Gathering thoughts…
A world of little thoughts.
A Vanessa, uma das minhas melhores amigas, completava 9 meses de gravidez enquanto eu fazia as malas para viajar para São Paulo. "Segura o Dante, eu estou chegando", avisei já ansiosa para conhecer o bebê. Fui visitá-los tão logo cheguei ao Brasil, no entanto o Dante continuava tranquilão no útero da mãe sem denotar…
Após uma festinha em casa no sábado para celebrar o aniversário do Ola, uma amiga nos convenceu a esticar a noite no Mitte, onde um amigo discotecava. Decidimos ir, mesmo o lugar não sendo muito animador, um café de janelões de ponta ao ponta todo de vidro deixando o espaço muito iluminado que poderia ter uma cortina…
Sometimes I feel like I see my grandmother in your eyes. The way the soft lines across your speckled face crinkle when you laugh. How your hair reaches up to the sky like the winding branches of a tree. I think sometimes I see my grandmother in you where she is not. When your eyebrows crease and I can't tell if I had…
I realized I’m not a social creature with moments of solitude, I’m a solitary being with social contact. But I miss people I’ve lost contact with. Perhaps because goodbye is the de facto way now, I experience it too much.
I am a crow widow. Tonight the crows took my wife from me. I knew this day was coming. They called to her for months, drew her with shiny gifts. And she courted them too, attracted by their intellect, the prehistoric tilt of their heads. She was always too good for me. I knew that from the start. But I never imagined…
ahh a text i keep putting off from re-reading "the generic city" by Rem Koolhaas. from memory it speaks of ideas around identity. today i am seeing more conversation around identity from design. in contradiction to identity some designers thrive by removing identity...
When I started my writing journey, consistency was the goal. With consistency, practice is inevitable. What are you practicing? I consider these three elements: The basics - My process, the headline, and the outline are my basics. I need those before I can produce a quality piece of writing. If I'm not careful, I…
The author, Dr. Benjamin Hardy, has written extensively about your Future Self. It's the single clearest way to create motivation, excitement and purposeful in your life. When you can imagine what you want to be in the future, you can feel it. You can plan for it. You can build processes into your life that helps you…
I just discovered Nicheless from Hacker News. I really like the design and concept so far. Also, the 300 word post limit -- combined with the fact that today is November 1st -- has given me an idea: NaNoWriMo is a annual competition to write a novel within a month, starting November 1st. The minimum word count goal is…
Knowing. Thinking. Believing. In order to know something, we generally have personal experience with it. What I do most often is to think something is or is not. And to think is to trust in someone else’s personal experience or knowledge. So where does belief come in? Is belief even necessary? It often seems like…
I will miss her. She listened to me. She made me feel intelligent. Slowly she grew on me. I loved her drive and intelligence. She was colorful. She shone in the crowd. I fell in love slowly, then all at once. But she broke my heart, she ghosted and she left. I thought we could build a lot of things today. I wanted her…
You started to feel anxious because You are comparing yourself to your friends subconsciously Your brain tells you and giving you signals that you didn’t know “Preparing yourself” don’t mean you need to putting yourself into stressful situations It just means adjusting your mindset That given certain situations - what…
Today was a great day. Spend more money than I’d want to since yesterday but it’s okay but it wasn’t on drugs or booze.. tonight I made chicken Alfredo pasta w mushrooms to finish a great day
Trusting your capabilities when you don't have systems is what imposter syndrome might feel like. Because When you don't have systems, you end up being lazy, lethargic and looking for perfection and constantly thinking about how to make things better but you don't have the infra or you're not trying hard enough to…
ask a question at the bottom! If you could, would you mass delete all humans from the world? (26th October, 2026) There would be a lot of animals that missed humanity if we vanished, pets of course, but I think forest creatures too would wonder about us. Plants as well, we don't acknowledge how much we live in…
Why is it so hard to start working out again when I know it’s going to help me feel better? I know it’s going to have a positive impact but it’s still so hard to start
Sometimes your brain protects you by thinking of the future. Anticipating scenarios. Sometimes your brain protects you by reminding you of all the difficulties in the past that you’ve survived. One of my difficulties is saying goodbye
I have a friend who always responds with "tired" or "stressed" whenever I ask how she is. It's been five years, and 90% of the time, those are her answers. Yesterday, at a party, she was tired, and after they sang happy birthday, she was in a rush to leave. I asked her to stay a bit longer so we could hang out, but…
Ahh recently i was prompted by someone to try a different technique for a creation. it was new to me and required patience to learn. as i played with the technique, my ideas evolved into a more interesting creation. now it is time to further that idea and create something even better...
