Daniel Santos
@danielsantos
Brazilian lifelong learner. Curiosity waves surfer. I will probably die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.
Daniel Santos
danielsantos.org
If a successful talk is a journey, make sure you don’t start to annoy your travel companions along the way. Some speakers project too much ego. They sound condescending or full of themselves, and the audience shuts down.
Harvard Business Review • Frame Your Story
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
Table saws
The return-to-office (RTO) vs. work-from-home (WFH) debate has become one of the most polarizing workplace discussions in recent years. High-profile companies Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Tesla, and even Zoom are mandating multiple days of in-office work, while others, like Spotify, dismiss such mandates. In an interview in 2024, Spotify... See more
Nora Grasselli • Return-To-Office: Purpose Over Presence?
(Emotion and motivation share the same Latin root, movere, which means "to move.")
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
One way to view liberty, as George Orwell reminded us, is the right “to do what you like in your spare time.” You should be able to choose your amusements, he wrote, “not have them chosen for you from above.” Letting someone else’s ideas about performance stop you from trying something means relinquishing your freedom.
Tom Vanderbilt • Beginners
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George Orwell definiu a liberdade como "o direito de fazer aquilo que gostamos em nosso tempo livre". Devemos então ser capazes de escolher nossas diversões — e não deixar que alguém as escolha por nós. Neste sentido, deixar que o que pensam outras pessoas sobre desempenho nos impedir de tentar, de experimentar algo novo significa renunciar à nossa liberdade.
There is always more work that could be done than I could possibly do in a lifetime. So I find it really important not to think of work as a todo list that I'm trying to get through - that's a crushing burden. Instead I just focus on the idea that my time is finite and that I want to spend it well each day.
Jamie Brandon • Emotional management
