Poor guys aren’t supposed to get rich

Having grown in a Third World country, I can relate to your story. I was never really poor for local standards — more like middle class, whatever that meant in Brazil during the 1970s (I can tell, it’s not a lot). But I remember short periods where my father was…

Challenges on teaching kids about storytelling

When I was a kid, I heard friends telling everyone how much they hated Portuguese. I guess it’s the same in other countries: kids may be complaining about having to learn English, or Spanish, or any other language.

Facebook can do better than Free Basics

(and I hope they will)

It’s easy to read this as a purely nationalistic decision of one country against a big corporation. It’s read in the US (particularly on SV) as ‘they don’t want us to do good’. But there’s a whole…

Is it IoT or IxT?

This cryptic question came to me as I was thinking more about what it really means the future of the Internet of Things. In short, area we talking about the Internet of Things, or the Internet versus Things?