Mostrar mensagens com a etiqueta arte. Mostrar todas as mensagens
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terça-feira, julho 03, 2018

Mais outro exemplo: Provinciano, mas muito à frente (parte II)

Parte I.

Vai continuar a aumentar a frequência com que o tema vai ser objecto de conversa. O retorno do artesão e da arte casados com a tecnologia.

BTW, reparar nesta foto no final da página:


Fez-me regressar a Julho de 2016 e a uma pergunta que coloquei a empresários do calçado: "Não receiam que um dia um par de sapatos possa ser feito e vendido por um trabalhador a partir de casa?" É o que está a acontecer cada vez mais (recordar o lago de nenúfares)
"Craftsmen like Grasso, who is now in his 80s, have remained out of the limelight for decades, as globalisation has put the emphasis firmly on brand names and industrialised manufacturing. But an exhibition opening in Venice in September, at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, seeks to turn the spotlight back on European craftsmanship and its tradition of master craftsmen.
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he believes the robotics revolution has a silver lining for traditional manufacturing. “There will be a premium on the human eye and hand. And Europe has got that,” he says."
Um sério risco da nata do online não ser para a fábrica, mas para o operário-artesão contratado directamente pelo vendedor online.

Trecho retirado de "Homo Faber: the master craftsman versus the machine"

quinta-feira, junho 28, 2018

Mais outro exemplo: Provinciano, mas muito à frente

Há anos que escrevo sobre o futuro do trabalho, sobretudo acerca do fim do emprego estabelecido como paradigma pelo século XX, e que a maioria acredita ser algo milenar, algo eterno. Sobretudo, acerca da ascensão do artesão, do artesão apoiado na tecnologia e dedicado à criação de arte e a trabalhar em co-criação com os seus clientes.

Por isso, isto faz todo o sentido, "(Re)naissance de l’Homo Faber : le travailleur de demain sera un artiste ou un artisan rompu aux nouvelles technologies":
"Les sociétés européennes ont toujours tenu pour acquis que la transmission de compétences se ferait de génération en génération : le développement d’un talent d’artiste ou d’artisan se faisait par les enseignements des maîtres précédents. On pourrait penser que ce paradigme a disparu avec la société industrielle, mais ce serait faux : l’avenir du travail pourrait bien revenir aux fondamentaux même de l’histoire du travail, et ce grâce à nos nouvelles technologies. [Moi ici: Tenho escrito sobre isto vezes sem conta, o regresso ao trabalho pré-Revolução Industrial, cooperativas de artesãos]
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La fabrication numérique assistée par ordinateur fonctionne différemment. Elle ne requiert aucun moule et ne nécessite donc pas de répéter une même forme indéfiniment. Chaque pièce peut-être unique, telle une œuvre d’art. Là où les problématiques d’espace et de quantité dominaient le monde industriel, aujourd’hui, un petit atelier ou un studio peuvent concurrencer une grande usine. La production ne se résume plus à une question de volume.
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L’émergence d’une économie sans échelle, une économie à taille humaine.
Dans ce nouvel environnement, le plus grand défi pour un travailleur est de penser en artiste tout en exploitant les possibilités des nouvelles technologies. [Moi ici: Outro tema tipo deste blogue, a ascensão da arte]
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C’est la raison pour laquelle l’apprentissage doit évoluer : il ne s’agit plus de commencer par se former pour ensuite trouver un travail correspondant, mais bien de travailler d’abord, pour trouver par la suite les enseignements qui nous correspondent. [Moi ici: Tão bom!!! A ascensão da arte dita que tudo comece pelo fuçar, pela experimentação - "Não começamos a fazer arte assim que nos tornamos artistas. Ou seja, não é por sermos artistas que fazemos arte, é por fazermos arte que nos tornamos artistas."] Que les nouvelles technologies privent leurs utilisateurs de formations pratiques serait un désastre.
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Le futur du travail que dessinent ces nouvelles technologies, c’est celui de « l’Homo Faber » : un homme qui sera son propre créateur, qui se réalisera à travers les gestes  du quotidien. Le travail permet d’écrire une histoire dans laquelle chaque projet est un chapitre de vie qui s’additionne aux autres et de ce point de vue, chacun pourra constater que sa vie est plus qu’une série aléatoire de jobs déconnectés – y compris pour les petits boulots rémunérés à la tâche. [Moi ici: Como não recordar o recente "Aproveitei o meu percurso"

sexta-feira, maio 18, 2018

Arte, sempre a arte

Desde 2011 que defendo aqui que o futuro das PME passa pela arte:

