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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 …
Read the articleI 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 …
Read the articleThis post is a wrap-up of several excerpts from recent issues of my newsletter. I included articles and reactions to a post that asked to keep business and politics, and social activities separate. It all started some weeks ago, ending September, when Brian Armstrong, Coinbase co-founder and CEO, published an article at the Coinbase blog …
Read the articleLast weekend I published the thirteenth issue of the newsletter, about Coinbase’s mission-focused statement, Pau Gasol’s leadership insights, Facebook Growth, Product Management, Marketers mistakes, Burnout, and other topics.
Read the articleThese thoughts and insights about the offboarding process, about people leaving, and even rehiring them after, were initially included in my last newsletter. Hard times are moments of reflection This pandemic year is very complicated for many companies, and still might be next year. This situation usually ends in a lot of changes, and good …
Read the articleThis post has its origin in the newsletter, where I shared my opinion about the leadership of the GOAT and asked about the same questions about his leadership style and what makes a leader, and also in “The Last Dance” series from Netflix, where we all were able to see the amazing years from those …
Read the articleHonestly speaking, more than a week has passed since COVID quarantine started in Spain and the state of alarm was declared by the government. In this post I’ll try to recap all the takeaways from the first week “locked” at home, not only working but keeping daily habits to stay safe and healthy. Is is …
Read the articleYou may have probably heard about company culture and core values, so today I want to share some ideas about values. This title “values for which hire and fire” is the adaptation of an excerpt from a book mentioned below, and what it means is that you should base your recruitment process following your -company, …
Read the articleWriting a blog takes time and it’s easy to lose the track, lose the commitment, not being constant, run out of ideas, or just to give up #NoExcuses. At some point, I decided to not continue with it (but I kept it). Today I want to write about this new year’s goals. One of them …
Read the article¿Faltan buenos programadores en éste país? Bajo esta premisa, de nuevo se ha reabierto este debate (que nunca se ha cerrado o se ha querido cerrar) a raíz del artículo de Enrique Dans en su columna de expansión después de una conversación con Bernardo Hernández (Google, Tuenti). Realmente no había leído el artículo de Dans, …
Read the articleHace unos días me enviaban el siguiente extracto del libro “Un invierno en Mallorca” de George Sand, publicado en 1842: “…pues hoy como entonces, y en Mallorca igual que en cualquier otro lugar de España, el abuso es todavía el primero de todos los poderes. No obstante, el viajero no oye jamas un lamento, porque …
Read the articleEl viernes 27 de Abril, tuvo lugar la HTML5 DevUp (Developers Conference) en Barcelona organizada por Ideateca, y que tenía como colofón final la entrega de Premios Ideateca a la mejor startup, aplicación móvil, y proyecto HTML5. Lo primero, es de agradecer la organización por parte de Ideateca del evento. Éstas conferencias tienen un enorme …
Read the articleSiempre hay que considerar a la competencia, y no entiendo a aquellos que no lo hacen. Cuando digo considerar, no me refiero a vivir obsesionado por ella. A lo largo de mi experiencia lo he visto en varias ocasiones, argumentando que el target o nicho de mercado es diferente, o simplemente por considerarse mejores de lo …
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