via @sgala… The gentrification of hacking is… well, perhaps a perfect hack. How yuppies hacked the hacker ethos – Brett Scott – Aeon Brett en twitter: @SuitpossumI’m going to stake a claim on the word though, and state that the true hacker spirit does not reside at Google, guided by profit targets. The hacker impulse should not just [...]
Buddhism and the Brain: Mindfulness in Modern Times | Big ThinkI’m very concerned with what I would call a decontextualized — or maybe the proper word would be recontextualized — consumerist notion of mindfulness, where mindfulness is about paying attention non-judgmentally in the present moment. That gets framed in terms of paying attention non-judgmentally in [...]
tampoco dejes de intentar arreglarlo…We don’t realise to what an extent our feelings are guided by our sense of what is normal and of what we should expect from others. We are highly flexible creatures, but with a generally strong desire to fit in. There are many ways we could be living fine – if [...]
Is Remote Working Good For Business?Businesses with remote teams don’t have the luxury of as much face time as others, which is why they have to work harder to create strong cultures. …Culture is about understanding:Your values, vision and aims;The values and personal / professional goals of your team;How every decision helps or harms the [...]
“We believe that U.S. tax policy, as it stands, incentivizes short-term behavior"BlackRock’s Chief, Laurence Fink, Urges Other C.E.O.s to Stop Being So Nice to Investors - NYTimes.com“The effects of the short-termist phenomenon are troubling both to those seeking to save for long-term goals such as retirement and for our broader economy”“innovation, skilled work forces or [...]
Young People Need to Know Entrepreneurship Is Hard - Harvard Business ReviewAfter completing the program, the proportion of students saying they’d like to start a business was down to 85%. Any decline in entrepreneurial ambitions might be seen as cause for alarm, considering the acute need for new-business starts. For the first time in 30 [...]
Ayer leí un artículo sobre la dieta alcalina, la dieta ácida y su relación con el cáncer… Al re-compartirlo en facebook, la red de contactos brindó otras opiniones. El título del artículo que yo leí inicialmente tenía un titular "conspiranóico" perfecto para conseguir visitas, esa es la verdad.Mi mujer me habló que su madre hace [...]
¿Arte sin artistas? – El Correo de Las Indias, David de UgarteLa idea moderna del «artista» nace con el humanismo renacentista. El que hasta entonces había sido un mercader y artesano, dueño y especialista de un saber que se reproducía y producía colectivamente en un taller-empresa, el Arte, empieza a ser considerado «creador». Es decir, un [...]
@jasonfried sparks discussion, like he did years ago with learning from failure is overratedIn part I think he nails it with this new anti-inspirational ;-) post:Do you have to love what you do? by Jason Fried of Basecamp…the comments put a lot of additional common-sensse to his idea.Yes, love is a complex word, let alone [...]
Mi media naranja está en una etapa compleja… licenciada en Bellas Artes el pasado junio (2014), se abre una etapa de definir qué quiere hacer; con increíbles capacidades para la venta (a lo que se ha dedicado profesionalmente muchos años), el arte, el dibujo, la pintura, la escultura, la venta, el 3D, la animación, la [...]