I wish I had followed up on my previous post. Now I completely forgotten what part 2 was suppose to be. So I have this Part 1.5 as an update for myself. We now have rumours and hints that Cortex X4, on 3nm may be able to get 15% Clock Speed increase, and possibly 15% or 20% IPC increase. On a 15%/15% increase that…
.. or public writings for myself? Who knows what this will evolve into, but it seems at first glance to be a natural step forward from using The Most Dangerous Writing App to get my thoughts out on paper, back when I was a teenager. Personally I have always felt the struggle of wanting to be in a community, to share…
“I’m through with this fuckin war, through with marchin in the dust, through with gettin shot at. I’m done, I’m goin’ home,” spouted Jenkins as he got up from the fire. “Quit bein’ a pussy, ain’t one of us here that don’t wanna be home” countered Carlton. “I ain't no pussy.” “Sure acting like one.” “Evenin’ boys”…
I got a lot into productivity over the last few years. Trying desperately to be productive. Following all hacks and methods. But there's a theory, the more consciously you try to improve something, the worse you are at it. Imagine you are driving, if you consciously try to drive better, your brain turns off auto-pilot…
It's counterintuitive but I think it's true. We struggle to find time to stretch our creative muscles. But modern creativity doesn't come with more freedom. It comes with more restriction. Think of Morning Pages. It became wildly successful among creative professionals because it forces you to write 3 pages. No more,…
timeless, you would be working more overtime, over time.
We love conclusions. Conclusions lend certainty to identity, relationships, and thought experiments. For instance, soon after a conversation, we are quick to think,"Oh this person is cool." Even with thought experiments we shade the experiment with what we know to be true from our experience. Let's say if someone asks…
I noticed a thing about myself a couple of times - I go into the "I'll prove I am worthy of this" mode too soon. It is a pretty natural reaction to feeling rejected or challenged. I guess some of it also comes from a childhood where quite a bit of validation came from achievement. On most counts that need to prove is…
This will likely happen many times over. I'm not necessarily building towards something, which makes this pseudo-habit hard to complete. Which brings up an interesting thought for me: am I conditioned to do things if and only if it leads or builds towards something? I definitely have this mindset these days. While not…
I have decided to quit my job. WITHOUT another job offer in hand. This can be seen as risky, and is highly uncharacteristic for me. I'm known to be a super-careful person. In fact, 4-5 people have told me that not a lot of places are hiring because of the impending recession, startup funding winter and what not. "I've…
Sometimes it doesn’t matter about the delivery (at first). Of course it matters but - what you started or initiated is much more interesting and useful/you’re supposed to live it that way. Imagine the scenario which you had in your head for quite a few times: You rather not do something because you’re afraid of making…
For a change, I'm not fishing for a topic in the river of my thoughts. I was thinking about the idea of feeling heard today. In fact, I got thinking about it when I first interned as a journalist. I spent most days in those two months running from pillar to post, attending press meetings, gathering 'newsbites' from…
TL;DR=throw and raise are fuck ugly anti-patterns. Golang got it right. In typescript, just use type unions with you return type and a custom error type. Yesterday, my code hit an exception, and I had no idea why. When I went to look at what the cause could be, my eyes started welling up. Not out of pride, but out of…
Question 1: What unactivated dream are you holding onto today from those before you? My name was given to me by my great-grandmother. I was an infant when she held me in her arms for the first and last time, somewhere near the coast of Nigeria. From what my parents told me about the interaction, she looked at me and…
One way to become a better writer is to take the same idea and try to get that idea across to different audiences. If you have a few places that you write, you might think that if you write one idea in one place, that’s good enough. A journal entry has just yourself as the audience. A technical blog has an audience…
looks so much like my cousin that i'm not allowed to have a crush on him but old keanu reeves...
