Ideas, Reflections and Speculations
Sobre o valor da conversa
Quanto vale uma conversa? E quanto custa? As expressões “as boas conversas não têm preço” ou “as conversas têm valor incalculável” podem bem enquadrar-se no conceito de profundidadezinha do filósofo Daniel Dennett. Aprofundemos.
Commercial ghosting: a reflection on the state we've reached
A thesis, an antithesis and a synthesis on the reasons why ghosting in a professional context exists and is apparently on the rise.
Seeing clearly hurts, that's why you see cloudily
Self-help is always an invitation to submit one's own thinking, critical thinking, to the thinking and experience of another. Critical thinking is the exercise of questioning one's own thinking. Only after that should you even think about directing your attention to someone else's thinking.
To return or not to return? Is that the question?
To return or not to return? Control or freedom? Rigidity or flexibility? Blind traditionalism or naive progressivism? A reflection on what limits the quality of the questions with which we entertain ourselves.
A perspective on sustainability
It is convenient to close or at least half-closed our eyes to the problems that exist around us and our own contribution. Sometimes it is good not to see reality clearly, lest it make us depressed or give us even more work.
Let's pay attention to what we pay attention to and learn to distract ourselves better
When we feel lonely, bored, angry, frustrated, worried, we distract ourselves with the shiny screen that is more accessible, that shows us often irrelevant things. We distract ourselves with distractions. Let us distract ourselves better.
I just got here
I realize and recognize that there is a before and after I joined Way Beyond. What was left behind I remember as a climb to a mountain peak. The hard trial of life in which, in order to become great, in our eyes, we so often feel small. What came after is like a dip in the ocean.
The (sad) story of the chatbot who knows me better than my mother
Machines have already freed us from many heavy jobs and make our lives easier in so many others. How much better is our life? What have we done with this (supposed) evolution? We have created new problems instead of solving other important and avoidable problems. What problems are we neglecting as the myopia caused by our dazzle worsens?
Give me back my difficulties
Kindly give me back my difficulties so that I can freely choose my challenges.
Guesses unlikely to come true
Let's solve the "workload" problem; more conversations and fewer meetings; let's take an organic and not a mechanical/mathematical perspective of growth; let's educate middle management; let's define and defend causes instead of purposes; let's cut the crap.
No, this is not normal
Everyone suddenly has something special to say about important matters, and what there is to say must be said in a hurry to get there first. Haste is the enemy of listening, observation, introspection and reflection, which are the ingredients of thoughtfulness, wisdom and consideration. Good conversations are also made without haste.
Heráclito, resilience and the Financial Director
In our human networks one person can help another to overcome their adversities by seeing themselves differently.
The sales people
The sold are the ones unable to see the falseness of their absolute and indelible truths. They are the ones blinded by the need, which has become belief, to always be right. These are the ones who accumulate truths without ever surrendering to the possibility of being wrong.
No common sense, no consensus
About this world of ours today, which is evidently not taking the best course, because of us above all, it is easy to argue that both common sense and consensus are lacking. Nevertheless, neither concept will lead us to better paths. Both the cause and the solution may lie in common sense.
Whoever comes for good is welcome
How do you integrate new people in a team that already exists? Or should we rather ask: how do we make new people feel "at home" in a house that already has other people (and furniture, pictures, lamps in the right place?).
Soft" skills
What do you think and feel when someone tells you that another person is "hard"? And when a person is "soft"? Words are loaded with meanings, stories and history. The same word can mean different things in different contexts and with different intentions. But what is left behind? What trace is left of other uses when the story we want to tell with that word is different?
Let's go back to wanting to have and be (good) bosses
"We need to save leadership from leadership people," wrote Megan Hustad. Taking it a step further, I believe we urgently need to save the "leaders", especially the people who are not yet tainted by the doctrines of leadership
This change is different
Our brain gets used (too much and too quickly) to what it already knows, so any necessary change may, at certain times, seem impossible to make, a Herculean effort, like the myth of Sisyphus.