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Communication Psychology

Behind the (not so) new “powerful speeches”

by Bernardo Santos / February 8, 2019

A few months ago, when I was attending one of my university courses, I was challenged to write an article. It should be related in some way with “speech techniques” and “powerful speeches”. Around that time, coincidently or not, I had bought a book called “The 48 Laws of Power”, by Robert Greene. If you haven’t heard, it is a highly controversial – even immoral -, book. I thought it would be interesting if I used that book to analyse…

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Shared Experiences

Double Life: work and study at the same time

by Carolina Martins / January 18, 2019

If you’re thinking about working while still studying, but you wonder about you’ll be able to handle it or not, It all started in the month of April of the year 2018. At that time, I planned to finish my studies in Computer Science and then launch myself into the job market. Usually, I do not like to think about tomorrow, but that was sort of the expected way. However, when least expected, came an opportunity, a new challenge. And…

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Shared Experiences

Why I don’t make New Year’s resolutions anymore

by Carlota Gregório / January 4, 2019

Every year, on the 1st of January, as millions of people around the world, I would write down a list of resolutions for the year. Of course, my list would ALWAYS include something as “Lose 10 kilos in 3 months”. Besides being stupidly unreachable, I would only work out during the first two weeks of the year and then forget about the resolution. And as the majority of those people, I would get to the end of the year without…

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Shared Experiences

“It’s the environment, stupid”

by Raquel Nascimento / December 20, 2018

I procrastinate a lot. I’m sure lots of people do and believe there is nothing they can do about it. I admit it sometimes seems uncontrollable, as many things we do and think in our life. It seems to be in our genes and therefore there is nothing we can do to overpower it. I’ve recently read a book called “The Biology of Belief”, written by a cell biologist called Bruce Lipton, that really opened my mind to how we…

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Communication Principles

Principles. The Angry Principles.

by Fernando Moreira / December 7, 2018

Forget Mission, Vision, Company Culture or Company values. Principles are the answer. In the year 2017, I was invited to be the keynote speaker at a conference held by iMatch and Mini, called NewCo, which has the following intention: NewCo connects people with business through events, media, and unique partnerships. It identifies, celebrates and connects the engines of positive change in society. I decided to bring a theme to this speech that has been following me since the creation of…

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Design Software Development

Why you should create a website from scratch

by Joana Costa / November 22, 2018

Throughout the years, anytime someone reaches me with the intention to create a website, a question always comes up: “Should I have a customized website, or should I go with a template?”. Well, what’s the big difference after all? From my point of view, having a customized website is like designing a doll with no shape, clothes or color restrictions – you get to create any doll at your taste and criteria. On the other side, building a website on…

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Business Development

We are bananas

by Fernando Moreira / November 16, 2018

When I was young, it was very common for any other kid to call me “banana”. Where I’m from, the north of Portugal, it is very common to tell someone they’re a banana if you want to offend them. You’re a Banana. Why? Why do we do that? Where did it come from? Why do they call me banana, and no pear? Why I am called a banana and not an orange? My intention for this blog post is to…

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Shared Experiences

Life is a marathon, not a sprint

by Tiago Miguel / November 8, 2018

This idea was originated when I was asked to make a blog post regarding the summer internship I did during at Angry Ventures. But rather than speaking about the technical parts and the obvious bits, I chose to go for what you don’t see and why you should do a summer internship rather than using the summer to rest. The experience from the internship was more than I could expect since I’ve grown professionally and as a person. I had…

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Business Development Communication

The magic of Rapport

by Francisco Ferreira / October 25, 2018

We have all come across with people with whom we create an immediate connection – this is called Rapport. Most of the time this is how our friendships start and evolve. I’m sure you had at least one situation in which you talked for hours with someone and time went by so quickly! The opposite too, I suppose. We will find common ground through empathy. That is important to create relationships and develop bonds. Overall, the output of rapport should…

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Shared Experiences

Are we aware of how a small change on something, can impact our entire life?

by Dário Carrasquinho / October 11, 2018

Have you heard about the butterfly effect? The butterfly effect is the term to refer to the dependence on the initial conditions inside the Chaos Theory. The Chaos Theory, basically, is nothing more than a rule that involves everything in nature, that considers all data to be in correlation, no matter what. Edward Lorenz and the Discovery of the Butterfly Effect The unpredicted result that Lorenz (meteorologist and pioneer of Chaos Theory) produced with his weather model due to…

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