5 rules I've learned after successfully launching a product as a software engineer 🚀 A thread 🧵👇

Mission accomplished 😄

"One thing is clear: if you currently use AI, take regular breaks—and give your own mind the chance to do the work. Otherwise, you may face severe cognitive harm and dependence." publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

MIT Study Finds Artificial Intelligence Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline - Science, Public Health Policy and the Law

By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH

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"Coding was never the real barrier to building a successful side business. The real challenge was—and still is—everything else required to get paying customers: sales calls, cold emails, blog posts echoing in the void, facing rejection..." josem.co/side-project...

Side Projects and AI

Some years ago, building a side project meant finding time wherever you could. Late nights, weekends, or early mornings to squeeze some work in before your real job starts.

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Now that the iPhone 17 is around the corner, I thought you should read this: josem.co/skip-the-nex... 😉

Just published a new article in my blog: josem.co/trips-are-an...

Trips Are an Opportunity

Now that summer is in full swing in many parts of the world, I thought it would be a good time to write about something I’ve felt for years whenever I go away for a few days. Trips might be the only c...

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"We take care of the schedule, and the schedule takes care of us." This one sentence completely changed how I think about achieving goals. Here's why: 👇

"Once it’s well integrated into our lives, any new technology can be seen as an exchange. We lose something and get something else in return..." New article in my blog: josem.co/what-are-we-...

What Are We Losing With AI?

Once it’s well integrated into our lives, any new technology can be seen as an exchange. We lose something and get something else in return. When we started using our calculator app, we lost the…

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I've been meaning to create a /uses page at josem.co, but I'd love to start small and start sharing some apps or hardware I use in case it can help someone out there.

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For a few months, I've been experimenting with automatizing something new each week. It's a small improvement of efficiency, but also a feeling that I'm "sharpening" my saw, and that the next week I'm a bit more ready for what comes. Some things I've been doing:

"What if, after so many breakthroughs, we’re left with less patience, fewer personal connections, less appreciation for what we have, and more craving for what we don’t?" josem.co/the-rebellio...

The Rebellious Act of Slowing Down

We’ve all been living under the promise that things will get faster, and oh boy, that promise has certainly been fulfilled. We now have faster transportation, fast food, two-hour delivery shopping,…

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"Art History shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. This cycle happens in the different arts and other fields where design is involved, like software"

Simple to Ornate and Back Again

Art History shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. It’s almost an endless cycle repeated over and over. This cycle happens in…

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Preparing a new article about single-purpose devices

I've just published a new article in my blog: josem.co/the-domino-e...

The domino effect of good habits

Opening your eyes, you glance at the clock on the night table—time to get up. The house is completely silent as you make your way to the kitchen. Each sound feels amplified at this early time in …

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Hey there! Starting to use this network to share my thoughts and new articles :)