Writing
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- 115essays
- 2012–202615 years
- 6categories
- 89translated from Portuguese
- 1collection
A note before you read.
I write like someone who walked into the church machinery, saw it up close, and walked back out — refusing to walk back in on the old terms. Not bitter. Not done. Stubbornly faithful.
I think by writing letters. To my anxiety. To my church. To my 20-year-old self. Sometimes a letter is the only honest form.
I keep refusing the binaries. I choose the way. I don't know if I'll ever fit on a Church again. I'm OK with that.
Questions I keep coming back to:
- Am I a billboard? — I am not a billboard
- Is faith reasonable for an engineer? — The case for Christian skepticism
- Am I arriving anywhere, or just moving? — Breaking 90 and the illusion of arrival
Underneath everything: an expat's loneliness. I left a small fishing village in southern Brazil at 20. I've ended a lot of worlds since. Some never quite end.
These are 15 years of writing. Some of it is who I was. Some is who I'm becoming. Read accordingly.
If you are here, start with these.
Seven essays, hand-picked. The shortest path to the voice underneath.
Golf
We Never Lose
A solo afternoon at the Masters becomes a meditation on collective belonging — and a 1995 Flamengo loss with my father.
Tech
AI :: Where I'm Drawing the Line
Why I keep humans in the room even when an agent is cheaper.
Free Thought
A Conversation With My Anxiety
A letter from anxiety. My reply. From my father’s fishing boats to AI doomscrolling.
Golf
Breaking 90, and the Illusion of Arrival
A tournament round on my home course doubles as a parable on goalposts that keep moving.
Bible
Find the David Within You
A keyboard meltdown in a Hollywood church. The Pentecostal night that followed.
Free Thought
Thanksgiving
Friends of mine keep a leafless tree of gratitude in their living room. Abraham built altars for the same reason.
Bible
The Light the Darkness Cannot Understand
Gospel of John meets Tolkien. Why Sauron couldn’t imagine the Hobbit destroying the Ring.
Collections
Essays woven into one thing you read start to finish.
10Library of the Resurrection
The case for sitting with the most fantastic story ever told. 10 essays across 10 years.
The archive
Everything, by year. Filter it, or scroll the 15 years.
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2026
7 essays2025
6 essays2024
6 essays2023
2 essays 2019–2022 4 years. Nothing published. The archive says more about that stretch by leaving it empty than any note would.