Sebastián Machado Malbrán ن 🇦🇷 🧭 🚜

Probablemente uno de los últimos libros NO escritos por ChatGPT... Get it! 👉 altodesempen.io

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild. He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed. When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them. Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate. The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions. Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement. The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean. That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

“In life… when you find something that you love so much, as much as I did love motor racing, and as I still love motor racing, you will find in yourself the determination to go out and really bring the best out of yourself.” – Alex Zanardi

"Dios le da la atención a los hombres, y la atención lo hace todo." Transitividad...

A propósito de este paper fundacional de la AI como la conocemos hoy, hay una frase de Leibniz de hacer algunos siglos... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention…

“You know, when you are in your 20s, you always believe that the race, that the championship is the only thing that matters.  But then 20 years later, you say ‘Ooohhh, I remember when I was there with my mechanics, with my engineer, talking about the car, going out for a pizza… So you realize what really (matters) was the effort that you put in daily in order to build something special. Because when the championship arrives, you cannot expect to meet happiness that day, otherwise you don’t get there. It’s the process. You cannot talk about dedication, sacrifice or stuff like that.  You just do what you have to do because you love to do it.” -Alex Zanardi metacool.com/metacool-thoug…

Dermatologist: don't forget your sunscreen! Every day! Me:

@satyanadella Seriously? Cowork?

Announcing Copilot Cowork, a new way to complete tasks and get work done in M365. When you hand off a task to Cowork, it turns your request into a plan and executes it across your apps and files, grounded in your work data and operating within M365’s security and governance boundaries.

The Italian 🇮🇹 rugby team goes absolutely wild after beating England for the first time ever! In the locker room, they belt out “Nessun Dorma” better than any opera stars 😅

- "Eso es imposible." - "Ah, sí? Haceme el favor de correrte entonces, así nos dejás espacio para hacerlo."

Tres meses es mucho tiempo para no avanzar en nada importante para el largo plazo. Solo hay cuatro períodos de tres meses en un año. El mejor momento para plantar un árbol fue hace veinte años. El segundo mejor momento es hoy. Y más, en los tiempos que corren.

Cuando uno da autonomía, lo que tiene que mirar es el resultado de la decisión y el razonamiento detrás. Si el foco está en cómo se hizo, probablemente no sea autonomía lo que se está dando.

Todo es un problema de perspectiva.

¿Qué hubiera pasado si no llegaba tarde? Si los hubiera escuchado presentados como "problemas famosos sin resolver", probablemente nunca los hubiera atacado.

George Dantzig llegó tarde a clase. Vio dos problemas escritos en el pizarrón y los copió pensando que eran tarea. Los resolvió en unos días. "Parecían un poco más difíciles de lo normal."

This is what an EXCEPTIONAL mindset thinks like and sounds like. So impressive from a 22 years old. Not only you CAN control what you think, and how you think it and why, but you SHOULD. See your mind as a skill and practice it as such.

Hay una diferencia enorme entre definir un objetivo como responsabilidad y definirlo como resultado. "Liderar el área de ventas" no es un objetivo. "Cerrar 20 contratos en Q1" sí lo es.

Los objetivos simplifican. Toda la complejidad del mercado, la competencia, los recursos — se resume ahí. Un equipo que no sabe cuáles son sus objetivos simplemente se entretiene trabajando.

Todo líder, con cada acción que realiza, está construyendo o destruyendo equipo. No hay mensajes inertes. No hay acciones sin efectos. O suman o restan. No existe el término medio.