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29 Pedro’s Story

Meet Pedro Marques Sousa, see figure 29.1. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics in 2023 when this episode was first recorded. Pedro worked at Nomura, Amazon Web Services and a tech startup in Tokyo: recursiveai.co.jp.

Shortly after this episode was recorded, Pedro enrolled on a Masters degree in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge.

Pedro Marques Sousa. Picture reused from linkedin.com/in/pedro-marques-sousa with permission, thanks Pedro.

Figure 29.1: Pedro Marques Sousa. Picture reused from linkedin.com/in/pedro-marques-sousa with permission, thanks Pedro.

Listen to the episode by clicking Play ▶️ below, or subscribing wherever you get your podcasts, see section 21.2. An annotated and edited transcript of the audio is shown below.

29.1 What’s Your Story Pedro?

An edited podcast transcript will appear here in due course. In the meantime, an un-edited, raw machine-generated transcript can be found here.

29.2 One Tune

For his music, Pedro chose a Portugese genre of music known as Fado, see figure 29.2

Fado is a form of music characterised by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor, and infused with a sense of resignation, fate and melancholy. This is loosely captured by the Portuguese word “saudade”, or longing, symbolising a feeling of loss. Public domain image of a painting O Fado, by José Malhoa from the Museum of Lisbon via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Apbu adapted using the Wikipedia app 🇵🇹

Figure 29.2: Fado is a form of music characterised by mournful tunes and lyrics, often about the sea or the life of the poor, and infused with a sense of resignation, fate and melancholy. This is loosely captured by the Portuguese word “saudade”, or longing, symbolising a feeling of loss. Public domain image of a painting O Fado, by José Malhoa from the Museum of Lisbon via Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Apbu adapted using the Wikipedia app 🇵🇹

29.3 One Book

For his book, Pedro chose The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, see figure 29.3. (Jorgenson, Butcher, and Ferriss 2021)

Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, StackOverflow, Bolt, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than ten Unicorn companies worth a total of $5 billion. Pedro recommended The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Jorgenson, Butcher, and Ferriss 2021) CC BY-SA portrait of Naval Ravikant by Kris Krüg on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Apc9 adapted using the Wikipedia app 

Figure 29.3: Naval Ravikant is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor in over 200 companies including Uber, FourSquare, Twitter, Wish.com, Poshmark, Postmates, Thumbtack, Notion, SnapLogic, Opendoor, Clubhouse, StackOverflow, Bolt, OpenDNS, Yammer, and Clearview AI, with over 70 total exits and more than ten Unicorn companies worth a total of $5 billion. Pedro recommended The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Jorgenson, Butcher, and Ferriss 2021) CC BY-SA portrait of Naval Ravikant by Kris Krüg on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/Apc9 adapted using the Wikipedia app

29.4 One Podcast

For his podcasts, Pedro recommended the following:

Figure 29.4: MrBeast Gets Flagrant and Walked Away from $1 BILLION DOLLARS.

29.5 One Film

For his film, Pedro chose Training Day, see figure 29.5

Training Day is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers followed over a 24-hour period in the gang-ridden neighborhoods of Westlake, Echo Park, and South Central Los Angeles. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org

Figure 29.5: Training Day is a 2001 American crime thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by David Ayer. It stars Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris and Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt, two LAPD narcotics officers followed over a 24-hour period in the gang-ridden neighborhoods of Westlake, Echo Park, and South Central Los Angeles. Fair use image from commons.wikimedia.org

29.6 Disclaimer

⚠️ Coding Caution ⚠️

Please note these transcripts are generated with speech to text software and are not perfect word-for-word transcriptions. Some speech disfluency has been manually removed and links, cross references and pictures have been manually added for clarification. Extra (non-quoted) words are given in brackets like this: (some text added afterwards).