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stefanotti's mileage: July 2009
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A collection of experiences abroad for family and friends. Thursday, July 23, 2009. Lessons in Aid Inefficiency: Tech in Liberia. Part of what drew me to Liberia was my interest in understanding best practices in international aid. It's no secret that aid is often inefficient at best and ultimately counterproductive at worst. Unlike others, I do not believe that this unfortunate fact is a justification to throw the baby out with the bath water. It wasn't the sexy answer, but I feel strongly that it's t...
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Urban duality: Contracts or how to avoid a divorce - part deux
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Contracts or how to avoid a divorce - part deux. After a very insightful feedback on the my post from an unexpected source of relationship wisdom and one illuminating comment by a life guru on an actual situation I was going through, I have a few observations to make on marriage and contracts:. 2 - If you focus too much on the details of the contract, you may loose the big picture. Why are you willing to spend the rest of your life with that person? Roughly translated as you do...
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Urban duality: December 2009
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Saturday, December 26, 2009. 8220;Such mechanisms are analogous to the involuntary grace by which an oyster, coping with an irritating grain of sand, creates a pearl,” he writes. “Humans, too, when confronted with irritants, engage in unconscious but often creative behavior.”. From this very good article on what makes us happy. 2009 surely gave me enough pearls to make a necklace. Links to this post. Tuesday, December 1, 2009. Cats in my life. In (kind of) chronological order:. 2 - Os Saltimbancos:.
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Urban duality: November 2009
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Saturday, November 21, 2009. It was a good Thursday. Thanks for dragging me to the concert. It turned a dull day into a Wagnerian experience. Links to this post. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. The strange obsession of faith in life. Last Sunday I went to Milton Nascimento. I have always liked Milton Nascimento but I would hardly consider myself a die-hard fan (as I am a Caetano or Chico Buarque fan). Links to this post. Friday, November 13, 2009. A tender moment in a chilly day. He gives her her skin. He is...
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Laila in Jordan: October 2007
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Thoughts and learnings from my two and a half months in Amman, Jordan, interning with the newest Endeavor office there. Tuesday, October 16, 2007. AaahI have finally entered the blogosphere. Very excited. More to come on finance, venture capital and economic development. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Is the U.S. behind Fethullah Gulen? Aid Watch blog ends; New work on development begins. A passage through India. Obama Posters in Ghana. Agm in Kenya - Jun-Aug '09.
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stefanotti's mileage: Liberian Summer Soundtrack
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A collection of experiences abroad for family and friends. Saturday, August 08, 2009. My brief posting on that one Nigerian hip hop song I've heard a zillion times this summer didn't do the musical redundancy of the last nine weeks one iota of justice. It's not just that I hear the same handful of songs EVERYWHERE I go. Oh no. It's not even just that I often hear the same song three, four, five songs in one night at a restaurant or bar. I even sometimes here some of these gems played ON REPEAT. I have a ...
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stefanotti's mileage: Everyday People
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A collection of experiences abroad for family and friends. Monday, August 10, 2009. Obviously there were others who filled my days: Minister Davis and his staff, our drivers and guards, and of course, the expats who live here who quickly became my friends. Here are their pics as well. Missing the m. Ben calls Andrew "Overenthusiastic Andrew" because he. Has an absurd amount of energy and gets excited about. Everything. He more than anyone took advantage of every. She's a bad ass cook! Miss them miss them!
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stefanotti's mileage: June 2009
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A collection of experiences abroad for family and friends. Monday, June 29, 2009. What's Really Different About Liberia. Before I landed here, I posted a bit about what I’d heard about Liberia: how incredibly poor it is, how people live, how little economic activity there is. Now that I’ve been on the ground for three weeks now (time flies! I can say that much of that was just plain misleading. What makes Liberia different isn’t the poor, it’s the lack of much of a middle and upper class abov...Building ...
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Urban duality: Things I'm not good at
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Sunday, May 30, 2010. Things I'm not good at. 1 - throwing things away. 2 - not gesticulating when I'm talking. 3 - organizing my shoes. 4 - organizing my closet, as a matter of fact. 5 - not smiling. 6 - saying goodbye. Elizabeth Bishop lived in Brazil and in Cambridge, MA - as I did. And she wrote a beautiful poem about losing people and places. The art of losing isn't hard to master;. So many things seem filled with the intent. To be lost that their loss is no disaster. My last, or. Folha Online - Blo...
