I was watching a self-defense channel these days, and I ended up seeing this video: https://youtu.be/uDBv-Vo7B5M And I thought “what a great opportunity to explain how statistically based decision-making works”! In this case “statistics” is being misused. The dude in the video is talking about how if 99% of the…

I started using Obsidian about one year ago(April), and here’s my experience so far. Studying made Easier I started this journey by learning about The Zettelkasten Method from a good friend and previous teacher José Edil. He told me how he would take notes and feel lost when trying to find them later…

I have a secret. I really love books. Like it’s not a hassle for me to read them, I read as a form of resting. I love taking my eyes off a screen and into a paper page. But I gotta confess, I’m not one of those people who can…

“What if we build a business around helping people with their physical rehabilitation? People need these technologies that we are developing here!”. Maria Eduarda Franklin (or Duda for her close friends) attended a technical high school specializing in IT, studied biomedical engineering and Neuroscience during her time at college, and…

Simple workflow using Kanban. My daily note just got smaller. Remember my daily note from this previous post? Well, it actually grew larger since then.

Technology’s purpose since the beginning of time has been to increase human productivity, so that we don’t need to spend the entire day farming, but have more time to take care of our families, hobbies, etc. It’s been a while since technology has exponentially increased in the world, communication has…

I had this problem limiting the types of files going to the backend using Nestjs. So I built a custom validator, here’s how it looks: import {BadRequestException, Injectable, PipeTransform} from '@nestjs/common'; import {extname} from 'path'; export function getFileValidator(): PipeTransform { return new ParseFilePipeDocument(); } @Injectable() export class ParseFilePipeDocument implements PipeTransform { private readonly allowedExtensions =…

Everything starts with a daily note on Obsidian. Note Taking I write everything I might need to get done this day and revisit any long-term goals that I might have.

We need to start to see risk differently. Instead of seeing anything volatile as risky, why don’t we start looking at it like “What stressors can I avoid and which must I face?”. Investors have studied risk extensively this past decade and one of them, Nassim Taleb, came up with…