20 Oct 2026 #books
Don’t you have time to read books?
Leave a book in your kitchen table.
This way, when you’re done eating, you can steal a few minutes from your routine to pick and read a book.
That’s the perfect excuse to reduce your scrolling and pause to ease your digestion.
Win-win for your body, mind, and spirit.
That’s the strategy I’ve followed to read about 10 books so far.
You can leave my books in your kitchen table. Available on paperback and Kindle too.
19 Oct 2026 #misc
It’s OK to re-read books.
If you only want to show off a book count, re-reading sounds like a waste of time.
But I usually find myself coming to a good book more than once:
The first time because the subject was interesting.
And the next time because I really needed the book.
This year, I’ve re-read The Power of Now, Choose Yourself Guide to Wealth, Brain Wash, and Sleep.
If someone recommends you a book you’ve already read, go read it again.
That’s maybe when you really need it.
If you want to read more and love it, here are my 10 book reading rules. And here are my books if you want to apply those rules.
18 Oct 2026 #writing #bookwriting
I’ve struggled with finding one passion and niching down.
Until I find out it’s OK to have multiple interests.
It was reassuring to learn there’s nothing wrong with me, I’m just driven to multiple interests.
Recently, to avoid the niching down trap, I’ve switched to “umbrella” all my interests under a mission or projects.
One of them is writing books.
A book is a perfect project to combine talents.
Design for the cover.
Research for the content.
Storytelling for making it compelling.
Copywriting for the sales page.
Foreign languages for translations.
Marketing for promoting it.
And you don’t need to write the next Atomic Habits. Start with a short book. Here you’ll find mine.
17 Oct 2026 #misc
Write as if nobody is reading, and even if nobody is reading or engaging.
The point isn’t likes, comments, or a follower count.
The point is who you become by writing.
The discipline it gives.
The clear thinking.
The daily practice.
The body of work.
The way we look at the world to hunt for stories.
Write as if nobody is reading and keep writing because you don’t know who’s doing it.
That’s the one of the mantras that has kept me writing for years.
Writing daily is one of the habits that has truly changed my life. That’s why I do it every day.
16 Oct 2026 #mondaylinks
Hey there.
Here are 4 links I thought were worth sharing this week:
#1. Let’s use AI as much as we like, but we should still write our PR descriptions (7min).
#2. The xkcd cartoon is real. A few people hold up the entire internet (15min). Some of them do it on their free time, for free.
#3. If we shouldn’t use AI to produce art, what about programming? It isn’t special if it’s art too (10min). Do you think programming is art?
#4. As a funny side note, these 6 countries secrelty have the same name (5min).
And in case you missed it, I wrote on my blog about 10 things every coder has blamed at least once (3min) and why AI might indeed be taking our jobs (1min).
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See you next Friday,
Cesar