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What can the COVID-19 pandemic teach us about project management?

by Michel Cânovas / April 2, 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutes I must confess I’m quite a hermit in terms of my exposition to the news and avoid most of it (maybe I should write about that too), trusting that when something is serious enough somebody will let me know – I will inevitably stumble upon it. If it feels like I should know more about it, I’ll search for the information and use my intuition and common…

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Have you ever stopped and wondered how the Internet works?

by Joana Santos Antunes / March 26, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes You surely know how to google stuff and find information online, and probably how to watch movies and series in a not so lawful way. But do you know how the internet works? And how do websites get on the first page of Google? Firstly, and very shortly, you need to understand that in every search, this is what happens; the client/user has an IP address, a…

Communication Opinion Principles

Expert? Thank you, but no thank you

by Fernando Moreira / March 19, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes Be an amateur. Open your laptop, open the browser and search for LinkedIn on the Internet. What is the most common denominator used in the description of people’s skills? Expert. Everybody is an expert on something, along with other pompous and resonant names that seem to say much but mean nothing. The title expert makes me itchy for various reasons. First, you’re already proclaiming that you are.…

Mental Health Principles Psychology Shared Experiences

How I deal with anxiety in the workplace

by Carolina R. Rodrigues / March 12, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes Imagine the following scenario: you have been feeling nervous ever since you woke up and yet, somehow, you managed to get up, force-fed yourself, took a shower, dressed and went to work. You might think it was a victory in itself, but there you are, seating on the chair, feeling on the verge of a panic attack, freaking out about some deadline or merely struggling with a…

Communication Opinion Project Management Shared Experiences

Why you should feel dumb every day … and act on it

by Joana Santos Antunes / March 5, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes Since my adolescent time, I have had an inside joke with my mother. Every time the other didn’t know a person or fact that we were talking about we said, in the most sarcastic voice ever (almost Paula Bobone like): “my god, illiterate!” and we would laugh out loud. To give you some context about our background, my mother took literature as a high school student and…

Business Development Communication Opinion Shared Experiences

How to make the best of LinkedIn

by João Rodrigues / February 28, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes The beginning Two years ago, when I entered college, I had the perception of LinkedIn as something too corporate and tedious. Thinking back, I had the idea it was just a tool to get a job (maybe out of ignorance). For some reason, I decided to give it a try, and I was surprised. I discovered something very different from “Hi; my name is Scrooge McDuck and…

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Artificial Intelligence, Horror and Boomers

by Jorge Da Silva / February 20, 2020

Reading Time: 6 minutes Why is it that we as a species have such a deep fear for the A.I. uprising? More importantly, where does this fear stem from and what are its implications? All stories need an antagonist and this one is a particularly nebulous one: Artificial Intelligence. But what is it? Artificial intelligence (or A. I. as it is known among the hip crowd) is the concept of man-made intelligence… And…

Opinion Principles Shared Experiences

Responsibility – a written ramble

by João Rodrigues / February 13, 2020

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’ll start this activity with a confession about my feeling of uncertainty regarding a concept named “responsibility”. In the past, I have perceived the following “rules” as a good example of how to be responsible. -You must do your homework. -You must sit down and listen quietly.-You must wear a suit if you are delivering a presentation. (observe that there is a surplus of must and a…

Psychology Shared Experiences

How my hobby became a coping mechanism and later, a career

by Jorge Da Silva / December 13, 2019

Reading Time: 7 minutes Whenever I visit LinkedIn, Medium or any other site with an abundance of articles written by professionals for professionals, I get the feeling that a lot of them seem to purposely miss or ignore a very important point when it comes to your mental health and your workplace. Maybe I’ve been looking in the wrong places. Still, every morning I’m assaulted with notifications of articles like “7…

Psychology Shared Experiences

What if I Had…

by Francisco Ferreira / November 5, 2019

Reading Time: 2 minutes When something in our lives hasn’t gone as well as we expected, we often wonder if we could have done anything differently. What if I had said how I was feeling? What if I had prepared myself better? What if I had noticed earlier? What if I had studied more? What if I had taken the initiative? What if I had left home that night? What if…

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