Entretanto, esta semana descobri o livro "Thinking The Art of Management - Stepping into 'Heidegger's Shoes" de David Atkinson. Nele, descobri um artigo de 1987, "Portrait of the Manager as an Artist" de Vincent Degot:
"A long tradition (in terms of the history of industrial capitalism) tells us that business management is to be considered as a proper subject for "scientific" study. One of the reasons supporting this is that management is based on a rationalistic attitude of mind: to achieve optimum use of resources with a view to maximisation of corporate profits. However, a much older tradition teaches us that it would be unwise, from the scientific and rationalistic standpoints, to assume that the business manager is motivated solely, or even essentially, by the goal of maximum profit. To illustrate and define the ideas we shall be developing in the main body of this paper, let us first take a brief look at a rather different field, often known as the "history of art criticism"...To come back to our starting point, it is clear that, while management can benefit from general techniques, applicable in companies of all kinds and themselves reflecting some changes in fashion, it must make allowance for the conditions prevailing within each particular company. This can be done only through experience, given that classroom tuition cannot cover the whole gamut of combinations of factors which have to be handled in practice. This means that a manager may perform brilliantly in one context but poorly in another (in the same way as some painters are at their best with portraits, others with landscapes, and so on). Consequently, one of the talents of the true manager lies in his ability to discover the working environment best suited to his particular gifts."

E ainda:
"In the first place, it might be said that the work has a more overall dimension that the decision: a decision may form part of a work (just as an iconographic motif may be an integral part of a painting). In that case, we must allow that the decisions are not necessarily of the "hard" type (i.e. based on strict economics), but may be of the "soft" variety we have discussed elsewhere. The work comprises perception of the need for something to be done at some point, evaluation of the right decision needed and, finally, implementation of that decision in practical form. There are of course many decision-theories which make due allowance for these three phases, but what we are more, particularly concerned with here is the extent to which each phase leaves room for personal initiative;
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The creative work commences when its author starts to realise, on the basis of random information - chatting in the corridor, a glimpse of a computer print-out, a report by a consultant, something said at a staff meeting, etc -, that a specific action of some kind will be called for in due course. The creative manager -displaying one of his characteristics to which we come back later - feels that possibility in the form of an impulse, a violent desire for action. He then has to convey to other people all or part of his initial "intuition" - assuming, of course, that others will have to be involved. To this end, he may have to adapt his project to suit the corporate culture context, and relevant external trends (fashions) which could help to support it. In practice, this process is not so clear-nut and deliberate as thus expressed. Owing to this adaptation, the project may fit in with a prevailing "style" or reflect a local "taste" (cultural segment). One way in which he displays his personal talent is his skilful use of the factors in presence when mobilising his entourage to mete the project feasible. He may, for example, be led to formulate it in rationalistic terms as a means of demonstrating its advantages for the corporation, and this reformulation process may affect his original intention. In the same way, there have been times when external factors (patrons, critics) have affected the composition or the subject of a painting."






quarta-feira, maio 02, 2018

Coisa de loucos

Uma pessoa apanha cada coisa "Banco Mundial propõe baixar salários mínimos para enfrentar robôs":
"Tendo em conta que substituir trabalhadores por máquinas reduz custos, um relatório do Banco Mundial vem agora sugerir que uma boa forma de combater o "avanço dos robôs" seria reduzir os salários mínimos e flexibilizar as leis laborais, facilitando os despedimentos.
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Uma das soluções para minimizar o impacto da automatização e uso de robôs no mercado laboral passa por limitar os aumentos, ou mesmo reduzir ou extinguir, os salários mínimos, defendem os autores.
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Os pressupostos para a existência de um salário mínimo – garantir um rendimento para um nível de vida com um mínimo de dignidade – podem ser assegurados através de mais apoios dos Estados aos mais carenciados, argumentam."
Quem lê este blogue sabe que não vejo com bons olhos a existência dos salários mínimos, mas dessa posição de princípio contra intromissão do estado e de terceiros na liberdade de negociação entre duas partes adultas, até ao significado desta mensagem do Banco Mundial vai uma grande diferença.

