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Mayo 12, 2008

Comprar felicidad

Si quieres comprar felicidad harás mejor invirtiendo en una experiencia en vez de en una cosa.

Kevin Kelly, autor y fundador de Wired

Vía: Microsiervos

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Mayo 07, 2008

Productividad personal o versión "Alicia en el País de las Maravillas" del GTD de David Allen

Uno de los enfoques o métodos con mayor repercusión mundial en el mundo de la productividad es el de David Allen, el GTD o Getting Things Done. Lo explica Didac Lee de una forma sencilla y comprensible.

Aquí presento otro:

Empieza por el principio, y continúa hasta llegar al fin, allí paras.

Lewis Carroll

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Marzo 03, 2008

Randy Pausch Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

Otra de esas historias que llega al corazón. Randy Pausch es profesor de informática en Carnegie Mellon. Lo mejor es que leais la historia en la Wikipedia y directamente veais el video.

Os dejo con "The Last Lecture".

Sí, soy un soñador. ¿Y qué?

Vía: la familia Rubio Varas (Jose Miguel y Mar)

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Febrero 20, 2008

No te detengas, Walt Whitman

No dejes que termine el día sin haber crecido un poco,
sin haber sido feliz, sin haber aumentado tus sueños.
No te dejes vencer por el desaliento.
No permitas que nadie te quite el derecho a expresarte,
que es casi un deber.

No abandones las ansias de hacer de tu vida algo extraordinario.
No dejes de creer que las palabras y las poesías
sí pueden cambiar el mundo.
Pase lo que pase nuestra esencia está intacta.
Somos seres llenos de pasión.

La vida es desierto y oasis.
Nos derriba, nos lastima,
nos enseña,
nos convierte en protagonistas
de nuestra propia historia.

Aunque el viento sople en contra,
la poderosa obra continúa:
Tu puedes aportar una estrofa.
No dejes nunca de soñar,
porque en sueños es libre el hombre.

No caigas en el peor de los errores:
el silencio.
La mayoría vive en un silencio espantoso.
No te resignes.
Huye.

"Emito mis alaridos por los techos de este mundo",
dice el poeta.
Valora la belleza de las cosas simples.
Se puede hacer bella poesía sobre pequeñas cosas,
pero no podemos remar en contra de nosotros mismos.
Eso transforma la vida en un infierno.

Disfruta del pánico que te provoca
tener la vida por delante.
Vívela intensamente,
sin mediocridad.

Piensa que en ti está el futuro
y encara la tarea con orgullo y sin miedo.
Aprende de quienes puedan enseñarte.

Las experiencias de quienes nos precedieron
de nuestros "poetas muertos",
te ayudan a caminar por la vida.

La sociedad de hoy somos nosotros:
Los "poetas vivos".
No permitas que la vida te pase a ti sin que la vivas...

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Enero 10, 2008

Instrucciones para la vida

Diviértete
No hagas daño a la gente
No aceptes las derrotas
Esfuérzate por ser feliz

Making happy, Life instructions.png

Vía: Microsiervos (vía Reuben Miller)

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Enero 01, 2008

Wear sunscreen - los consejos para el 2008

Ya estamos dentro del 2008, y antes de ir a tomarme esas segundas copas con el grupo, dejo este video aquí. Sin más comentarios. Para que traiga buen rollo al comienzo de año.

Vía: Vida de un Consultor (Vía pensar, sentir y actuar (vía El blog de una indecisa))

Ahi va la historia behind the scene.

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Diciembre 06, 2007

PhD en Liderazgo en 60 segundos

Think back to the best boss and the worst boss you ever had.

1. Make a list of all things done to you that you abhorred.
2. DON’T DO THEM TO OTHERS. EVER.

3. Make another list of things done to you that you loved.
4. DO THEM TO OTHERS. ALWAYS.

Y algunos piensan que el liderazgo es complicado (143.000.000 de resultados en la búsqueda en Google), con consejos así, las cosas se simplifican.

Fuente: Dee Hock, founder of Visa

Vía: The Little Book of Leadership, Phil Dourado

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Noviembre 25, 2007

Las cosas claras para las mujeres

Maravillosa Natalie Wood...

"The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby".

Casi cómo en "Rebelde sin causa" (1955)...

Natalie Wood.jpg

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Noviembre 02, 2007

La soledad y el grupo

Si uno quiere caminar rápido, tiene que ir solo.
Pero si uno quiere llegar lejos, tiene que caminar en grupo.

