Fabio Caipirinha

Essays on what survives the crossing.

Language, culture, philosophy, leadership, and what remains human in the age of AI.

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A samurai, from the Wikipedia article on Bushidō

Two Traditions, One Wisdom — And the Gap Between Them

Sometime in the second century, a Roman emperor sat alone in a tent on the Danube and wrote notes to himself about how to die well. Sometime in the fourteenth, a Japanese monk sat in a hut outside Kyoto and wrote about cherry blossom and the beauty of things falling apart. Neither could have read the other. They agree almost entirely — and where they stop agreeing is the interesting part.

A grey concrete path lined with green trees, photograph by Marco Rickhoff

Human Life

The Weight of Loss: Reflections on a Friend’s Unyielding Grief

A friend’s grief endures long after everyone else has moved on. On what words can’t do, and what quiet presence still can.

Traditional portrait of the 14th-century monk and essayist Yoshida Kenko

Human Life

When AI Writes Better Than We Do: What a 14th-Century Monk Taught Me About Thinking

A fourteenth-century monk’s fragments on attention and thought, read against an age when machines can finish our sentences for us.

Crossings

Tokyo, the Invisible City of History

In a European town, history speaks from the cobblestones. Tokyo does not do that. What greets you is glass and neon — and underneath it, almost nothing you can see.

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Language, culture, identity, belonging.

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The Untranslatable

An essay on leadership, philosophy, literature and intercultural life. Where cultures meet, new meanings emerge. In English, on Substack.

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A long-form English book project is in development. I will say more when the work is ready to be described publicly.

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I was born in Brazil and grew up across several countries before studying conservation and museum studies in Britain. I later worked across cultures and regions in international business, organizational change, coaching, innovation, and leadership education. Leadership and philosophy are subjects I have been thinking about for much of my life.

The subjects do not line up neatly. That is part of the point. I keep returning to what changes when ideas, institutions, languages, and people cross from one context into another.

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Fabio Caipirinha

Two Traditions, One Wisdom — And the Gap Between Them

The Weight of Loss: Reflections on a Friend’s Unyielding Grief

When AI Writes Better Than We Do: What a 14th-Century Monk Taught Me About Thinking

Tokyo, the Invisible City of History

Crossings

Human Life

Judgment

The Untranslatable

A new book

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