Carlos Rodrigo

Things are...

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 capitalism 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 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.

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Crap based economy

We have built an economy that requires us to be (huge) consumerists that need to buy and sell silly ephemeral things.

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Coliving with AI

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?
Maybe and be less efficient, costlier and a little slower?

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Pending dot

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.

Check out the repository in Github.

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Life in months

Each square is a month. Inspired by Tim Urban, Buster Benson and others.

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03/04/1987 - My sister Angela is born
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09/2003 - Begin University
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22/04/2015 - Begin working at TyA
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14/10/2016 - Marriage proposal, she said yes:)
27/05/2017 - Wedding with Mar
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04/2018 - Trip to NY and Boston
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09/04/2021 - Pancho is born
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31/12/2021 - Lucas is born
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tboti.link

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.

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My use of AI

As of February 2025, here’s how I use AI.

  1. I’ve used and will continue to use AI to create images, such as the one in the logo, created with Midjourney.
  2. I’ve used and will continue to use AI to spellcheck, i.e: Grammarly.
  3. I’ve used and will continue to use AI to assist my programming, i.e: Github Copilot in VSCode.
  4. I will use AI to clear my thoughts, learn about or research topics I am interested on, i.e: PI, Chatgpt, Claude, Gemini…

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…

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C.O.D

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:

  1. Is it a task? → to the task manager.
  2. Is it an event? → to the calendar.
  3. Is it a note or something to reference later? → archive into the filesystem.

Do: Just do it. Do the task, forget about the event until relevant or needs preparing, and forget the note until you need it.

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Pancho

This is Pancho, he is our Spanish Water Dog. He’s very lovable with those he like, not so much with anyone else.

Pancho

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What I use - May 2026

Obsidian Plugins (community)

VS extensions

Chrome extensions

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Now / June 2026

01/06/2026

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A simple path to a good life

  1. Stay in great shape
  2. Build a family you love
  3. Cultivate a community of friends
  4. Be of service to thousands of people
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The future of work

It seems that, thanks to AI, the future of work has three paths to follow:

  1. If you are already a senior person in your company, you will probably shift from managing people to managing AI agents.
  2. Alternatively, you might become someone creative or handy, working with physical materials for a living—such as an artist, plumber, electrician, or baker.
  3. The third path is becomeing an entrepreneur.

Whichever path you choose, adaptability appears to be the key skill. Consider Darwin’s Survival of the Fittest, where the fittest are those who best adapt to their immediate environment.

In this new environment, there is no time to waste being a junior or intern, nor to dwell on coding skills lost to AI. graph of the labor market impact of ai

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Now / April 2026

Madrid, Spain

Working on: at TYA, building out my PKB in Obsidian Learning: about AI, LLMs, parenting Thinking about: How To Beat ChatGPT, what success means Not doing right now: Trying not to follow the news… Reading: Old School, How will you measure your life…

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Things I've used Claude for

  1. I fed Claude Cowork the OPML file containing the RSS feeds from Feedly to get recommendations based on those feeds.
  2. I fed it a CSV file with the podcast I follow to get recommendations.
  3. I fed it an HTML file from my Raindrop collections to find redundancies, duplicates…
  4. I used it to create notes and clean my Obsidian Vault.
  5. I used it to get a report on my website with possible improvements…
  6. Convert a long quote in PDF to a spreadsheet
  7. Create a design brief for this website Anything else I should try?
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