. Emotions, non-framed events, further details went missing if I didn't religiously update my journal at least once a day.

But what's the best way to write a Travel Journal? I tried different approaches to this task. I decided to keep a separated journal for each destination. When I had some spare time, usually while commuting from a place to an other, or in the evening right before going to sleep. In time it has worked best to keep the journal private and the entries short. By doing so, once "home" I could browse through my notes, edit them and share them online with a related photograph.

I discovered that by keeping the journal private, I could be truly honest about my day and feelings, adding great value to my entries. By reading my journals now I can learn more about my actual life and myself.

Writing short entries helped my focus my attention of what was really relevant. Write a series of short sentences similar to Tweets.

What to write

Be present, focus on the details, break the boundaries and look further. Write about your emotions, what you photographed, why did you photograph a particular object, who did you meet? How did he/she make you feel? What caught your eye? Why? Write about new tastes, sounds, smells...

Describe more than what your eyes see. Draw if you want! Before starting to write, stop a moment and meditate about the day. Meditation can unlock your best writing ideas.

"Don’t just write that a market is “bustling.” Describe the vendors vying for your attention, the noises, the smells, and the people who jostle against you. Avoid vague adjectives, and look for specific details that define a place’s character."

– Dave Fox

Make it a daily habit; don't just confine journaling during travels. As an iPhone and iPad power-user I use an app called DayOne. Most of my entries are written here now. And when I forget to write something new, the App sends me a notification, inviting me to create a new entry. It's a wonderful sensation to take some time and reflect on your life by reading a personal journal. Start today, life is a beautiful thing, if you can remember it.

“Everything is an idea for something, something that touches the imagination, a fact that seems relevant or maybe just a statement I find interesting — either because it resonates or because I disagree. All of it is fodder for continued work or thinking on the topics. It’s also important to me to record the ideas that my instincts tell me are bad.”

— Elizabeth Spiers

Less is more - The Pareto principle

The Pareto principle, also known as the 80–20 rule, states that, for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. The principle and named it after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who observed in 1906 that 80% of the land in Italy was owned by 20% of the population; he developed the principle by observing that 20% of the pea pods in his garden contained 80% of the peas.

By applyng this principle to focus only on those tasks that contribute the majority of benefit in sinergy with the Parkinson's law (work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion) to limit the amount of actual time spent working, you'll be amazed by efficiency and effectiveness of work you'll be able to achieve.

More generally, the Pareto Principle is the observation (not law) that most things in life are not distributed evenly. It can mean all of the following things:

• 20% of the input creates 80% of the result
• 20% of the workers produce 80% of the result
• 20% of the customers create 80% of the revenue
• 20% of the bugs cause 80% of the crashes
• 20% of the features cause 80% of the usage

And on and on…

The key point is that most things in life (effort, reward, output) are not distributed evenly – some contribute more than others. The Pareto Principle helps you realize that the majority of results come from a minority of inputs. By knowing what theese inputs are you'll be albe to focus on them and achieve more. Remember that the Pareto Principle is an observation, not a law of nature. When you are seeking top quality, you need all 100%.