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João Tomé is a Portuguese storyteller with a journalist’s heart and a technologist’s curiosity. With a career spanning TV, radio, print, and digital media, João has become a trusted voice in the tech world, known for translating complexity into clarity — across formats, languages, and continents. In February 2025, João Tomé won the award from the New York Times for the most proeminent data storyteller of 2024. Today, he’s a Senior Data Editor, Writer, and Multimedia Storyteller at Cloudflare, where he crafts stories that make sense of the Internet....

“Write using short sentences and simple paragraphs. Use the short, old words that make English so powerful globally: don’t “utilize” when you can “use”. Convoluted sentences and long fancy words might seem like they impress but they confuse the reader and leave them dissatisfied and feeling dumb. Make the reader feel smart by writing simply. Ever since humans have sat around camp fires to ward off animals we have told each other stories....

Wandering, wondering in hopeless nights. Out here in the perimeter we have no start! Out here, we are stoned, immaculate. Somehow things never work out exactly how you planned. There are days where everything seems to be working against you. Others were you’re flowing. Just staying there, keeping calm and carrying on, seems to be the way to to.

I’ve been wanting to create a personal space online that feels like mine. Not tied to a big platform, not buried in algorithms. seremot.com is a small site where I can write, explore ideas, and test tools — especially around communication, technology, and AI. It’s built using Hugo and hosted with Cloudflare Pages, keeping things fast, light, and fully owned by me. Let’s see where this goes. Why seremot? That’s easy....