dimecres, d’octubre 18, 2023

Crazy Fools!

 "The crazy fools!" muttered Otho. "Begging for a dictator, just because they're scared by a pack of lies".

Captain Future #2: Calling Captain Future (1940)

Edmond Hamilton 

dilluns, d’octubre 02, 2023

Beware!

Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. “First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation.
Extract from "The Machine Stops", E.M. Forster 1909

Please read it ironically

divendres, de setembre 22, 2023

The Future

"Nonsense. I am a realist. I face the future, not the past."
"But the future is built of material taken from the past, and how can we build securely when we do not know what our past has been?
Robert Moore Williams in Robot's Return (1938)

dijous, de setembre 21, 2023

Historians

"An historian is of value only as he can translate the past in terms of the present."


The Man Who Awoke. Laurence Manning. 1933.

dimecres, de setembre 20, 2023

Ignorance

Ignorance invokes fear. It's the law.


Neil R. Harris in Labyrinth from the Professor Jameson series (Amazing Stories v10 n09 April 1936)

divendres, de setembre 02, 2022

It doesn't make it alright

 Mark Twain li va posar a la boca d'un personatge la idea següent:

Que una idea sigui popular, com l'esclavitud, no vol dir que estigui bé.

Si més gent fos exposada a aquestes reflexions i menys a la telebasura potser la societat aniria una mica millor.

Després foren The Specials que reprengueren una variació d'aquest tema (amb inspiració directa o indirecta).


dimarts, de juny 21, 2022

Not that wise

 Es bastante estúpido perseguir a alguien con la cara de Steven Seagal encontrarlo por la espalda y decirle "Alto!" antes de disparar... dejando tiempo para que él dispare primero...

Leer este blog ayudaría a muchos esbirros y secuaces seguir con vida. Y ser un anti-heroe malote 


PS: Recomendamos primero disparar y después gritar Alto! es mucho mejor para tu seguridad.

dilluns, d’abril 18, 2022

OCP es IBM? La duda resuelta.

Os cuento una curiosidad chula. 




Hacía mucho tiempo que tenía unas sospechas... Y al fin he encontrado una fuente fiable que las confirma. La superempresa tecnológica que domina el gobierno, la policía y toda la tecnología del futuro que se muestra en Robocop, la OCP está inspirada en IBM! La fuente es justamente uno de los diseñadores de la película original, Robert Webb, que lo explica en su web junto con algunos diseños que no fueron utilizados para la película

(...) Another change along this line was the name "OCP". It was to be "ICM". A clear jab at "IBM", just to be funny. In fact in the final scene where the evil corporate madman falls to his death he was to hit the ICM sign on his way down, breaking it and forming a "B". Of course cooler heads prevailed and it never made it past my sketch pad. I still have the silly sketch of it. (...)"

 http://www.robertwebb.com/robocop.htm

Os dejo los enlaces a la peli en FA:

https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film528679.html
https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film745662.html

dilluns, de març 21, 2022

Positive Leadership

 


It is not easy to become a Positive Leader... Although it is not something actually common...

Good leaders help other grow, adding instead of subsctracting.

Collaborating instead of competing.

Giving example instead of requesting results, in order to inspire.

Continuously adapting, continuously improving.

Building upon other's work, instead of destroying or ignoring other's work.

Uniting to create, instead of dividing and segment.

Connecting through massive communication, instead of expecting others to understand with no communication at all.


Positive leadership is what makes people love their work.

The lack of positive leadership can push people to hate the work they actually love to do in the right environment.

divendres, de desembre 03, 2021

Negotiation Styles - So important in Business Environments

 



Compromise and Collaboration are the key to successful relationships.

Both personal (marriage) and professional (clients-partners-professionals)

Extra thought: sometimes the compete strategy turns into a Lose Lose, as the person who thinks that is going to win, ends up losing too and caousing the other part to lose, creating a Lose-Lose situation.