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Music took me through several life changing experiences.

Ever since 2017 I’ve made at least one long walk or hike per week.

AI powered backlog burner Ideas come cheap.

Precedent: How Nintendo did it I’ve consumed several Acquired episodes, and one I found particularly interesting was about Nintendo, where they describe how lateral thinking shapes how to company thinks about their products: instead of always going after…

There is something interesting about our psyche, or at least mine.

You don’t do Scrum?

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.

Launched vivotime.net, a website focused to help you make the most of your limited life, with ideas aligned with your goals.

Almost two years after visiting New York City, I’ve come back to NYC and its two neighbouring cities: Boston and Washington DC.

See the video version of this article here I really like to walk.

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.

Dangers of over-consumption One’s life can very easily be wasted away on non-consequential, “time passing”, filler, short-term hedonistic experiences.

I’ve recently finished reading Napoleon: A Life, a well researched book by Andrew Roberts about the full and well travelled life of Napoleon Bonaparte, his rises and falls, and glimpses of what made the famous soldier-statesman tick.

Earlier this year I saw a Tech Ingredients episode where a laser gimbal automatically tracks drones and shoots them down.

After nearly 4 years of continuous usage at work, taking calls and listening to audiobooks during long walks, my wired in-ear Bose QuietComfort 20 MK2 Active Noise Cancelling Earphones are finally starting to become faulty1, so I went on a search for a re…

I’ve recently finished reading The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease, a book from Daniel Lieberman of how the human body evolved over millions of years, that I would recommend all Humans to read.

It’s time to wrap up and celebrate 2024, an eventful year that fueled my yearning for internal growth and curiosity, with challenges and lessons I am grateful for.

Over the past 4 years, I’ve written about 1820 pages on the 13 A5 notebooks shown in the picture above.

I’ve recently finished reading Diary of a CEO: 33 Laws of Business and Life, which draws from both Steven Bartlett’s entrepreneurial journey and interviews from the homonymous podcast.

This ad struck me as the culmination of a long-standing trend.