The dead horse theory
I have found this old cartoon that made me laugh, it’s applicable to so many situations in life.
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The end of reductionist management era
The Principles of Scientific Management In 1898, Frederick Winslow Taylor joined a steel factory in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania, US) which had a capacity problem. He did not limit his work to get the problem solved, but extended his work beyond. He performed different empirical tests on cutting speeds, being able to quadruple the speed of steel … Read more
Team sport experience
I have practiced sport since I was a kid, I was full of energy and my mother did not know what to do with that, so she engaged me in different sports all Septembers till I told her: I want to continue playing basketball next season. When I started to work in a company, at … Read more
Solvay conference in 1927
Solvay Conferences in 1927, which had an amazing 17 Nobel Prize laureates attending. The event has been called “the most intelligent picture ever taken in human history”. Back row: Auguste Piccard, Émile Henriot, Paul Ehrenfest, Édouard Herzen, Théophile de Donder, Erwin Schrödinger, Jules-Émile Verschaffelt, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, Ralph H. Fowler, Léon Brillouin ; Middle … Read more
Customized objects
Old times rituals From the time I was working on major projects for an engineering company, at the end of the project, a manager used to show up with boxes full of mugs, for the members of the project. Depending on the project, to have one of these mugs was something important or something embarrassing. … Read more
Laberinto de los jardines del Guadalquivir
En Sevilla, en los jardines del Guadalquivir, hay un laberinto, el cual es muy divertido para los niños. Usé una foto antigua para hacer un mapa del laberinto con distintas marcas. Yo les escondo a los niños algo en algunos de los puntos del mapa para que ellos después los vayan buscando. Cuando han sido … Read more
2001, de viaje por el norte de España
Agosto del año 2001, hablamos de hacer unas vacaciones por ahí y se planteó la idea de ir a Asturias. Nos apuntamos unos cuantos, Eugenio, Iván, “el novato” (mote puesto por Blas), su hermano Gonzalito, Dani y yo. El “novato” ese año estaba trabajando en Puerto Real de profesor, estuvo saliendo con nosotros y se … Read more
Blog statistics
I have been reviewing the visits of this blog and to be honest there is not anything interesting to highlight. This is the unique visits since 2012 (when I started to track visits): And these are the visits from 2020: What happened in 2020? I wrote this article about DIX and GEX Indicators, in October … Read more
How to bring back benefits of social media companies to people
This is an idea, maybe a crazy one, but here we go. I see social media companies are an useful tools and they have enabled so many positive things, but in some uses they are a problem society, not only by the use given by an end user, but by the controller of the tool … Read more
New era of discovery: data around our behavior
By the end of the 15th century, America had been discovered by Europeans and a sea route to India had been found. For the next three hundred years, most of the world’s coasts were visited and mapped, if only roughly, by explorers from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Holland, France, and England. Through the exploitation of overseas … Read more