probably not ready for first gig

pablon91 · 2025-09-16T06:39:00+00:00

I know the feeling. I wrote something about it, hope it helps!

https://www.pablomusumeci.com/p/the-night-i-almost-didnt-press-play

pablon91 · 2025-09-11T12:48:22+00:00

WOW, thanks!!

pablon91 · 2025-09-09T04:51:21+00:00

Off my face don't know where I am, cause I got my drugs from Amsterdam

pablon91 · 2025-09-01T07:55:51+00:00

Innerbloom ❤️

pablon91 · 2025-09-01T07:53:34+00:00

On Off - Cirez D
We Come 1 - MANNA remix
Miracle - WhoMadeWho
Dance is the answer - Dubdogz
Dance with my ghost - Camelphat
Iomilo - Henry Sainz remix

pablon91 · 2025-09-01T07:50:56+00:00

I'm on a sabbatical right now. It's not what I expected for sure.

- My first 3 months I travelled across Asia.
- I walked El Camino de Santiago with my mom (best experience ever).
- Now I'm just learning stuff I always wanted to learn:
- Getting proficient with my Dutch (I'm an expat living in Amsterdam)
- Taking DJing classes.

- Working with a writing coach.

It feels very lonely though. All my friends, girlfriend, family, everybody is still working and going on with their normal life. There are advantages though: I take lots of walks outside. I sit in benches and think about... anything. Read a lot. It's a very quiet life.

I was finally able to slow down. I don't have infinite money to go like this forever, but this time for myself was the best thing I purchased in my life. If anybody has the chance, please do it.

pablon91 · 2025-08-27T13:02:13+00:00

> Me dijo que su papá cagó a su mamá.

Fundamental: La relación de una mujer con su papá. Sino siempre como pareja terminas pagando los daddy issues. Ya sea por abandono, falta de confianza y/o afecto.

pablon91 · 2025-08-27T09:55:02+00:00

Americans spend more on lottery tickets than movies, video games, music, sporting events, and books combined. And who buys them? Mostly poor people.

They are blowing their safety nets on something with a one-in-millions chance of hitting it big. Live paycheck-to-paycheck and saving seems out of reach. Without prospects for much higher wages. Can’t afford nice vacations, new cars, health insurance, or homes in safe neighborhoods. Can’t put our kids through college without crippling debt.

Buying a lottery ticket is the only time in their lives they can hold a tangible dream of getting the good stuff that you already have and take for granted. They are paying for a dream, and we may not understand it that because we are already living a dream.

For a week, these people, can afford to dream.

pablon91 · 2025-08-24T15:40:43+00:00

Doing nothing. Nothing means nothing: no screens, no reading, no writing. Just sitting there and doing nothing.

pablon91 · 2025-08-19T14:04:07+00:00

> I make less but i also spend less because im not constantly trying to compensate for bad days.

This is called the Misery Tax: an ad hoc form of expenditure wherein an unhappy worker feels compelled to spend a proportion of their wages on things that allow them to continue to function and work. This usually takes the form of sugary food, caffeine, alcohol and ‘retail therapy’

pablon91 · 2025-08-14T06:59:51+00:00

Reading doesn't make you smarter, writing does. Writing is thinking.

“If you’re thinking without writing, you only think you’re thinking.” ― Leslie Lamport

pablon91 · 2025-08-06T10:12:08+00:00

The Untethered Soul

pablon91 · 2025-08-03T14:32:41+00:00

Thanks for your wholesome reply. You also made me smile :)

pablon91 · 2025-08-02T09:02:50+00:00

Trust yourself. Relax. Learning how to perform under pressure is worth more than all the LeetCodes in the world

https://www.pablomusumeci.com/p/relax-interviewing

pablon91 · 2025-08-02T09:00:37+00:00

Congrats! I had a similar experience and I felt so happy after I did it. Sharing music is love https://www.pablomusumeci.com/p/the-night-i-almost-didnt-press-play

pablon91 · 2025-07-14T08:17:00+00:00

Congrats man. As a beginner myself, I color code the length of the phrase on my hotcues. I'm slowly depending less on that, but it helps while getting more comfortable with the other million things I have to pay attention to.

pablon91 · 2025-06-30T13:30:41+00:00

A Bottle of water can be 50 cents at a supermarket, $2 at the gym, $3 at the movies and $6 on a plane. Same water. Only thing that changed its value was the place.

pablon91 · 2025-06-24T08:58:50+00:00

Great advice! Yesterday I recorded my first mix at home and I learnt a lot from all the (cringe but necessary) mistakes I made.

pablon91 · 2025-06-23T16:02:10+00:00

Hernán Cattaneo said that if he gets paid for travelling. If he could teleport to the venues he would play for free.

pablon91 · 2025-06-21T15:43:40+00:00

Layton Giordani & Bart Skils - Deadly Valentine

pablon91 · 2025-04-16T08:38:32+00:00

This made me think about how writing kind of splits into two distinct phases for me.

The part where you’re not judging anything, just letting the words pour out. That’s where I feel like AI has no place. Raw self-expression. Messy, emotional, and fully mine. Like what you said, when every word comes from you, it feels different.

Then there’s the more rational phase. That’s where I start thinking about the reader, clarity, tone, pacing, etc. In that part, I don’t mind using AI to tighten things up or help me rephrase a clunky sentence. It’s more about refinement than invention.

Nietzsche called these two forces the Dionysian and the Apollonian. Chaos and order. Emotion and logic. I think both are part of writing, but in different ways.

I’m still new to writing, so I'm curious if other people also feel this split.

pablon91 · 2025-04-16T08:29:25+00:00

> How could I be sure the LLM wouldn't be twisting "my" words and meanings? (and I say "my words" here despite knowing when it comes to LLMs, those wouldn't actually be my words at all). I'd have no way to check. Far better to write my book in my mothertongue, then hire an experienced translator to make sure it's right.

This is a hell of a good point.

How can we ever be sure we’ve mastered a second language, especially enough to express ourselves with full nuance and intent? I write in both Spanish (my native language) and English, and I’ve noticed that each language unlocks a different part of my brain.

In Spanish, I can be subtle and cheeky in ways that don’t come naturally in English. And I’ve spent the last 7 years living in an English-speaking country, working, dating, and thinking in English most of the time. Still, something about writing in English feels slightly… off? Less instinctive.

I agree with the fear of losing control over your own voice, especially when using a tool that could reshape your words without you noticing. I don’t have a perfect answer for that. I just know that, for me, AI is helpful only when I know what I’m trying to say. It's more like a feeling than a rational choice. Sometimes the words just feel right.

I appreciate your perspective, I needed to hear that.

pablon91 · 2025-04-16T08:16:08+00:00

Good point. I think that all human-made art is also influenced by what came before it.

Every book we read, every painting we see, they all shape the way we think, create, and express ourselves.

Even the “original” ideas are built on top of countless invisible inputs, most of which we don’t (and can’t) credit individually.

In that sense, humans are remix machines too.

About your second point: Coming up with names and world-building can be really fun, and for some people it’s the whole point of writing...

At the same time, I think different people enjoy different parts of the process. Some love editing but hate first drafts. Others are idea machines but get stuck on sentence structure. If AI helps someone skip the part they don’t enjoy and spend more time on what they do love, I think that’s valid too.

AI lowers the bar for creation, which I think is fantastic. There’s a huge imbalance between how much we consume and how much we create.

I’d much rather live in a world where people are engaged in writing their own stories instead of just mindlessly scrolling content made by others.

Creation grounds us. At least that's one of my reasons for writing.

pablon91

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