segunda-feira, novembro 29, 2010 David Barradas 0 Comments

"The best advice on gift-giving, therefore, is to get something that someone really wants but would feel guilty buying otherwise." (Dan Ariely)

quarta-feira, novembro 24, 2010 David Barradas 0 Comments

To run an antelope to death, Lieberman determined, all you have to do is scare it into a gallop on a hot day. "If you keep just close enough for it to see you, it will keep sprinting away. After about ten or fifteen kilometers’ worth of running, it will go into hyperthermia and collapse." Translation: if you can run six miles on a summer day then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the animal kingdom. We can dump heat on the run, but animals can’t pant while they gallop.
Chris McDougall, Born to Run

PS Just came from S.Paulo. Always good. A little bit expensive. A dinner for 3 in my favourite Jap restaurant(JAM) goes for 450 reais without wine (65 euros for person). A night in the Sofitel in Guarujá could go up to 1,900 reais (ask price). There is no crisis in Brasil. Business is good.
Salaries are much greater than what we pay for a similar position in Portugal. But if you go there you spend all the money in a house.
I did a Bike ride with a group called Ovavo Bikers Sunday morning in S.Paulo. No traffic and ok weather. We did 48km in 2 hours with a big group.

PS1 The book Born to Run is one of the best i ever read.
Takes from the book. If you run with no shoes (no Nikes) there are no injuries and you run faster. If you eat like a poor person you don't go to the doctor. How did man kill animals before inventing the bow and the arch? You just run the animals to death. Man can run longer than any animal on the planet. You can be a high performance athlete without eating meat. This book was offered to me by a NY friend. I thank him deeply for the book.

http://transpirando.com/2009/10/07/livro-born-to-run-a-maior-corrida-que-o-mundo-nunca-viu/

quarta-feira, novembro 03, 2010 David Barradas 0 Comments

Ironically, while many of us have been
concerned about banks being too big
to fail, the financial crisis has resulted
in mergers and a further concentration
among big banks. At the end of 2009,
the world’s 10 largest banks accounted
for 70% of global banking assets, up
from 59% three years earlier.

Gary Shilling

PS Regulation is a joke and usually its after the fact. We need to go down and start from zero. people need to believe again that Goverment can't produce or give anything. you have to get what you want.

terça-feira, novembro 02, 2010 David Barradas 0 Comments

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.
Andrew Carnegie