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About Me, and My Stories

All my best stories, with Friend Link to the corresponding Medium story, on: viconotes.com (life & self-development) vicoxl.com (blogging & tech) I clearly remember that day, fishing with my father. I was ruminating on that idea for long. I was still a kid. At some point, the question was clear…

Life

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·Mar 20

The Law of Three

Do you miss the third force? — When I started studying The Fourth Way — essentially a self-development method and school — , one thing sounded weird and artifact to me. Gurdjieff — founder of The Fourth Way — said that anything happens because of three forces. It’s a universal law. Even if you can imagine a…

Self Development

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Feb 13

Medium, can you please give me the subtitles back?

Medium, can you please give me the subtitles back? I write subtitles for a reason. They help my audience decide to read. I’ve been writing subtitles here for years. And now my profile shows none of them. I’d also like to read subtitles from other readers, on the home page. They went too. Medium, you already got rid of articles older than a few weeks. Now you got rid of subtitles. What’s next? Titles?

Medium

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Medium, can you please give me the subtitles back?

I write subtitles for a reason. They help my audience decide to read. I’ve been writing subtitles here for years. And now my profile shows none of them.

I’d also like to read subtitles from other readers, on the home page. They went too.

Medium, you already got rid of articles older than a few weeks. Now you got rid of subtitles. What’s next? Titles?

Jan 17

Hey Ma, look at my notifications!

Hey Ma, look at my notifications! No doubt Medium respects your privacy. They don’t even let me know your user name. How cool is that?

Medium

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Hey Ma, look at my notifications! No doubt Medium respects your privacy. They don’t even let me know your user name. How cool is that?

Jan 6

Beyond Resolutions

Not the time for resolutions, for me. — 2021 has been my worst year ever. The perfect outcome of a disaster recipe. The pandemic just added the topping. Reinventing myself worked only in part, during the last years. The other part pulled everything down the sink with it. Marriage included. Not something usually mentioned in the success stories. …

Change

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Published in Vico XL

·Nov 22, 2021

I’ll Get My Passive Income From Medium in Only 209.78 Years

I plan not to miss it. — Today’s good news is a +1 in the referred members section of my “audience” page. For a running total of 2. Every other month, a +1. That makes +6 per year. Let’s see… setting an unpretentious goal of $2,000/month net, I need $2,857.14 gross… that makes 1,258.65 referred members (sorry…

Medium

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Nov 18, 2021

Naufrago

Scivolato in un’imprevista realtà alternativa. — Also in English. Succede, quando la tua vita prende pieghe inattese, di ritrovarsi in luogo temporale precario, quasi non ci si renda conto di come ci si è finiti, e d’improvviso ogni certezza sul futuro si allontana come imbarcata su un battello che ha preso un’altra rotta, mentre il tuo…

Vita

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Published in Vico notes

·Nov 18, 2021

Lost

Slipped into an unexpected alternate reality. — It happens, when your life takes unexpected turns, to find yourself in a precarious temporal place. …

Self

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Published in Vico XL

·Oct 31, 2021

Is Multilingual Blogging Worth It?

Exploring the opportunity of multilingualism for personal blogs. — English is not my native language, so, when I started blogging, the multilingualism dilemma was one of the elephants in the room. If English is not your native or local language, that’s an additional challenge to the blogging venture. Over the years, I experimented with different solutions and, as you…

Blogging

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Published in Vico XL

·Oct 23, 2021

Is Evergreen on Medium a Thing?

Spoiler: No. And yes, it’s that bad. — When I infinite scroll my Medium home page, not a single article is older than 30 days. Not a single one. It’s like a filter is there. Today is Oct 22. I scrolled hundreds of articles, and my hand hurts, but no article from before Sep 23 is there. We…

Medium

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