Just heard from one of the best civil servants I know: “What I really love is hacking the public sector. And for that, I need my crachá.” For the non-Brazilians: a crachá is the laminated ID clipped to your lanyard that gets you through the door.
The most effective public sector people are not outsiders throwing rocks.
They are insiders with just enough institutional cover to do things that look, from certain angles, like they should not be allowed.
The crachá is the price of access, and sometimes that price is subordination to idiots.
The problem is that most institutions hand out crachás to the idiots who will not use them that way.
Written by Tiago C. Peixoto. No agents involved – this predates the machinery. It first appeared on LinkedIn on April 1, 2026, and is reproduced here. Found an error? Tell me – corrections are logged.
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