Crónicas del camino

Vatican City in 2 different years and events During the Latin American congress of the banking industry that I attended  ( CL@B ), I got the chance of learn about the different trends and challenges of the financial industry in this part of the world, from a technology perspective and of course, one of the main topics was related with mobility. Even that this topic was developed from a business perspective, most of the speakers share an important number of critical facts related with the current behavior of the society based on our habits.  The most shocking fact for me was related with how many times and average Smartphone user watch the screen of his/her device in a day... 10 times, maybe 20 or 50? No, 200! If we split that amount in an average active 16 hours that we have in a day, we are talking about 12 times and hour, which means that every 5 minutes we are watching the Smartphone screen.  Even that the technology is opening a huge ...

Ciudad del vaticano en dos momentos diferentes del tiempo Estando en el Congreso latinoamericano de Banca celebrado la semana pasada en la ciudad de Panamá ( CL@B ), tuve la oportunidad de aprender de las diferentes tendencias y desafíos que está enfrentando el sector financiero en esta parte del mundo, desde la perspectiva tecnológica.  Como era de esperarse, la movilidad fue uno de los temas más mencionados en cada una de las conferencias, y aunque en este evento en particular se abordaba desde una perspectiva de negocio, en algunas de ellas se compartieron hechos alarmantes sobre el comportamiento actual de la sociedad y el futuro que estamos construyendo a partir de nuestras conductas. La más impactante para mi fue la cantidad de veces que un usuario de Smartphone mira en promedio su dispositivo al día... 10, 20, 50? No, 200! Si repartimos eso en las más o menos 16 horas activas que tenemos al día, estamos hablando de más de 12 veces por hora, es decir 1 vez cada 5 ...

After a short think over that I did about the different personal and professional ventures that I started this year, I finally decide to put on hold a post graduate program that I have been taking. Even that it wasn't an easy decision, for some reason some many "argues" came from nowhere just when I start feeling that this study was not giving me what I was expecting of it. As a consequence of this decision, I recover my Friday afternoon and Saturday morning schedule (at that time I use to have class) and, taking advantage of the discipline that I gain to wake up early on Saturday, I start to retake breakfasts meetings with an important friend and colleague that invite me to participate in a business idea that he has. On the first session, during the conversation that we were having, my friend told me that even that this business idea wasn't looking for taking part of my workday schedule, it must be an important priority and then, he share an interesting though ab...