Mais uma prova de que Napoleão tinha toda a razão ao afirmar:
Gente que pensa que a automatização em Mongo é para produzir o mesmo que se produzia no Normalistão do século XX é gente muito básica:

Gente que precisa de ler Seth Godin para perceber que foi a industrialização que criou a massa que caracterizou o século XX, não foram os humanos que criaram o industrialismo:
Os humanos têm horror à uniformização e só a toleraram por causas dos preços.

Os humanos são e adoram ser diferentes:

Assim que a tecnologia libertou os humanos começou o bailado:

Cada vez temos mais variedade, mais tribos, mais diferenciação e isso dá cabo dos modelos de produção baseados no século XX.

Automatização à la século XX dá mau resultado:


A Toyota e a Mercedes já aprenderam que o futuro da indústria é ...

a arte e o regresso dos artesãos entrelaçados com a tecnologia: A ascensão do artesão e da arte na produção.

Esta gente do Banco Mundial padece da mesma doença dos de direita que acreditavam que o país só podia recuperar com o corte de salários via TSU, e dos de esquerda que acreditavam que o país só podia recuperar com o corte de salários politicamente correcto, a saída do euro, para regressar ao desvario da desvalorização cambial:


A indústria do futuro vai precisar de humanos mais do que nunca, não de braços como no século XX, mas de cérebros com paixão, "Why The Future Of Technology Is All Too Human":
"So the answer to our technological dilemma is, in fact, all too human.  While the past favored those who could retain and process information efficiently, the future belongs to those who can imagine a better world and work with others to make it happen."






domingo, abril 08, 2018

"people celebrate their space with prototypes they've worked on"

"At IDEO people celebrate their space with prototypes they've worked on, found art, and clever mechanical toys. One of my favorite corners looks like something out of a bike shop. There's a hat rack full of cycling helmet prototypes, a plywood pendulum with a heavy metal ball to test them, a phenomenally light carbon racing wheel, and a clever folding bike lock of hardened steel. At nearly every corner, mobile steel Metro shelves are brimming with foam prototypes or parts. If someone's got a hobby or interest, you'll find it in his or her space, everything from cell phone collections to the mishmash of horribly designed toys and gizmos. As for the bizarre, IDEOer Roby Stance! favors a Styrofoam dress shop model's head to store and display his electrical components (sort of a cyberpunk hairdo). There are also plenty of surprises: quirky wall cutouts and window slits that afford unexpected views and provide amusing displays for knickknacks. Look around your office. Do workers have places for impromptu meetings? Is them a comfortable blend of openness and privacy? And equally important, are workers encouraged to celebrate their work and hobbies in their space? If you can't tell when you're moving from one neighborhood to another, you probably don't have neighborhoods."
Ainda na semana passada numa PME, enquanto aguardava no hall de entrada e, olhava para um velho quadro pregado na parede e pensava como podiam substitui-lo por esquemas dos protótipos que fabricam.

Trecho retirado de "The Art of Innovation" de Tom Kelley

terça-feira, abril 25, 2017

A ascensão do artesão e da arte na produção (parte II)

Ontem publicámos "A ascensão do artesão e da arte na produção". Depois, ao princípio da tarde fui brindado com:

Entretanto, ao fim da tarde de ontem ainda deparei com:


