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getting serious at work chapter II – sharing

TEL PhD SS tough me several things. Thinking carefully, perhaps now I am ready to listen and understand some  messages that earlier I couldn’t understand.

 

Sharing is one of the main things I understood lately.

 

Each time I was asked about the references of papers, books, links, projects, ideas, etc. that I have read or related to,  I had this impotence feeling: full & empty at the same time.  I remember in one of our PhD days some time ago, when Andrés mentioned about delicious, and I didn’t understand what he meant with it at the time. But things change in life…

 

Now I understand and trying to improve. Little by little, it is not a simple change as it requires effort and TIME. But at least now I see how relevant this is. Otherwise, why are we doing research? if it is not to share knowledge among all?

 

And today “photo” is actually a presentation from Cristina Costa. It is about how to “build” a “profile”, I think for anyone working in ICT, this is something to think about, at least once. And in some way it is related to sharing.

money – virtual

My train of thoughts has been challenged once again.  Yeap, let me explain, what do you trust more of its real existence:

a) the money that you have in your bank account and which it is reported in your monthly paper statement.

b) the virtual information that is only in your web-server.

 

Both concepts exist due to human beings. However we can only touch the money and we cannot touch any virtual information (unless we print it out of course). As a matter of fact the “virtuality” only can be accessed through the use of some kind of hardware. Thus, for its own “nature”, perhaps one could say that the logic of the “virtuality”  is more complex to understand than the logic of the money,

Well my dear fellows, I think I  am wrong on this.  Maybe because I have a close emotional relationship with the fields that are related with -ware (hardware and software) but at least for me at this moment in time:

a) I can try to explain what “virtual” is, and the logic behind it. I think it is clear in my head this concept.

b) I cannot explain what money is, and I am confused about it and its actual logic behind it.

I found a youtube video (bellow attached) trying to explain the logic of money. (I recommend to watch it) . No idea if the concepts and information of it are 100% correct or not. Nevertheless it helped me to clarify:

a) If I lost all my emails (due to a bug or something else) I can keep calm because there are backups for this kind of events. I trust in virtuality!

b) Our economical world system has not backup against wall-street events. And we are exponentially heading to an interesting unknown mess. I just hope that this story has a happy end, because I do not trust  (perhaps for the lack of understanding) in our money organization.

Anyway, let’s see what we will happen with these two game arenas 🙂

passion in life

maybe inside me I am more of a dreamer than I am aware of. But this talk moves me. Definitely it is challenging to follow your heart all the time. Live with passion is not so easy. Perhaps it can be “easier” to talk about it, but still is challenging, because you have to live it in order to transmit it.

This talk from Steve Jobs, made me smile, feel and think in several aspects. And I want to share it with you, no for MAC, no for IT, no for EdTech. More to share a life attitude to transform “challenges” to opportunities.