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Life in squares

This is a timeline of the most important events I have experienced.

Each square is a month.

0 - 14/07/1985 - Hello World!
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03/04/1987 - My sister Angela is born
26/05/1987 - My wife Mar is born
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09/2003 - I begin University
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12/11/2005 - I begin dating Mar
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22/04/2015 - Begin working at TyA
30 - 11/07/2015 - Begin living with Mar
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14/10/2016 - Marriage proposal, she said yes:)
27/05/2017 - Wedding with Mar
01/06/2017 - Honeymoon in Japan
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04/2018 - Trip to NY and Boston
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11/12/2019 - Trip to Budapest
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09/04/2021 - Pancho is born
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31/12/2021 - Lucas is born
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26/01/2024 - Nicolás is born
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2 podcasts and biographies

While listening to the How to Take Over the World episode of Rasputin, one of the plugs was for another similar podcast that delves into fictional biographies, it's called Becoming the main character.

Both podcasts, synthesize books on real or fictional characters, to find the hows and whys people became great.

This led me to think about why I read biographies (mainly audiobook format), such as Teddy Roosevelt's, Churchill's, Napoleon's, Hawkings's, Feynman's, Von Neumann's and Gordon Brown's...

I concluded that I look for alternatives that have not crossed my mind and special ingredients that these people may have that took them to a higher level in history.

We are all made of the same stuff, we all have the same 24 hours/day and roughly the same 30000 days/life, though some people achieve greatness, as per historical standards, and others just whiz by without a trace...

Please listen to these podcasts, I am currently listening to the Paul Atreides episode which is very interesting.

Reading long posts

My reading list is quite extensive, 600+ articles, some of them will not be read. Ever. Some are not even articles, more like apps or services that I want to try. And others are very interesting but very long articles that I want to read/listen.

To read the latter kind of articles I use Elevenreader, from Elevenlabs, which turns text into speech in a very smooth, convincing and nice way. This app has allowed me to listen to 40 pages long articles in 90 minutes while walking Pancho.

I highly recommend it, you can choose the voice (even Richard Feynman if you like), the speed... it's very good.

People that inspire me

These are the people on which I have surely read or listened a bio about, and surely read their wikipedia page.

Stephen Hawking: great achievements despite limitations
Winston S. Churchill: Great orator, nobel prize winner, great leader
Alan Turing: Code breaking
Richard Dawkins: scientific "evangelism" ;)
Elon Musk: though less and less
Richard Feynman: Nobel prize, drawing, bongo playing, lock-picking
Isaac Newton: Calculus, Laws of motion, 3-body problem, philosopher's stone (?)
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol
Napoleon: Great leader and strategist
Marie Curie: 2 Nobel prizes in 2 different subjects
Carl Sagan: great scientist, great writer
David Hume: great philosopher, great scotsman
Adam Smith: great economist, great scotsman
Benjamin Franklin: very proactive, renaissance man

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