I have been reading some interesting books recently. One of them was Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson from Wired magazine. The book is about all these business models that are created around free, especially on the internet and in digital form. Free is possible because the costs of digital goods in the digital era of the internet are very close to zero. I got this book from Amazon.
Last weekend we had a small family celebration for Anna’s birthday. Thomas was just recovering from a chickenpox so the main celebration had to be cancelled. Gabi, grandma Elizabeth, grandpa TarcÃsio and I gave the kids some toys.
Here is a photo of Anna on daddy’s lap with her first doll.
I have mentioned that I was studying for the Citizenship test. So this past week I finally took the test. Apparently there is a lot of people that want to do the test so the next available day when I went to book it was 3 months away.
The test is really easy. I have read the book twice and I got 19 questions right out of 20. The only questions that I got wrong was about the Mabo decision.
Latelly I have been thinking about the idea of share knowledge without expecting any financial reward. Like on the old days of school where your friends would ask you about a subject that they knew you know better than them, and you wouldn’t even think about money and would give them a private class.
So I realized that if you legitimatelly teach someone without excepting anything back, you have a good chance of get something back, and when you do that over and over again, with more and more people, the rewards will start coming on your way and will surprise you.
Last 15th of June I turned 32. Unfortunately I haven’t got any picture of my birthday celebration at home to show you. But Tati and Matthias came with Thomas and Anna and we had a delicious chocolate cake that Gabi made for us. (As Thomas says: “Thank you tia Gabi!”) They sang Happy Birthday To You to me and Thomas helped me to blow the candles.
I snapped this picture the other night with my mobile of the Sydney Opera House. This is part of an event that is happening in the Sydney Opera House called Luminous.
