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Frequently Asked Questions (by me)

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Here's some frequently asked questions, that I hear from my mind.

About the Human behind the Website

Are you still alive?

Mostly. (I'll try to keep this updated)

Why? Is any reason?

I'd say it's because my goals wasn't achieved yet.

I'll be done after finishing the strategic preparation of my descendants.

Where are you from?

Brazil. But wait, no football or samba to me, please.

Do you like to pay Brazil taxes?

No, please don't ask dumb questions.

Do you use social media?

Currently using Codeberg, a little of GitHub, and sometimes Stack Exchange websites (as reader).

HackerNews is cool, but I only open when search results leads me to it.

I don't like the rest. Rarely I see some YouTube video linked by someone in GitHub. But obviously not from YouTube web UI.

I have a strong opinion against the habit to consume as entertainment. What we ingest is key to what we become.

What inspires you?

  • This website.
  • Exterminate limiting beliefs and rules.
  • Privacy and freedom.
  • Ownership and discipline.
  • Goals, planning and strategies.
  • Look for meaning.1
  • Bible.
  • Do the best I can.
  • Learn.

And more. But inspiration's gone.

Why "still idiot and incompetent"?

It is a efficient lever for the accelerator, managed as provocation and not as label. And because it hurts, this boost doesn't blinds as arrogance or hype.

Main sources of the helpful thorns:

Time Management

You can do anything, but not everything.

This is a quote I carry with me, and I believe the key point is not "knowing how to do", but "doing".

We all know how fix most of problems of our life, but we don't fix. Generally the issue is our bad decisions, not ignorance.

Maintain health, for example, is something that despite its intrinsic complexities, everyone knows the basic of it. It's obvious, because doing wrong means perceivable collateral effects. But the simple fact of "knowing" is useless until you have the discipline to take action and apply.

And I have a constantly improving outline of how I want my life, and it means need to develop multiple areas of my life, and this task is extremely hard, and I constantly fail.

Simple example of this fail: I wake generally 5AM, but now it's 11PM. See? Idiotic, pretty much incompetent.

But that's fine. This is how I will learn to do it right: Quitting comfort zone. And the right tool for it is to feel bad.

Comparison with Thirds

If someone reached before than me to somewhere I plan to reach, I use it as inspiration to improve my plans: now the outcome is a little wider, but I got a better vision of how achieve.

To try avoid getting overwhelmed, I often dump the random goals that appears from hype in my backlog, so I have a place to dump thoughts towards that, forget it and focus on the priority.

Sometimes overwhelms, and it's a good opportunity to re-evaluate the life. And the conclusion? Yeah, you know.

This kind of competitiveness helps to keep me in movement. Otherwise I'll quickly get mediocre.

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

CHAPTER II. The Garden of Live Flowers - Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll - Gutenberg - Kiwix

Emacs or Vim?

Emacs, evil mode. (--no-window-system)

Tabs or spaces?

I'd Go with spaces, 2 if possible.

Windows or Mac?

Just kidding, this never was a doubt to me.

Obviously, QubesOS.

Don't you feel shame from a site like this?

Sometimes, specially when talking about things I know nothing about, for example, myself.

But it's less shameful than:

  • A fake blog with bait content.
  • Having nothing and regret of the lost opportunities in the future.
  • A bloated website with megabytes of required JavaScript.
  • Be just a ghost consumer.

What makes good a website?

  • Deliver what it promises.
    • In case of a blog, good human content. No LLM bullshit.
      • Full of sources that support the raised points.
  • No required JavaScript. Accessible via TUI browsers.
  • Be able to clone via Git, so I can read it later, without internet.

Don't have you a better thing to do with your time?

I have, thanks for remembering me.

About the Website in front of the Human

What is this page?

Maybe you can find this page funny, and share it with someone.

Plus I hope imitating common practices can improve SEO. FAQs for SEO always sucks, so welcome.2

Why this site is so amateur?

I am sorry if you felt that. The goal of the website is not be a company facade, but human face.

I love professionalism, but I'm not professional all the time (yet?), and to improve the inspiration this blog bring me, I add some of my foolishness too, like this page.

But I agree, I also felt a decrease on content quality. Still improving.

What do you want with this sh… site?

Why the constant self critique and rejection?

  • I really dislike stagnation.
  • Won't achieve what I must by feeling good being the mediocre present version of me.
  • A habit that increases ownership: Problems is likely to be my fault, and surely they're always my responsibility.
  • Testing my personal behaviors. Can it compromise professional reputation? For a pragmatic area, I think it should bring the opposite effect.
  • See Why "still idiot and incompetent"?

Why in english?

I don't know hebrew yet.

Why it ended?

Oh man, you make too much questions.

Footnotes:

2

I still didn't study about SEO, so this idea may be nonsense.