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A CATHOLIC PLATFORM FOR A WHOLE LIFE

For your whole life.

Hi, I’m Gustavo. I christened myself @gustavomucholove, and after many years I made Kanboombo: for me, for you, for us.

What is Kanboombo?

A Catholic platform for your whole life.

What is a whole life?

The integrated life, with all its sorrows, defeats, victories and transcendences, from its beginning to its end. A life where sadness comes with satisfaction, where laughter is enjoyed, but the laundry is not forgotten. That is what Catholic means: from the Greek kath’ holou, according to the whole.
Life with Jesus is like the Stoics’ life: nothing clouds you, nothing troubles you. But with Jesus you live every colour, from the darkest dark to the white that blinds you: the whole spectrum of light dances with you. Your phone can pull you away from that life or lead you into it. With Kanboombo, it is a phone that leads you to the Gospel.

What can you do with Jesus at the centre of your life?

Everything. Make your talents grow, as in the parable. Accept your fortunes, like Zacchaeus, the day Jesus calls you by your name. Find happiness in nothing at all.
I hope Kanboombo helps you become who you are called to be.
Gustavo Mucho Love
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FIVE THINGS, IN THE ORDER OF LOVE

How does Kanboombo help you?

In the order of love Saint Augustine teaches, ordo est amoris: God first; through God, union, curiosity and learning; and with God, action.
  • I
    PRAYER

    God first.

    “partakers of the divine nature” 2 Peter 1:4
    Every morning, the day’s readings of your rite on your calendar: the same ones read today in your parish. The Mass, the rosary and the Spiritual Exercises are there too. You begin the day with God, and day after day He makes you a partaker of His divine nature.
    Today’s readings ↓
    Pray today’s Gospel
    Pray today’s Gospel
    Read slowly, keep a word
    Read slowly, keep a word
    Today’s Mass, in your rites
    Today’s Mass, in your rites
  • II
    COMMUNION

    Through God, union.

    “That they all may be one” John 17:21
    You don’t pray alone. The Gospel you read this morning is the one your parish reads today, and someone, somewhere in the world, prayed it with you. None of this replaces your parish or the sacraments: it keeps you together from Sunday to Sunday.
    Bring someone to your prayer
    Bring someone to your prayer
    Amen lights your point on the map
    Amen lights your point on the map
    Your day, with your people
    Your day, with your people
  • III
    CURIOSITY

    Through God, curiosity.

    “seek, and you shall find” Matthew 7:7
    Ask about everything. The whole world prays today too: beside your own rite, the day’s word from Amritsar. And a whole library to open whatever calls you, from Plato to the Gita, from Newton to Dostoevsky. You don’t have to arrive with every question settled.
    The library ↓
    Find your next read
    Find your next read
    The Bible, the Gita and more
    The Bible, the Gita and more
    Your library, offline too
    Your library, offline too
  • IV
    LEARNING

    Through God, learning.

    “Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος” John 1:1
    Learn a language to carry out your mission of making the world a little smaller, or to know your roots just as John wrote them. Read the Gospel in Greek, Arabic, Chinese, Latin or Spanish beside English, word by word. Tap a word and it comes back just before you’d forget it.
    Learn a language reading the Gospel ›
    John 1 in Greek, word by word
    John 1 in Greek, word by word
    Every word: its sound and its sense
    Every word: its sound and its sense
    Choose the language on top, and the one beneath
    Choose the language on top, and the one beneath
  • V
    ACTION

    With God, action.

    “because thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will place thee over many things” Matthew 25:21
    Your whole day on one calendar: what you read, what you meant to do and what you did, your projects and your notes. And intelligence at the service of good: your own Claude Code and Codex, on your own subscription, working beside you. What you pray in the morning, you live by evening.
    Your second brain ↓
    Your day: projects, books, prayer
    Your day: projects, books, prayer
    Your projects
    Your projects
    Your chats, with people and agents
    Your chats, with people and agents
Leaders read what lasts

Become a leader by focusing on what will be true forever.

Not because it is old. Because it survived.
A book read for two thousand years has been tested by every kind of reader: kings, prisoners, monks, merchants, students with an exam in the morning. What remains is what keeps working.
Read the Republic and you argue better, even with yourself. Read the Gospels, the Gita and the Guru Granth and you understand what billions of people were raised on. Read Smith and Newton and you know where the modern world came from.
That is how leaders are made. Slowly. On purpose. In company.
Read with others: the same passages, the same day. Begin a program together.
Begin a program ↓

Today · Wednesday 21 October

Calendar · OctoberAll readings ›
PROGRAMS

What one portion a day adds up to

The Republic in 60 days. Augustine’s Confessions in 88 days. The City of God in 306 days. The Mahabharata and the Gita in 46 days. Newton’s Principia in 12 days. Smith and Rerum Novarum in 28 days. The Spiritual Exercises in 28 days. The Summa in 584 days.
Every program here, one after another: 1152 days. And you have read what formed the world.
Begin one and today’s portion is on your calendar. No account needed.
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Confessions

