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You're not lost, because you're not exploring

Is not that you can't find what you're supposed to be doing but, maybe, that you're not doing anything at all.

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My personal brand is dead, long live my personal brand!

2026 is the year I make changes, even if I lose my identity

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35 years old now

Maybe the teenager in me that wanted to grow old was always right.

Deep thoughts on shallow music

I don't know about you, but lately finding good music that really changes things for me has been increasingly difficult. I now tend to go directly to music from my teenage years or I simply let the For you algorithm go nuts, which almost always ends up playing music from my teenage years. Some new bangers here and there—mostly from the same bands—but I'm usually listening to the same thing every day. It doesn't help that these days I honestly don't have the time and energy to spent looking for n...

Reminding myself why I write

The last few months, I've been dealing with writer's block. For the love of me, I cannot come up with something to actually write about and it's been stressing me out. As if I were some huge and famous writer who needs to continue feeding the content machine so people are happy with me. I somehow keep forgetting that the real reason I haven't written a single word in 4 months is expectations. My expectations, of course. It's weird how critical of yourself you can be become the moment you start d...

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AELOVE: "The Who Cares Era" by Dan Sinker

AELOVE is this brief section where I share something I found, loved.and I have some thoughts on it. Hope you like it: This has been in my mind for months and I couldn't find the words to say it. Dan said it perfectly. I'm baffled every day by people using AI as if everything it spews is absolutely and irrevocably truth, perfect, or worst, human-like. I've seen coworkers use it to make their scribble of an email into something that no one ever would write and that someone with a single brain cell...

The weight of being a heavy lifter

This week has taken a toll on me. The work I've been doing for the last month or so –and probably the thing that has excited me the most in years– is going to be removed, just because it doesn't match the vibes. I've been in this position for a while now. I've usually moved from my previous positions after one year and a half or two years, at most, to more challenging positions or to another step in my career path. It's been three years since I started in this one. And while it's late by my norm...

New Bilmuri's album is bruuutal

Holy guacamole! I've been waiting for this release since he started teasing a new album and it's just so worth it. The first song starts the show with a banger. It's just a super chuggy breakdown with a freaking eagle passing you by, only to tie up the start the second song that follows with a super catchy and pop-infused verse. Doesn't make sense at all but it's great. If you need a visual representation of the lines above, let me show you the video for the second single of the album, ALWAYS LE...

“What! You too? I thought that no one but myself...”

I've been thinking a lot about friendship... How it comes, how it stays and how it goes. It's difficult to put into words all that's happened --and I don't really want to go into it all that much-- but I think that sooner or later we all reach this point of re-evaluating shit and thinking through our own stuff. The point is... I once read that all things already exist and are hidden in plain sight for you to only focus and find them... Well, I found a quote from someone that found the words firs...

Making it takes time

People will always tell you that success is not made overnight. Fair to say, we can all understand that it's not instantaneous or something that comes out of nowhere. I cannot imagine someone being at home, after doing nothing –activity or meaningful-wise – and being completely unknown, then suddenly becoming a celebrity just for existing. You have to make something to be someone. It can be anything... Literally anything. Good, bad, controversial, not controversial... But something at the end of...

I'm just starting here, but I have been running another blog for quite a while. At the beginning of last year, I wrote about only having a couple of purposes I wanted to follow through and accomplish: Well, if 2025 only had 6 months I'd have accomplished my reading quota -- it doesn't, obviously. Nonetheless, 6 books read is better than zero books the year before. So, there's a bright side for this one. And it's trending to at least stay flat this year, which is... something. The second one is t...

Is this thing on?

Hi friend, I just learned about pckt by reading The Verge. There's this article about Bridgy and how long-form is finally coming to the Fediverse that caught my eye. I investigated a little --having never heard about it– and turned out to be this little neat site. I liked it and decided to test it. Easily enough, here I am. Writing my first post in less than 5 minutes. It could've been faster, but I had 50 new emails pending to be moved to my trash and, as a enforcer of Mailbox Zero, I just simp...