Carles Caño Valls

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"El que lee mucho intentará algún día escribir"

(William Cowper

Text Sugerencia para Google para los Hangouts :) [en]

Hi there!

How are you today? :)

I have a GREAT suggestion for you :)

It’s about Google Hangouts. It’s an amazing tool. I LOVE it. Really!

But…

(there’s always a but ;-)

I’d like to watch one hour interviews of Hangouts uploaded to Youtube but it’s difficult to have enough time to do that. Come on, who spends ONE HOUR watching a YouTube video ;-))

But I have more chances to LISTEN TO that interview as I’m doing other things: driving, running, going to work, washing… :)

Now I have to do that by myself:

1. Download YouTube video of the Hangout I’m interested in

2. Convert the video to some audio format

3. Copy audio file to my iPhone (that involves too many steps, damn Apple xD)

So it would be AMAZING, AWESOME and FANTASTIC if you generated automatically the audio file and put the link in the same page of YouTube where the Hangout is.

Moreover, you could create a PODCAST of audio files of all the Hangouts that a user creates. WooooOOOOOW. That would be LEGEN… (wait for it) …DARY !!! (applause, please) :)

Okey, I’ll be glad if you just implement the first suggestion. Forget about the podcasts… ;)

Looking forward to hear from you soon.

Have a nice and pleasant day,

Carles.

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"Si sólo se me permite hablar durante diez minutos necesito una semana para prepararme. Si puedo hablar una hora, necesito dos días. Y si mi tiempo es ilimitado, entonces puedo comenzar a hablar inmediatamente."

Winston Churchill

Text Qui aprova o suspèn és l’alumne, no el professor

[Email enviat als meus alumnes de Seguretat Informàtica]

Hola a tothom,

suposo que més d’un s’ha sorprès de veure que ha de recuperar la UF1 tenint una nota bastant propera al cinc.

Que ningú s’espanti, no s’ha de recuperar tota la UF en aquests casos, quan tinguem classe ja us diré què ha de recuperar cadascú. Normalment és alguna de les parts suspeses o no presentades: una pràctica, l’examen teòric…

I una altra cosa, jo no suspenc a ningú. Jo procuro avaluar de forma el més justa possible, sou vosaltres qui aproveu però també sou els que suspeneu. Si no lliures treballs, potser suspens. Si ho fas amb la llei del mínim esforç, potser no arribes al cinc.

Em sembla que ja us vaig dir un cop que dir “He aprovat” quan aproves o “M’han suspès” quan suspens és treure’s del damunt la responsabilitat que té cadascú. Si aprovo, el mèrit és meu. Si em suspenen, és culpa del professor. Doncs no, sempre és responsabilitat teva, de ningú més.

Si hi ha professors que us regalen l’aprovat quan teniu un quatre i pico llavors sí que “T’han aprovat”, t’han fet un regal. Potser aquest regal et fa gràcia ara però creu-me si et dic que no et fa cap favor perquè t’acostumes a fer menys del mínim exigible. I això fomenta la mediocritat, fer menys del que esperen de tu.

I un dels secrets de la gent amb talent i que busca l’excel·lència és aquest: “Fes sempre una mica més del que et demanin”.

:-)

Salut,
Carles.

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"Want to be more creative? Pick a problem you care about and get to work. If you don’t care about anything, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s apathy. If you start things and give up, your problem isn’t creativity, it’s dedication."

Scott Berkun in “How to be creative – the short honest truth” (http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2012/how-to-become-creative-the-short-honest-truth/)

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"muda means “waste,” specifically any human activity which absorbs resources but creates no value: mistakes which require rectification, production of items no one wants so that inventories and remaindered goods pile up, processing steps which aren’t actually needed, movement of employees and transport of goods from one place to another without any purpose, groups of people in a downstream activity standing around waiting because an upstream activity has not delivered on time, and goods and services which don’t meet the needs of the customer."

Lean Thinking
by James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones (via @mcanosan)

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"The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye… The hand is the cutting edge of the mind."

J. Bronowski

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"Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."

Harry S. Truman

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"There are three things I look for in my work: I hope to learn something, I want to make some money, and I’d like to have some fun. If the project doesn’t have the promise of satisfying at least two of these, then I don’t sign on."

Bill Stumpf

Text ¿Quieres tener éxito? Inventa el futuro

Mead cree que la innovación, por su propia naturaleza, implica riesgo. “Las empresas ‘start-up’ son 100% riesgo, está en su esencia”. En muchos casos, afirma:

“los éxitos realmente grandes se dan en áreas en las que previamente no existía un mercado”.

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