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Last week passed so fast, I can barely believe that it was real.

I paid 200€ for Claude Code, and in one week, I built something that should have taken me two years.

In this postcard: Lunar New Year in Hanoi, hitchhiking to Cat Ba Island, rusty towers in Bac Son valley, the Ban Gioc waterfalls, and a small reflection on kindness and reciprocity.

Hey there my dear friends, it is really hard to write these newsletters regularly.

Turn Your Life into Art - Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground is a beautiful book about how to design powerful experiences that are capable to change the life trajectories of other people by engaging parts of their subconscious.

Hey there my dear friends, I am still gathering material for my Collection of Beauty, and it is growing rapidly. . . maybe a bit too rapidly.

Hey there my dear friends, many of you wrote me warm words after getting the last edition of this Newsletter, and I am happy to receive every single one of them.

Hey there my dear friends, it's been a long time since the last Edition of this newsletter came out.

This book was a bit of a disappointment.

The War of Art is a book about fighting the enemy within, the Resistance, born out of fear (of success, failure, rejection, being wrong etc).

This book is an interesting dive into what the word love means and how it has mostly lost all meaning because people use the word love for all kinds of things.

Anything You Want is a book about how business can (and maybe should?

Your Music and People by Derek Sivers is a guide to how to become successful in the music industry.

Hell Yeah or No is a book about small ideas that have a profound impact on day to day live.

Truth means objective truth.

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In this tutorial, we will create a fragment shader editor, similar to ShaderToy with React Three Fiber.

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This book details how our personalities and behavioral traits such as intelligence are influenced by our genes.

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People often ask me how I can do so many different things, and be so productive. . . some even tell me that I am very disciplined.

The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent is trying to give people a new worldview focusing on harmony, interconnection and cooperation, instead of competetion and exploitation.

The talks about AI have intensified greatly in the last few years since ChatGPT was first launched and since then generative AI tools like Midjourney, Udio, and Runway have taken the world by storm.

Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn.

When I think about influential internet people in my life, I can assemble a list: a sort of "guide" through the internet, showing the route that I took.

In this book Kevin Mitchell explains how evolution produced living things that can make choices for their own reasons and why this means that we have free will, even if our cognitive machinery is entirely based on the physical instantiation of our brains.

Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn.

I want to get back into painting but the one thing that always bothered me with my old acrylic paints is that they never really covered each other well.

Waking up in the sand dunes in the early morning, I am freezing.

Walking in the morning after the last two days were spent recovering in bed from the stomach flu I had caught felt wonderful.

Today was a very slow day.

Leaving the small hostel in the early morning hours with a new friend was exciting.

Yesterday I arrived in Sines.