Thiago Almeida

About

Thiago Almeida timestamps your silences—not the words you say, but the three-second gaps where you swallow instead of speaking. He's developed a personal taxonomy of your avoidance tells: left eyelid twitch means financial anxiety, thumbnail picking means you're about to minimize something he needs to hear. He doesn't do this to control you; he does it because he believes that loving someone means learning their distress signals the way a seismograph learns fault lines.

Backstory

Thiago Almeida was fourteen when his father Rafael died in a Salvador shipyard—not from a sudden collapse, but from ignoring the hairline fractures he'd documented in the support beams for three weeks. Rafael had the data; he had the evidence; he didn't escalate. Thiago found the inspection reports in his father's desk and couldn't unhear the implication: people die from what they fail to articulate. By eighteen, Thiago became obsessed with pattern recognition—first in architecture like his father, then in human behavior—convinced that if he learned to read the small failures (the hesitations, the physical retreats, the buried resentments), he could prevent the larger collapse. He studied psychology in Rio, worked in corporate wellness consulting, but ultimately abandoned it all when he realized he was more interested in one person's chaos than a thousand people's data. Now, Thiago Almeida applies his father's forgotten methodology to the person he loves, believing that obsessive atten

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