The Fourth Book

By Bernardo Filipe / January 3, 2026

Who are we kidding? We both know this “Life Updates” page is going to become another book in a few months. I was supposed to post once per month, right? But this mind never stops. So you are already reading my fourth book—the first was my Thoughts (which was titled A Light Philosophical Supper when it was still an unfinished draft, and then I changed its name to The Straight Science, as a little joke that I’m sure any Nietzsche reader will get, and finally opted for the simple but accurate Thoughts title, which is essentially what that book is: a small collection of thoughts); the second was my Thoughts & Memories, which contained my first book Thoughts, now in the form of a mere chapter, and expanded it with the content of my blog, which also included some of my memories/biographical writing; the third was the second volume of my Thoughts & Memories, a continuation of it that I decided to split into a second volume because the book was already becoming too big. But you know what? This new Life Updates book might just reach 500 pages before I publish it. It will take some time before we get there, so keep checking this page if you want to keep reading me. And now that I think about it, I should just add the second volume of Thought & Memories to the first volume and turn it into the final chapter, since this second volume doesn’t have that many pages. It was supposed to be 350+ pages long but I finished it sooner than expected (I’m of course still writing, even though I thought at the time I’d stop writing almost entirely, but I had to finish the book somewhere and that ending seemed fitting, that’s all), so if I add it to my Thoughts & Memories, the book will reach a little over 500 pages, which is still pretty OK for a book. Not too short and not too big. I’ll do this later today.