All human organizations are hierarchical. Decision-making is concentrated near the top of the hierarchy. One can conceptualize the organization as a complex function whose input is information, which flows upward into the decision-making strata of the hierarchy, and whose output is power, which subsequently flows…
What enters your mind when you hear ‘the perfect storm’? Negative, unpredictable factors coming together to cause a catastrophe? My friend, Andy Sporring, recently wrote an essay about how a “perfect storm” of events can have negative or positive effects. After reading his essay, I immediately thought of one of my…
My initial foray into technology saw me working for a venture capital firm, where I became indoctrinated with the idea that tech companies must follow a pretty standardised path, raising multiple rounds of funding before a big splashy exit. And for a while, this sounded like something I wanted. More recently though,…
When you're younger, you are encouraged to be ambitious. As the years fly by, you learn the important of accepting. Of late, I've found myself in a tricky spot - figuring out the right balance of ambition and acceptance. I would consider myself an ambitious person. There's a lot I think I can achieve and when I look…
Send a message. Call them. Talk to them. The fury of youth will subside but loneliness will remain. Don’t let ego get in the way. Life gets in the way and they probably don’t have time. Reach out. If they don’t reciprocate, you at least know you gave your best.
Because you don’t take everything personal Maturity tells you when it’s about the world not about you If someone is behaving like disrespecting you Find a way to make them know it’s their fault first Stand your own fucking ground Understand it’s not you it’s them You’ve matured First you already control your emotions…
codeberg.org merupakan website remote yang cukup customable dengan keamanan privasi yang ditingkatkan (klaim dari codeberg.com). Aku mulai menggunakan codeberg belum lama ini yang dikhususkan untuk hal-hal pribadi, sedangkan github aku khususkan untuk dokumentasi tugas kuliah atau proyek yang mengharuskan menggunakan…
Vi sus ojos llorosos en el espejo retrovisor. Han pasado cinco años desde que Roberto se fue de Venezuela. Vino a probar la vida en Perú. Trajo consigo perro, hija y esposa en la maleta. Probó la suerte, creyendo que la economía peruana era una de las más estables. "Cuando la gente me pregunta si me gusta Lima, no sé…
I used to be a born fan of top-down approach. I never could wrap my head around small things if I couldn't figure about the existence and why of things. And that's okay while you're learning but innovation can't be done this way you need to solve a lot of small puzzles to figure out how to solve the larger one or even…
Digital productivity apps - shiny object buffet of apps with low to high caloric brain-nourishment value One's lived experiences deserves to be housed where the moments will be organized, tended, and loved Home sweet home, especially your digital home. My love letter to friends who ask if they should switch apps.…
These last 600 days have been the most toughest period of my entire life. I have cried my eyes out, felt miserable, sat like furniture for days on end & contemplated committing suicide. This all happened around my folks at home, never did they ever came up to me ask : what is brewing ? how am I feeling ? how can they…
Tons of people Tons of things to do Tons of places With all this, I just go into a very extrovert personality to protect myself
today is the day to take action, screw any excuse..no more excuses. Time to lock in and make my dreams my reality meaning eating healthy going to bed at a decent time and working out. . . i am self aware that i will struggle and its going to be hard but not impossible and i'm committing myself to write about my daily…
