Founder, Writer, Entrepreneur & Observer of People
Some people build careers around a single profession.
Mine has been built around a single question.
Why do people looking at the same life reach completely different conclusions?
That question has taken me across engineering, entrepreneurship, hospitality, software, writing, television, and conversations with thousands of people from around the world. It has led me to build businesses, lose businesses, start over, welcome hundreds of travelers through CasaJOMO, interview hospitality owners preparing for retirement, and design tools that help people make better decisions.
Today, that work comes together through Insyte Labs—a creative studio where ideas become books, software, games, businesses, and television.
Different mediums.
One purpose.
To help people better understand themselves, one another, and the decisions that shape their lives.
The Journey That Led Here
La vie suivait rarement le chemin que j'avais imaginé.
Chaque tournant inattendu remettait en question les idées reçues sur l'identité, le succès, le foyer, la résilience, la liberté et l'appartenance.
Avec le temps, j'ai réalisé que les transformations les plus significatives commencent rarement par l'obtention de meilleures réponses.
Tout commence par poser de meilleures questions. Cette prise de conscience continue de façonner tout ce que je crée.
Ce que je crée
I believe every meaningful idea deserves the medium that communicates it best.
Some ideas become memoirs.
Some become essay collections.
Some become novels.
Some become television.
Some become software.
Some become games.
Some become businesses.
Every project begins the same way—with careful observation of real people, real conversations, and real problems.
Writing I write across memoir, essays, commercial fiction, and television.
Essay Collections
Hospitality Essays — observations on boutique hospitality, branding, guest psychology, and meaningful experiences.
Travel & Move Abroad Essays — reflections on choosing countries, building a life abroad, and finding where you belong.
Lifestyle Essays — preserving the stories and lessons of independent hospitality owners navigating succession, retirement, and reinvention.
Tropical Table Essays — exploring food, culture, hospitality, and the stories shared around the table.
Memoir Non Fiction
A Beautiful Life, Misunderstood: Maps & Mirrors — a memoir in essays exploring the stories people tell about identity, belonging, success, and freedom—and the life that exists beneath those assumptions.
The Clock Was Already Ticking — reflective essays on family, time, resilience, and rebuilding.
Commercial Fiction
The TCK Cozy Mystery Series
Three-Year Check-ins
Please Don't Stand Out
The PDF Inheritance
Television
Permission Withdrawn — a one-hour serialized television drama exploring family, institutional power, and resilience.
Building Through Insyte Labs, I develop software, games, and businesses that help people make better decisions, preserve meaningful experiences, and better understand one another.
Software
Memyk — preserving conversations and lived experience.
Telyq — helping travelers make better decisions.
Archyk — organizing and exploring community knowledge.
Games
Guess Intentions — an educational game exploring cultural misunderstanding, empathy, and perspective.
Businesses
CasaJOMO — a boutique hospitality experience in Rio de Janeiro.
Tropical Table — a food brand inspired by hospitality, tropical ingredients, and meaningful gathering.
Adaptive Maternity & Nursing Bra — a product designed to support women through pregnancy and nursing with a single evolving garment.
Au-delà du travail
Known as Day to family and friends, I've traveled to more than 40 countries and nearly 200 cities, experiences that continue to shape my curiosity about people, cultures, and the many ways we define home.
An engineer by training with a lifelong appreciation for architecture, fashion, food, history, music, and design, I'm fascinated by the intersection of analytical thinking and human experience.
My multicultural background and globally mobile life continue to inspire both my writing and the businesses I build.
Speaking & Conversations
Nombre des idées explorées dans mes livres, essais, logiciels et entreprises ont débuté par des conversations.
J'aime m'entretenir avec des organisations, des universités, des clubs de lecture, des groupes hôteliers, des communautés d'entrepreneurs et des participants à des retraites pour aborder les thèmes qui relient mon travail :
identité et appartenance
l'hospitalité et les liens humains
entrepreneuriat et réinvention
prise de décision
déménager et concevoir une vie qui s'adapte
les histoires que nous racontons sur le succès, la liberté et le sens de la vie
Plutôt que de proposer des réponses simplistes, mes conférences invitent le public à se poser de meilleures questions, à examiner des idées reçues et à envisager des expériences familières sous un angle nouveau.
Que la conversation commence dans une salle de conférence, autour d'une table de petit-déjeuner ou lors d'un séjour à CasaJOMO, mon objectif reste le même :
Pour aider les gens à repartir avec une plus grande clarté, des perspectives nouvelles et de meilleures questions.
Une invitation
Whether you discover my work through a book, a piece of software, a television series, a business, or a conversation over breakfast at CasaJOMO, I hope you leave with something more valuable than answers.
A better question.
Because the most meaningful journeys rarely begin when we find certainty.
They begin when we're willing to see ourselves—and one another—from a different perspective.