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SS_01/14 -> Notes from Conversas Vadias #1 – Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Maria Elisa Notes from Conversas Vadias #1 Agostinho da Silva in conversation with Maria Elisa Originally broadcast by RTP on 8 March 1990. Available through the RTP Archives. Some conversations become outdated. Others quietly wait for the future. This one feels like… Read more: The Child Was Never the Problem (co-op w/ Agostinho da Silva)

There’s something nobody told you — or they did, but wrapped in so much noise that you didn’t hear it. Rules don’t exist. Not the way they were presented to you. Not as truths. Not as natural laws. Not as the entry fee for being a decent person. They exist as meanings. As perspectives. As… Read more: Rules Are Not True.

When you reach the goal, you feel empty. But we keep setting goals. There’s a session that has become almost religious. You sit down with someone — a coach, a mentor, an enlightened friend — and you run the ritual: where are you, what’s going well, what’s blocking you, what do you want to achieve,… Read more: Setting Goals Is Not the Goal.

At Carnival, at least you’re honest. You know you’re wearing a mask. You chose it. You paid good money for it. And at the end of the night, you take it off. The challenge is the rest of the year. There’s something I notice in myself and in others, and nobody wants to hear it.… Read more: Every Day Is Carnival

There’s something I’ve never been able to forget since the day I was forced to learn accounting. I’m not an accountant. But I had to study it. Read the books, worked through the concepts, and somewhere in the middle of all that I found something that sounds simple but carries real weight: accounting is infinite. There’s… Read more: The output is not the output