My name is Carlos Rodrigo, I am a husband to Mar, a father to Lucas and Nico, a salesperson at Tecnica y Avance, and a human-friend to Pancho.
This documentary by Ben Mackenzie is about why cryptocurrency is a scam (see evidence here).
I wish it would have gone in a bit more detail, it’s only 90min with a lot of unnecessary b-roll kind of moments and not enough meaty in-depth knowledge.
It’s just OK. I had really high hopes for it.
You can watch it here.
This graphic novel by Owen Pomery reminds me of True detective season 4 with Jodie Foster.
I wish it would have been longer.
Read a better review from Nikhil.
Things are the way they are because we have consistently made the choices that have led to this outcome.
We have for the most part, democracies and capitalist societies because we have decided that these systems work best for us.
Things are the way they are because we have chosen for them to be this way.
We have chosen and built this version of the world, our collective and consistent decisions over a very long time have taken us where we are.
We vote who represents us, therefore we chose what political views and values to support.
We decide who to do business with, therefore we buy and sell to whom we chose and make them grow implicitly.
We have built an economy that requires us to be (huge) consumerists that need to buy and sell silly ephemeral things.
It’s great what AI can do, but is it necessary that it takes our jobs?
Can’t it just co-live with us?
Can’t we keep our jobs?
Even if, perhaps, we are less efficient, costlier and a little slower?
I’m currently reading “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump” by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan.
With the help of Claude code and based on another plugin, I’ve created a plugin for Obsidian.
It allows you to mark notes as “pending” with an orange circle indicator in your Obsidian file explorer.
Each square is a month. Inspired by Tim Urban, Buster Benson and others.
When I was younger, before socialmedia, I was a huge fan of Stumbleupon, a web app that would let you “doomscroll” and discover new things before doomscrolling was invented.
Also, my first internet project, was linkarus.tk a link collection of the best websites I had visited, made with blogspot. All html.
Following those steps I have built Tboti.link, the best of the internet, a collection of links curated by me from my travels through the “interwebs”.
I would like to think my coding has evolved but, alas, I have been assisted by Claude Code and the Raindrop API.
As of February 2025, here’s how I use AI.
I share Hume’s belief that our ideas and concepts arise from the synthesis of items from our previous experiences:
But though our thought seems to possess this unbounded liberty, we shall find, upon a nearer examination, that it is really confined within very narrow limits, and that all this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded to us by the senses and experience. When we think of a golden mountain, we only conjoin two consistent ideas, gold, and mountain, with which we were formerly acquainted. A virtuous horse we can conceive; because, from our own feeling, we ca conceive virtue; and this we may unite to the figure and shape of a horse, which is an animal familiar to us. … The idea of God, as meaning an infinitely intelligent, wise, and good Being, arises from reflecting on the operations of our own mind, and augmenting, without limit, those qualities of goodness ad wisdom. We may prosecute this enquiry to what length we please; where we shall always find, that every idea which we examine is copied from a similar impression. (David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section II: Of the Origin of Ideas)
Artists are inspired by other artists and so they learn or find their way. Writers find their style reading from others…
I recently came across the COD system, it seems fishy but stands for Collect, Organise and Do.
Collect: pull together everything into an inbox.
Organise:
Do: Just do it. Do the task, forget about the event until relevant or needs preparing, and forget the note until you need it.
This is Pancho, he is our Spanish Water Dog. He’s very lovable with those he like, not so much with anyone else.
01/06/2026