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By Bernardo Filipe / October 13, 2025

On May 18th, 2024, I went for a run. Jogged a bit, climbed some stairs, and did one incline sprint. The whole thing lasted at most 20 minutes, but it was intensive enough because I hadn’t gone for a run in several months. A couple of hours later, a massive meteor shows up in Portugal and turns night into day for two seconds. Less than a day later, a helicopter carrying the president of Iran crashes. It’s as if this atypical run of mine destabilized the universe and caused these unusual events to unfold. And it was not only the meteor I mentioned above that synchronized with my actions. Shortly after I started writing the draft of my Thoughts, the interstellar interloper Oumuamua was detected. And a month or so before I finished this first draft, the interstellar comet Borisov was observed. And a couple of months after I finished my draft, COVID-19 was released into the wild and caused global lockdowns shortly after. And I already mentioned the Storm of the Century. And the Bernardinelli-Bernstein comet. And of course, right before I finished my book, the crypto market crashed and we witnessed the biggest liquidation event in history. Over 19 billion USD liquidated in a single day. A market bloodbath. I give you cool thoughts and you give me cool signs, and we keep living our lives and the world keeps spinning. After I finished my book, I celebrated with my cousins and friends with a light philosophical supper. Pizza and beer. Going full circle.