Tag Archives: TED

My flat-renting decision process

I liked very much when Jesus Encinar (CEO of idealista.com) explained in his blog the process he followed when buying a house. Yesterday, I thought “I could share my buying decision process in my blog to help others” (maybe there … Continue reading

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TEDxMadrid 2010

Last Saturday, a friend and I attended TEDxMadrid, an independently organized TED event in which several speakers presented some “ideas worth spreading” as the TED slogan goes. The event took place in HUB Madrid, a “unique ecosystem designed to enable … Continue reading

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Monkey Investors

Just a few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Wall Street Monkey. Remember that the story was based on Burton G. Malkiel’s book, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street”, where he suggested that a blindfolded monkey throwing darts to … Continue reading

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Project managers and Pencils

Today I was attending a project management course at Airbus. After some introductions, the teacher came to the always controversial (within such a technological company) comment that “the project leader needs to have experience in project management not in the … Continue reading

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Nothing like a good red wine…

The recent Tweet from Freakonomics http://bit.ly/9jsc3r, in which they tell how American supposedly fine wine aficionados could not tell the difference between the wine they were given and the one they were looking (and paying) for, reminds me of 3 different … Continue reading

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