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Tiago Loriato

About · Field note 00

Still
building.

I am Tiago—a product engineer and founder interested in the moment an idea stops being hypothetical and begins to stand on its own.

A graphite and watercolour portrait of Tiago at a desk between sketched Rio and London landmarks.
Fig. 01 Two cities, one unfinished notebook

Notes on the maker

I'm obsessed with building. Not shipping — making something exist that didn't before. Understanding how things stand up, and then standing something new up myself. Lego, code, companies — the material changes, the compulsion doesn't.

The best things I've built started with someone saying "that's just how it works." Beautiful systems teach you how they work just by using them — that's the standard. If you have to explain it, you haven't finished building it.

I've done this at every scale — open source protocols, products at Teya, and now from scratch with Awa. The scale changes. The question stays the same: what can I make exist that doesn't yet?

Practice

Product engineering
& co-founder at Awa

Closing the distance between an idea, the people it serves, and the person able to build it.

Instruments

LLMs
mostly
Go
with joy
TypeScript
with discipline
Python
with resentment
Rust
from a distance, with envy

Persistent curiosities

  • Cryptography
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Procedural generation
  • Vexillology

A loose chronology

  1. 01

    First public commit

    The archive begins before the plan does.

  2. 02

    Meets Ethereum

    A new vocabulary for systems, trust, and coordination.

  3. 03

    Rio → London

    A different city; the same appetite for unfinished things.

  4. 04

    Marries <3

  5. 05

    Leaves Teya & starts Awa

    The scale changes. The question stays the same: what can I make exist that doesn't yet?

Things kept nearby

Reading shelf

  1. 01The Lean Product PlaybookDan Olsen
  2. 02InspiredMarty Cagan
  3. 03The Lean StartupEric Ries
  4. 04Amp It UpFrank Slootman
  5. 05Make Something WonderfulSteve Jobs

Watched & remembered

  1. 01Arrested DevelopmentSeries
  2. 02The Office (US)Series
  3. 03Avatar: The Last AirbenderSeries
  4. 0424Series
  5. 05White CollarSeries

The shoemaker honours God not by putting crosses on his shoes, but by making excellent shoes.