Writing since 2012

Notes on technology,
leadership and life.

A quiet archive of ideas, lessons and personal reflections by David Viñuales.

Discover Your Inner Saboteur and How to Handle It

Last December, I started a coaching series, and while I was doing my introspection analyzing my behavior, my coach introduced me to the idea of my inner saboteur. What if I told you that you’re awesome, but there’s a high probability that you have forgotten about it, about your true self, your true potential. This […]

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New Year’s Resolutions for the long-awaited year 2021

Today is January 1st. It is time to review what happened last year and set the next year’s goals. Following last year’s post structure, I will review 2020’s new year’s resolutions, and then I will commit to the new ones. In the 24th issue of the newsletter, the one previous to this post, I also […]

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Coaching and Situational Leadership: Adapting Your Style

This post was originally included in the 24th issue of my weekly newsletter. If you find it interesting, maybe you’d be interested in subscribing. If you were asked which leadership style was the best, what would you answer? I already looked for an answer to this question in a post about leadership styles months ago. And this […]

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Ethical Issues at the Brain of Google: The case of Timnit Gebru

I started this post in my newsletter last week, but I decided to move it here because of its length. Weeks ago, Timnit Gebru, AI Ethical team co-lead and researcher, ended her collaboration at Google Brain. As a very summarized version, the story starts when Dr. Timnit Gebru and other colleagues sent a paper for […]

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The Risk of Group Polarization. We Are Better Together

Political and group polarization was the starting topic in my last newsletter (issue number #18). Not focused on politics, but I found it interesting to read and write a little about polarization in groups. In politics, as in companies, or any group of people, polarization and extremism can appear when like-minded people join, and it […]

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