While companies were forced to return to the pre-internet world in defense of name and image, the Portuguese state chose to make strides towards a North Korea.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

Today there is no more scarce resource than heads with mathematical reasoning. Petroleum, good or bad, springs from the ground in various corners of the world. But people who know how to think abstractly do not.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

What I do not like is to see illustrious economists say that since the country works harder, then we can increase civil service. I always remember Achilles being fooled by the tortoise.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

Why do so few survive our educational system? Because we protect the national "industry" of "teaching experts" that produce program after program for nothing. A shame.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

Teachers and other civil servants plus professional politicians, who have a direct and concrete interest in the state spending more money on wages, hold 61% the parliament seats.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.

A part of the academic world, particularly the most connected to "humanities", was covered with the most intense ridicule, even those who are used to say that Autoeuropa has no value because it mounts everything.
Opinion article by João Pires da Cruz, Partner and Co-founder at Closer.