The Women Who Quietly Shaped My Career

Every career has visible milestones. Promotions. Titles. Companies whose logos look good on a résumé. But if you trace the real arc of a life, the turning points, the moments where direction quietly changes, it is rarely a company that did it. More often, it was a conversation. Or a person. Or sometimes a sentence that stays with you for thirty years. On International Women’s … Continue reading The Women Who Quietly Shaped My Career

The Myth: Effortless European Body

… and What Both Sides Get Wrong I have seen this topic around a few times, and as a European living in Brazil I felt something was off. There’s a glossy narrative that makes the rounds on social media: European men drink wine, eat bread, and chain-smoke, yet somehow outlive the average American, who is apparently drowning in seed oils and XXL sodas. It’s a … Continue reading The Myth: Effortless European Body

From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5