I was born in Lisbon on a 13th of June.

I've always been attracted by things artistic: drawing, literature, music and cinema.

Teachers from the first school years have always told my parents that I was to be someone dedicated to the letters. Writing & languages have always interested me a lot . But as so often happens , I've changed course and became interested in technical and manual work kind of things. Electronics, woodworking and the like.

Thanks to this technical propension and a late discovered love of Mathematics , I've graduated as a mechanical engineer at the Instituto Superior Técnico of Lisbon.

During my undergraduate years I discovered what would become one of my great loves: Continuum Mechanics. This love affair with mechanics induced me to enroll in a Master of Science first, and in a doctorate afterwards.

It is said that there is no love like the first, and that if neglected a very important part of your nature, it will pop up sooner or later, like a summer storm appears in a perfect summer day.

So it happened, my passion for Art came back with a vengeance: stronger, subtler, deeper.

You can get a measure of the violence of this irruption by visiting the site perusio.com that I designed and launched in May 2004.

The neglect to which I had abandoned my passion for Art made me pay my dues, by delayning the completion of my doctorate.

Right now I'm doing several things:

1. Starting a profession related with Art, something that envolves divulging Art to greater audiences and promoting it.

   There's so much noise out there that only with a healthly aggressive strategy you can raise above the noise level.

2. Finishing my doctorate.

If there's something that I learned during last few years, is that in order for my life to have meaning I cannot adopt the one track approach a career. Most people become their career instead of their career becoming them.

Of course this idea of a career in whatever domain is quite recent. In bygone days they were not only interested in surviving, but mostly in living.

Today we get so much caught up with the details of surviving that we forget living. That's the only reason why we are here, all the rest is cowardice.

The malaise that lingers in our society, is partly the result of this neglect of living. That's why people buy vacations in far away places, thinking that they will find paradise there, forgetting one minor detail: the first thing you find in a paradise is yourself.

This site reveals some of my interests, and shares my views on them with you. I'm trying to steer clear of the typical blog "tidbits". The pace at which the typical blog posts succeed are one more instance of the flight from living that permeates our environment, avoiding to think and reflect. It isn't always pleasant to think things through and to carry the conclusions of this thinking to effect.