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Remote and Distributed Leadership
A remote working routine to be productive and happy in 4 steps.
A working routine to be productive and happy in remote work that leaves time for self-care and awareness and structures your working day.
Read More…How to promote participation in your team P2: Be less present!
If team lead is less present in conversations it creates a space for others to participate and foster participation. An experiment explained.
Read More…Asynchronous work, Communication, Openness… cigarettes
Better late than never. Let’s share the presentation I made for a talk with People R-evolution. It was on July 20th from 17.00 to 19.00 CEST (This is the link to the talk) and was about communication, openness, and asynchronous work and how it relates to happiness at work. So two hours! Yeah, my first reaction was the same but…
Read More…Automattic. Trust, horizontality, openness for happier and more productive people
I’ll be talking about distributed work and how we implement it in Automattic with some nice folks in People R-evolution. It’ll be on July 20th from 17.00 to 19.00 CEST and you can sign up for this talk here
Read More…Learning

“Everything has something to learn from, if you can find it” La duquesa
Foto Michael Gallagher; CC-BY-SA
Using my Dr. title in public, because it is my choice.
When I read my colleague Tess’s post (my title my choice) I decided to do something about it. Context: The post was a reaction to a repulsive Wall Street Journal article. That article simply is a repugnant patronizing and sexist attack on Dr. Jill Biden’s use of Dr. title. I agree with Tess when she says the Doctor title is…
Read More…Teal Organizations and Knowledge Generation. Notes.
To overlap knowledge generation and use you need no central point where knowledge is managed (Think management as validation and distribution control)
Read More…Bye, information certitude! Hi, Knowledge Fuzziness.
Uncertainty areas are widening as Kruger said. Bye-bye to comfortably lie over certitudes. Bye, information certitude! Hi, Knowledge Fuzziness.
Read More…What’s the Argument from Authority?
The argument from authority is a logical fallacy to validate opinions because they come from someone instead of using a logical demonstration. + a bit of history.
Read More…Communication

Communication is Oxygen we say at Automattic. And it’s true. We become humans through communication and death is nothing but the interruption of any communication.
Foto John Dyer; CC-NC-ND
About communication and Coffee
Communication is about persons and about sharing as we become humans by social interaction.
Read More…What is Media Literacy
With Media Literacy we get critical reception + creative emision. It’s nothing but a runaway from Bourdieu and Passeron’s reproduction.
Read More…Dunbar number revisited
Dunbar proved brain evolution happened to allow a more sophisticated social interaction. But the Dunbar number is just a picturesque invention.
Read More…Dunbar’s number: your neocortex deciding how many friends you have
Human neocórtex is great because it is boosted with social interaction as to say goodbye to the Dunbar’s number. You can have more than 150 friends.
Read More…Blogging

Media literacy empowerment key point is participation by genuine and quality contents (vs hate speech, echolalia, and ad-like-content).
Foto Carlos Delgado; CC-BY-SA
Using my Dr. title in public, because it is my choice.
When I read my colleague Tess’s post (my title my choice) I decided to do something about it. Context: The post was a reaction to a repulsive Wall Street Journal article. That article simply is a repugnant patronizing and sexist attack on Dr. Jill Biden’s use of Dr. title. I agree with Tess when she says the Doctor title is…
Read More…What’s the Argument from Authority?
The argument from authority is a logical fallacy to validate opinions because they come from someone instead of using a logical demonstration. + a bit of history.
Read More…Hey Tumblr people: Welcome to the Automattic family!
Welcome Tumblr to the Automattic family. We are in a marathon together to give voice to the entire World in the Internet and to spread media literacy.
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