RemoteFrog

Remote learning, communication and leadership

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Hi there! I’m Raúl Antón Cuadrado

I love remote and distributed communication, leadership, and learning. I believe in how distributed co-participation can change the world.

So I blog about remote leadership and learning and I relish lecturing and giving talks, creating the future workplace makes me happy and… I love exchanging points of view. Why don’t we talk?

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An open, collaborative, and transparent peer-reviews workflow that works.

As I promised in my talk at Commit-Conf, I share this recap of the talk where we summarized the peer reviews workflow in team Neptune…

Building Team Culture. A tool: Great Working Environment Poll.

The Great Working Environment tool is a team culture building technique allowing team members to define their dreamt of environment and work to get it.

Recognition and leadership.

It’s just about saying thank you and the impact is really powerful: recognition and leadership should be always together. But how to recognize? Some hints.

Remote and Distributed Leadership

Revolution is asking when the answers are already given. The Hedge.

Foto David Spinks CC-BY-SA

An open, collaborative, and transparent peer-reviews workflow that works.

4 clear rules to give Kudos

4 simple rules to give kudos: be specific, explain the impact, make it personal, state your appreciation… and never say Kudos to you if you don’t sent kudos

Some easy directions to implement a Kudos System

There are several factors to take into account when building a kudos system. If you fulfill these, “the simpler the better”.

Building Team Culture. A tool: Great Working Environment Poll.

The Great Working Environment tool is a team culture building technique allowing team members to define their dreamt of environment and work to get it.

Learning

Landscape

“Everything has something to learn from, if you can find it” La duquesa

Foto Michael Gallagher; CC-BY-SA

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.

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.

Palimpsests. Overlapping Knowledge generation and use in fast-paced Organizations.

In fast-paced environments books are not useful. Individuals are collaboratively and continuously creating a Knowledge Palimpsest as a learning community with shared purpose.

Fundamentals of remote training for companies

Fundamentals of remote training for companies. Some directions to apply connectivism and constructivism on your company trainings and learning strategy.

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.

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.

Dunbar number revisited

Dunbar proved brain evolution happened to allow a more sophisticated social interaction. But the Dunbar number is just a picturesque invention.

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.

Talks

Teaching, and specifically direct formats like talks and workshops, are the best opportunity to learn.

An open, collaborative, and transparent peer-reviews workflow that works.

Peer Reviews at Commit Conf

Talking about peer reviews at Commit Conf 2019.

I’ll be in commit-conf talking about peer reviews and meeting interesting people. Do we have a coffee together?

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

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.

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.

Dunbar number revisited

Dunbar proved brain evolution happened to allow a more sophisticated social interaction. But the Dunbar number is just a picturesque invention.