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Ideas, Reflections and Speculations

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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?

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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.

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"Call a spade a spade - Part 2: From banalities to barbarities

It pains me more and more to live in a world that values the magnetism of those who enchant through their ideological mediocrity, without any respect for truth. The same world where status, often gained by who knows how, lights the way to high-profile stages. Too bad it does not illuminate in the same way the path that goes beyond a sensationalist superficiality.

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"Calling a spade a spade: the case of business jargon

I confess to being so saturated with corporate bullshit, especially that which is said in English, that every time I hear that someone needs help to develop their soft skills what I hear is that it will probably be someone who resorts to rudeness, lack of respect and lack of common sense as means to achieve their results.

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