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Society...

 Society can be seen as a conspiracy of unquestioning acceptance of unprovable things.

Manikins, The Barbie Murders (1980)

John Varley

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 

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)

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.

Ignorance

Ignorance invokes fear. It's the law.

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

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.

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.

ABSURD

 In Project Management, it is completely absurd to do always the same and expect different results....

The deepest principle

"The deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

William James, American philosopher and psychologist

Winchester 2:40 (same time as in the Canary Islands)

It is a long time since I last went club partying. 

And for some curious events I went.

First thought: I'm so lucky. I have a life-partner which is the best thing that could ever happen to me. Fortune is not in the bills, but in the hearts of those close to you.

It was not the best party in the world. I like mediterranian style better. Even Madrid is a better place to party than Winchester. No wonder why all of them come here. But when I was trying to dance to the 2nd worst DJ ever (after ALEXEI) I could only think that if Xeripau, ALEXEI himself and Xantito were there we would have rocked the party. We would have conquered the dance hall and delivered an incredible show.

I do love my friends, but for me it is difficult to let them know.

I do love new experiences, although I may fear them because I love structure but I'm utterly seduced by chaos.

So a chaotic structure it is to me like a pornographic event.

Finally, I saw some comment by Almudena on Facebook, as a comment of my comment to Leticia's last post. Only Raquel was missing there. I really miss these three motivated and professional workers, which taught me so much about better communicating with teams. I won't never be able to thank them enough for all the good times and learning I got from them.

I miss them. 

I am living uncertainty. I am struggling with new experiences.
But I have some of the best assets a person like me can have. Family. Friends. Health.

I love to live and I live to love every minute of my life.

Definitions of Designations

• Project Manager is a person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month
• Developer is a person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.
• Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month.
• Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby
• Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he can deliver a baby even if no man and woman are available
• Resource Optimization Team thinks they don't need a man or woman; they'll produce a child with zero resources
• Documentation Team thinks they don't care whether the child is delivered, they'll just document 9 months 
• Quality Auditor is the person who is never happy with the PROCESS to produce a baby
• Tester is a person who always tells his wife that this is not the right baby
• HR Manager is a person who thinks that a donkey can deliver a human baby in given 9 months

Bigott - Cannibal Dinner (suggested by NOJ)

Spector - Celestine (suggested by Xeripau)

Illusion

"The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread"

Appointment with Death - 1938

Agatha Christie - 2001

HarperCollins

Progress...

"Progress is a very flexible word... You can make it mean whatever you want it to mean."

Doctor Who in the Power of Kroll

Pride and Victory!

I've been absent from this blog lately.
I'm sorry, some lack of courage, lack of motivation prevented me from writting new posts...

But suddenly, while reading the news, I just found one totally motivating.
One that, as you can see, is leading me to break the silence of these last weeks in this blog.

There are very few things that really make me totally angry... Not angry as in "I'm mad at someone".
Angry as in "some humans do not deserve anything. Humanity is rotten".
One of these things is abuse. Abusing someone else is one the most despicable acts one can commit.

Somebody that can harm or hurt, or abuse of somebody else, should not have any rights never again. Should lose instantaneously all the human rights.

But in this post, I really wanted to talk about the other side of the story. The person who has been abused of.
It must be hard, difficult to come to terms with the abuse. Something so unfair, something so random... So cruel.

And just a few minutes ago I read about the Unbreakable project. Such a good idea, involving such brave people who fight in their everyday lives to come to terms with their past, sometimes so close and familiar. But they are courageous enough to, additionally, tell their story in front of a camera, showing that their pride is higher than ever.

As somebody said once, the dimension of a human being is not measured by how high they reach in their live, but by how high they reach after they fall.

I just want to congratulate all those brave people who suffered and are suffering because of an abuse, and are hard enough to keep on going, and donate their particular grain of sand to the cause of erradicating abuse from earth.

Victory in the end, will be yours!

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Foto Artística? - I

L'unicorn de Porcelana

http://www.porcelainunicorn.com/