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Great talks don’t happen by accident. They are the result of small, deliberate choices. I made a checklist for me that could be useful for someone else, so I’m sharing it. I guess it’ll need some adjustments to work for other people, so feel welcomed and encouraged to use it as a starting point, appropriate it, reuse and repurpose it, complete the list, and reshare to pass the karma 🙂 Technical.…

1:1s are golden to know people, to develop a relationship that is both human and useful, rewarding, and productive. So as a Team Lead I’ve always planned weekly 1:1s. If we have no topics on the agenda, we can wrap up faster… or not. When you have 15 team members, as I had in the past, that can easily mean 15 hours per week (in practice it’s less, because someone is AFK, has to reschedule, or…

Note: All these thoughts are notes I took during a super interesting discussion in an Emerging Leadership workshop I had the chance to participate in (Thanks, Automattic!); they might not be perfectly organized, so I appreciate your indulgence :). As Wikipedia is struggling with declining page views due to AI, trying to find their way, here it is my personal thank you to what’s still a key actor…

Lyotard warned us decades ago in his seminal work The Postmodern Condition about science’s legitimation crisis. Not that science lacks legitimacy entirely, but that it has abandoned what he considered “beautiful” legitimation. Instead of pursuing truth or improving humanity’s condition, modern science operates under what Lyotard called the performativity principle: science must be profitable,…

During a recent conversation, a colleague painted a compelling picture: websites evolving into trusted single sources of truth, providing authoritative data that AI can access to answer questions and perform actions on behalf of users. An scenario where what content creators really want is to be sure their content is discoverable by AI models. And the Future website should make this possible in…

[This post is an English translation of a class material for the UNED master of learning and communication in the Internet. The original posts was published in 2015] Media Literacy? Sounds… ehhh… what’s that? We can find hundreds of definitions, but for me Media Literacy is about “Build our Educator’ words” (Daniel Prieto Castillo), with a horizontal approach where education and communication…