I was born on March 9, 2004, in Lisbon, Portugal, and I am half Italian and half Portuguese. My father is Italian and my mother is Portuguese.

My work and identity sit across programming, writing, content creation, fitness, and academic study rather than in one narrow track.

I use physical training to stabilize momentum, writing to sharpen thinking, and software as the medium for building concrete systems over long horizons.

This page is designed to show how those streams developed over time and how they now reinforce each other as one integrated trajectory.

I attended St Julian's School in Portugal from September 2008 to May 2022.

From September 2022 to May 2024, I attended St. Edward's University in Austin, starting in Economics before switching to a double major in Philosophy and Psychology.

Since September 2024, I have been based in Brighton and studying Politics and Philosophy at the University of Sussex.

I studied Computer Science in my IGCSEs with Python, and later took Computer Science at Higher Level in the IB, where I studied JavaScript.

I have been interested in machine learning and deep neural networks for years, including a summer course at Imperial College in 2018.

In December 2022, I started using ChatGPT, which became a practical inflection point in how I iterate on technical ideas and workflows.

For a long time, most of my coding happened in waves: many unfinished game development projects and one completed website used during a short political streaming period on Twitch.

In March 2025, I returned to programming seriously and built a fully functioning ant colony simulation, even if the architecture was not ideal.

My journey began in childhood, begging anyone to watch me play video games. Years later, I grew a TikTok account to over 200,000 followers, but the superficiality of viral fame took a heavy toll. That burnout led to a chaotic exit, paving the way for my most rewarding era: building a tight-knit political streaming community on Twitch. Finding people who valued my ideas over my appearance profoundly redefined why I create.

Today, content creation is my tool to drive positive change. Whether through gym vlogs or philosophical discussions, my goal is to help others improve the world around them. While I still grapple with the vulnerability of putting myself out there, I’ve learned to embrace the deeply human desire to be seen. Marrying this drive for connection with a genuine mission to educate gives my work a meaningful, sustainable foundation.

I published my first Substack article on April 3, 2023, and then published five more before burning out.

After that initial burst, I stepped away from Substack and did not publish again until May 1, 2025.

Since returning on May 1, 2025, I have published a total of 38 articles.

Writing is now treated as a long-horizon practice built on sustainability rather than short spikes of output.

My journey began in childhood, begging anyone to watch me play video games. Years later, the superficiality of growing a 200,000-follower TikTok account took a heavy toll. That burnout paved the way for my most rewarding era: building a tight-knit political streaming community on Twitch. Finding people who valued my ideas over my appearance completely redefined why I create.

Today, content creation is my tool to drive positive change. Whether through gym vlogs or philosophical discussions, my goal is to help others navigate and improve the world. I still grapple with the vulnerability of putting myself out there, but marrying the deeply human desire to be seen with a genuine mission to educate gives my work a meaningful, sustainable foundation.