Se lleva la iluminación ;-)

Comando Dharma: de compras..... a por iluminación

La libertad no es necesariamente emocionante; es sólo libre. Muy apacible y silenciosa, así que muy tranquila. Por supuesto, también está llena de alegría y asombro, pero no es lo que te imaginas. Es mucho, mucho menos. Muchos confunden el poder embriagador del llamado carisma espiritualista con la iluminación. La mayoría de las veces es simplemente espiritualista, y no necesariamente libre o iluminado. Para ser verdaderamente libre, debes desear conocer la verdad más de lo que deseas sentirte bien. Porque si sentirte bien es tu meta, entonces tan pronto como te sientas mejor, perderás el interés por lo verdadero. Esto no quiere decir que sentirse bien o experimentar amor y felicidad sea una cosa mala. Si se pudiera elegir, cada uno elegiría sentirse feliz en lugar de triste. Simplemente significa que si este deseo de sentirte bien es más fuerte que el deseo de ver, conocer, y experimentar la Verdad, entonces este deseo estará siempre distorsionando la percepción de lo que es Real, corrompiendo la integridad más profunda de uno.

innovation, startups and coming too late vs. too soon

@pmarca vía @NewsReputation vía @InmaculadaUrrea… "Analysis" on coming too late vs. too soon:

A thing I believe that few believe: Almost all Silicon Valley startup ideas from qualified founders = great ideas. But some are too early.
Track startups over multiple decades, what you find is that most ideas do end up working. It's much more a question of "when" not "if".
This is interesting for several reasons. First, it means that criticism of the form "that will never happen" is usually misguided & wrong.
Second, it means that a much bigger risk for founders is "too early", vs "wrong" or "too late". Often doesn't match feedback from others.
To quote Peter Thiel, it is often better to be the last company to market (hit timing right & take down the entire market) vs the first.
Third, when you have the timing right, you almost always feel like you're too late. Terrified you've missed the window = great sign.
When idea X has been in the air, with repeated attempts to build X, yet most customers are not yet doing/using X, it's never too late.
Fourth, founders by definition live in the future, see a world that doesn't yet exist & try to make it so. Nailing timing = hardest thing.
Which is often why more pragmatic founders end up building the big & important companies -- the idealists were just too early.
Fifth, therefore, most of the great ideas for the next two decades are already known. In labs, in failed startups, in big co prototypes.
Those ideas are being dismissed now since the early attempts have't worked. This has the opposite predictive value vs what people think.
Quoting @GreatDismal, the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed -- or it's not yet distributed at all. But it is here.
The key question is: What ideas are widely dismissed today due to having been tried & failed? Answer is the codex to the next 20 years.

Creating growth clusters: What role for local government?

Creating growth clusters: What role for local government? | McKinsey & Company

…To flourish, entrepreneurial activity requires a concentration of talent, infrastructure, capital, and networks—key success factors of a start-up ecosystem…

…to deal with many stakeholders create the potential for bottlenecks…
…Policy makers cannot pick winners in such an environment. Instead, they should focus on enabling structures that can address more fundamental requirements…

Pues sí, a los gobiernos y entidades destinadas a la generación de riqueza a través de un ecosistema de startups, le conviene leer la "biblia" sobre el asunto, startup communities.

Gratificación instantánea

En Recode han escrito una entrada muy interesante sobre la gratificación instantánea… que por el contenido no es la primera sobre este interesante asunto.

No dejéis de leer los enlaces que hay en ella.

Me parece un tema muy interesante tanto desde el punto sociológico, como desde el de diseño de modelos de negocio…

