Ernesto Nones

de oficio? : arquitecto

[RubenPrez @RubenPrez]

Impresionante lo de esta niña. Entre valentía, calma, carisma, y no dudo que también shock, y ni siquiera asimilado lo que ha pasado, pero sonriente.

Rescatista: Mira que tan cerca estamos ah? De nada mas vernos un dedo, ya estamos por vernos
Fabi: Sí mira... un brazo!

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

Steve Jobs once told a room full of people:

"I don't give a F**k what the students want, the parents think, or anybody thinks. It's what I want. They don't know what they want till I tell them what they want."

Kevin looked Jobs in to the eye and said:

"Steve, you sound like such an a**hole."

Jobs did not flinch.

"Are you making money with me? Have we not been wildly successful? Then shut up and do what I say."

That was Steve Jobs. Not a nice guy. Not even a little.

But here is what that man learned from working with him. And it is the only success formula that actually holds up.

Kevin worked for Steve Jobs in the early 1990s, building educational software.

One day he walked into a meeting and told Jobs they needed to do market research on Oregon Trail. A massive title. Running in 110,000 school buildings across the country. An update would cost 12 to 15 million dollars.

He wanted to know what students wanted. What teachers wanted. What parents wanted.

Jobs stopped him cold.

He did not want surveys. Did not want focus groups. Did not want to know what anybody thought.

Because in his mind, none of that mattered.

What mattered was signal.

Here is the concept Jobs understood that almost nobody else did.

Every person alive is swimming in two things at all times.

Signal. And noise.

Signal is the three to five things that absolutely must get done today. Not next week. Not next month. Not someday. Today. The things that if done, move everything forward. The things your mission cannot survive without.

Noise is everything else.

The unnecessary meeting. The email that can wait. The social media scroll. The small talk. The market research nobody asked for. The decisions that feel urgent but are not. Everything that fills your hours without filling your purpose.

Jobs ran at 80% signal, 20% noise.

Every single day.

Kevin knew this because Jobs would email him at 2:30 in the morning and expect a response. Not because he was unreasonable. Because for Jobs, 2:30 in the morning was still signal hours. He was still working. Still moving. Still locked in.

The 18 hours he was awake were 18 hours of signal.

Kevin says the only person he has ever seen operate at a higher ratio than Jobs is Elon Musk.

Musk has almost no noise. Sixty seconds of every minute. Sixty minutes of every hour. Every waking hour pointed at whatever the signal is that day.

And the results, like Jobs, speak for themselves.

Jeff Bezos had his own version of this.

He would not make a single decision after 1pm.

Not because he was lazy. Because he understood that by afternoon, the noise had accumulated enough to cloud his judgment. His signal hours were in the morning. So that is when he decided things. And he protected those hours like they were sacred.

Because they were.

Here is the uncomfortable truth buried inside all of this.

Noise is not always bad things.

Sometimes noise is your family. Sometimes it is a friend calling to catch up. Sometimes it is a guitar sitting in the corner of the room. Sometimes it is rest.

The people running at 100% signal, Jobs, Musk, the geniuses of history, paid a real price for it socially. Relationships suffered. Normal life suffered. Warmth suffered.

Jobs himself was famously difficult to be around.

But here is the question worth sitting with:

Most people are not choosing between 100% signal and a balanced life.

Most people are choosing between 30% signal and 70% noise.

They are not sacrificing family time for focus. They are sacrificing focus for nothing. For scrolling. For distraction. For busy work that feels productive but produces nothing.

That is the real problem.

Kevin now tells every CEO he works with the same thing.

It does not matter if you run an S&P 500 company or you are three weeks into your first business.

The formula is the same.

Identify the three to five things that must get done today. Not tomorrow. Not eventually. Today.

Then protect those things with everything you have.

If you can spend 80% of your waking hours on signal, you are operating at the level of the most successful people who have ever lived.

If you drop to 50/50, signal and noise in equal measure, you will fail.

It is, Kevin says, that simple.

Jobs was not successful because he was a genius.

