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Jose M.
@josemg.bsky.social
✍️ I write regularly at https://josem.co.

👨‍💻 Senior software engineer at Buffer.
Mission accomplished 😄
September 5, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"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."

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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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September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"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..."

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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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September 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Now that the iPhone 17 is around the corner, I thought you should read this: josem.co/skip-the-nex... 😉
August 27, 2025 at 11:37 AM
"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: 👇
August 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"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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July 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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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June 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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:
June 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"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?"

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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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May 20, 2025 at 2:17 PM
"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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August 7, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Preparing a new article about single-purpose devices
July 21, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Hey there!

Starting to use this network to share my thoughts and new articles :)
November 2, 2023 at 7:09 PM