Proverbio africano

Vía: Nodos en la red

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Septiembre 03, 2007

13 buenos consejos de John Morgridge

Some tips from John Morgridge on the last day of class!

01) Don’t try to do it all by 35

02) Enjoy each job – each stage of life

03) Listen but don’t always be looking – opportunity is random

04) Wait 24 hours

05) Don’t put negatives in writing

06) Learn to forgive – others and yourself – don’t carry baggage

07) Invest in friendships & a good marriage

08) It’s OK to just be a member – to start

09) The art of small check giving

10) Set annual mental and physical challenges

11) Ask questions – be curious

12) Its often more important to do the right thing – than do the thing right

13) Make sure what you want to be is what you want to do

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Junio 12, 2007

Retos...

El día de mi 31 cumpleaños... Creo que ha tardado en llegar menos que el último... Sea lo que sea, me quedo con esta reflexión:

"No malgastes tu vida en problemas pequeños. Encuentra el desafío más grande, el más duro, el más frustrante y golpéalo con todo lo que tengas a mano. Hagas lo que hagas, no te conformes con menos".

Via nodos en la red, Mario López de Ávila.

Pues en eso nos pondremos. Prometido.

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Mayo 08, 2007

Una vida plena según Einstein

Si quieres tener una vida plena sujétala a un objetivo, no a las personas ni a las cosas.

Albert Einstein

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Marzo 24, 2007

Guy Kawasaki, The Art of the Start

Este video es un must. Todo lo que dice Guy Kawasaki es increiblemente interesante y útil. Guy Kawasaki es actualmente inversor de capital riesgo (Garage Technology Ventures), aunque su fama le viene por su pasado como el más famoso evangelizador de Apple (lee aquí una breve historia autobiográfica).

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Marzo 07, 2007

Contenidos de pago

A veces me preguntan si estoy suscrito a algún tipo de contenido de pago. Actualmente, estoy suscrito a dos revistas y a una newsletter de pago.

1. Harvard Business Review (99$ al año, por 12 números de 130 páginas cada uno)
2. If... Revista de innovación de Infonomia (83,50€ al año -IVA incluido, por 11 números al año de 65 páginas cada uno)
3. Making a Life, Making a Living (50$ al año, por 12 newsletters de 10-12 páginas cada una)

En resumen, una inversión (ni de coña lo considero un gasto) anual de 200€. Eso sí, me leo todos los contenidos. Lo considero la mejor manera de estar al día, y recomiendo las tres publicaciones a todo el mundo que esté interesado en estar al día, mediante una "dieta informacional" no muy extensa, y a un coste asequible.

Marzo 03, 2007

Steve Jobs: Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish (Stanford University, 12 junio 2005)

Sin duda alguna, uno de los mejores discursos que he oido nunca. Merece la pena escucharlo y reflexionar sobre las palabras de Steve Jobs.

Se trata del Commencement Adress (discurso de graduación) por parte de Steve Jobs, CEO de Apple Computer y de Pixar Animation Studios, realizado el 12 de junio de 2005 (justito cuando yo cumplía 29 años), en la Stanford University (Jobs nunca se graduó en la universidad).

Para los que lo querais ver con una traducción simultánea en español.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Let me give you one example: Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

Fuente: Servicio de noticias de Stanford University.

Febrero 23, 2007

Todo lo que sueñes, hazlo, Goethe

Hasta que uno se compromete, siempre existe la posibilidad de volver atras; siempre ineficacia.

Hay una verdad fundamental con respecto a todos los actos de iniciativa y de creación; la ignorancia de ella destruye muchas ideas y planes espléndidos.

Esta verdad es que, en el momento en el que uno se compromete, la providencia también se pone en marcha.

Muchas cosas pueden ocurrir que nos ayudan, que no ocurrirían en otras circunstancias.

Toda una corriente de acontecimientos fluyen de la decisión, que pueden servirnos de maneras imprevistas.

Cualquier cosa que puedas hacer o sueñes poder hacer, ¡hazlo ya!

La intrepidez incluye el genio, la magia y el poder.

¡Empieza ya!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enero 20, 2007

Pelea por lo que quieras, Coca Cola

Coca Cola es otro grandes en los anuncios. Me gusta el mensaje: PELEA POR LO QUE QUIERAS.

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Octubre 05, 2006

Be water, my friend - Bruce Lee

Me encanta la idea del rey del Kung-Fu, Bruce Lee.

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