Networks of trust

When I was a kid, there was this advertisement on TV. Gerson de Oliveira, the outstanding soccer player from the Brazilian national team that won the ’70 world cup, asked the audience “Do you like to take advantage?” while explaining why they should buy a particular brand of cigarettes. Many years later, the advertisement became notorious. […]

Can you see it?

Once I heard on a radio show a journalist saying that If our brains were simple enough for us to understand it, we wouldn’t be capable of understanding it! Unfortunately I don’t remember the name of the journalist, neither the radio show, nor the context. Not even how old I was. I do remember I […]

Fix poverty and the environment will fix itself

I first read about Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in Matt Ridley’s book the Rational Optimist. I was impressed. The correlation between per capta income and quality of the environment was a definitive argument of the environmental footprint of poverty that I, being born in Rio, have always known of. Poor land use, lousy water and energy […]

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 […]