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👋 Quit my job and moved to Asia. Building a new language learning app: https://yakk.app
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Last night I was at Barcelona's monthly Esperanto social event (in a bar) and a 10 year old boy came along with his Mum. He'd started learning on Duo a few months back and could already speak well enough to us to tell us about himself and how he discovered Esperanto. Really cool.
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I had dinner with my friend and her Mum last night. Her Mum (80) speaks only Spanish and my friend and I only have Esperanto in common. It was amazing. Absolute chaos... y creo que mi español mejoró al menos un poquito por eso!
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I hope everyone's having a great start to the week. I've taken a little break to hang out in Barcelona and make some progress on some personal projects. What's everyone else up to?
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New vlog! This was a fun one to make. Hugely impressed with the quality of the video captured by the DJI Mini 4. https://youtu.be/QK4wTZM0-24?si=e_93-d3GWscSQkmX
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This is what happens when you have too much free time. Creative Writing Systems for Esperanto: https://martinrue.com/esperanto-writing-systems
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Today's shower thought: creativity is a muscle https://martinrue.com/creativity-muscle
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I've been working full-time for the past year and a half saving every penny I can so I can escape the working world (well, at least the version where I work on other people's shit) and go live in SE Asia. I'm getting really close now and it's an unbeliavably freeing feeling. I'm curious... is anyone else doing something similar?
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"A life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience." 👏
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So, what's everyone doing this weekend? Anyone got anything interesting planned?
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I hardly ever read fiction books, but I just finished reading The Shadow of the Wind (in English as my Spanish isn't good enough yet) and I absolutely loved it. Lots of unexpected references to parts of Barcelona I know, too, which added to the experience. Anyone else read it?
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I'm going to demo Station in a training session in an hour. Say hello if you see this :)
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I've been doing a lot of teaching recently and it's a great reminder of: if you think you know something, try teaching it. Teaching is learning in disguise.
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“You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin
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This is an excellent breakdown of the UK ATC meltdown the other week and what caused it. I'm sure it'll surprise no experienced programmer at all to learn of the various issues that led to it. https://jameshaydon.github.io/nats-fail
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Some random observations: https://gist.github.com/martinrue/ccc773de83be694683edbaef23a9ecc8
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If you live in the UK and want to get into Esperanto, this free weekend event in October will be great. You can even play Homlupo (Werewolf) with me in the international language. Aimed at every level, even possible to ask for help for hotel costs if you need it. More info: https://esperanto.org.uk/studa-semajnfino
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I wrote some thoughts on the idea of "getting into motion": https://martinrue.com/get-into-motion
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Even though my brain thinks in Esperanto at this point, I occasionally realise I don’t have a word for something. I was chatting to a friend this morning and I needed to say treadmill. To my delight, turns out it’s “kurtapiŝo”, or running carpet.
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If having a coffee in the morning isn't working for you, take 2 weeks of leave and then check your email.
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I recently spent a few days in Venice (in the cool neighbourhoods). Here's what I got up to. Spoiler: it's mostly me being lost and tortured by mosquitoes. https://youtu.be/_caD0XnBNfI
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I tried to capture some difficult thoughts: https://martinrue.com/nothing-matters
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Venice is such a unique city. 🚙 No cars. 🏍️ No motorbikes. 🚲 No bicycles. Everything is a boat. 🛥️ Bus? Vaporetti. 🚤 Taxi? Also a boat. 🚣 Moving house? Do it on a boat. ⛴️ Dump truck? It's a boat. 🚓 Have cool boats! It's rather nice not seeing a single car.
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Okay, I'm off to live with with 220 Esperanto speakers from 52 different countries for a week. Give me another language where I can do that – where everyone experiences the language equally and fairly – and I'll give up Esperanto¹ :) ¹ This is a lie as I have way too many t-shirts.
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Productivity hack: there's no hack. It's hard. Confront it. Take responsibility. Make time. Get started any way you can. Stick with it, even while it feels uncomfortable (creative resistance). Don't expect it to always feel good/happy. Stay focused. Don't quit.
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"Brian, do you have an unpopular opinion?" "Besides cooking salmon in a dishwasher?" It's quality content only on the GoTime podcast!
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I’m in Venice and it’s hot. Charming. But hot. Carrying my life in a backpack probably isn’t helping though.
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🎥 I made a new video! It’s about making time for your projects and goals, and contains a little preview of what I’ve been working on recently. https://youtu.be/EwE3RkJOFV4
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I had a shower thought and now it's a blog post: https://martinrue.com/doing-your-best
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What do we want? Now! When do we want it? Race conditions!
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Today is the "Internacia Tago de Esperanto" (Esperanto Day). The "Unua Libro" (first book), which introduced the language and its grammar, was published 136 years ago today. For anyone curious about why I like Esperanto so much, I made a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QsHxQcZbQU