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Marilia Coutinho
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Independent scholar, interdisciplinarian, athlete, activist. Substack: @reinventionadventures #FreePalestine
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Construindo um sistema de análise de rede profissional. #rede #networking #desenvolvimentoprofissional #reinvencao

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Reinventando a Coisa das Pessoas
Decifrando a Rede
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December 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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My latest Substack, in which I talk about professional networking.
#socialnetworkanalysis #networking #professionalnetworking #weakties #strongties #community #socialcommunication #reiventionadventures

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Reinventing the People Thing
Figuring out the Network
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December 1, 2025 at 1:59 AM
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Here is my last substack, where I talk about the apparent higher ratio of "neurodivergent" solopreneurs, and what it means to have a communication style that deviates from mainstream. #neurodiversity #autism #entrepreneurs #solopreneur #communication
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The frustrating awareness of communicational outliership
Autistic solopreneurs: why we ended up here and what are our challenges
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November 16, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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How are is society going to deal with the inevitable growth of demand for integrative, tacit knowledge? Are we watching another field emerge and be fenced in?

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The institutionalization of knowledge brokering: reasons to oppose it.
There is a current trend of formalizing the role of knowledge brokers, who traditionally operated in more informal, relational roles, and mostly as consultants, as official positions or organizations....
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November 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Meu último substack, em que eu falo sobre esperança e medo sob a sombra do colapso econômico.
#paciência #envelhecimento #incerteza #esperança #tomadadedecisão #distopia #colapsoeconômico #quedadoimpério #criseeconômica

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Paciência e o Medo da Inação sob a Sombra do Perigo
Os becos sem saída da reinvenção enquanto a distopia se instala
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November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Read my laterst substack, where I talk about patience as the greatest asset to navigate extreme uncertainty while preserving agency, creativity and innovativeness.
#patience #innovation #reinvention #uncertainty #aging

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Patience and the fear of inaction in dangerous times
The pitfalls, stale winds, and dead ends of reinvention as dystopia unfolds
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November 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Read my laterst substack, where I talk about patience as the greatest asset to navigate extreme uncertainty while preserving agency, creativity and innovativeness.
#patience #innovation #reinvention #uncertainty #aging
November 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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1. Este é meu último substack, onde eu falo sobre a avaliação desses dois meses de reinvenção do trabalho dentro de um ano de reinvenção geral. #futurodotrabalho #planejamentodecarreira #quedadoimpério #desintegraçãosocial #reinvenção

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Como Estou Indo Até Agora?
Avaliando a Reinvenção
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October 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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This essay formalizes the Body Alienation concept: the loss of volitional control and awareness that happens when societal and cultural forces restrict our innate movement in childhood. I trace the lineage from ancient mind-body separation to modern sedentary culture.
October 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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This is my last substack, where I talk about life and work reinventions during societal collapse at the epicenter of the economic and political crisis, and how, even that, can be weirdly fascinating.
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How am I doing up to now?
Assessing reinvention
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October 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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This is the second essay in my series on “gym ethnography and sociology” for member retention, conflict resolution, launch of new services, or any other problem that is social in nature, requiring a social diagnosis and solution. #gymethnography #gymsociology #gymconflict #fitness
October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Esse é o capítulo do livro que publiquei há 14 anos a respeito do difícil compromisso entre estética e saúde. Eu cunhei a expressão "Alienação Corporal" então para explicar a origem comum de coisas como a aversão irracional ao exercício, #alienaçãocorporal #performance
October 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Fourteen years ago this was a chapter of a book about the difficult compromise between aestherics and health. I coined the expression "body alienation" then to explain the common origin of things like
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Body Alienation | Marilia Coutinho Training Systems
Fourteen years ago this was a chapter of a book about the difficult compromise between aestherics and health. I coined the expression "body alienation" then to explain the common origin of things like...
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October 20, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Meu último substack, onde eu exploro práticas de "future casting" para planejamento da vida e da carreira. #futurodotrabalho #simulacao #futurecasting

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Imaginando o Amanhã: Futuros Possíveis, Selves Possíveis
Projeção, Simulação e Futurecasting
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October 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Meu último substack, onde eu falo sobre o futuro e sobre a capacidade de imaginar um futuro. #futuro #comportamentodecisório #planejamento #esperança

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Inventando o Futuro, Reinventando a Nós Mesmos
A Linha do Tempo da Vida e a Habilidade Inata de Imaginar o Futuro
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October 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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My social science based argument of why gyms are failing to retain their members #memberRetention #gymEthnography #gymSociology

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Gym ethnography and gym sociology part 1: member retention | Marilia Coutinho Training Systems
My social sciences based argument for why the fitness industry is failing at member retention.
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October 4, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Here is my last substack, where I talk about the human ability to imagine the future, how it is connected with our ability to remember and curate the past, and how both are part of how we build our identities through narrative. #ForeshortenedFuture #Reinvention

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Inventing the Future, Reinventing Ourselves
Life’s Timeline and the Innate Ability to Imagine the Future
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October 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Here is my last substack, where I talk about the human ability to imagine the future, how it is connected with our ability to remember and curate the past, and how both are part of how we build our identities through narrative. #ForeshortenedFuture #Neuroscience #LifespanPerformance #Reinvention
October 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Neste ensaio, eu falo sobre a necessidade das novidades que criam saídas para os impasses e abrem caminhos para se prosseguir, e como criar condições para elas. #serendipidade #cursodevida #carreira #pontodevidara #decisões

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Oferendas à Serendipidade
Pessoas são os motores da novidade
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October 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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There are critical times in life when it seems there is no good response to the challenge we face, no good choice among the ones we see, and we experience a combination of emergency, seriousness, and stuckness. We need Serendipity. #reinvention #serendipity

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Offerings to Serendipity
People are the engines of lifecourse novelty
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September 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Meu último ensaio, em que falo sobre liminaridade, campeonato de powerlifting, transcendência e "lazer sério" (serious leisure). Confiram! #powerlifting #lazerserio #liminaridade #reinvenção

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O Espaço Liminar dos Campeonatos
Passatempo sério, esporte amador e a busca pela transcendência e crescimento
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September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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"He could swear that all the people who screamed as they got up, following his last deadlift, were lifting together with him. It was magical, it was glorious, and it was over."
#aging #transcendence #powerlifting #liminality

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I miss the liminality of meets
Serious leisure, amateur sports and the carving of transcendence and growth
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September 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Aí vai a versão em português do meu último substack. Nela eu falo das metáforas e símbolos dos registros que a gente vai colecionando sobre nós mesmos, e como eles se transformam nas reinvenções.
#envelhecimento #reinvençãoprofissional #reinvenção

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(Reinventando) As Metáforas que nos Movem
Os registros fluidos da nossa construção
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September 17, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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My new essay, where I talk about the metaphors, symbols and nicknames that followed me through life, and I revisit the idea of “reinvention” from a different perspective.
#aging #reinvention #reinventingwork

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(Reinventing) the metaphors we live by
The evolving records of our construction
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September 13, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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1. O hype e o medo em torno da IA dominam a conversa. De um lado, tecno-utopistas projetam um futuro onde quase todo o trabalho e funções sociais sejam automatizados. Do outro, o público teme a desinformação, a perda de empregos e o fim da humanidade.
September 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM