Por fin, y después de mucho tiempo, y con un poco de renombre en su tarjeta de visita, alguien de este país dice algo con el sentido común suficientemente proporcional a la importancia de lo que se trata, sin crucificar a nadie y sin decir la palabra TERROR o SGAE asociada... y se dice acerca de los derechos de los usuarios de Internet sin tener que llevar una Letra Escarlata a cuestas impuesta por algunos que lo que quieren es seguir viviendo del cuento...
Derechos de Autor. No pasa nada. Podéis bajar lo que queráis del eMule. Pero no lo vendáis.
(aplausos en la sala en ese momento)
– Jorge Martín Jefe del Grupo de Seguridad Lógica de la Brigada de Investigación Tecnológica de la Comisaría General de Policía Judicial durante su ponencia en el Congreso de Webmasters
sábado, 17 de noviembre de 2007
U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
... One of the best !!! ... ever...
I want to run I want to hide I want to tear down the walls That hold me inside I want to reach out And touch the flame Where the streets have no name
I want to feel sunlight on my face I see the dust cloud disappear Without a trace I want to take shelter from the poison rain Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name We're still building Then burning down love Burning down love And when I go there I go there with you It's all I can do
The city's aflood And our love turns to rust We're beaten and blown by the wind Trampled in dust I'll show you a place High on a desert plain Where the streets have no name
Where the streets have no name Where the streets have no name We're still building Then burning down love Burning down love And when I go there I go there with you It's all I can do Our love turns to rust We're beaten and blown by the wind Blown by the wind Oh, and I see love See our love turn to rust We're beaten and blown by the wind Blown by the wind Oh, when I go there I go there with you It's all I can do
Wake me up when september ends... Summer have come and past... the innocent can never last...
Has become one of my favorites lately....
Wake Me Up When September Ends Lyrics (Green Day)
Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Wake me up when September ends
Like my fathers come to pass Seven years has gone so fast Wake me up when September ends
Here comes the rain again Falling from the stars Drenched in my pain again Becoming who we are
As my memory rests But never forgets what I lost Wake me up when September ends
Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Wake me up when September ends
Ring out the bells again Like we did when Spring began Wake me up when September ends
Here comes the rain again Falling from the stars Drenched in my pain again Becoming who we are
As my memory rests But never forgets what I lost Wake me up when September ends
Summer has come and passed The innocent can never last Wake me up when September ends
Like my fathers come to pass Twenty years has gone so fast Wake me up when September ends Wake me up when September ends Wake me up when September ends
Hace unos meses un amigo me comentó acerca de un video de un discurso de Steve Jobs (Apple's CEO) que le contaba algo acerca de ir "juntando los puntos", de como fue la vida de este genio y como fue encajando una cuestión tras otra hasta convertirse en lo que es actualmente, sin que el caminio fuera fácil.
Entré en YouTube y lo vi, me pareció genial, incluso liberandome de pensar de quien venía el discurso. Luego lo ves otra vez, y piensas lo que dice, te miras a ti mismo, miras a la otra persona quien lo cuenta y dices... por que nos comparamos... todos aprendemos mientras caminamos... simplemente genial. Y sí es verdad... los ricos también lloran... hay que aprender de las lecciones que muestra en sus diferentes historias de su vida, de su camino, pero una que destaco entre todas, es que yo no quiero aprender cuando te enfrentas a la muerte como él lo hizo...
“Si hoy fuese el último día de mi vida, ¿querría hacer lo que voy a hacer hoy?” Y si la respuesta era “No” durante demasiados días seguidos, sabía que necesitaba cambiar algo.
Yo quiero aprender ahora... y para ello, hoy es hoy... mañana es otro día.. que voy a hacer hoy ???
Un par de perlitas del discurso de Mr. Steve Jobs...
Tenéis que encontrar qué es lo que amáis. Y esto vale tanto para vuestro trabajao como para vuestros amantes.
Como en todo lo que tiene que ver con el corazón, lo sabréis cuando lo hayáis encontrado. Y como en todas las relaciones geniales, las cosas mejoran y mejoran según pasan los años.
“Si hoy fuese el último día de mi vida, ¿querría hacer lo que voy a hacer hoy?” Y si la respuesta era “No” durante demasiados días seguidos, sabía que necesitaba cambiar algo.
Porque prácticamente todo — las expectativas de los demás, el orgullo, el miedo al ridículo o al fracaso — se desvanece frente a la muerte, dejando sólo lo que es verdaderamente importante. Recordar que vas a morir es la mejor forma que conozco de evitar la trampa de pensar que tienes algo que perder. Ya estás desnudo. No hay razón para no seguir al corazón.
Vuestro tiempo es limitado, así que no lo gastéis viviendo la vida de otro. No os dejéis atrapar por el dogma — que es vivir según los resultados del pensamiento de otros. No dejéis que el ruido de las opiniones de los demás ahogue vuestra propia voz interior. Y lo más importante, tened el coraje de seguir a vuestro corazón y vuestra intuición. De algún modo ellos ya saben lo que tú realmente quieres ser. Todo lo demás es secundario.
Seguid hambrientos. Seguid alocados.
Un link al video y abajo el texto literal... y sin traducir para aprender inglés... (texto traducido)
Stanford Report, June 14, 2005
'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says
This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.
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 returned 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 others' 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.
Aunque a mi si que me gusta la trilogía de Star Wars y todo lo que gira al rededor.. creo que es una frase que muchas veces he utilizado, y que he llegado incluso a incluir en mi libro de "fracesillas hechas", ese que viaja con toda persona y que tenemos en el subconsciente próximo y coloquial, que usamos muchas veces, pero que realmente, no siempre por lo menos, pensamos lo que significan... esta es una de esas frases.
Do It, Or Do Not, But Don't Try...
Hazlo, o no lo hagas, pero no lo intentes...
Os dejo un artículo que leí no hace muchos días y que, me parece que hace un buen análisis de algunas de las cuestiones que encierra la frase en cuestión...
No empieces si no lo vas a terminar, por lo menos de tu lado. Implicación Convencimiento Perseverancia Aquí y ahora Cuerpo, mente y alma en el mismo lugar y tiempo
A pesar de que no me gusta La Guerra de las Galaxias hay una frase que me marcó: "No. No lo intentes. Hazlo, o no lo hagas, pero no lo intentes". No tanto porque la dijeran en la película sino porque Jordi me la escribió en el estuche de 2º de BUP y me quedó grabada.
Últimamente me guío un poco por esa frase. No valen las medias tintas. Nada de estar pensando que como no sé si voy a conseguirlo o si servirá de algo ir tanteando el terreno e invirtiendo trozos de tiempo que puedo acabar perdiendo. O pensar que si en un tiempo puede acabarse no merece la pena el tiempo vivido y quién sabe, ¡quizás lo disfrutes más de lo que inicialmente creías! ¡Hazlo!
Por otra parte es un poco la filosofía de que nadie puede soportar algo desagradable eternamente y la simple idea de pensarlo es algo que puede matarnos. Sin embargo sí que podemos vivir un día tras otro con una pena enorme, algo extremadamente desagradable o un esfuerzo físico muy importante siempre y cuando nos limitemos a trabajarlo durante ese día. Mañana será otro día que deberá ser afrontado con la misma filosofía.
Aunque esté muy gastado, es dar el 100% de ti en cada momento. Tener la mente en lo que tu cuerpo está haciendo. No vivir pensando en el pasado o en el futuro. Es una pena gastar tanta energía en algo que no está sucediendo y perderse tantas cosas que SÍ están ocurriendo.
Un día vi una peli de dibujos que era muy chula, The Three Amigos y lo digo no por empezar a tirarme el rollo, sino porque me lleva a introducir las tres cuestiones por las que inicialmente me he planteado escribir en este Blog, mi Blog... que lo digo y no lo creo, pero creo que me va a servir como herramienta en este caminar de la vida...
