My name is Arturo Ruiz. I studied Industrial Engineering. I am learning French (currently B1, pushing toward B2). I am training for a marathon. And I write here, mostly late at night, because the questions I am trying to answer do not fit neatly into a schedule.

Why this blog exists

Free Your Sword started as a personal experiment. I wanted to test whether it was possible to build real habits, real discipline, and real projects around a schedule that most productivity advice simply ignores.

The classic advice assumes mornings. It assumes you control your time. It assumes that if you want something badly enough, you will wake up at 5 AM and make it happen.

My reality is different. My productive hours are unconventional, fragmented, and sometimes nonexistent. What I have learned from living inside those constraints is that discipline is not a morning phenomenon. It is a decision made under pressure, with limited time, inside a life that does not stop to accommodate your ambitions. That is what I write about here.

What you will find

The essays on this site cover discipline, focus, decision-making, and the mechanics of building something over time without ideal conditions. I try to write things that are specific rather than motivational, that address real friction rather than pretend it away, and that treat the reader as someone capable of doing hard things without being cheered into them.

I also write about language learning, technology, and the broader project of designing a life that is not entirely dependent on a single source of income.

Background

Both running and language learning teach the same lesson: you do not improve in sessions. You improve across sessions, through consistency that does not feel like progress until it suddenly does.

A note on the site

Free Your Sword is independent. No brand deals, no sponsored content. The essays say what I actually think. If something I write is wrong, I want to know.