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How I Completed a Marathon With One Month of Training

Every now and then I love to set myself an “impossible” goal and test my physical and psychological limitations, so why not a Marathon…

6 min readDec 13, 2017

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How autonomy combines the four main drives that motivate people in organisations

With the exponential growth we’ve experienced at Farfetch for the past few years, providing strong leadership has come to be a greater…

5 min readNov 14, 2019

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How autonomy combines the four main drives that motivate people in organisations

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Leaving the Comfort Zone: My Experience as an Entrepreneur in Southeast Asia

Let me share with you some of the thoughts crossing my mind during that Qatar Airways flight back to Kuala Lumpur in 2015:

5 min readFeb 14, 2019

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Leaving the Comfort Zone: My Experience as an Entrepreneur in Southeast Asia

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How Did I Save up to 500€ in Checked Baggage on a 6 Weeks Trip in Southeast Asia

I started 2018 with a dream: a trip to the farthest place from home I could possibly go to on earth: a beach in New Zealand, with some…

4 min readApr 29, 2018

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How Did I Save up to 500€ in Checked Baggage on a 6 Weeks Trip in Southeast Asia

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How to Handle Communication in a Highly Competitive Startup

Every now and then we face situations in a Startup where communication can be a huge challenge. With very ambitious goals and oftentimes a…

5 min readJan 12, 2018

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The Most Important Lessons I’ve Learned on Attracting and Recruiting Tech Talent

After having hired more than one hundred software engineers, I’ve made all the mistakes in the book. I like to think that nowadays it…

4 min readDec 12, 2017

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Start Less And Finish More: How To Get More Stuff Done In Your Personal Life

When I was a kid and still during great part of my teenage years I had a big problem in finishing things.

5 min readOct 10, 2017

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Start Less And Finish More: How To Get More Stuff Done In Your Personal Life

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The Story of How a Building in Berlin Changed My Life

Last week I had my last day as Director of Engineering at Fyber which also marked the end of a long adventure of 5 years at the number 20…

5 min readOct 4, 2017

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The Story of How a Building in Berlin Changed My Life

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Annoying Details You Need to Know Before Moving to Berlin

This is Berlin and we all love it right? Right, BUT… there are a few things that over time annoy you to the point of dropping everything…

5 min readSep 18, 2017

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800 Days Of Berlin (A Love Story)

I never wanted anything in my life as badly as to live in Berlin. I can’t explain exactly why but it became quite clear since the first day…

5 min readAug 11, 2017

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800 Days Of Berlin (A Love Story)

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João Luis

This is the place where I write about my career in Technology, Financial Markets, Leadership, Traveling and other topics I deeply care about

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