I’m in a train going through fields and fields in the middle of nowhere (some people call it La Mancha) returning to Valencia from a quick trip to Madrid and I’d like to take this opportunity in order to update the blog, because even it’s a bit shaming the number of drafts has exceeded the number of published posts and I have to do something about that now.
Furthermore in the last days some people have warned me that I should not give up posting and write more frequently. It’s a bit difficult because right now I’m so immersed in my Industrial Engineering exams and all the work I do as a freelance web designer that I simply can’t spend my time writing. Anyway, once I read “there’s always time for the things you really like”, so I think I don’t really have an excuse.
Talking about university, one of the subjects I had this year was Industrial Economy; I have become more and more interested in this field for some time now. This interest mostly comes in terms of my field – if I really have a field where I grow and develop – from the preoccupation of not only provide users with tools so they can kick ass, but also make it in the most efficient way; i.e. do great shit.
Anyway, it usually doesn’t work like that. And this conflict is what Economy is all about.
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The other day I was watching TV while I stumbled upon an interview with Eduard Punset, the writer and scientific. He was promoting his book “Por qué somos como somos” and that reminded me I had this post in drafts for some time.
I love the situations, the memorable quotes, the people – like Punset himself – that make me think and make my brain exercise; and some time ago I read or listened the question “How could I stop being myself?”. It has took me ages to find the source googling since the vast majority are self-help entries that have nothing to do what the topic I’m talking about; anyway it certainly belongs to the Marketing guru Geoffrey Moore and his book Crossing the Chasm, which deals with innovation at the enterprise.
How could anybody stop being oneself?
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If you do a quick search in Google (or your favourite search engine, instead) of the word Openness you will mostly find techie-related stuff. Open source, Free Software and on and on and on…
However if you digg deeper – or go straight to the wikipedia article – you will find that not only this is a way of software development but also a way of life. Literally:
Openness is a philosophy that is being used as the basis of how various groups and organizations operate. It is a relatively new term to describe this general way of doing things.
Of course, this is obvious, but I’d like to emphasize this relationship between software and personality.
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