Tag: chronicle
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I am Not a Black Belt
I am a black belt. I am a second dan (nidan 二段) Aikido black belt with the original school of Aikido, the Aikikai Foundation. I started Aikido practice in early 1997 after a holiday trip to the US. When Aikido was introduced in Brazil, it had inherited local rules from the Judo federation back then,…
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Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer (2021)
A few years ago, a data engineer on r/ExperiencedDevs got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years of engineering. The original account is deleted, but the post captures something real — the kind of honesty you only get after a few glasses of wine. Preserving it here, typos and all. I’m drunk and I’ll…
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My Brother & Motorcycles
My brother and motorcycles: no more. Motorcycle. Motor cycle. Cycle. I met with him last weekend and he said, “Thank goodness I lost the passion for motorcycles.” “I’m no longer addicted to it.” “Can you imagine being into motorcycling like a teenager at this age I am now?”, he asked me. He is 47. I…