Posts

“Write using short sentences and simple paragraphs. Use the short, old words that make English so powerful globally: don’t “utilize” when you can “use”. Convoluted sentences and long fancy words might seem like they impress but they confuse the reader and leave them dissatisfied and feeling dumb. Make the reader feel smart by writing simply. Ever since humans have sat around camp fires to ward off animals we have told each other stories. They are the most powerful way to communicate because we are hard-wired for stories. This is why stories are the foundation of culture and religion. ...

Wandering, wondering in hopeless nights. Out here in the perimeter we have no start! Out here, we are stoned, immaculate. Somehow things never work out exactly how you planned. There are days where everything seems to be working against you. Others were you’re flowing. Just staying there, keeping calm and carrying on, seems to be the way to to.

I’ve been wanting to create a personal space online that feels like mine. Not tied to a big platform, not buried in algorithms. seremot.com is a small site where I can write, explore ideas, and test tools — especially around communication, technology, and AI. It’s built using Hugo and hosted with Cloudflare Pages, keeping things fast, light, and fully owned by me. Let’s see where this goes. Why seremot? That’s easy. I’ve been using emot since the 1990s, when I was a teenager — it’s my last name (Tomé) reversed. In the late 1990s — 1999, really — when I got to college, the movie Being John Malkovich was around. I loved the name and the concept (though not so much the movie itself), so I started using BeingEmot and other variations in mIRC chat rooms. Later, I swapped “Being” for the Portuguese equivalent “Ser” (which also means to be — as in to be or not to be). So, seremot. That’s it.