Category: Blog

Jeff besos speech at the princeton is something to look up to.

He writes a couple of interesting things such as “one day you’ll understand that it’s harder to be kind than clever.” and “Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy — they’re given after all. Choices can be hard.”

or “How will you use these gifts? And will you take pride in your gifts or pride in your choices?”

I wonder when, down that road of gifts and choices, something about the whole amazon thing made him derail a little bit. Allowing people to be used and stressed only to have next day delivery.

Losing the rhythm happens. It happens in writing, workout, sports, work, relationships, love and friends.

It happens in every imaginable field. The whole point is to not fall for it. Once you lose the rhythm start again and again. Each and every time for each and every failure.

Productivity is often linked to speed. We think that speed is the only factor.

I, for one, am bothered by slow actions and slow people. One of our customers is very slow using the mouse and I think he could improve the overall speed by learning some keyboard tricks and so on.

This speed thing, is not only software related. In music, when you learn, you keep having this desire to do it faster and you can see many successful musician doing “fast plays”.

Is it all there is?

No, speed is not enough because speed will always have a limit: you.

Productivity and value are not only linked to speed, that’s why slow people can achieve immense results. The person I told you about before? He’s one of the best in his field. I never met someone on his leve, yet he is slow.

Speed doesn’t equal results, it’s only part of them.

It’s in our story that we build up what we want to be. It’s in how we share frustration, pain, discomfort that we can elevate our goals and make visible the unknown: our thoughts.

A coworker told me today that ” I know you developers think meetings are useless but we need to do this bla bla bla ”

He put a definite accent on “you developers” and “you think”

While in my writing it can’t be show, his words and his story tell me two things: he has problem with the fact that meetings are considered useless. And he has a grief with some people of the group.

These things shows. They do show because even the best of us will have some form of body language if not, like this, almost direct wording.

And even though the words said are quite innocent, they’re not. The words we don’t say, the one we think of, they do show up in the other peoples while we talk to them, so it’s better for us to be honest and find a way to discuss these difficult topics before they become a kind of bad repetition in our head, a new story, a fake story, a story that will only lead to conflict unless on the other side you have someone that cares more about the topic than about the conflict itself

We don’t realize very often how many wonderful people we have around. That’s what makes our world so beautiful and unique, what makes it special.

At the end of the day spend a couple of minutes checking which people helped during your day.

Which were kind or gave you a smile. It’s an exercise to remind us the immense beauty of the world