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Experiences with Fail Safer28 February, 2015
During the past couple weeks I have been slowly bringing www.failsafer.com [http://www.failsafer.com] to a temporary halt. The whole process is not over yet, but although this halt isn’t meant to be permanent. Fail Safer have been a great entrepreneurial and technological experience in my life, and it pains me to not have the time I wish I could have to get past the beta phase and actually launch and market it. Even though it was a beta release, Fail Safer was already fully functional and it was
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The Innovators - How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution10 January, 2015
This is not the first Biography I've read that was written by Walter Isaacson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Isaacson]. He is a phenomenal writer. The Innovators, I have to admit, didn't impress me as much. The book consists of micro biographies of dozens of personages involved in the advancement of technology since Ada Lovelace [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace]. It is an interesting read, but as a Computer Scientist I was already familiar with all of those personages to the leve
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American Turnaround - Reinventing AT&T and GM and the Way We Do Business in the USA13 January, 2014
After working for AT&T for 44 years, the author found himself with an invitation from the White House to become the chairman of General Motors and help it turn away from his bankruptcy path. Notwithstanding the fact that he knew nothing about cars, he took on the challenge and left after it paid in full it's loans and right before its IPO. Very interesting story, shows how GM management was blind, thinking that the crisis was the only reason why they've got where they were. Nobody there though
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Sending The Singularity University Shield to the Edge of Space06 January, 2014
Based at NASA Research Park [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Research_Park] in Moffett Field, California [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moffett_Federal_Airfield], Singularity University [http://singularityu.org/] is a one of a kind. It was devised with the goal of teaching students about exponential technologies and how to use them to address humanity's greatest challenges. View of Hangar One, the huge dirigible hangar, with doors open at both ends. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Since I first hear
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Thinking Fast and Slow28 December, 2013
Outstanding work from Economics Nobel Prize Laureate Daniel Kahneman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kahneman], on thinking process [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought] and how we miss the logic of things in our everyday decision making [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_making]. The author uses the concept of two minds to explain how our brain makes decision, and how we're prone to succumb to bad decision making in situations ranging from being able to see the reality in optical ill
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The Science of Fear - Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't -- and Put Ourselves in Greater Danger14 December, 2013
The terrorist attacks of 9/11/11 are the perfect example of how fear [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear] can put ourselves in greater danger. After seeing the airplanes hitting the World Trade Center [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center] on the TV, people decided that flying wasn't safe anymore. Instead, they took their cars and drove to their destinations, causing more traffic casualties than the terrorist attack itself, as statistics collected between 9/11/11 and 9/11/12 have show
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Speaking at CEO National Conference 2013 - Technology and Startups08 November, 2013
Last Friday (November 1st) I spoke at the CEO National Conference about how to properly leverage technology [http://www.wikinvest.com/industry/Technology] in a startup. The event happened at the McCormick Place [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.853101,-87.612137&spn=1.0,1.0&q=41.853101,-87.612137 (McCormick%20Place)&t=h], and it was pretty fun! I recorded my presentation, and created a quick video with the slides and the Q&A session at the end. Along with the video below, you'll find an abridge
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Abundance - The Future is Better Than You Think30 September, 2013
We're used to hear about doomsday news every day, and we have literally become accustomed to the "fact" that we are a hopeless generation, that will soon become extinct by either famine, lack of water, a dreadful disease epidemic, terrorist attacks, or something worse. People just don't realize how much better off is the world we live in today than it was a few decades ago, for the most part. Reality is that positive and encouraging news do not sell as much as doomsday news. It is just how our b
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Reality Check - The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition25 September, 2013
This book is surprisingly entertaining, and covers pretty much everything you need to deal with a startup. It covers pretty much all the way from inception of the idea, going through raising capital and marketing, and ending up important subjects like hiring and social responsibility [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_responsibility]. I like it that it is a very sincere book, and that it features several interviews Guy conducted with various professionals in the area. Also like the Fake Steve
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The Innovator's Solution - Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth17 August, 2013
This book's message could be easily summarized by saying that there are only two kinds of companies: the ones that disrupts, and the ones that are being disrupted. There is no middle ground, and companies that have once disrupted, will soon going to be at the loosing side of the game. Christensen and Raynor do an impressive job in bringing up real world example of disruptions, and the common thinking behind the managers in both companies - the disruptor and the disrupted - that led them to ultim
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The Post-American World - Release 2.012 August, 2013
The title may lead you to think that the author is going to picture a pretty chaotic picture for USA [http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&t=h] in the next decade. Not true. In fact, it talks a lot more about the balancing out of power and the rising of developing countries than anything else. Been raised and educated in a developing country [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developing_country], I tend to disagree
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Parkinson's Law02 August, 2013
Quick and easy read. This book is short but full of pearls. Published in 1957, but still very much current when it comes to predicting, understanding, and managing human beings. One of this author's famous quotes is "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Full of interesting anecdotes, it is a very colorful and memorable book. It is not sophisticated, and show some outdated facts and data, but the substance will never be outdated. I recommend!
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