Fernando Gros
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Fernando Gros
@fernandogros.com
Writer
Granta Memoir Workshop alumni
Shortlisted for The Deep Creek Residency Fellowship
Lived in 🇨🇱🇦🇺🇬🇧🇮🇳🇭🇰🇸🇬🇯🇵
Worked in academia and music
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https://fernandogros.com/blog/

Made in Chile, grown in Australia, polished in Japan
I believe there are philosophical ideas hardwired into languages. It's easy to get carried away with that idea. But on some level languages are windows into different ways of seeing the world.
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I've tried cycling with one broken crank and that was a disaster. Though I'm not sure the third image, with the asymmetrical cranks is much better.
November 29, 2025 at 11:41 PM
PR visa is about 500k equivalent in Australia. Spouse visa is double that.
November 29, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Ordered a copy of the third one.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Two of these arrived in my mailbox over the past week.
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I quit LinkedIn in 2021. Never regretted that decision.

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This Week I Quit LinkedIn - Fernando Gros
LinkedIn is a ubiquitous, career-centric, social media platform. So, why did I decide to quit?
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November 25, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Thank you
November 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Es lo que merecimos.
November 24, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Animal parts?
November 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I also live this. Leuchtturm is the perfect notebook from a design perspective. But, I tolerate the paper. That's the kindest thing I can say.

I love the paper in the Sakae Iroful notepad. But the "book" is so-so.

Also, I cry once a year for the old Ji-Yu 4 season planners. They were perfect.
November 24, 2025 at 1:50 AM
"Unshackled from established fossil-fuel industries and outdated technologies, these countries show how the global south is starting to move faster in the renewables transition than wealthier nations such as Australia."

It's a different world. Choose the future or get left in the past.
November 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Sparktoro?
November 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Very surprising news. And I mostly knew them as social media and SEO keyword search company.
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
That's my understanding. Lived in Delhi for three years and that's where I picked it up. Lots of quirks in Indian English are delightful.
November 23, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I quite like prepone.
November 23, 2025 at 1:09 AM
All my water glasses and all my kitchen glass prep bowls large and small.
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 PM
That recent blogpost from Scrivener has me thinking a lot about where I want automations in process of delivering words versus how much I do not want AI junk anywhere near the crafting and editing of those words.

Which is similar to the journey I went through years ago with audio and photo tech.
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If Bluesky continues to be US-centric then in won’t grow and will continue to be a niche technology that struggles to maintain user numbers.
November 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
My deepest condolences for your loss.
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM