The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Literally from Spanish “Manual Oracle and Art of Discretion”, it is commonly translated as The Art of Worldly Wisdom is a jewel I just found and that I will keep for years. The wit and concentration of significance of his words makes you think and question your self about many different life situations that you … Read more

A Seat at the Table: IT Leadership in the Age of Agility

Written by Mark Schwartz in 2017. Some notes from the book Challenging questions: What is the relationship between IT and the business, and how does it change as we introduce Agile and Lean approaches? The way the CIO role is defined, conceived, and executed today is incompatible with Agile thinking. Honest and open conversations are … Read more

US exchange regulations, limit to show indexes

I have receipt today this message from Trading view: As per exchange regulations, S&P and Dow Jones indexes can be shown ONLY to users who are NOT logged in, or who are logged in and have paid for a real-time package. We cannot show them to all registered users. We do not understand this policy, … Read more

Productivity and timing

I have read 2 articles that contains some sentences I want to remember. One of the articles talks about productivity (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivity-isnt-about-time-management-its-about-attention-management.html), the other one explains how the motion of the modern lives are affecting the internal clock of the individuals (http://nautil.us/issue/71/flow/why-your-brain-hates-slowpokes-rp). Tool “Pedestrian Aggressiveness Syndrome Scale” to measure how aggressive you are in your moves. … Read more

Little’s law

Little’s law is widely used in manufacturing to predict lead time based on the production rate and the amount of work-in-process, and since Kanban practitioners use it in software development is becoming more and more popular. In fact the comparison for the outsiders of a manufacturing example where things are more tangible is something that … Read more

Fundsmith annual shareholder meeting

This video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3cRr318ve4, is the annual shareholder meeting of Fundsmith. Apart of presenting the results of the year, they review a set of economic fundamentals and behaviors that are communicated in a very didactic way. Basic strategy principles The investment strategy has three pillars that are summed up by the acronym ODD: Only invest in … Read more