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No, do not write to simplify

by Carolina R. Rodrigues / May 26, 2020

Reading Time: 5 minutes I have been writing ever since I can remember – from journals and class papers to school newspapers – and, after some years of experience and a lot of reading about how to write properly, I urge you to ignore all those articles that say you must simplify your writing. No, you don’t have to stupefy your writing and way of thinking to be read. I started…

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What in the heck is a business developer?

by João Rodrigues / May 12, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello, anyone there? I’m João. I joined Angry Ventures (AV) in January as a business developer. Conceivably you are asking yourself – “wtf is business development? Are you a salesman? The kind of people that pisses off others with GIFs and e-mails?” – I have my own perspective about these questions and I could explain them by writing about what I’ve learned in AV for the past…

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The importance of having a great team

by Rui Andrés / April 16, 2020

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello there. I would like to start by giving you a bit of background about me. My name’s Rui and I joined Angry Ventures’ team a bit over a month ago. For the last eight years, I’ve been freelancing and building my own projects. I used to work mainly alone and with that came the need to learn a bit about everything and a lot of stress…

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Gamification Canvas: finding the right path towards gamification

by Tiago Leão / April 9, 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutes Despite its recent popularity, gamification is not quite new. The term – that refers to the usage of game mechanics in non-gaming contexts – appeared in the mid-2000s, benefiting from those years’ technological development and from the appearance of platforms that used game dynamics to leverage engagement. Old school developers will probably remember when Stack Overflow first introduced the reputation score, a mechanism that rewarded them by merely…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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