JORGE RODRIGUES SIMAO

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Basho

One of the dangers of following a hero is the temptation to emulate them too much instead of walking our own path.

A friend mine quit his job and started his own company when he was twenty-four years old. Five years later he sold out for millions of dollars.

We want to be like him so we try the same thing and go broke. What happened? Is the universe against us? No. We just got confused about the difference between learning from a hero and trying to walk his path.

The path of my friend may have led him to start a company; your path may also lead you on that course, just not at the same time in your life.

We can still learn much from our heroes and the people we admire. Just be aware that their path and time frame may be different from ours. When the time comes for you to start that business, learn a new skill, enter into a relationship, or whatever you’re hoping to do, the experience will be there.

The experience will be ready for you when you’re ready for it. Your timing may be different from everyone else’s.

I know people who got married after knowing each other for only two weeks and then stayed mostly happily married for more than thirty years.

I know people who date each other for years and still can’t decide if they’re ready to commit. My friend made the transition from living in the Midwest to living in New York in months. We each have our own stride and path. And while many of our lessons are similar, each of us is unique.

If we spend our time trying to emulate a person rather than an idea, we’ll at best be an inferior version of our teacher and at worst will never discover our own path.

Their stride will be too long or too short for us, and we won’t learn the true lesson, which is to trust our inner guide. Gautama Buddha found enlightenment while sitting under a banyan tree; Milarepa found it while living as a hermit in a Himalayan cave.

Gaining enlightenment isn’t an exercise in following a person; it’s an exercise in following your heart.

PERSPECTIVAS - A questão da cibersegurança (I) - HojeMacau - 15.11.2019

“One of the main cyber-risks is to think they don’t exist. The other is to try to treat all potential risks. Fix the basics, protect first what matters and be ready to react properly to pertinent threats. Think data, but also services integrity, awareness, experience, compliance, and reputation.”

Stephane Nappo

O uso do ciberespaço por governos, empresas e indivíduos para facilitar e acelerar todos os tipos de actividades, levou à expansão global de redes cibernéticas em um período de tempo relativamente curto. Ainda que os especialistas em cibernética tenham advertido repetidamente, que as muitas vulnerabilidades inerentes e existentes em dispositivos e redes não foram resolvidas, nem podem ser adequadamente geridas para garantir a segurança das redes, têm sido amplamente ignoradas ou minimizadas. O aumento no número e na magnitude dos ataques, significa que a maioria dos formuladores de políticas está ciente da ampla gama de problemas associados à cibersegurança.

PERSPECTIVAS - A questão dos resíduos sólidos - HojeMacau - 08.11.2019

“Climate change impacts are only one of a number of environmental impacts that derive from solid waste management options. Other impacts include health effects attributable to air pollutants such as NOx , SO2 , dioxins and fine particles, emissions of ozone depleting substances, contamination of water bodies, depletion of non-renewable resources, disamenity effects, noise, accidents etc. These environmental impacts are in addition to the socio-economic aspects of alternative ways of managing waste. All of these factors need to be properly considered in the determination of a balanced policy for sustainable waste management, of which the climate change elements are but one aspect”.

Waste Management Options and Climate Change

Alison Smith, Keith Brown, Steve Ogilvie, Kathryn Rushton and Judith Bates

O rápido crescimento da população mundial, o aumentar permanente dos padrões de vida, e os vastos avanços tecnológicos estão continuamente a ampliar a variedade e a quantidade de resíduos sólidos. A geração de resíduos sólidos urbanos, simultaneamente com a elevada percentagem de resíduos orgânicos presentes nos resíduos sólidos e o seu descarte, muitas vezes incorrecto, resulta em extensa poluição ecológica, baseada principalmente na emissão de gases que como o metano (CH4) e o dióxido de carbono (CO2). Devido a esta ameaça ambiental, as autoridades municipais são actualmente instadas a implementar soluções técnico-económicas e políticas de maior eficiência para gerir o crescimento de grandes quantidades de resíduos sólidos urbanos.

PERSPECTIVAS - A opressão digital - HojeMacau - 01.11.2019

“When there is oppression and dictatorship, by not speaking out, we lose our dignity”.

Asma Jahangir

Os Estados globalmente preeminentes tendem a moldar o mundo de várias formas. Obviamente, fazem de maneira bastante directa através das suas actividades geoestratégicas, mas o fenómeno vai muito além e de propósito ou por acidente, tais Estados exportam os seus acordos internos para todo o sistema internacional. Os efeitos políticos, económicos, sociais, culturais e legais globais desse processo são profundos. A preeminência global britânica e depois a americana é responsável pelo facto de que é a língua inglesa ter acabado por ser a língua internacional do planeta, não o francês ou o alemão.