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TEDx, disruptive business, startups, cognitive psychology, design, neurosciences, self-development, technology, smalltalk, squeak, anthropology

An idea worth spreading

"There is no truth. There is only perception." by Gustave Flaubert also this one I've heard somewhere: "Love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion" and finally this one: "The pain you feel is the love you didn't gave."

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How you make your life meaningful.

People don't know that I'm good at

getting unstuck of problems in general and help them to connect with the best within them

My TED Story

I guess it would be being one guy boostrapping a startup in latinamerica surpassing all the many challenges that it implies. Of those, one that's quite interesting, and non-regional, is having solved the conflict between the inner designer and the inner engineer. The end of that inner war made all possible. Actually they are sort of BFF by now :D

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• A reply on Talk: James B. Glattfelder: Who controls the world?

  Feb 14 2013: An historical perspective mmm. That's very intriguing Joe!
  
  We might find the group of collective pathologic memes in the patterns that cames from there (so the possible ways to generate cognitive defense from them)

• A comment on Talk: Timothy Prestero: Design for people, not awards

  Aug 26 2012: great talk.
  
  In other words...
  
  cutting the crap about colleagues' peer pressure and focusing of fabricating a non-nonsense outcome among users makes sense (and is part of the job).
  
  Isn't that what always happen?
  
  Even beyond design?

• A comment on Talk: Aaron O'Connell: Making sense of a visible quantum object

  Aug 16 2012: Fantastic.
  
  Very cool.
  
  He asked the right questions.
  
  Out of Body Experiences here we go.... :D

• A comment on Talk: Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours

  Aug 16 2012: Great talk.
  
  So, it's either that
  
  (a) we are poorly designed by nature or...
  (b) nature knows what she does and we are expecting too much from the economic system *we* designed
  
  that and that our arrogance very easily tends to hyperinflate beyond the solar system
  
  yah, in a dangerously near-self-destruction fashion

• A comment on Talk: Julian Treasure: 5 ways to listen better

  Aug 15 2012: Very nice talk.
  
  He's on the spot about perception.
  
  Bruce Lipton has also some interesting investigation on the biological foundations about this subject:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVECAlT4AXY
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  A comment on Conversation: Is the internet, not formal education, the new great equalizer?

  Oct 8 2011: Internet is the ultimate democratization.
  
  Everything it touches gets democratized by design.
  
  Education isn't the exception.
  
  So, yeah... no doubt about it
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  A comment on Conversation: Is our destiny to be one world with one language?

  Aug 25 2011: If loosing the archaic notion of "countries" to win the notion of Planet (as only human's real country) requires embracing one language at the price of loosing others, I'm all for it.
  
  Of course we loose stories and part of our history but, in such scenario, the benefits will largely outweigh the price.
  
  *I'm not an english native speaker
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  A reply on Conversation: Abolish money and create a better world

  Aug 23 2011: Yeah, but I focus again on the current challenge: create the circumstances for those tests.
  
  Before those we only have conversation (better than nothing), after them, tweaking some versions will get us to the right system. Once found it, things will either fall into place (or won't be the right system).
  
  I know I'm not saying anything new, I admit that, only stressing our current, baby step, challenge
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  A comment on Conversation: Abolish money and create a better world

  Aug 22 2011: I agree that the future of humanity will make money obsolete but we are far far away from that.
  
  First thing we didn't figured out how the right alternative looks like. And I don't mean theories, I mean tests that proves to work.
  
  Second, we didn't figured out how an appealing transition is going to be. For one thing, it should be organic and not imposed.
  
  Governments, or powerful resourceful people, should be running economical experiments for instance in an island or a new small town with volunteers and tests new economical systems based on what we know today about neurosciences, neuroeconomy, anthropology, sociology and friends.
  
  Google, Steve, Bill are you hearing?
  
  Sponsor that island/town. That's a huge opportunity (of your size guys).

• A comment on Conversation: What does the speed of the acquisition of foreign cultural gestures reveal in one's personality?

  Aug 22 2011: Political correctness is a cross-cultural shoot in the foot.
  
  I fail to see any sign of intelligence in any of those little inconsequential traditional details.
  
  Just be your freakin' self
  
  If you don't know how, start remembering when you were 3 or 4 years old.
  
  You where a genius at that time.
  
  Same time before the cultural brainwash.
  
  Brainwash is too strong?
  
  ok, 'cultural formatting' then
  
  unformat yourself.
  
  Teach others to do the same