"Several things happen in this conversation but one of them is that we begin to see into the history, we might even say the “intentions,” of the objects on the shelves. We begin to see that these things come from someone, that they were crafted to a purpose that begins with “coffee mug” and then scales up to include the lifestyle, the community, the economy, the culture that might be loosely designed artisanal.
Ah, now we get it. That’s why things cost more. That object on the shelf of Wal-mart doesn’t have a story. It was made by a stranger in a factory in Chengdu, shipped across an ocean, and banged around in the distribution system until it just happened to roll to a stop here on a shelf. It doesn’t mean very much because capitalism was so busy giving it value, it forgot to give it meaning.
And that’s what Sofi is for, to gently help you see what the mug means. Yes, we can buy a cheaper mug somewhere. But ,by this standard, cheaper doesn’t feel better, it feels poorer. As if everyone in the production – consumption chain as been diminished by the effort.
So, we could say, if we were rushing to conclusions (and that is what we do here), that retail is not merely the last moment in the distribution chain. It completes the meaning making process. And more to the point, it helps consumers understand and grasp the “artisanal premium” they are required to pay. It’s always true to say “we get what we pay for.” The very point of Olives and Grace is to help us see what we’re paying for. It helps solve the problem of cheap food."


segunda-feira, abril 24, 2017

A ascensão do artesão e da arte na produção

"Craft skills have been embraced by the fashion world in recent years as the boundaries between art and fashion blur. Today, artists collaborate on designer collections, while fashion brands sponsor art fairs. Increasingly, labels are exploring artisanal craft through clothes
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And designers are creating artisanal-minded homeware
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 the old notion of faceless, mechanised luxury is dead. He believes fashion brands today must be borne out of craftsmanship skills that recognise the value of the human hand. “Craft is our bread and butter at Loewe,” says the 32-year-old designer."
Em alinhamento completo com o que escrevemos aqui há milhares de anos sobre Mongo (Estranhistão), sobre a importância da arte na democratização da produção contra o vómito industrial, sobre a ascensão do artesão. E a reforçar o que penso será o futuro da impressão 3D, não na casa de cada um mas no artesão dos ciber-bairros que frequentaremos.
"Sildávia!!!
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Não arrisquei escrever Albânia como símbolo de país pobre e atrasado, porque desconfio que nos hão-de ultrapassar enquanto tivermos estas políticas chavistas-de-gravata-à-europeia.
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Qual a alternativa?
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Ainda e sempre a ARTE!!!
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Mentes algemadas olham para a fotografia da realidade e desesperam... e enterram a cabeça entre as mãos e prolongam a espiral viciada que há-de levar ao fim "at some stage".
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Quem aposta na arte, faz como os artistas, em vez de ver nos obstáculos algo a derrubar, tenta tirar partido da situação, procurando uma pedra angular de onde possa começar a construir uma diferença.
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Se o pintor usa uma tela, usa pincéis, tintas e luz para criar a obra de arte, o que as empresas devem fazer é reunir o equivalente a esses materiais:"
E recordo este slide daqui (12:36):

Trechos retirados de "Why fashion is turning to craft"

Já depois de escrever o texto acima encontrei "The Crafting Organisation":
"What if we were to evolve craftsmanship as a true practice for all of us? What if we talked about the ‘Crafting Organisation’, a business operating from a position of deep self-belief, always in beta, curious and confident to face the future? The Crafting Organisation is elegant in everything it does. Seeing the potential of creating beautiful outcomes in the most unusual ways.
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Is this not a more beautiful way to describe business which not only embraces our humanity, but celebrates it? Tim Smit founder of the Eden Project likes to say that beauty will be the most important word we use over the next 15 years. I would also argue that craft is not far behind."

quarta-feira, abril 05, 2017

"Don’t worry about the competition"

"I may never have been to Cape Cod in summer like the some of the blue bloods in the newsroom, or studied with John McPhee, or palled around with JFK and Jackie. I may not have spoken French or dined regularly with ambassadors or sports heroes—or anyone at all during that first couple of years, when I worked the graveyard shift exclusively.
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But I did have a few things going for me. A facility with words. A musical bent. An eye for detail. An empathetic ear. An interest in people who were different than me. A little dab of street wise I’d picked up in my early days as a rebellious junior hippy, and later as a day-tripper through seedier climes. And above all, the knowledge that this was what I had to be doing.
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Over time, without thinking too hard about it, I did the best I could with what I had, drawing from my intangible assets to create a style of my own. Some people like it. Some do not. I’m not a household word. But I always try, with every piece that I make, to deliver something different and original, something entertaining that carries the weight of truth, something that people will pay me for—yes, that’s important too. Into everything goes my all.
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Along the way I have learned that comparison and competition are enemies of the artist. How did he get that assignment? How could she win that award? How many books did she sell? What’s his hourly rate?
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All that should matter is the piece of work that sits before you. There is you. There is your art. At the elemental level, nothing else matters.
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Call it my Theory of Originals.
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Don’t worry about the competition. Find what you do best. When the room is full or when the lines are long, form a line of your own. Be number one in a class of one.
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Once you’re there, nobody will be better than you, either."
À atenção das PME, esta é a receita que lhes recomendo.

