https://omaciel.github.io/tags/origin-story/Recent content in Origin-Story on Og Maciel's JournalHugoen-usMon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://omaciel.github.io/posts/2025-10-20-from-syringes-to-software-my-origin/Mon, 20 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://omaciel.github.io/posts/2025-10-20-from-syringes-to-software-my-origin/<p><img src="https://omaciel.github.io/images/from-syringes-to-software-my-origin.jpg" alt="Cover Image"></p> <p><em>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@cheaousa?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Ousa Chea</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/white-microscope-on-top-of-black-table-gKUC4TMhOiY?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></em></p> <blockquote> <p><em>&ldquo;Sometimes the path finds you long before you recognize you&rsquo;re walking it.&rdquo;</em></p> </blockquote> <p>I didn&rsquo;t plan on becoming a software engineer. In fact, if you had met me as a teenager in Brazil—hunched over one of the many Encyclopedia Britannica volumes we had at home or scribbling chemical equations on scratch paper—I would have told you I was going to cure genetic diseases and start my own research lab in Australia. People from all over the world would fly there to be treated. All <strong>free of charge</strong>. That was the dream. Technology wasn&rsquo;t even in the picture.</p>