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My Evolutionary Journey

I was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro and balanced flexibility is my super power I was born and raised in #RioDeJaneiro and that in part defines who I am. #DomenicoDeMasi says that #Flexibility is the biggest quality and the biggest flaw in #Brazilians. My #SuperPower is to balance it to be a competitive […]

The constant entrepreneur

The ‘Red Queen’ in ‘Alice through the mirror’ inspired a generation of scientists with the idea that you must run to be able to stay where you are. It was the perfect metaphor for evolution of species. The concept was popularized in Matt Ridley’s science communication book ‘The Red Queen’. Species innovate through random mutations. […]

Trust leads to Trust?

If you’ve ever been to Rio de Janeiro, you’ve most certainly seen the writings of ‘Gentileza’. A prophet for some, a crazy old guy for others, he walked around the city grafting his messages of peace, love and kindness in street walls and viaduct pillars. His moto was: “kindness leads to kindness”. Crazy or not, he […]

Posology

A woman once told me: “What attracts in you, is the same thing that afterwards repels.” It took me a long time to understand what she meant. To explain, I want to tell a story. Once, I went to the Bleu exhibition, by the French artist Yves Klein, reluctant, because it was monochromatic. But it […]

Things you can build on top of layer-1 algorithms

You must remember the Krebs cycle from your biology classes. It is key in the metabolic pathway that convertes food into energy in organisms that respirates. Krebs cycle is unique: it is efficient, reliable, powerful and… beautiful! It was not the first way of extracting energy from chemical compounds to be created (or selected), but […]