Trecho retirado de "Nobody’s Better Than You"

sexta-feira, dezembro 23, 2016

"organizations need to learn to think and act like artists"

Outra tendência há muito identificada aqui no blogue e em linha com a metáfora de Mongo:
"Re-discover human potential, further human flourishing!
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It might just be that as intelligent machines increasingly remove routines from our lives — and will soon automate and virtualize many more complex tasks, as well — humanity in the twenty-first century is called upon to re-discover and express its full potential. This may include the mind-body connectedness that has been getting lost since the Industrial Revolution, along with more holistic approaches towards a future that will actually support human flourishing
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Until just a few years ago, humanness and creativity in a world of commodity products (and services) was actually a risk. But in a world of global synchronicity with infinite variety and inevitable abundance (see music, films, travel, and very soon, banking and energy), creativity becomes a Must. As the arts have withered and started to mimic science, the rich irony of our new century is that organizations need to learn to think and act like artists in order to survive."
Como não recuar a:




Trechos retirados de "Why exponential technological change will need ‘exponential humanity‘"

sexta-feira, setembro 16, 2016

Subir na escala de valor

Recuando a Maio passado "Qual a alternativa?"
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A arte é fundamental para fugir a este modelo mental:
A arte não depende da eficiência mas da eficácia. A arte não conjuga com granel!
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Por isso, interessante esta referência à arte e ao design conjugado com a cidade do Porto em "Move Over, Paris—Porto Is Europe's Hot New Shopping Capital".
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Voltando ao primeiro postal deste dia, esta referência à arte pode ser vista como um sintoma de pontos fortes que podem ser usados em conjugação (TOWS) com as oportunidades do Estranhistão, de Mongo.
"Portugal’s “second city” is the country’s real standard setter when it comes to design, thanks to its heritage as a manufacturing hub through most of the 19th and 20th centuries. Now it’s gaining traction as a shopping mecca, too, filled with locally made items by emerging designers who can’t be found elsewhere.
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“Even the Lisbon designers normally come to the Porto area to produce their designs because all the industry is here,”"

terça-feira, setembro 06, 2016

Chegar à concorrência imperfeita


Ontem no Twitter Nassim Taleb chamou-me a atenção para este postal no seu FB:

No diálogo que se seguiu pode ler-se:
"Finally note that rankings (from comparisons) are zero-sum by definition; real life is not so.
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as you had once said, true success is being out of the hierarchy and not being on top of it.
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Bingo. Success for the collective is eliminating hierarchies, except for the functional."
Nesta linha escrevi:

Perceber o alcance das palavras de Nassim Taleb foi o que há talvez 10 anos me fez concluir que o objectivo das empresas deve ser evitar que os clientes façam comparações entre fornecedores. Quando se descobre isso, então, a consequência imediata é a adopção da concorrência imperfeita como o ideal a perseguir. A concorrência imperfeita impede comparações.



quarta-feira, junho 15, 2016

Portanto, cheira-me a futurologia da treta (parte II)

