About - SOAK

Hi, I’m Danny.

I'm an online writer, community builder, and freelance ghostwriter.

What’s up with Me?

After a couple of years of randomly publishing on the Internet, I joined David Perell’s Write of Passage in 2021, an online writing course that completely changed my life.

Since then, I’ve had the chance to collaborate with incredible writers and creators in different roles:

Active Write of Passage community member since 2021
Community Manager for online courses
Mentor on the 13th Write of Passage cohort
Host weekly Zoom sessions for writers (Writing Gyms) since November 2024

Born and raised in Portugal, I now proudly call myself a citizen of the internet, where I aim to make a difference, one sentence at a time.

What Is SOAK?

SOAK is my take on life, relationships, human interactions (and occasionally inhuman ones), personal growth, reflective moments, and poorly elaborated jokes. All of these are part of the SOAK experience.

My goal is to entertain you, bring a smile to your face, and maybe even spark some breakthrough ideas from my essays.

Readers have called my work “funny,” “hilarious,” and “dumb.” Some of those comments even came from my own home. That’s what I get to make my family subscribe.

As we’re at it, have you subscribed yet? Don’t miss the chance to add your own original adjective to the list!

Why Subscribe?

Subscriptions show me if my work is making a difference in somebody’s life, and that’s the biggest reward I can ask for (besides 💵💵, obviously.)

Speaking of which, if you get value from my work and you can afford to upgrade to a paid subscription, that would be spectacular!

For full transparency, here’s how revenue from Substack will be applied (in this order):

To feed my cats and my dog.
To feed my son (don’t worry, he’s well-fed and has plenty of relatives to turn to if needed—my pets don’t).
To pay for all the services that I use for my writing, including a few paid Substacks that I support (it’s called “market research”, ok?).
To take my lady ~~to a nice restaurant~~ on vacation to thank her for all the work she does while I sit at my desk writing. (Edited due to my overvaluing of dining out…).
To quit my day job and write full-time.
To buy an island, fill it with cats and dogs, feed them (and my son), install top-notch WiFi, hire a chef for gourmet meals, write full-time, send handwritten Christmas cards to every paid subscriber, and watch my lady happily surrounded by pets on the beach.

Not Sure if You Should Subscribe?

Stick around for a couple of weeks and see for yourself. If you learn something new or catch yourself smiling more than usual while reading, I’d say that’s a pretty good sign.

Need a starting point? Check out some (soon-to-be) world-acclaimed essays I’ve written: