Tag: 2025
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Pavel Durov’s Open Letter to the Free Internet
I totally agree with him, but especially this statement: We’ve been made to believe that the greatest fight of our generation is to destroy everything our forefathers left us: tradition, privacy, sovereignty, the free market, and free speech. So we need to work to reverse that sentiment. Those social institutions are the ones that require…
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Leave the Source for Later
Some people now enjoy starting their statements with a direct reference to a (more credible) source of information. It seems that everyone’s suspicious until proven otherwise. For that, along with exposing the broader context of the topic, people just go straight to disclosing the official source of what they are about to say. “According to…
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Writing Books is Better than Reading Them
I’m 3 weeks into the writing of my book. What a joy. It’s much better than reading any book. It really is. No wonder there are so many books out there for us to read. No wonder humanity has produced so many books over millennia. It’s so fantastic and rewarding. I’m talking about writing a…
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Make It Work, Then Perfect It Later
Yes, this is a nice little statement that loads us with encouragement. It’s too bad that it cannot compete with another nice little statement in popularity: If it’s not broken, don’t fix it. — western culture & mindset
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Folder Sync Between Devices using rclone
Syncthing for Android is now discontinued. This is an alternative process that achieves the same outcome.
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Deaths are Projected to Exceed Births
By the year 2030. Details on the report. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61390
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My Typical Week (2025)
Here is how it looks like. In general, I try to stick to Bob Fifer’s model of organization of time. (text in Portuguese)