A Tranquil Place, An Excellent Plan

In the season’s greetings, our clan celebrates privately and customarily. Hence, I prefer to spend my annual agenda—writing, visiting Inay-Tay and Lolo-Lola at the memorial cemetery, then heading to a tranquil place to think, reflect, and decompress, recharging my brain—an excellent plan.

(Brillo 2026 [message/lecture])

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Brillo’s Rule

These posts are designed to encourage thinking and reflection, not acceptance.

Brillo’s rule— read, think, imagine, and write— I force you!

(Brillo 2026 [2 Jan 2025])

This weblog serves as a repository for my work and activities.

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Academic Writer

Passion, not work. Always be different, be consistent, and be tenacious!

• Authored, edited, and reviewed 248 refereed journal articles.
• Written 69 journal articles—58 as sole author and 11 as co-author.
• Served on the editorial boards of the following journals: Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Public Affairs and Development; Academic Editor, Asia-Pacific Social Science Review; Associate Editor, Environment Development and Sustainability; Associate Editor, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications; Associate Editor, H2Open; Associate Editor, SN Business and Economics; Associate Editor, Sage Open; Associate Editor, Discover Sustainability; and Article Editor, Sage Open.

(Brillo 2025 [ending 30 Dec 2025])

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Gifted Individuals

Gifted individuals contribute significantly and in unique ways to the rest; they do not follow the ordinary trajectory. If these individuals are restricted, it hampers the advancement of scholarship.

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Parsimony— Simplicity trumps Complexity

In theory, research and practice—broadly, simplicity trumps complexity. The Occam’s Razor principle, including Aristotle, Ptolemy, and Isaac Newton, strongly concurs.

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Judging and Refraining

Judging something I do not utterly understand and palpably discern would be unfair. Therefore, it is better and more reasonable to refrain.

(Brillo 2024, 2025 [message/lecture])

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Preferment and Foible Shortcomings

The litmus test for the academic preferment requirements is substantially and conspicuously satisfied. Foible shortcomings should be tolerated among the real world’s gatekeepers, since faultless tests only happen in an ideal world.

(Brillo 2024, 2025 [message/lecture])

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