About
I’m Giovanni. I live in Brazil, I work in infrastructure, and I currently have thirteen cats.
The cats usually show up starving or hurt. We take them to the vet, fix them and try to get them adopted (this last part never really worked so we give them a permanent home). At some point the house reorganized itself around them. Feeding schedules, vet rotations, territorial disputes that require actual diplomacy. I don’t mind and it doesn’t look as chaotic as it seems. They are very sweet.
I’m an infrastructure engineer, which means I spend my days thinking about the systems that exist underneath the systems people actually use. Storage, networking, reliability, the machinery that nobody notices until it fails. I’ve been doing this long enough to have learned that the most interesting problems are usually the ones that look simple from the outside, and that understanding why something works is always more durable than knowing how to operate it.
I play tennis twice a week. I came to it late (around 38 years old, I think) and I’ll never be great, but I don’t need to be. It’s the one hour where I’m not thinking about anything except the ball. And I need to burn the calories.
I prefer reading hard sci-fi. The kind that takes physics seriously, that builds a world from rules and lets the consequences unfold.
I’m the kind of person who falls into rabbit holes. I’ll read about monetary policy for a week because someone mentioned inflation in a way I couldn’t quite explain. I’ll spend a Saturday on phonology because I wondered why certain sounds feel natural in certain languages. Physics, economics, language design, compiler theory – I’ve passed through all of them, not as an expert, but as someone who can’t leave a question alone once it gets interesting.
I think in mental models. I’d rather build a rough framework I can reason with than memorize a precise answer I’ll need to look up again next time. I distrust hand-waving. I’d rather say “I don’t know” than fake understanding.