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How Music Shaped Me
Music took me through several life changing experiences. This article goes through the arch that culminated with one of the most exciting periods of my life1. The Sound of Lisbon First contact My first consequential contact with music was while working on
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The Out N' About Walks Store
Ever since 2017 I've made at least one long walk or hike per week. I love walking, and shared that passion by organizing several walks via meetup, eventbrite, in my local community, in my company, and with friends. I've accumulated a fair amount of miles
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Using AI to Revive Old Projects Part 1
AI powered backlog burner Ideas come cheap. That's why my backlog of project ideas keeps growing - there is only so much time and energy. The recent agentic AI advancements are changing that equation. All of a sudden, projects I long relegated to an uncer
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Don't be a Process Zealot
You don't do Scrum? I once struck up a conversation with someone during one of my trips where I told them that there wasn't a prescriptive way of organising work at the company I was working on at the time. We were not dogmatic in using kanban, scrum, lea
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3,170 more energy to create GPT-4 than an 18-year-old
The average human body consumes energy at a rate of approximately 100 watts 1 day consumption = 100W 24h = 2.4k Wh 365 days 2.4k Wh 18 years = 15,768k Wh = 0.015768 GWh GPT-4 took about 50 GWh of electricity to train. It takes 3,170 times more energy to t
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Vivo Time
Launched vivotime.net, a website focused to help you make the most of your limited life, with ideas aligned with your goals. Origin Story During the past years I've been wrestling with the idea of building a website that could be: Useful Aligned with my v
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Boston, NYC, Washington DC Guide
Almost two years after visiting New York City, I've come back to NYC and its two neighbouring cities: Boston and Washington DC. Again, I've asked several people about their perspective of these cities, which helped immensely when planning out my itinerary
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The Joy of Walking
See the video version of this article here I really like to walk. Let me tell you why. How it started Eight years ago I injured my knee. The following 2 months I could hardly walk 10 meters. It took me 6 arduous months to fully recover. Even though I had
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Why is my kitchen so clean?
If you had a video call with me, if you happened to see my videos, or if you visited my flat, odds are that a question came up to your mind. The same question that I've been asked at least 8 times (and counting) over these past years: "How do you keep you
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Produce more than you consume
Dangers of over-consumption One's life can very easily be wasted away on non-consequential, "time passing", filler, short-term hedonistic experiences. It's a blessing to enjoy life's little pleasures, but it's perilous to lead a life consisting of only di
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