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Where most of my solitude happens: riding my bicycle. Photo taken at Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.

Photo taken at Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.

Photo taken at GP of Sao Paulo in 2024, at Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo of the Puente de la Mujer at Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Photo taken at Parque do Povo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo taken at Rolândia, Paraná, Brazil.

Photo taken at Avenida Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo taken at Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo taken at Naples Airport, flying from Naples to Rome and then back to Brazil.

Photo taken at Federal District, Brasilia, Brazil.

Photo taken at Praia da Joaquina, Florianópolis, Brazil.

My favorite way for starting the day is with a warm cup of coffee. Photo taken at Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.

I love when fog enhances the separation between the mountains in landscape photography, the layers between them becomes defined and creates a ethereal atmosphere that I really enjoy. Photo taken at Pico do Jaraguá, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo of Ravi ready for the pug’s party.

Photo taken from the sunset of the window of my last apartment at Londrina, Paraná, Brazil.

Me and my wife at San Quirico d’Orcia, exploring Tuscany in Italy.

Photo taken in Montalcino, Italy. Somewhere in this image is the place where my now wife and I got married.

In 2004, I was 10 years old — I’d learned to read just over 5 years before, and at that time, with social media still in its early days, blogging was how we documented our lives. As a kid, I didn’t have a blog, but I thought it was super cool to read other people’s and dreamed about one day having my own place to write about whatever I wanted on the internet. For about 10 years, I started and dropped several online projects, all revolving around writing and sharing knowledge, but it was only in 2014, already thinking about how to make money from something (thanks, capitalism), that I found a space where I could actually express myself consistently: Espaço Geek.

Espaço Geek was my tech blog, and it’s the one I managed to keep running the longest — three years, to be exact. Back then, I wrote reviews of apps, power banks, and even keyboards for iPad (guess I was already dreaming of writing from anywhere). I even got invited to smartphone launch events in Brazil and received discount codes for apps to share with my readers. But adult life gradually made our most precious thing more and more scarce: time. So I ended up leaving Espaço Geek behind until it became irrelevant and turned into yet another one of my projects that didn’t move forward.

Today, I have a solid career as a Software Engineer, and I don’t have any desire to make a living off the internet. But ever since I left all social media in October 2024, I’ve been flirting with the idea of having a space to express myself again — except I want it to be more intimate and without the pressure of algorithms. I don’t want to feel forced to post all the time or stick to a format, I just want to talk about my thoughts freely and maybe find some people willing to chat about these topics, too. A blog seems perfect for that, right? So why didn’t I start one sooner?

Now I realize we worry way too much about how things should look. A blog has to have a specific topic, I can’t write less than X words, no mistakes allowed, and ideally there should be photos I took myself to illustrate my ideas. But do I really, though? Do I really need to set all these goals for something basically no one will read, and even if they do, they won’t care enough to leave me any feedback, and then — just to top it off — it’ll be irrelevant again a few hours later in the never-ending feeds that make up today’s internet? I think we can take a deep breath and write about whatever we want, without worrying too much about what shape the text is going to take.

It’s never been this easy to write for a blog; today, we have constant internet access and a smartphone more powerful than any computer produced in 2004. There’s nothing stopping you from sitting down on a train, watching the landscapes fly by at over 300 km/h outside the window, opening a simple notes app with a white background and black letters, typing a few words, hitting publish and moving on with your life. Why don’t we do this more often?

Sit down and write. Whether it’s one word or a thousand, just do it.

Now would be the part where I promise I’ll be consistent and write here more often, but we all know that’s not how it works, right? So I’ll just invite you to do one thing: sit down and write. Whether it’s one word or a thousand, just do it, put them somewhere on the internet (ideally, outside the big social networks), and move on with your life.

That’s what I’m doing today, and it’s what I’m inviting you to do too!

Photo taken at Centrale FS, Milan, Italy.

Photo taken right now at Verona Puerta Nouva in Verona, Italy.

Photo taken in another life at Parque Villa Lobos, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo taken somewhere above the Andes Mountains flying from São Paulo to Chile.

Photo taken at Hotel Fiorita in Firenze, Italy.

Photo of a rain storm in Marília, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo from Londrina Skyline at Lago Igapó.

If you can name it, you know what I’m talking about. Photo taken in Campos do Jordão, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo of my puppy named Kadu on his daily sunny bath.

Photo taken at GP of Sao Paulo in 2024. The curve is the iconic S from Senna in Interlagos, São Paulo, Brazil.

Photo taken at the Parque Ibirapuera in São Paulo, Brazil.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

Today I’ve completed 200 km on a bike, this is a great achievement for me and I will celebrate by sharing with you the best photos that I took on last Sunday’s ride.

Work

The week started with lots of coffee and a Kafka lag problem. This was resolved only on Wednesday, the solution was to treat some errors and let the consumer do its work with the 20K messages lag. That took the majority of my work hours.

Work

This week I had a busy schedule at work and some minor assignments to solve at home, which included two new integrations to deploy to production and a fridge that needed to be fixed.

At work my time was filled with lots of meetings talking about the next projects for the team, alignments with stakeholders that we’re waiting for the new integrations, and time coding scripts to extract data from the deliveries we’ve done. This was a time that I’d been waiting for some months now, as a software engineer we love to see our work delivering value for the company and helping others save time.

This weekend I will receive some friends at home, so the only time I had to ride was today’s morning. So I put my cycling shoes in and got to ride for a little more than one hour. The weather was really great

Why

I don’t know about you, but I truly enjoy reading what people have done, learned, discovered, or watched during their downtimes, so instead of just reading those posts from other bloggers I enjoy, it’s time to start sharing my perspective through the weeks.

Today’s ride was more of a shakedown of my bike since I have a new chain for my cassette. PS: If you are an F1 fan you caught the reference.