And how stifling thought inevitably stifles progress — A lot of people are invested in telling a story a certain way. You cannot question the narrative, or you’re gonna be in trouble. The story they want to tell is underway. Don’t question anything about it no matter how much you see through the seams of it all. Ignore…

Tive várias conversas com amigos em Portugal que nunca entenderam o porquê de eu ter emigrado.

A conversation that needs to happen — Customer: Is my engine done yet? Mechanic: Yes C: Great, then I’m gonna drive home M: The engine is done, but it’s still not back in the car C: But you said it was done M: Yeah, but not “done done” Raise your hand if you’ve had similar interaction when…

And how something being disputed means nothing — TL;DR; Mostly everything is or can be disputed. To put “This is disputed” warnings on only some of the things, you skew reality in favor of whomever you want, and control the narrative in a sly and cowardly way. Something being disputed doesn’t mean anything, the scientific method exists precisely…

Call it quits if your client shows too many of these traits — Ok, so, you land a new client, awesome! After communicating for a few days you sign the contract. …

This happened in 2016 but I never published it, so, here it goes. — I like to test things around me until they break, and figure out why they broke, and fix them. …

So, you want to create a startup, well, sit down and let me explain how this works by telling you the story of Jane, a fictional startup founder created for this tutorial. Finding your product Jane could choose only one of the following ideas to pursue: A platform that uses AI to do…

Do you want help or do you just want to feel helped? — If the self-help book you just read made you: feel capable of taking on the entire world feel very good about yourself feel super-duper optimistic feel like things are really simple it was probably garbage. Why? Because it told you what you wanted to read Whenever you read something you already partially believe, you feel good about it. …

Imagine a gold rush. Many tell you that the best way to monetize it is by selling shovels. But then, doesn’t the shovel selling become a secondary gold rush? And so on and so forth? At what point does the recursive shovel-selling become too deep? Or does it not matter…