<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 13:54:01 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@luistorras/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[La historia continua]]></title><description><![CDATA[La obra de Francis Fukuyama es amplia y dilatada en el tiempo, arrojando, sin embargo, un balance muy dispar de entre donde destacan dos: La gran ruptura y Trust. No incluyo, pese a su gran interés, el]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/fukuyama/@luistorras/la-historia-continua</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/fukuyama/@luistorras/la-historia-continua</guid><category><![CDATA[fukuyama]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2019 15:33:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lecturas para 2018. Part I.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Siguiendo a mi admirado Shane Parrish de Farnan Street paso a resumir parte de la planificación de lecturas para este año Lo ya leído The Square and The Tower, Niall Ferguson siempre claro, bien estructurado,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/libros/@luistorras/lecturas-para-2018-part-i</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/libros/@luistorras/lecturas-para-2018-part-i</guid><category><![CDATA[libros]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 10:28:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2N61tyyncFaFnNFKLegVvzmsrMAExSDXzsHdqwaiT1CZnbdwze3P19zohH2Nv7sf3FHcETF8vn5Z4aAp8RjR2fHABLasxLWRvDXrMKWE3M9PfD9ZEigjxjuUFMenE8UUGYWnfXjhpvLE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobleza de espíritu]]></title><description><![CDATA[Como bien señaló el bueno de Bauman, vivimos tiempos líquidos, gaseosos según se mire. Nuestras sociedades han ido acumulando, de manera acelerada, mejores estándares de vida, un horizonte de oportunidades]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/libros/@luistorras/nobleza-de-espiritu</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/libros/@luistorras/nobleza-de-espiritu</guid><category><![CDATA[libros]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2018 11:02:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kyJM9JABQLS7EhjmU3VVqJQJsLWXdiGisfReTE5ioyq9QzfNe1feQuMuXr9okgE1UR9PrY76UNtC3cf1kt1U7r8vHaZoa2RYHcT9jKdM9z7yXLZpTAavgpLGHa29CH3jQC6UriJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasons to be optimistic (review of Johan Norberg's book Progress)]]></title><description><![CDATA["The main fuel to accelerate world progress is our reserve of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination." Julian Simon, The State of Humanity (1995) The first oil crisis in 1973 gave]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/book/@luistorras/reasons-to-be-optimistic-review-of-johan-norberg-s-book-progress</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/book/@luistorras/reasons-to-be-optimistic-review-of-johan-norberg-s-book-progress</guid><category><![CDATA[book]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:19:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVg7b9kDAeEj1fe3cirrbMugoPDywqwxJfgdfJBHa3yZ9KfGhMJuTXpXekXnC9Wbtfis2AodjA76Nv2a?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propósitos para 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Aprovechando la excusa de nuestra inteligente ordenación del tiempo para compartir tres propósitos para 2018. El primero es ahorrar más. Ahorrar es siempre sinónimo de libertad; es la variable que nos]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/resolutions/@luistorras/propositos-para-2018</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/resolutions/@luistorras/propositos-para-2018</guid><category><![CDATA[resolutions]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:56:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finance industry and the whale hunting industry of the 19th Century]]></title><description><![CDATA[must-read: Tuur DeMeester in a brilliant article (recently​ re-published claims Money Industry today may be facing challenges similar to what the whale hunting industry face in the 19th century. Key though:]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@luistorras/finance-industry-and-the-whale-hunting-industry-of-the-19th-century</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@luistorras/finance-industry-and-the-whale-hunting-industry-of-the-19th-century</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 30 Dec 2017 18:05:18 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVdxk9BUxEXgzJCibQoqs7mRvmLH4ymeYDgX4oS1pYMog37M5HKWAD6Rc2KDLWGcswN6zfzHbtWFJsga?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading wish list for 2018]]></title><description><![CDATA[Los restos del día, Kazuo Ishiguro Así se domina el mundo, Pedro Baños La imagen de tu vida, Javier Gomá The Square and the Tower, Niall Ferguson El círculo, Dave Eggers Hacerse todas las ilusiones posibles,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/books/@luistorras/reading-wish-list-for-2018</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/books/@luistorras/reading-wish-list-for-2018</guid><category><![CDATA[books]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 21:23:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reading list in 2017]]></title><description><![CDATA[(mostly in order; only finished books) Misbehaving, Richard Thaler The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (3rd time) La revolución rusa, Richard Pipes La fractura, Philippe Bloom El telón de acero, Anne Applebaum]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/books/@luistorras/my-reading-list-in-2017</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/books/@luistorras/my-reading-list-in-2017</guid><category><![CDATA[books]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:00:18 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest of Bitcoin to became Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[At this point, few are those who have not yet heard of Bitcoin, the new digital currency on the support of the still incipient but very promising blockchain technology. With the great rise in its