De la entrada original

… A decade ago, we got iTunes, and the ability to buy a song bought and delivered with the push of a button. Then Facebook helped us stay in touch with our spread-out friends and family from the comfort of our couch. Then Netflix DVDs started coming over the air instead of to our mailboxes. Now it’s not just Web pages that we can load up instantly, it’s the physical world.
Not to neglect the important historical contributions of pizza joints and Chinese restaurants, but the groundwork for what you might call the instant gratification economy was laid by Amazon, which spent years building up its inventory, fulfillment infrastructure and, most importantly, customer expectations for getting whatever they want delivered to their doors two days later.
…
As for whether there’s demand, forces are converging to fulfill the notion of what some pundits label “IWWIWWIWI.” That is, “I want what I want when I want it.” It’s not the easiest acronym to get your tongue around — but it’s pretty to look at, and it’s right on the money.
Psychologist and consumer expert Kit Yarrow’s new book, “Decoding the New Consumer Mind,” is all about IWWIWWIWI.
Yarrow thinks we’ve become conditioned for impatience by technology like Internet search and smartphones. “Today, we have almost no tolerance for boredom,” she told me. “Our brains are malleable, and I think they have shifted to accommodate much more stimulation. We’re fascinated by newness, and we desire to get the new thing right away. We want what we want when we want it.”
…
Someone had told me the day before that one way to think about all this instant gratification stuff is that it basically brings rich-people benefits to the average person.
In his view, the magic of Uber and services modeled on Uber is that they help you value your time the way a rich person would, without spending your money the way a rich person would.
…at the end of the massage, I don’t have to leave, fight traffic, find parking, or face the real world.
…
As for whether there’s demand, forces are converging to fulfill the notion of what some pundits label “IWWIWWIWI.” That is, “I want what I want when I want it.” It’s not the easiest acronym to get your tongue around — but it’s pretty to look at, and it’s right on the money.
Psychologist and consumer expert Kit Yarrow’s new book, “Decoding the New Consumer Mind,” is all about IWWIWWIWI.
Yarrow thinks we’ve become conditioned for impatience by technology like Internet search and smartphones. “Today, we have almost no tolerance for boredom,” she told me. “Our brains are malleable, and I think they have shifted to accommodate much more stimulation. We’re fascinated by newness, and we desire to get the new thing right away. We want what we want when we want it.”
…
He describes this as a boomerang back to a village economy. After years of trends toward suburbs, big-box stores and car ownership, smartphones could be helping us get back to where we came from. The combined forces of urbanization, online commerce and trust mean that people can efficiently share goods and services on a local level, more than ever before.

¿Cómo me volví loco?

De comando dharma

... me preguntas como me volví loco, ocurrió asi: un dia, mucho antes de que nacieran los dioses, desperté de un profundo sueño y descubrí que habian robado todas mis máscaras, las siete máscaras que había modelado y usado en siete vidas. Huí sin máscaras por las atestadas calles gritando:"¡ladrones! ¡ladrones! ¡malditos ladrones!. Hombres y mujeres se reían de mi, y algunos corrieron a sus casas temerosos de mi.y cuando llegué a la plaza del mercado, un muchacho, depié sobre el techo de una casa gritó: ¡es un loco! 
alcé la vista para mirarlo y por primera vez el sol besó mi rostro desnudo.Y mi alma se inflamó de amor por el sol y ya no deseé más mis máscaras, como en éxtasis grité:¡Benditos sean los ladrones que han robado mis máscaras! Así fué como me volví loco. Y he hallado la libertad y la salvación en mi locura, la libertad de estar solo y a salvo de ser comprendido, porque aquellos que nos comprenden esclavizan algo nuestro....    Khalil Gibran

The Problem With Minimalism

The Problem With Minimalism | The Art of Manliness

As I said at the beginning, I think minimalism is a great thing, just not when taken to extremes. A man should have a healthy relationship with his possessions, and that means getting into the right mindset about them, and then not thinking about them very much at all. Most of the great men I admire from history knew what they needed and enjoyed (check out their libraries and studies). They accumulated things that were both practical and simply brought them pleasure. They bought things that were well-made and wouldn’t have to be replaced over and over. They didn’t hoard or surround themselves with junk. They didn’t go overboard and stretch their budget to keep up with the Joneses. And they didn’t have to make a philosophy on stuff central to their lives, because they had too much else going on to need it. They didn’t have time to worry if 103 possessions might be too many, if their huge library of books should be reduced, if their studio full of art supplies was too cluttered, or if a room dedicated to hunting trophies might be weighing down their psyche. But they were minimalists where it mattered: in paring down the time-wasters and soul-suckers that would hold them back from creating a rich, manly legacy.

Si no es verdad, ni bueno, ni necesario, sepultémoslo en el olvido.

La fábula de las tres rejas – El triple filtro de Sócrates | Impulso Coaching de Negocios

El joven discípulo de Sócrates llega a casa de éste y le dice:- Oye maestro, un amigo tuyo estuvo hablando de ti con malevolencia…..- !Espera! – lo interrumpe el filosofo – ¿ya hiciste pasar por las tres rejas lo que vas a contarme?- ¿Las tres rejas?