I guess I can say I already had children, planted a tree and wrote a book (partially at least).

I'm an avid reader and I guess that lead to writing.

I've been writing for a long period, actually started while blogs and blogspot was still a thing...

Articles

Books

Must read

Writing is fun.. but there isn't something as good as reading a great book.

So here are some book must reads.

Shorter but also incredible

Books are life, but there are shorter formats that I highly recommend:

People

Life

• Should you live for your résumé … or your eulogy?

• Pursue meaning instead of happiness

• World Peace Games

• Walk the earth (Francis was silent for 17 years)

• What was your motivation to have children?

Philosophy

• Hannah Arendt on “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship:” Better to Suffer Than Collaborate

Psychology

• How do you help a grieving friend?

• Michio Kaku reveals how a simple test using marshmallows can predict how successful you can become.

• Evolution of trust

• The Deficits of the iPhone Generation

• How Shared Hatred Helps You Make Friends

• The Rosenhan experiment — conducted to determine validity of psuchiatric diagnosis. The experimenters feigned hallucinations to enter psychiatric hospitals and acted normally afterwards

• With hot coffee, we see a warm heart, Yale researchers find  - (Tiktok version - TLDR)

Addictions

• “The opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is connection.” — Johann Hari

• ‘Our minds can be hijacked’: the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

Elderly

• How the Elderly Lose Their Rights

Trivia

• How do you know you are real?

• What is something almost everyone does wrong yet has no idea?

• The True Story Of Desmond Doss Was Too Heroic Even For ‘Hacksaw Ridge’

• Nike and Boeing Are Paying Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Their Futures

• To BC or BCE?

• [Portuguese] Azul para os meninos e cor-de-rosa para as meninas? Nem sempre foi assim

Education

Fantasy

• How to deal with the Tooth Fairy by Neil deGrasse Tyson

Behavior

• Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

School

• Case Study: Kaospilots—From Passive Listeners to Global Change Agents

• [Portuguese] Há escolas que são gaiolas e há escolas que são asas.

• ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ — A movie that will revolutionize how you see education, childhood, and learning

• Super Mário Effect

Hobbies

• The summer camp experience that changes Netflix's CEO (Check the part of the interview about National Outdoor Leadership School)

Marriage

• [Portuguese] Não há casamentos estáveis

Organisations

Teams

• It’s Not Enough to Be Right — You Also Have to Be Kind

• What drives the most high-achieving teams is social cohesion — Margaret Heffernan

• What Google learn in it’s quest for the perfect team

• Personal README experience

Self management

• Self management is a great idea

• Decision making

• Self defined self management

• Mindera: Why we don’t have people managing other people

• What is holocracy?

• Cut the bullshit: organisations with no hierarchy don’t exist

• An Email From Elon Musk Reveals Why Managers Are Always a Bad idea

Culture

• Satya Nadella: The C In CEO Stands For Culture

• The Role of the Founder/CEO: You Have One Job

• What To Do When You Can No Longer Afford Those Flashy Office Perks

• The work week is obsolete. What comes next?

Day to day

• Impostor syndrome

• The most dangerous phrase is: “We’ve always done it this way”

• Don’t find a job, find a mission

• [Portuguese] A matemática acaba onde começa a filosofia

• Work, Sleep, Family, Fitness, or Friends: Pick 3

Evaluation / Reviews

• Stop paying based on performance reviews

• Separating compensation from performance and development

• Anual Review: Why you should separated performance and pay

Feedback

• Unlock honest feedback

• Why Anonymous Feedback Does More Harm Than Good

• Why giving feedback is trickier than it seems

• We may have missed the feedback boat

• Using neuroscience to make feedback work

• Spotify Squad Health Check

• Team Feedback at Mindera

• LoopGain — Team Feedback

• The appraisal is dead long live the catchup

Leadership

• Implementing Intent based leadership with David Marquet — Video

• Simon Sinek — Finite vs Infinite Games

• Selfless leader is the next frontier

• Why do we need leaders

• Why good leaders make you feel safe

Salaries

• Corporate Rebels — Self set salaries

• A story about Salaries at Mindera —part 1 & part 2

• Does pay influence loyalty

• Here’s why our team now chooses their own salaries

• Open salaries at Buffer

• Why an open salary policy always beats secrecy

• Salary transparency at Stack Overflow

• Open salaries

• How much should you pay developers

• I Know the Salaries of Thousands of Tech Employees

• Why I never let employees negotiate a raise

• Why you should know how much your coworkers get paid - David Burkus

• What happens when you talk about salaries at Google

Meetings

• How to Win Arguments Without Making Enemies

• The Surprising Meeting Method I Learned From Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

Interviews

• How to answer the dreaded salary question

• Not another interviews’ article

Resign

• I told my boss that I’m going to resign, and he offered me twice my current salary if I stay, what should I do?

Entrepreneurship

• Why you should wait until your 40s to become an entrepreneur, according to a new study

• The new status symbol: it’s not what you spend — it’s how hard you work

• Our obsession with the “cult of the entrepreneur” has gone too far

Technology and Science

Software

• Why can’t bots check “I am not a robot” checkboxes?

• Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software

Culture

• Larry Page has a reputation for pushing people at Google. Here’s how he pushed a young Sundar Pichai to make Google Chrome the top web browser in the world

• What Satya Nadella did at Microsoft

Trivia

• How do I explain to non-programmers how complex, time-consuming, and error-prone software development is?

• How would you tell if an antique chair was actually a modern forgery? I guess you could lick it

• Why every tech worker needs a humanities education

• The internet is still actually controlled by 14 people who hold 7 secret keys

• Who is the most corrupt and crooked scientist ever known?

Politics

• [Portuguese] Higienização politicamente correta

Universal income

• Universal basic income could be a real solution to poverty

• No, Finland isn’t scrapping its universal basic income experiment

Trivia

• Change the narrative: how a Swiss group is beating rightwing populists

E-vote

• I bought used voting machines on eBay. What I found was alarming

Nature

Trivia

• We need a plan to stop polluting space before it’s too late

• If you want to save the world, veganism isn’t the answer

• Should horseback riding be banned as cruel animal abuse?

Health

• [Portuguese] Em 1995, as mulheres portuguesas viviam 75 anos com saúde. Em 2018 vivem apenas 70 anos com saúde.

News

Awesome

• A small Italian town can teach the world how to defuse controversial monuments

Studies

• You may think the world is falling apart. Steven Pinker is here to tell you it isn’t.

• The EU Suppressed a 300-Page Study That Found Piracy Doesn’t Harm Sales

Trolls

• 4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump

Fake news

• ‘Real’ fake research hoodwinks US journals

• [Portuguese] Revista científica publica estudo inventado por jornalistas sobre cancro

Trivia

• If you had a key for every lock in this world, but you could only use it once, what would you use it for?

• In 1989, for a few days, the 6th largest military power on Earth was… Pepsi

• How to deal with a nazi march

• [Portuguese] O enigma do autómato turco que jogava xadrez

Travel

• This map shows travel time from London in 1881

Nuclear

• If the world were to adopt nuclear power, where would all of the waste go?

Personal Tools

• Myers Briggs

• Enneagram

This was originally here.

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Unfiltered list of links that I have to read (some will move here afterwards)