Parte I.
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Textos deste tipo "Why AI will break capitalism." cheiram-me a um novo estilo de marxismo. Volto a sublinhar a crença ingénua destes artigos na inteligência como o factor fundamental nos negócios, na economia. TRETA!!! E treta da grande:
"Putting aside the ethics for a second, AI is essentially a new form of inter-species slavery. Instead of relying on our fellow species, we’re creating automated, non-human slaves. AI are just cattle versions of intelligence (once is created/bred for meat, the other for intelligence).
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Rather than capital now being a source of ownership and minor wealth generation, it can now be a source of exponential wealth creation — simply because AI continuously evolves and builds upon itself. It’s unique because it isn’t a static capital item.
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AI isn’t just a static piece of IP. It’s capable of building entirely new monopolies, businesses and ‘things’ all by itself.
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What’s more likely is that when we create AI that is break point for capitalism. Any variable to success can be bought and sold, and that means for those who have wealth, they can buy success instead of creating it. It’s a shift in the ‘fairness’ of capitalism, and the reward for someone putting in effort. When capital can beat humans on thinking, it’s hard to create a marketplace that doesn’t resemble feudalism (albeit minus the harsh living conditions)."
Recordo o insucesso dos 4 prémio Nobel referidos na parte I.
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Até parece que a evolução na Terra criou uma espécie de Vulcanos. Duh!
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Por que é que não somos todos Spocks? Porque não basta a lógica e o QI para ter sucesso neste mundo, também é preciso experimentar e ter sorte.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.”
Gente que acredita que a Sandy vence o MacGyver. Gente que não percebe que com a concorrência imperfeita e sem marxianismo a estória é outra:
"MacGyver: Well, old Sandy sure has a mind of her own, doesn't she?
Jill: Yes, but she thinks like me. So I should be able to think it through and find her pattern, logically and rationally.
MacGyver: Without the emotion, right?
Jill: That's what gives her the edge. People and emotion can't get in her way.
MacGyver: Well, I say we trust our instincts—go with our gut. You can't program that. That's our edge."
Gente que acredita num mundo pré-determinado e que só está à espera de suficiente capacidade computacional para poder ser dominado. Ingenuidade perigosa.
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Prefiro acreditar na arte, na ingenuidade e na sorte.
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Prefiro acreditar em Mongo sem exércitos puros, racionais e uniformizados. Prefiro acreditar em tribos, em individualidade, em DIY, em p2p.

quinta-feira, maio 26, 2016

Portanto, cheira-me a futurologia da treta

A propósito de "If robots are the future of work, where do humans fit in?" algumas notas:
"you take the best and brightest 200 human beings on the planet, you scan their brains and you get robots that to all intents and purposes are indivisible from the humans on which they are based, except a thousand times faster and better.
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These Ems, being superior at everything and having no material needs that couldn’t be satisfied virtually, will undercut humans in the labour market, and render us totally unnecessary."
Enquanto lia isto fiquei um pouco incrédulo com a crença algo absurda, IMHO, na importância do QI para ter sucesso. Juro que me recordei logo da LTCM e dos seus 4 prémios Nobel da Economia. Fundada em 1994 estoirou em 1997.

Depois, ainda me lembrei daquele conflito que ficou gravado para sempre na minha mente  MacGyver vs Sandy.
"We need to rethink our view of jobs and leisure – and quickly, if we are to avoid becoming obsolete"
Oh!
Ó!
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Como isto se enquadra com a minha visão de Mongo!!!
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Basta recuar a este postal desta semana "Mongo em grande". Como é que estes autores escrevem artigos com falhas básicas como esta? É mais combate político actual do que preocupação genuína com o futuro!!!
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Não somos nós que vamos ficar obsoletos em Mongo. Em Mongo, o que vai ficar obsoleto é essa criação do século XX: o emprego, o "job".
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Em Mongo, a democratização da produção levará a um estado em que cada um terá as máquinas que permitirão a sua produção pessoal, ou a sua produção a uma escala artesanal baseada na vantagem competitiva da arte.
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Portanto, cheira-me a futurologia da treta.

domingo, maio 22, 2016

Pensamento estratégico, mais urgente que nunca

A propósito deste texto "As Amazon Expands Into Private Label Groceries, Supermarket Chains Should Be Very Afraid" como não pensar logo na análise do contexto e nas fábricas que trabalhavam para as sapatarias.
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Quanto a este trecho:
"Amazon’s entry into private labels will force grocers to be even more innovative. “This move by Amazon should keep every conventional grocer up at night,” says Jim Cusson, president of Theory House, a retail marketing agency in Charlotte, North Carolina. “While the disruption may not happen overnight, it is absolutely coming. With a growing number of cities now enjoying Amazon same day delivery, the physical advantage of grocers will erode over time. And there are few moms who look forward to a trip to the grocery store.”"
A aposta na arte, na conexão, na experiência.
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Nunca esquecer a frase na coluna das citações:
"When something is commoditized, an adjacent market becomes valuable"

terça-feira, maio 10, 2016

T-TIP, Mongo e o código (parte III)

