I recently read the story of a woman who had to travel to New York for business reasons for three days and, therefore, used the services of a well-known short-term rental company. But when she got to the apartment she had rented, she found that it was nothing like what she saw on the web page promot…
Blog posts December 2021
Becoming addicted to one’s own ideas is both dangerous and paralyzing
I recently read the story of a woman who had to travel to New York for business reasons for three days and, therefore, used the services of a well-known short-term rental company. But when she got to the apartment she had rented, she found that it was nothing like what she saw on the web page promot…
La mayor y más peligrosa adicción es la adicción a nuestras propias ideas
Recientemente leí la historia de una mujer que, por negocios, debió viajar a Nueva York por tres días y, por eso, usó los servicios de una conocida empresa de alquiler de viviendas a corto plazo. Pero cuando llegó al apartamento que había alquilado, se encontró que no era nada parecido a lo que se v…
Confusing the map with the territory simply means not knowing at all
I like that mental exercise, presented many times and in many ways, in which someone, let's say a man, knows all about colors. For example, the man in question knows the wavelength of each color and can anticipate the psychological impact that each color will have on the person looking at it.
But…
Confusing the map with the territory simply means not knowing at all.
I like that mental exercise, presented many times and in many ways, in which someone, let's say a man, knows all about colors. For example, the man in question knows the wavelength of each color and can anticipate the psychological impact that each color will have on the person looking at it.
But (a…
Confundir el mapa con el territorio significa simplemente no saber
Me gusta ese ejercicio mental, presentado muchas veces y de muchas maneras, en el que alguien, digamos un hombre, conoce todo sobre los colores. Por ejemplo, el hombre en cuestión sabe la longitud de onda de cada color y puede anticipar el impacto psicológico que cada color tendrá en la persona que …
How much is left of us if we increasingly delegate more and more decisions to technology?
It has been said and repeated that technology is neither good nor bad, but it depends on how it is used. In fact, although repeated again and again, the only thing that this idea achieves is to hide the essence of technology behind a utilitarian approach: if the results are good, then the technology…
¿Cuánto queda de nosotros si cada vez delegamos más en la tecnología?
Se dice y se repita hasta el cansancio que la tecnología no es ni buena ni mala, sino que depende de cómo se la use. De hecho, aunque repetida ad nauseam, esa idea lo único que logra es ocultar la esencia de la tecnología detrás de un enfoque utilitarista: si los resultados son buenos, entonces la t…
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