Category: Communication

Read Before Monday

Feels like it was yesterday (in 2016!!) that I launched the “Read Before Monday” articles, which were a curation of things I found interesting and would give my…

lost idea or revamp

One decade ago I pitched an idea to multiple people in Portugal, mostly those that were already established doing TV and regular shows, to invest into a new…

2017 -> 2018

This year has been quite busy professionally and I’ve split most of my free time with a new videocast with two friends at @TechTalksLondon where we’ve finished a…

vale Industry 4.0 – like it was in the 2.0

I’ve been recently participating in some Industry 4.0 projects, mostly related to global wine companies, where they actually have the need and the will to transform themselves, look…

do not feed the emails

When you work for a multinational or a bigger company, emails are your tasks, tickets and work timeline. Everyone emails anyone for anything. Some might even CC a…

sucker speech engines, they call me master

Alexa and Amazon Echo are really top notch. Not only the whole platform but also how it learns and interacts. Better than asking if it’s connected to the…

this is indeed a mistery

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.” ― Arthur Conan…

the you society

10 years ago Times chosen ‘you’ as the person of the year. ‘You’ as in the person behind the screen, the center of social media, where things should…

when agencies don’t communicate

Everyone knows the case of FBI vs Apple, which started with a weird request to Apple. But now the FBI dropped the case, since it doesn’t need Apple’s help…

Code of Practice – Equipment Interference

So the UK has a draft for Equipment Interference that could soon become law.  (local cache) With this, instead of having the Government trying to hack systems and…

Calvin and Hobbes – timeless piece of art

Calvin and Hobbes was created for 10 years. It lives forever in me. In 2013 Bill draw this.  http://zenpencils.com/comic/128-bill-watterson-a-cartoonists-advice/ Priceless!

Shadow IT and CMO power

CIO.com has a quite interesting article on how the Shadow IT favours the Chief Marketing Officer and their agenda, rather than the regular IT Manager or CIO. Shadow…

dress code for those who don’t care about it

This guy landed a spacecraft on an asteroid. This guy landed a probe in Mars. Now these, are consultants. Any kind of them. And they are happy as…

apple smartest move ever

Is actually the Apple SIM, that they launched today. Pretty clever move. Have a SIM that could connect to a bunch of mobile carriers, being sold as ‘agnostic’…

when a dumb pipe controls your data access

A few years ago, Telcos ruled the world. They controlled our calls, messages, games, apps, payments, address book, location and even music. Those services were all provided by…

you’re the product

This is a graph that Jawbone released from yesterday earthquake in Napa, Northern California.  Pretty cool, when you have access to data of thousands of users and you can…

throwback thursday – the pager

20 years ago I had this pager. My mom used to “call” me on that. It had a good alarm and news service. Now we use twitter.

opensource; the latest PR stunt from Tesla

Disclaimer: I love Tesla cars! The Good: Tesla Motors yesterday did something that no one would ever expected. They opensourced their patent portfolio and give it to the…

why I ONLY share content on Linkedin

Linkedin has for some time now articles from known sources and famous people, but recently (last few months) has opened that to everyone on the network, to post longer articles…

a paper ad on the earth day

““There are some ideas we want every company to copy” That’s the ad that Apple created for the Earth Day, taking a stab at Samsung regarding the recent…

your twitter username is not that important anymore

That’s the new Twitter layout. It seems like Facebook, but the most important detail yet is that your (vanity) twitter handle is now not that important and just…