Tag: writing
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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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Writing Sentences
I like Charles Bukowski. I like his books and writing style. He writes mostly using short sentences. I try to imitate that style here in this website. I just try, because it’s hard. Ideally speaking, sentences should only break one line before it stops. Breaking two lines is like taking two street corners around the…
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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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Words and Maturity
Words are very powerful symbols. Sentences? Even more so. It takes courage to write in public when maturity arrives. Your words can provoke ideas and judgments from others. Judgments from others, if also made public, can test your maturity and your ability to accept them. Images and symbols are not as straightforward as words. At…