Who are you? A Halloween Story

It all began with a series of minor pranks, small items mysteriously moving places and doors opening and closing as I moved around the house.At first, I did not pay much attention to it, thinking it had no significant impact on my life. Occasionally, it did give me a weird feeling, but then I came…

Everything Happens For a Reason

One of the things that excited me the most back in the 1990s were videogames, I had a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive console, and I was in Sonic’s side in his market fight with Mario. Back in 1996, I got a new game, Sonic 3D, my 9-year-old mind went crazy with the game: amazing graphics and…

Empty São Paulo

Images by: Trip Soundtrack by: Hans Zimmer & Benjamin Wallfisch Edited by: Thyago Falconi

Man’s First Hour in Heaven

Mogi das Cruzes, 1994 I’m 7 years old, my bicycle probably the same age. I have a long downhill ahead, and then an even longer uphill to climb. I look around, no cars, a few people, I push the bike, it screeches, it goes like a rocket, no idea how fast I am going, but it’s…

The Train

The train station was hectic. People walking in all directions in a hurry, kids couldn’t even play with their toys, a mother holding his baby whilst talking on the phone got my attention, she was crying, the baby wasn’t. An inversion of roles. The baby was even laughing, paying attention to something else I couldn’t…

Hiatus

I love vowels. No language, or alphabet No story, or word Would resist a world without vowels . . . They connect letters And out of words Give a meaning to an abstract world . . . As a young boy Learning or trying To learn the language Vowels were my favourite . . ….

Too late

I had faith, lots of faith on ourselves. I mean, I used to believe we would succeed. As a species, and transform our environment. But no, we kill. But no, we destroy. But no, we transform. Good into bad, not bad into good. People are tired, mutilated by love or no love. People are not…

Running away

I had taken the bus outside Holborn station, it was a really warm day, the bus was packed. I managed to catch up with all messages on my phone, had at least 10 unread ones. After checking my inbox and replying everyone I played some jazz and put the phone in my back pocket. Half…

S(t)imulation

Our brain works in a very interesting way, it stimulates specific areas of itself by using electric impulses, exactly like a computer does. It doesn’t have a central point orchestrating everything, instead, it has many different ‘processors’ sending messages across different areas of the organ, using long and short memories to store and access information. Computers…

Unlucky

All dates are based on the Gregorian calendar. 1933-1945: Jews, Poles, Gypsies, Russians, Ukrainians, Slavs, homosexuals and the mentally handicapped are killed brutally by, firing squad, gas chambers, brutal work and Nazi Soldiers. 2121: 100 cities are home to 80% of humanity, they are sustainable as environmentalism is one of their core features. The eco-friendly village…

Personal development page

In 15 months working at Sky I built a list of things that in my opinion needed to be improved, some of them I have addressed in my team during the day-to-day, some in our retros, another ones I had to think outside the box to be able to make a difference, and I will…

Aliens

Aliens, where are you? One of my dreams is the day I wake up in the morning, and when I check the news I see that we finally managed to find life outside Earth, on another planet or moon. I hope this will happen at least until 2080, which is probably when my life will…