Los Angeles Lakers 2022-23

The Lakers are one of the franchises recognized around the world. Since in the 80s they popularized the “showtime” they are considered a contender by their supporters almost every single year of the league. The reality is quite different in my honest opinion and this season is a good example. Let’s review the map of … Read more

Creation of Products in Amazon

These lines are written as notes from the book “Working backwards“. It focuses on how the authors described how they build products as Kindle, Fire… You can perfectly tell me: this is done by many companies. And you are right. My point is to represent this process using Wardley Maps and highlight some important aspects … Read more

Who is the dietitian of your cloud?

The cloud bill is an issue in many organizations. This is not something new, it comes from more than 5 -7 years ago when cloud adoption started to establish as the standard. I use to do the joke when asking the infrastructure teams about “who is the dietitian of your cloud?”, “who defines the menu … Read more

NBA Launchpad

The NBA launched “Launchpad“, a R&D environment for learning and innovate. Right now is focused on a contest for Tech companies that want to compete and be part of NBA. With the purpose of exploring what is going on and innovate on the NBA ecosystem, this contest serves as vehicle for both purposes. Companies participating … Read more

Boston Celtics 2022-23

This is the initial value chain diagram I have built for Boston Celtics. After reaching the finals last season, the expectations for this season is to reach the finals again. They are definitely contenders. For this season they have added: Malcom Brogdom (reduce loses, one of the major issues last season) Danilo Gallinari (veteran). The … Read more

Amazon SageMaker + Spark

Some screenshots and notes for my poor memory ML Pipeline with PCA on Spark, and K-Means on Amazon SageMaker Apache Spark is an open-source unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing.  PCA = principal components analysis. Collaborative Filtering Deep Structure Semantic Module (DSSM) A matrix factorization solution in its core is multiplication of 2 matrices. Neural Networks are … Read more

Year 5, Q4 Read and write about strategy

During year 5 – Q3 I have focused on reading books and increase knowledge on Strategy. This will be a soft learning quarter on the schedule. The plan So the V2MOM for this quarter will be: Death line = 31/December/2022 The results (January 2023)

Map Camp 2022

These are some notes and screenshots from MapCamp 2022. What sort of Financial System can Support Humanity Best? A good perspective to start and remember us how things are organized Can we put a price on all social principles? What is the price tag of consumerism? How do we Regulate Technology Feudalism? Weird Mapping sessions … Read more

The CEO’s paradox about knowledge

Someone is appointed as CEO of an organization by it’s knowledge, experience and potential value this person has. In one side the CEO is the best person knowing what to do with the company, and implicitly this means he has to learn about many details about what’s happening and progressing on it. Some toxic environments … Read more