price]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@luistorras/the-quest-of-bitcoin-to-became-money</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@luistorras/the-quest-of-bitcoin-to-became-money</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2017 22:21:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[La importancia de invertir en agricultura]]></title><description><![CDATA["En los próximos 40 años, los seres humanos tendrán que producir más alimentos de lo que hicieron en los 10.000 anteriores juntos. Pero con las grandes ciudades devorando las tierras cultivables,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/agriculture/@luistorras/la-importancia-de-invertir-en-agricultura</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/agriculture/@luistorras/la-importancia-de-invertir-en-agricultura</guid><category><![CDATA[agriculture]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2017 09:10:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/26uUsAjKTsXCQk1qYXWBvaB21CARpb7vMcFWaRZ842YBXcJLLTGe2pkKH3N1D4h4QcAAgoNdpKggNVBDUy4EqQqFEv8K4LsDsgggjaw9aGV8sBjGqpWnFhfiWLTNm5zLUTGnq92Gi2c26XdbR4bCH4YXY6rzakgSg5JYJi?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[La importancia de la lectura: ¿qué esta haciendo Internet a nuestras mentes? (v.2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[“De los diversos instrumentos inventados por el hombre, el más asombroso es el libro; todos los demás son extensiones de su cuerpo… Sólo el libro es una extensión de la imaginación y la memoria.” Jorge]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/lectura/@luistorras/la-importancia-de-la-lectura-que-esta-haciendo-internet-a-nuestras-mentes-v-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/lectura/@luistorras/la-importancia-de-la-lectura-que-esta-haciendo-internet-a-nuestras-mentes-v-2</guid><category><![CDATA[lectura]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:28:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/cyxkEVqiiLyAJMrzqHfWLT7YbdgoprDQGwdeDRwrciWnPocfffPPUwUu81iSNL3CUmnw8BSx9HhhxVLs6ys6Dp3E1CbK6pWwWEtRQ2LfywVCPNR3u3YKCQmTc8y4WsPxhyY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Churchill]]></title><description><![CDATA[Churchill Benjamin Disraeli wrote that in the study of history too much attention is paid to the facts and little to the people when the truth is that the best way to approach the history is usually by]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/churchill/@luistorras/churchill</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/churchill/@luistorras/churchill</guid><category><![CDATA[churchill]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2017 09:30:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kyJM9JABQLS7EhjmU3VVqJQJsLWXdiFsoL3rqEUyCNas9q8yB4Y9e1qgzcPdiJpE54DcZ1zAbSXTBZt46K4526m4eYrXSNMBX9mgapbEE2ChYvWYmEgi8gkG9Qx6rVjME3H9cpN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[44 books to understand the implications of blockchain/bitcoin]]></title><description><![CDATA[Blockchain, and Bitcoin in particular, are changing rapidly global economic and social scenario. Blockchain technology based on open distributed ledger has begin to prove its potential and today is one]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/books/@luistorras/44-books-to-help-to-understand-the-implications-of-blockchain-bitcoin</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/books/@luistorras/44-books-to-help-to-understand-the-implications-of-blockchain-bitcoin</guid><category><![CDATA[books]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2017 08:49:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitcoin in 1,000 words (or so)]]></title><description><![CDATA[“I think the Internet is going to be one of the main forces to reduce the government’s role. The only thing missing, but soon to develop, is a reliable digital currency.” Milton Friedman On August 18,]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@luistorras/bitcoin-in-1-000-words-or-so</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/bitcoin/@luistorras/bitcoin-in-1-000-words-or-so</guid><category><![CDATA[bitcoin]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 09:39:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2LKUSvBVZxdEo4Q6BjsS9PPqZJbatHFspphj4CuyQ2JKXrxP1hJfk5KZd7XJwJm1CgV2bTuCBfZj8MDpmtST5VkS?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blockchain in 1,000 words]]></title><description><![CDATA[The invention of the Internet is a turning point of magnitude and relevance comparable to the printing press or the steam engine. Internet marked a before and after that has required transversal changes]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@luistorras/blockchain-in-1-000-words</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blockchain/@luistorras/blockchain-in-1-000-words</guid><category><![CDATA[blockchain]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 21:13:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKnFEnBwjKLhL15SoynbgJKpQxRd1uowmsAH9QTiUJmnVcivYybj45stPHLAbPKcH9Thg69JMupacT6J59mkLzs9a2p8EKJiSpSXNrQdKU84hW2Pm2DDBLXwa1Fx3ghnKXHp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Russian Revolution. A review of Richard Pipes' book on Russian Revolution.]]></title><description><![CDATA[“There was nothing positive or grandiose in the Russian Revolution” — Richard Pipes The author of this masterpiece says that the Russian Revolution was probably the most important historical event of the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/book/@luistorras/the-russian-revolution-a-review-of-richard-pipes-book-on-russian-revolution</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/book/@luistorras/the-russian-revolution-a-review-of-richard-pipes-book-on-russian-revolution</guid><category><![CDATA[book]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[luistorras]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 20:52:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7258xSVeJbKnFEnBwjKLhL15SoynbgJKpQxRd1uoqBBu7SG5edwYGjKbawKRPHwmVWomRnqzH9SYNWZFYgDtHsPoZMCuxdauuyDd22WoevHVzakWYvANdNgMuDLiPDMgc5muL68ixbyuY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>