Tech Leader · Author · Creator
Nuno Valério
Most innovation dies quietly, in a steering committee, with everyone nodding. I've spent twelve years trying to stop that — in pharma, in books, on a channel. Same fight, different rooms.
// currently
reading — the Malazan saga, book 4 of 10. I will finish it before I turn 120.
watching — A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. Leadership without a title — a hedge knight just trying to do right.
rewatching — Star Trek: The Next Generation. Picard is still the greatest leader in fiction.
writing — Fork/Merge, a sci-fi novel I have carried for years.
supporting — Benfica. No negotiations on this.
// also true
· Age 47, and still learning to sit in the Chair.
· The best leadership book is, secretly, a sci-fi novel.
· Will argue the three-body problem is the most underrated metaphor in leadership.
· Has strong opinions about board games. Ask at your own risk.
· Runs on espresso, curiosity, and the occasional existential crisis.
· Polymath at heart, generalist soul — thinks in systems, dreams in stories.
· Keeps an unreasonable number of browser tabs open as a second brain.
· 2 cats, 2 rabbits, an unknown number of fish, and 1 dinosaur.
// one of those facts is false →
It isn't the dinosaur — that one's real. It's the fish: there are none. The tank's been empty longer than I'll admit.
12+
Years in Tech Leadership
4
Books being drafted
20+
Projects Vibecoded
47
Years of Curiosity
01 · About
The story so far
For twelve years I've worked inside Merck Healthcare R&D, in the gap between how we've always done it and how it actually needs to work. That gap is where I live. It's also where most innovation goes to die — quietly, in a steering committee, with everyone nodding.
So by day I do the regulated, careful, grown-up work: AI governance in an industry where being wrong has consequences. And then I go home and write about Picard, about Two-Body Problems or how to earn Trust.
Both are the same job, honestly. I keep asking the same question from different directions — how do you lead something you can't fully control? A team. A model. A self. The Council of Selves, my first book, is drafted and comes out in 2026; I've been carrying it for years, which is a polite way of saying I was probably afraid to finish it. It carries the multiplicity that is part of who I am.
I don't have this figured out. Any of it. I'm 47 and still learning to sit in the chair, my chair. But the thinking happens out loud now, in books on a channel and in a newsletter, where you can watch me get it wrong in public… which is the only way I know it's getting anywhere.
// three child processes — João, Nia, Emmi. The hardest distributed system I'll ever run, and the only one I'd never refactor.
The quick version
01
Tech Leader
Head of Innovation at Merck Healthcare R&D. AI frameworks, innovation portfolios, org effectiveness.
02
Author
Releasing The Council of Selves (2026), while trying to push other manuscripts forward. Writing is the thinking tool I trust most.
03
YouTuber
A channel under my own name, @Nuno.Valerio -- home to Leaders of the Multiverse and Two-Body Problem. Just starting.
04
Father
Three kids: João, Nia, and Emmi. The most complex leadership challenge of all.
05
Portuguese in Germany
Born in Portugal, living in Germany. Bridging cultures, languages, and perspectives daily.
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Builder
20+ vibe coded projects, spanning AI, personal development, content creation, and automation. Building is thinking.
02 · The Channel
@Nuno.Valerio
One channel, more than one series. Leaders of the Multiverse is the flagship; the others orbit it.
Leaders of the Multiverse
Flagship · launching 2026Character analyses that turn into self-leadership frameworks. What Picard, Stark, Gandalf, and Daenerys teach about the battles we fight within ourselves.
Two-Body Problem
Also a video seriesThe paired-thinking practice, on camera. Two minds take on a question neither has cracked — worked in the open until it leaves a usable trace.
Visit 2bp.org ↗More in the forge
ComingGame-design diaries, framework breakdowns, and new series as they take shape. One channel, many threads.
03 · The Practice
Two-Body Problem
The hard problems give up more to two than to one.
Two minds take on a question neither has solved, think it through in public, and leave behind something a stranger can pick up and use. I'm the constant body; the other one keeps changing. Each one is an instance.
Enter 2BP ↗04 · The Studio
The Multiverse Forge
Stories you play. Games you live.
An integrated creative ecosystem where books become games, games become content, and content creates community.
4
Books Launching
4
Games In Dev
2
Apps
3
Workshops
06 · Contact
Let's connect
Speaking, collaboration, media, or just a good conversation about leadership, technology, geekiness, physics, and the future.