José Manuel dos Santos

But I remember this particular occasion, because one morning after partying night, we were ‘asked’ to be in a meeting space at 8am. Needless to say, we were all still heavy headed and in need of plenty of water, a gentleman who by the tone of his voice had not been partying the previous night, had 4 different newspapers taped to the walls, several pages of different newspapers, with large red markings on them, all in all it must have been 20 newspaper pages, and we were afraid he’d make us read out loud!

I want to think that those that choose to work on those complex problems have their hearts in the right place, and have sound business and people skills, and understand the impact of their decision in people, families, businesses and cities for years to come, people trained in dealing with the utopia and the dystopia of cities.

I’m staying at a beach I call ‘my beach’, my grandmother used to come here, my mother used to come here, and now I try to come every year. I did so with everyone that is important to me, both my kids have photos here since they were born, and I just had a couple of old friends over for a couple of days. Does that qualify as my beach, beyond an expression?

am not a writer, and English is not my first language, but I do write and enjoy writing. I am going to post here on Medium once a week during 2024, hopefully 52 posts about the previous week. I will cover 1 to 3 topics that took place in my life, anonymize and sanitize as needed. No moral, no message, open for interpretation. I will try to avoid typos and such, but I will not use any AI tools, and therefore expect something imperfect, crude, confusing at times.