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Finding a little humility this Christmas

December 22, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

In terms of anything spiritual, I normally tell people that my main focus is to take the plank of wood out of my own eye before I attempt to remove […]

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Arrogance Eats Ontology For Breakfast

October 7, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

Wittgenstein ends his notorious Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus with this penultimate proposition (6.54): My propositions serve as elucidations in this way: he who understands me eventually recognises them as nonsensical, when he […]

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In Praise of Globo TV’s Navegador

September 16, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

I just need to start this post by going a little retro, and head back to the UK in 1982, when a geekie 12 year old Simon was watching the […]

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The 3 most important old-school business skills in the new economy

August 25, 2014by Simon 1 Comment

This article has been on my mind for some weeks, and so I thought I would just jot down some thoughts with a view to provoking some ideas in you […]

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This 12 year old Brazilian won a major international fencing match. There is definitely no way you will guess what happened next.

August 24, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

This is 12-year old Brazilian Guilherme Murray. He was playing in the Panamerican fencing championships in a class two years above his own age. He won his game in the […]

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Film Review: The Pilgrimage – The Best Story of Paulo Coelho

August 17, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

This weekend Maria and I went to see the recently released “Não Pare na Pista: A Melhor História de Paulo Coelho” the film biopic of Brazilian author Paulo Coelho. This […]

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The Power of Metaphor and the Limits of Paradigm Shifts

July 28, 2014by Simon 1 Comment

Given that we seem to be living int he age of the paradigm shift, I thought I would mention some thoughts about paradigm shifts, and relate these to creativity, innovation […]

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Goethe on Empirical Observation and Phenomena

July 27, 2014by Simon 1 Comment

I haven’t had much time this last week to blog properly, so I just thought I would offer this fantastic quote from Goethe on his classification of phenomena. The quote […]

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Pode Ser? A Moderately Humorous Deconstruction of Fábio Porchat’s Take on Brazil’s Cola Wars

June 11, 2014by Simon Leave a comment

In my recent article about the Brazilian absurdist comedy of Porta dos Fundos, I mentioned this little ten second sketch called Pode Ser. The ‘pode’ is pronounced ‘podge’ (rhymes with […]

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A British Look at the Brazilian Absurdist Comedy of Porta dos Fundos

June 6, 2014by Simon 9 Comments

While all eyes are on Brazil this month for the world cup, for some time now I have been thinking about what I should write about, since I am both […]

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