Finding a little humility this Christmas
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 […]
Category Archives: Opinion
How Tackling Envy is Key for Leaders in the New Economy
If you were to ask me who my roles models are in life, the first two names to come to my mind would be Fritjof Capra and Otto Scharmer. There […]
Arrogance Eats Ontology For Breakfast
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 […]
In Praise of Globo TV’s Navegador
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 […]
The 3 most important old-school business skills in the new economy
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 […]
This 12 year old Brazilian won a major international fencing match. There is definitely no way you will guess what happened next.
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 […]
Film Review: The Pilgrimage – The Best Story of Paulo Coelho
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 […]
The Power of Metaphor and the Limits of Paradigm Shifts
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 […]
Goethe on Empirical Observation and Phenomena
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 […]
Pode Ser? A Moderately Humorous Deconstruction of Fábio Porchat’s Take on Brazil’s Cola Wars
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 […]
