GTD as a technique and Evernote as a tool that boosted my productivity
Warning: if you are looking for an emergency, immediate and painless solution, this is not the place. Two and a half years ago I decided to dedicate time to improve productivity, I have lost many hours searching and many others learning, today I consider the investment very profitable and I want to tell you about what has worked for me. I started...
Salt, sugar and fat. How the food giants got us hooked.
Salt, sugar and fat. How the food giants hoocked us Michael Moss What you need to read to get away from processed food. This book is the compilation of the research on the food industry that led Michael Moss to win the Pulitzer Prize. It boils down to the fact that big business has hooked us on a...
Review of Born to Run. I run because I was born to run, and so were you.
There are few books that I reread. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall is one of those few. It is a novel that has touched me deeply but it is still just that, a travel novel enjoyable and easily hooked, in this case, tells the adventures of Chris McDougall, an editor of the magazine...
Pretotype it, Alberto Savoia
The pretotyping manifesto Make sure you're building the right thing before you build it right innovators beat ideas pretotypes beat producotypes data beats opinions now beats later doing beats talking simple beats complex commitment beats committees....
The lean startup. A must-have book
I can't hide my disappointment after reading The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. I was really looking forward to it but in my opinion it is a book that does not deserve the title it has. It has been a while since I wrote a post knowing that I am going to raise blisters and those of you who know me know that I don't polemicize for the sake of polemicizing,...
Let's not stand still: why we need social innovation
This is the prologue of the latest book by Jaime Bravo, a 15 year old entrepreneur that I highly recommend you to read. And of which I feel very, very proud, even more so when the epilogue has been written by another 15 year old crack, a nonconformist programmer named Jorge Izquierdo who holds a megaphone in his...
Review: Steven Johnson's Good Ideas
The Good Ideas. A natural history of innovation. STEVEN JOHNSON 2010 Explains the mechanisms of innovation based on those of nature. A book that is the result of the integration of a lot of information; pleasant to read and thought-provoking. Steven Johnson captured my attention with his Emerging Systems in 2001, a book in which he compiled the work of...
Entrepreneurs, experiences and reflections on the art of intrapreneurship within organizations.
In half an hour we present INprendedores, experiencias y reflexiones sobre el arte del intraemprendizaje dentro de las organizaciones, a book born from the collaboration of 16 people from different fields. You can download it at this link. Here is my contribution: Self-diagnosis intraentrepreneur Intraentrepreneurship, or starting something from within something is rewarding because you leave a legacy,...
Enrique Dans: neither angel nor demon
Enrique Dans has been setting web trends through his blog, he has influenced many of us since he started publishing it in April 2003. He has been critical of the old models of the cultural industries, and has defended open knowledge to the point of exhaustion; he has always been able to understand the...
Aggregating blogs is not a good future for the newspaper
Last week, at the XIV Redepyme, we were surprised by the interest we aroused in the press in general and in the written press in particular; they called us, it is one of the few times in my life when I have been called for something by someone I did not know, and they asked us about some activity of...