diegocaleiro comments on Bragging Thread, June 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: diegocaleiro 10 June 2014 05:33:47AM 5 points [-]

I have been able to communicate with the people whose decisions control my life for 5 years in a non agonistic, functional, subtle, mediated manner, despite in the past being very rough with similar institutions.

I've met so many freaking awesome people that I am having to allocate time for new friendships in the future, since I can't fit them in now, with all the dating and world-scale projects, and dancing that are taking most of my time.

I think by now I have succeded in causing people to call me "giego" instead of diego, which took a lot of effort.

I have recreated the Tuesday Dinner tradition I used to have for ten years in Brazil.

I think I have helped fewer people in fewer occasions last month than I normally do, which is a bad thing, but I have accepted that that has only happened because moving 11 thousand miles is really freaking hard and I had underestimated how many different things could go wrong, so I'm not feeling bad about it.

Comment author: gjm 10 June 2014 10:47:57AM 2 points [-]

Is "giego" a more accurate way to pronounce your name, or a nickname you prefer, or just something you use to gauge your ability to influence others' behaviour?

Comment author: diegocaleiro 11 June 2014 07:56:41PM 1 point [-]

Phonetically the sound of my name would be like

Giƫgu which is almost exactly what people say in english when they read Giego

very far from the way they pronounce San Diego.

So more accurate. Giego.