Parte II e parte I.
"We build upon legacy not only because it’s what we know, but because we’re still profitable doing so.
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But what happens when your connected customers outnumber your legacy customers? Well, it’s either happened or is happening.
We’ve lulled ourselves into satisfaction with incrementalism; we’ve come to a point where we need to substantially reinvent."
É isto que embala muitas PME e impede que façam a transição para Mongo mais rapidamente, com um sentido de urgência.
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BTW, quando escrevo sobre Mongo e o "é meter código nisso" esqueço-me sistematicamente de realçar um outro factor, a arte.
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Trecho retirado de "X: The Experience When Business Meets Design" de Brian Solis.

terça-feira, maio 03, 2016

Qual a alternativa?

Ainda e sempre a ARTE!!!
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Ontem de manhã, antes de começar o dia numa empresa, tive oportunidade de ler "learn like an artist" foi o suficiente para ficar animado e bem disposto para o resto do dia.
"How do gamers learn? They try things out and usually fail: lots of times. They learn from these mistakes and look for patterns. If they get stuck, they check out what others have shared, in online forums. They may ask a friend for help. Sometimes they will look for a ‘hack’, or a way around an impasse. Once they learn something, they might record it and share it, so others can learn. What they do not do is look for the rule book. [Moi ici: Pensei logo nos postais sobre o fuçar (aqui e aqui)]
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Artists are like gamers as they too have to fail many times as they master their craft. [Moi ici: "Não começamos a fazer arte assim que nos tornamos artistas. Ou seja, não é por sermos artistas que fazemos arte, é por fazermos arte que nos tornamos artistas." (Fonte)] Today, we all need to think like gamers and artists. But being an artist is not easy. Scott Berkun says that, “it’s a discovery all artists make: the most interesting and bravest work is likely the hardest to make a living from.” There are no simple recipes to become an artist."
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segunda-feira, abril 04, 2016

O papel da arte!

Sábado, ao ouvir o deputado Pedro Duarte a pedir mais uma revolução no Ensino, desta feita para apostar e quatro vectores: ciência; engenharia; tecnologia e economia, escrevi no Twitter:
É preciso não conhecer a biografia de Jobs, ou os textos de Hilary Austen, ou o futuro de Mongo para esquecer o papel da arte.
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Sem arte como é que a Bang & Olufsen teria o sucesso que teve?
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Sem arte como haveria concorrência imperfeita?
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Esquecer a arte é continuar a pensar que o valor resulta de um cálculo e não de um sentimento. Por tudo isto, recomendo a leitura deste texto "Hedi Slimane: The Steve Jobs of Fashion":
"Like many industries, Big Fashion companies keep acquiring tiny, money-losing, buzz-worthy brands… that never quite go mainstream. They die silently and perhaps mercifully. But the real question is: why is this a pattern, when it’s both predictable and pointless? Because the fashion industry is making stuff for critics. Like many industries, from tech to media to sports, it’s trying to please them, win them over, even pander to them. But the critics aren’t the people who are buying the stuff. Result: shapeless, gigantic, genderless clothes that critics love… but that are driving the business of fashion to stagnation. They’re out of touch with what people actually want, love, hunger for.
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He also, importantly, made clothes people actually wanted to wear, and that looked better up-close in stores than they did on the runway. The fashion world was shocked.
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But collection by collection, he built a devoted cult of fans precisely because he was ahead of even the critics. The self-referential game of pleasing critics might feel good — but it doesn’t necessarily build a business.
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To do that, you have to make products people truly desire. It’s a dirty word in boardrooms, desire. We’re more comfortable with calculative, rational expressions of wants. We can put them in spreadsheets and crunch and process those. There’s just one tiny problem. So can consumers. You don’t pay royally for stuff that you’re running a calculation in the back of your mind about. You pay royally for stuff that enchants, hypnotizes, and entrances you. Stuff you love. Stuff that we love — whether that “stuff” is people or clothes or phones, to be crude — suspends the rational bits of us. It intoxicates us and leaves us giddy. We say to ourselves, “Of course it’s too expensive… but I don’t care. I have to have it.” [Moi ici: Excelente!!! Isto é Mongo! Isto é a concorrência imperfeita! Isto é arte!]
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At the core of this financial success is real artistry.
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Clusters like Brooklyn and Detroit are putting artistry and craft back into products from chocolate to coffee to furniture today. But the harsh truth is that Big Corporations see artisanship as marketing. They try to brand it, tricking people into thinking there’s artistry in things – Tesco’s “fictional farms” marketing ploy is a recent example — not really practicing itor investing in it. They should take a lesson from Slimane and actually do it.[Moi ici: A importância da autenticidade]
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That’s how you get out of the trap of simply riding trends and cashing in on them: ignoring critics, breaking rules, making things people truly desire, and making them with real artistry. It takes a rare combination of personal genius and organizational risk – which is perhaps why we don’t see that many Slimanes out there. Still, we can always hope for more."