88 days · The Confessions, a few chapters a day · Latin beside English
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Economics and Modernity

28 days · Moral Sentiments, The Wealth of Nations and Rerum Novarum
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Epics

46 days · The Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita · a story a day
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The City of God

306 days · The City of God, a few chapters a day · Latin beside English
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The Greeks

60 days · The Republic, a few pages a day · Greek beside English
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The Roots of Science

12 days · Newton's Principia, the first edition of 1687 · Motte's English beside the Latin
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The Summa

584 days · The Prima Pars, an article a day · Latin above the English

Ejercicios Espirituales

28 días · cuatro Semanas
More arrive as we add books: Homer, Euclid, Herodotus and Darwin are next.
Leaders learn languages

Because the conversations that matter don’t happen in translation.

You will always seek connection. AI can tell you what someone said. It cannot make you the kind of person who understood it.
So the readings here come in more than one language, side by side. Tap a word to keep it, and it comes back just before you would forget it.
Why learn a language when AI can translate everything?
For the same reason you still walk when cars exist.
If you want to keep your brain young, give it something hard to do.
Learn another language.
Give your children a second language.
Then give them a reason to keep it.
Leaders learn languages ›
Past, present and future

It also happens to be a second brain.

You will always need a calendar, so we built a learning platform for life around one. What you read, what you thought, who you met and what you meant to do land on the same days, and a year from now you can find them there.

The past

The great books and the great calendars: Scripture, Plato, the Mahabharata, Smith and Newton, and the lectionaries and the hukam that have kept people reading for centuries.

The present

Your days: check-ins, notes, meetings and readings on one calendar, so the day you lived is a day you can find again.

The future

What you are learning: the language beside the one you know, and the words you kept, brought back before you forget them.
Plug-ins

Who would you be if this was on your calendar?

If it’s on your calendar, it gets done. Put the hour of each prayer, the sun and the moon where you live, the weather and where the markets closed on every day you plan. Hide any of them whenever you like.
11%6:3112:2818:24Sample · Santo DomingoSkySomeone who sees the sun go down.NEXTAsr 15:42Sample · Santo DomingoPrayer timesSomeone who prays on time.
31°24° · 60%Sample · Santo DomingoWeatherSomeone ready before the rain.S&P 500 4,969.19 −1.12%Sample figuresMarketsSomeone who knows where the markets closed.
See every plug-inBuild one: a folder, four commands
THE LIBRARY

Your teachers will last forever.

PlatoIgnacio de LoyolaAnselm of CanterburyFrancis BaconRené DescartesFrederick DouglassT. S. EliotSigmund FreudWilliam HarveyHeinrich HeineFranz KafkaFrançois, duc de La RochefoucauldGottfried Wilhelm LeibnizAbraham LincolnThomas MannMolièreBlaise PascalArthur SchopenhauerWallace StevensTao Yuanming (陶淵明)Booker T. WashingtonXu Zhimo (徐志摩)Zhu Ziqing (朱自清)
Isaac NewtonAugustine of HippoAristotleCao Zhi (曹植)Emily DickinsonW. E. B. Du BoisAlexander Hamilton, John Jay, James MadisonJohann Wolfgang von GoetheNathaniel HawthorneDavid HumeImmanuel KantMadame de La FayetteLiang Qichao (梁啟超)Lu Xun (魯迅)Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsMichel de MontaigneJean RacineShi Pingmei (石評梅)Sunzi (孫子, Sun Wu)Mark TwainVirginia WoolfWilliam Butler Yeats
Adam SmithThomas AquinasJane AustenJoseph ConradFyodor DostoevskyAlbert EinsteinGustave FlaubertJacob and Wilhelm GrimmGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelChristiaan HuygensJean de La FontaineAntoine Laurent LavoisierLin Juemin (林覺民)Titus Lucretius CarusHerman MelvilleFriedrich NietzscheFriedrich SchillerBenedictus de SpinozaJonathan SwiftPublius Vergilius MaroXi Kang (嵇康)Yu Dafu (郁達夫)
Walk all 157 books ›
Learn a language reading the Gospel
GreekArabicChineseLatinSpanish
What won’t change
“I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?’ … I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two — because you can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time.”
— Jeff Bezos, AWS re:Invent, 2012
We built Kanboombo on four things that will be as true for you in ten years as they are today.
  • You will always be short of time.
  • You will always need a calendar.
  • The great books will always be worth your time.
  • You will always seek connection.
What won’t change in the next ten years? ›

For your whole life, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Gustavo Mucho Love
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