Los tres amigos serán tres pilares que en mi opinión deben ser fundamentales en la enseñanza de las escuelas, sobre todo en las escuelas de negocios.
1. La tecnología, y para empezar huyo de emplear términos preciosos para los oidos, como Sociedad de la Información, Sociedad del Conocimiento, Sociedad de las Nuevas Tecnologías... Lo dice una persona que de niño destripaba todos los juguetes para ver como eran por dentro, los analizaba, se quedaba boquiabierto y luego los volvía a montar. Pero de grande empezó a desmontar cada vez menos y a ver diferentes piezas del LEGO de diferentes formas y colores y a preguntarse, para que servían si las juntába de una u otra forma...
2. La Gestión de Empresas, pero entendida a la moderna, con sus escuelas, tendencias y modas, que a día de hoy siguen las pautas de lo que se usa el término o tendencia de Innovación, término que aparece hasta la saciedad en todos los ambientes y entornos. Yo no creo que sea tan nuevo lo de innovar, ya lo decía Henry Ford en su día cuando decía que "Ford tiene el coche que usted quiere... siempre que sea negro o blanco"... pero si que el término esconde en su interior algo de superación en el mundo empresarial para querer hacer las cosas diferentes, hacerlas mejor, que nos lleve a dedicarnos a hacer mejores cosas... llevándonos a la competencia de la superación, sin la cual a día de hoy en el que estamos a distancias de clicks, no de unidades de tiempo de cualquier lugar, no llegaríamos a ningún lado... o es que nadie ha escuchado/dicho la frase de "es que está todo inventado" en los últimos 15 días... Aquí es donde crucé el puente de la técnica a la no técnica, ya digo yo a veces que soy un "rara avis", ya que cuando veo piezas de LEGO veo soluciones a problemas y necesidades de empresas y personas... no veo siglas y diseños complejos, sino veo las cosas haciendose más fácil, más sencillo, mejor... y sobre todo veo haciendose mejores cosas.
3. El crecimiento personal ya que como ingeniero y MBA, en la universidad y en la escuela de negocios, me enseñaron y formaron únicamente en las artes de la ciencia intelectual (conocimiento intelectual), y no en las artes emocionales y personales (inteligencia emocional), y es por eso que veo una carencia de este elemento en nuestra dieta lectiva desde niños, que por suerte, y algunos como yo con ayuda de los seres queridos, consigue despertar su curiosidad y hacen suyo lo de "sólo se, que no se nada" y por eso hay que querer aprender y formarse cada día una cosa nueva, y cada vez existen más tendencias de pensamiento que vinculan esta con las técnicas y formas de gestión de empresas y con la utilización de las nuevas tecnologías, o no es que las empresas las hacen las personas...???
... pero todo esto lo vamos ir aderezando "topped" con música de la buena, la famosa frase de "la banda sonora de tu vida"... pues es verdad... ya que la música calma a las fieras y endulza y divierte el corazón mientras tanto.
Un link a uno de los videos que me hacen pensar en algunos puntos de los que nos vamos a centrar...
Hola. Me llamo Oliver Barreto... y esto de un Blog es realmente nuevo para mi, pero dicen que para obtener resultados diferentes a los de siempre, haciendo las cosas de siempre, hay que hacer cosas diferentes...
Bienvenido a mi blog personal, un espacio que espero sirva para compartir mi opinión sobre diferentes áreas de interés y debatir sobre el desarrollo, nuestro desarrollo, dentro de la Sociedad Actual, a la que ya algunos empiezan a llamar como "Sociedad del Conocimiento".
Espero que el contenido de este blog te resulte interesante, para ti como persona y también como profesional, y además confío establecer un canal de comunicación basado en tus aportaciones para lograr un enriquecimiento mutuo y continuo.