sexta-feira, novembro 20, 2015

Arte e PME

Interessante comparar esta reflexão de Esko Kilpi, "Products as art and the manager as an artist", e o seu remate final:
"“Business is the context for doing interesting and beautiful things.”
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The next challenge is to design a beautiful business. Products can be art and the manager can be an artist!"
Com (daqui):
"Qual a alternativa?
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Ainda e sempre a ARTE!!!
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Mentes algemadas olham para a fotografia da realidade e desesperam... e enterram a cabeça entre as mãos e prolongam a espiral viciada que há-de levar ao fim "at some stage".
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Quem aposta na arte, faz como os artistas, em vez de ver nos obstáculos algo a derrubar, tenta tirar partido da situação, procurando uma pedra angular de onde possa começar a construir uma diferença.
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Se o pintor usa uma tela, usa pincéis, tintas e luz para criar a obra de arte, o que as empresas devem fazer é reunir o equivalente a esses materiais "
E o trecho entre os minutos 11:20 e 12:40

segunda-feira, outubro 19, 2015

Acerca da cegueira

Há fragmentos do mundo que me assaltam no dia-a-dia e me surpreendem porque ilustram como vejo, imagino, vislumbro um mundo muito diferente daquele que outros humanos vêem ou imaginam, enquanto partilhamos o mesmo mundo separados por tão poucos metros.
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Uma dessas situações aconteceu em Outubro de 2011 e relatei-a em "Tão novos e já tão velhos..."
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Aqui no blogue, nas conferências, nas empresas, muitas vezes uso três imagens em sequência:

Esta é a minha alternativa, é a alternativa que vejo na cerveja artesanal, que vejo na Viarco, que vejo em tantas empresas de calçado, que vejo em tantas e tantas empresas que perceberam que só têm futuro se não forem pela via do eficientismo, se apostarem na ARTE, na diferenciação.
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Dois artigos a elaborar sobre o tema:
"Gone are the days of industrial thinking and mass marketing, of average products that everybody owns, of limited choices and saturated messages. We have entered the age of the ‘connection’ or ‘experience’ economy whereby being remarkable, new and unique is valued over repetitiveness or proven effectiveness.
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With such a paradigm shift comes opportunities for artists and creatives.
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‘It is almost as if the world has completely changed and the balance of power has shifted from the industrial powers, to the artist. It’s going to be a golden age for artists.’
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‘People aren’t buying things because they need things anymore – they are buying because there is a human connection that subconsciously they are yearning for. That’s the thing that art presents, and the value is only going to go up over time,’
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Where scale used to be important in an industrial economy, a connection economy is about finding a niche and communicating how you will enable connection. Put simply, niche trumps scale.
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‘Finding the small group of people who are just as weird as you are, that is what is important now,’" 

Como é possível tanto atraso a perceber a Idade de Ouro para os designers?
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O que é que a escola lhes ensina?
"A cegueira que cega cerrando os olhos, não é a maior cegueira; a que cega deixando os olhos abertos, essa é a mais cega de todas."