Growing up in a Portuguese household, I rarely experienced silence. My parents worked from home, so there was always some form of auditory assault around me. The TV would be on, pots clanging in the kitchen, and the loud pshhhhhht and mechanical whirring of my dad's compressed-air paint

Picture this: Vienna in the 1920s, a bustling restaurant and a curious psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik. She's sipping on her coffee and watching the waiters go about their business when she notices something interesting: they would expertly remember long orders, but after their customers paid, they struggled to

I used to be an avid video gamer, spending hours glued to my screen, completing quests, defeating monsters, and acquiring gold. Getting transported to alternate worlds and controlling the story's hero was fun. However, today, I have stopped playing video games altogether. Although I still love gaming, I

Our time is finite and precious; we should spend as much time as possible working towards our goals. Yet, as motivated as we may be, we will experience setbacks that eat into our time, like a spike in workload or personal responsibilities. Maybe we didn't get to spend

One of the most rewarding outcomes of building a business was employing staff for the first time. They trusted me with their livelihoods and were excited to be part of something meaningful. I encouraged them to improve each day and was proud to watch them and my business grow. Business,

To live in alignment with nature is to be in a state of physis. A state where we change and grow, following the same rules that govern the natural world. We all have needs and ambitions, and for most of us, our immediate needs can be easily met. If we&

This has been a particularly busy week, with a busier-than-usual weekend. The weekend was fun and relatively productive, but it left me too little time to write a substantive article. So. Let's consider this post an interlude, with five philosophical quotes to tickle your brain this coming week.

Tomorrow, I turn 36. It’s been a wild ride. When I look back at the last three decades of my life, I’m proud of the person I’ve become. Like everyone else, I’ve made mistakes and experienced failures. But, with mistakes and failures come lessons, and life

Fifteen years ago, I made a pivotal choice. I asked my wife out. We met at a rock nightclub a few weeks earlier. I was a regular there: it was ten minutes away, played music I loved (like Disturbed and System of a Down) and offered 50% off on Student

A few years ago, I made a life-changing decision: I resigned from a lucrative corporate job to pursue my dream of being a wildly successful entrepreneur. The job was good for me. It paid well and offered plenty of growth opportunities. Yet, I wasn't happy. I felt constrained.

I have a confession: I almost didn't publish a post today. This is my first week back at work after a short break. On Monday, I was greeted with emails in the triple digits (I left at inbox zero) and a workload that had grown. A lot. I

Happy New Year! 🎉 It's that time where we discard the past and make resolutions for the future. Like many people, I've given up on New Year's resolutions. The vast majority of us  set resolutions and then give up a few short weeks later. I

When I was young, I loved the festive period for two key reasons: (1) presents! and (2) gorging myself on the mountain of sugary foods. When it was time to open presents (at exactly midnight, no matter how tired we were) I would hold the boxes of meticulously folded and

I know I promised you a post a while back. My intention when soft-launching the website was to get to work, writing. Writing every day, churning out content and publishing a newsletter at least once a week. I had decided that I wanted to be a writer, right? It was