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- 5 minsIt's hard to tell a nonlinear story in a linear way
I feel that when we talk about ourselves, we do it in a very linear fashion, which is part a byproduct of the mediums we use (you have been reading this text from left-to-right in a up-to-down screen isn't?). My opinion is that this brings some challenges when we try to communicate the complexities of our lives. At least that's something I feel when I try to talk about myself.
Challenge acknowledged, here I'll try to share a bit more of said complexity in my life. And I hope this will shed light onto questions such as "What do you do?", "What have you studied?", "Where do you work?", etc.
Last Resume
When I worked on my previous portfolio, I created a simple interactive widget/app on R to display some of my previous academic and work experiences.
Drag and scroll for perspective. Hover items for more information.
Here we have information about my schooling, work and where I have been in the world from 2013 until early 2018. After that, the level of complexity of the things I do have increased greatly, so I stopped trying to linearize them.
Mapping nonlinearity
When I had to present myself in late 2018, I found a good way to visually communicate more of said complexity through a map of the things I had been doing until then. For that, I built on top of a beautiful piece of art by artist Janaina Mello Landini:
I tried to create a sense of how the things I have been doing lately are interconnected and feedback into each other. This representation does not hold the details of the activities I performed, but it does map well how things developed until that point.
"But what can you actually do?"
I believe proficiency is mostly contextual. Meaning that, given the appropriate context (time, motivation, access, etc), most things can be performed by almost anyone. Personally, this is not to say I can perform everything, but I do try to nurture a polymath spirit.
From Meta
I recognize behavioral patterns with ease
to Patterns
There are patterns that characterize my performance:
- Experimentation is a default approach
- Interaction and communication are important
- Autonomy is very much appreciated
- Activities are taken as processes
- I dislike work poorly done
To Details
- I can create and sustain the field for group interactions and dynamics
- Call it Emergent Facilitation
- I can give life to different types of content
- From writing/filming/interviewing, to editing, to animating
- I can perform Research
- I'm well versed in the scientific method
- Striving to live a qualitative empirically life
- I am familiar with Web-development, Python, R, and Netlogo
- Copy & paste approach
To Examples
Check the Projects section of this website to see some examples what I described above. I'd be happy to provide more information. The Tags page can be helpful too.
Initial Conditions
What is more nonlinear than concluding with the beginning?
My adventure in this planet began in the periphery of one of the largest peripheral cities of São Paulo, Brazil. Growing up in the creative caos of Carapicuíba, I learned a great deal about self-organization and complexity long before hearing about such concepts.
Up until high school, I attended the Brazilian public educational system, which is, unfortunately, one of the worst in the world. Nonetheless, by the age of 15, I was lucky and competent enough to join Sidarta - one of the best private schools in the country - with a full scholarship granted by the ISMART NGO. This marked the beginning of a deep transformation in my life, bringing me access and opportunities never seen in the history of my family.
From then on, I kept on learning and growing through educational scholarships and grants. And I can't help being very proud of them, so I think they deserve to be here as well:
- 2010: ISMART high school scholarship for low-income student
- 2013: English studies scholarship at Cultura Inglesa
- 2014: Partial tuition scholarship for Preparing Global Leaders Academy - Jordan
- Remaining $1800 raised through an online crowdfunding campaign
- 2014: Research scholarship at São Paulo State University
- 2015/16: Full tuition & boarding scholarship at Minerva Schools at KGI
- Renewed for 2016/17
- 2015/: AB-Inbev grant for Brazilian students in the USA
- Renewed for 2016/17
- 2017: Full scholarship for the Capra Course on "The Systems View of Life"
"Today"
All this (and more) brings me to "today", where most of my activities are not intermediated by institutions (call me a free-learner/researcher/practitioner/lancer), and I try to live out my interests and the theories I study. What this means? Well, the answers to this question are constantly changing, given that I have really been engaging with a varied of different activities, travels, studies, and so on.
Reference
I think that this informal "reference" from Dr. Michael Zargham exemplifies what I'm trying to say:
Therefore, I suggest we have a chat so I can tell you what I have been up to lately.
Danilo
fascinated by Emergent phenomena