I've always enjoyed the idea of the IndieWeb Carnival, which is sort of a community prompt for blogging. Each month a host decides the topic and people write their thoughts and perspectives on it.

But I keep postponing it. Always wanting but never doing it.

So to sort of break the spell, I decided to go for an easier community prompt: Robert Birming's Knowember. The prompt is just four simple questions you answer to let people know a bit more about yourself.

Even though I've written enough about myself on the About page, the idea that every year there will be a different set of questions, building a nice thread over the ideas, motivated me to write this one. Plus, I've been enjoying reading the posts from some people I already follow, like Kev's, and discovering new ones at the end of Robert's post.

A Photo

Weirdly enough, this was probably the hardest part. It's not that I don't have tons of photos. As the son of a professional photographer, I do love photography. But even though there are photos of me on social media, I'm getting more and more reluctant to post my pictures online. ¹

So as a compromise, here is a photo of Haley, our dog.

Name or Nickname

I've never really had any nickname. Cauê is a short name already. Despite the fact that I've already heard more variations of my name than there are atoms in the universe, I never got a nickname that stuck.

If you are asking yourself how to pronounce it: as an English speaker, you say "Cow" (yes, the animal), then join it with the sound of "e" in "exciting".

The name comes from Tupi, an indigenous Brazilian language, and is probably a variant of Acauã, the name of a bird in the falcon family.

Where in the world you blog from

I've blogged from several countries, but these days I blog from Lisbon, a place I might be calling home for the foreseeable future.

What your blog is mostly about

I don't have a particular theme. I blog about whatever is occupying my mind for a bit. It's a place where I allow myself to explore ideas and topics. It is a personal exercise to let go of the perfectionism blockage, even though that is still a work in progress.