Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
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Camilo Moreno-Salamanca
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Diego Saez Gil: The Zen Tree Hugger - Piece profiling the CEO of Pachama, Diego Saez Gil
“In his own variation of Eat, Pray, Love, Diego went to the Amazon and spent time in a Buddhist Monastery in Thailand. It was in the Amazon that Diego observed deforestation first hand; the scene left an indelible impression.
The pieces of a dreadful puzzle
... See moreBut one source of Trump’s success may be that he is an avatar of the all-tribe, no-village style of performative confrontation. He stokes out-group animosity, and speaks to voters who are furiously intolerant of political difference.
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
“In design meetings with developers and architects, you have to assure everybody that there will be space for a wall-mounted flatscreen television in every room,” he said. “It used to be ‘Let’s make sure our rooms have great light.’ But now, when the question is ‘How do we give the most comfort to the most people?,’ the answer is to feed their... See more
Derek Thompson • The Anti-Social Century
Beauty = Permanence + Purpose
From Interintellect talk
These examples show that in different contexts Colombian politicians apply different standards and rules of behavior. Sometimes, when nationally advocating for sound economic policy or the Vic -tims’ Law, they appeal to universal principles. At other times, when involved in peripheral politics, they apply much more parochial standards. That people... See more
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Dissecting the Dissector - A piece profiling Cole Cuchna creator of the Dissect podcast
“I didn’t move an inch for the next 78 minutes. No work got done. When the psychedelic notes of Wesley’s Theory penetrated my conscience, I was covered in goosebumps and possessed by the verses. I don’t remember many moments of sustained, enraptured attention in
... See more“A young woman I’m very fond of said to me: it’s always a problem with men, I’ve had to learn not to overdo. She meant that she had trained herself not to bee too beautiful, too intelligent, too considerate, too independent, too generous, too aggressive, too nice. The “too” of a woman produces violent male reactions and , in addition, the enmity of
... See moreBeauty is in the eye of the beholder for human-made things. But natural things may be objectively more beautiful.