by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of our choices
On sovereignty, responsibility, and the path back to becoming the author of how we show up in the world. There are words that have grown heavy with misuse, and responsibility is one of them. For many of us, the word lands like a weight. It conjures obligation, blame,...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of our choices
On social pressure, the invisible hand of the systems we live within, and the question of whether our choices are truly our own. Ask yourself a question, and try to answer it honestly. The major decisions of your life, the career you pursued, the lifestyle you built,...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of our choices
On where the journey of becoming human again actually begins, and why it begins small. When people first encounter the idea of re-humanizing, of reconnecting with their bodies, their feelings, their genuine selves, of returning to a more human way of living, a...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of our choices
On what a choice actually is, why our decision-making is more fragile than we think, and how we reclaim our agency. We tend to believe that we are the authors of our choices. That when we decide something, eat this, say that, stay, leave, react, withdraw, the decision...
by Tiago Peixoto | Jun 18, 2026 | Making sense of relationships
On empathy as the foundation of human connection, and the quiet capacity that makes us most fully human. There is a particular experience that, once you have had it, you never forget. Someone is with you in a moment of difficulty. Perhaps you are in pain, or...
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