Book · 2018 · Co-author
Human Currents
Overlooked Aspects of Migration. A collaborative non-fiction work bringing together six international contributors on the lived realities of moving — between countries, between identities, and between economies.
The Project
Human Currents grew out of a simple observation: most public conversations about migration get stuck on the macro level — policies, statistics, geopolitical pressures — and rarely make contact with the textures of the experience itself. The book is six perspectives on what is actually carried across borders: not just bodies and documents, but professional identities, family expectations, accumulated relationships, and the unfinished questions of who you were and who you're becoming.
My Contribution
My chapters draw on lived experience across Brazil, the Netherlands, Estonia, and Portugal — covering the practical mechanics of building a technology company across jurisdictions, the identity recalibration that comes with leaving one's first country, and the surprising ways professional networks reorganize themselves when geography becomes optional.
The themes I explore in this book — entity-based identity, durable professional reputation across systems, and the gap between formal records and lived reality — are intellectual precursors to the work I now do in agentic commerce and the Universal Commerce Protocol. The questions are the same; the medium has changed.
Why It Still Matters
Eight years after publication, the underlying observations have only become more relevant: remote work has made transnational professional life mainstream, digital nomad visas have proliferated, and the question of how identity is verified across systems (now increasingly by AI agents rather than border officials) has become an infrastructure problem. Human Currents documents a particular moment in that transition.
About the Author
Marcelo Cavic (Marcelo Cavicchioli) is a Brazilian-Italian author and entrepreneur. After contributing to Human Currents, he went on to write Think Like Code, Think Like Purpose, and The Invisible Store. Founder of AISIBLY. Currently based in Dubai.