Karl Niebuhr 
En la semana pasada se hizo el primer (según mi conocimiento) evento de datos abiertos en Paraguay. El evento consistió en varias charlas a las que por razones no pude asistir. En donde si participé fue en el hackatón. Quiero compartir brevemente mi experiencia en el hackatón. El viernes 25 a la noche empezó oficialmente … Read more
I can’t remember exactly how I found this book but this is one of the most underrated psychology/self-development books In my opinion. This is a pragmatic book, it spends very little time on theory. Most of the content are examples of exercises the author performed with his students, or accounts of personal experiences of his … Read more
Black Privilege is an amusing biography to read. I won’t go into detail about the many anecdotes, you have to read them in context to really enjoy them. But I’ll share some of the little lessons I got out of this book. Don’t be afraid to tell the truth With fifteen years Charlamagne took a … Read more
My high expectations for this book turned out to be accurate. What it takes is a must read if you are interested in the reasoning process one of the biggest investors uses to make good decisions. The Blackstone Way After messing up an investment he himself approved, Schwarzman implemented a method in which ideas are … Read more
Years ago I created a collection of my favorite Quotes from Warren. I think investors like him and Charlie Munger are great aggregators of wisdom because it’s a requisite of long-term investing in my opinion. And with investing I don’t just mean money, time is the most important investment we all make, whether we do … Read more
In this excerpt from What it takes, Stephen Schwarzman explains how Blackstone developed it’s highly risk-averse and impersonal investing strategy. His system differs from that of Warren Buffett which I find highly interesting. Warren makes decisions on his own mostly, at Blackstone there is a process through which investing decisions have to go. THERE ARE … Read more
In this excerpt from What it takes, the CEO and co-founder of Backstone brings clarity to economic cycles and how to deal with them effectively in investments. The success of any investment depends in large part on where you are in the cycle when you make it. Cycles can have a major impact on the … Read more
What follows is an excerpt from the founder of Backstone Stephen A. Schwarzman’s Biography. Blackstone is the largest alternative investment firm in the world. This is my favorite chapter so far in this book. It is so interesting to me because Stephen describes his thinking process when he created a new company. What he was … Read more
This book is so good I read it twice, and probably will read it again within a year. There is just so much insight and it rings to true to me. This book is about finding what self-made Billionaires have in common. Searching answers for questions like. What skills, habits, talents or life experiences distinguish … Read more
This book entered my reading list while listening to the Tim Ferriss show 367. Bill Campbell, the coach this book writes about, immediately caught my interest. Here is Eric from the podcast: So Jonathan, Alan, and I have written a book called Trillion Dollar Coach and Bill Campbell is, at least in our opinion, the most successful … Read more
This book went into my reading list while reading The Third Door. In that book, the author’s first mentor asked him to read the first chapter of When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead. This book is filled with wisdom. In every chapter there are so many things to learn, it is really not … Read more
Jack Ma is the co-founder of Alibaba, one of the world’s biggest online Business to Business sites as well as other highly successful Chinese ventures like Alipay, Aliexpress, Tmall and Taobao. Having read Made in America, The Everything Store and Delivering Happiness, this book was a natural choice. Charisma and Vision If there is something … Read more
I became a fan of David Heinemeier since I watched the legendary talk Snakes and Rubies (2005) where he debates web frameworks with the creator of the Django Framework. That’s old tech now, but it’s a highly recommended talk for those interested in how dynamic web frameworks came to be. This book was on my … Read more
Mark Cuban loves to learn. He just enjoys learning new things. He likes to build a foundation of knowledge which he then can use to build businesses. The premise is, you have to have a basic understanding of what you are going to do business with. In an interview, he talks about how he is … Read more
It’s been two years since I read Becoming Steve Jobs. That’s about the time I wanted to get to the official biography written by Walter Isaacson. Happily, I did, here are some gold nuggets from this great piece of work. A clever kid The chip industry gave the region a new name when Don Hoefler, … Read more
Yesterday I sat down to enjoy Elon’s interview at Air Force Space Pitch Day and wrote down some notes. Elon is brilliant at distilling business to the core principles. It’s his way of applying first-principles thinking. Make something that print’s money At the 2019 Earnings Call Elon explained his business model for Tesla’s Solar Energy. … Read more
This book is amazing. My intuition bugged me a long time about reading a biography from Bill. I just didn’t knew which one. It’s not like there is one official Biography about him. Googling then I stumbled on a list of books among them was Hard Drive. It turned out to be the perfect choice. … Read more
I have been wanting to read biographies about Bill Gates for a while. Searching for them brought me to this book which he wrote himself. An opportunity I wouldn’t let escape. Sure, a lot of what Bill talks about in this book is no longer something new, most of the things he predicted in 1999 … Read more
I came across this book after watching Jane’s TED talk. I absolutely love the talk and what I learned about the benefits of games. Self development can be such a dry and unpleasant thing if you’re not in the right mental place, not so with games. Games are naturally fun, we play them because we … Read more
Today I’ll finally share the gist of Neuro-Associative Conditioning or NAC. NAC is a form of (re) programming habits. I learned about NAC in Tony Robbin’s Personal Power ll which according to Wikipedia “is the best-selling personal improvement program of all time with more than 35 million tapes distributed worldwide.“ The audio program is really … Read more