Tag: rodolpho
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Some Books Will Point a Finger at You
Reading dense literature is not an easy task. Some books will point a finger at you. They will talk about you, even if you pretend it’s about someone else. I started this year with a literary project in mind. I would read one chapter per month from Jordan Peterson’s book Beyond Order. If I could…
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Charles Stross
Today I learned who Charles Stross is. A new door spawns inside my sci-fi readings portal. Markku Lappalainen, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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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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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)
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Back to Linux on the Desktop
After a year and a half of using Windows 10 (with WSL), I decided to come back to Linux. I feel that this year, 2025, the year of Win10’s support sunset, someone at Microsoft could have pressed a button and issued a system update that accelerated the so-called “Windows performance downward spiral” effect. If you…
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I’m Giving Strava a Break
Maybe I’m getting too old for this. I’m giving Strava.com a break. After more than 10 years tracking my stats, I think I’ve got fed up with it. I don’t care who’s got the KOM or the PR. I don’t bother losing my KOM to the young guns. They deserve all my KOMs if they…
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Blogs are Dead. This is an Autobiography.
I’m so glad to know that one of my reasons to keep writing online coincides with one of Derek Sivers‘: to make original content that I wrote accessible to public AIs, so maybe one day it will be able to make something that resembles me some way, some how… Quote from Derek’s “now” page on…
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25 Literary Goals
update on Nov, 2025 I didn’t not finish LOTR. Maybe because I’ve seen the movie so many times that the reading felt repetitive. I also felt that Tolkien takes fantasy to a higher level in his writings. I wasn’t expecting that much, so the story ended up too tiring for me. Instead of reading Foundation’s…