He was not successful because he was charismatic or visionary or ahead of his time, though he was all of those things.

He was successful because when he woke up every morning, he knew exactly what mattered.

And he refused, sometimes rudely, sometimes brutally, sometimes at the cost of every relationship in the room, to let anything else in.

Most people spend their whole lives reacting to noise and calling it work.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

[Alex Pérez. @honordetigre]

Marco Aurelio escribió esto hace más de 1800 años:

“Cuando te levantes por la mañana, piensa en el privilegio que es estar vivo, pensar, disfrutar, amar.”

[𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐳𝐞 @wayze187]

Michael Jackson’s drummer, Jonathan Moffett, performs “Smooth Criminal,”

MJ once said: “My bass player makes a mistake, my guitar player makes a mistake, I make mistakes sometimes, but Sugarfoot never makes a mistake.”

[Claudio Savoia @claudiosavoia]

Buen consejo

[VIKING 🇦🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱🇵🇾🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @WalhallaMann]

Repito, tómense 20 minutos y escuchen detalladamente el discurso de Marco Rubio en Múnich, para entender donde irá el mundo los próximos 50 años.

Se los dejo completo y subtitulado al español:

[la ingo-bernable®️ @SoyLaIngo]

No si es tan buenos la pareja campeona mundial pero de que hubo sexo, hubo…. Firmao

#WinterOlympics ⛸️⛸️

[Laureano Marquez @laureanomar]

“He visto cosas que ustedes nunca hubieran podido imaginar. Naves de combate en llamas en el hombro de Orión. He visto relámpagos resplandeciendo en la oscuridad cerca de la entrada de Tannhäuser” y lo más increíble: a los propiciadores de encierros anunciando amnistías y los que celebraban encarcelamientos aplaudiendo liberaciones.

[Mr Wills @Mrwills63]

🎙 Cristian Tello: “When I had a baby, we played a match against Levante, and everyone brought me gifts except Messi. He congratulated me and said, ‘Your gift will be on the pitch.’

“We went into the match, and he gave me three assists. I scored a hat-trick. After the game, I took the ball with me and entered the locker room. Before I could even thank him, he said, ‘Give me the ball.’ I handed it to him, and he signed it with my son’s name. He hugged me and said, ‘This is your son’s gift.’

“I couldn’t find the words to express my gratitude. A gift in his own way, in the place he loves, making the difficult look easy. He is the king of world football.”

[J. L. Martín Nogales @jlmartinnogales]

Es hipnótica esta presentación del Canon de Pachelbel.

[Jose Elías Navarro @jose_elias_nvr]

Pensamos que nos quedan 20, 40 o 50 años de vida. Pero es mentira. La vida se mide en veces.

Te pongo un ejemplo:

A mí me vuelve loco esquiar.
Pero siendo realistas, voy 2 veces al año.
El año que voy 3, ya soy un privilegiado.

Si asumo que me quedan 15 años esquiando a tope, la cuenta sería así:

• No me quedan 15 años de esquí.
• Me quedan 30 veces.
• Solo voy a subir a la nieve 30 días más en toda mi vida.

Lo mismo pasa con la gente.

Piensa en ese primo al que ves solo en las comidas familiares.
Si lo ves una vez al año durante 3 horas y crees que te quedan 20 años de vida…

Realmente te quedan 60 horas con él. Un fin de semana largo.
Eso es todo lo que te queda antes de morirte.

Es una mierda. Una mierda pinchada en un palo.

Cuando hago este cálculo, me entra la paranoia.

Miro fotos mías con 18 o 20 años y pienso que tenía que estar saltando de felicidad. Pero no me enteraba de qué iba la película.

En esa época regalaba los minutos. Pasaba la vida como si nada.

La vida es súper injusta en eso. Pero hacer este cálculo te obliga a dejar de regalar el tiempo y aprovechar hasta el último segundo.

No te quedan años. Te quedan momentos.
Aprovéchalos.

[Lucia Etxebarria @LaEtxebarria]

No es un cuadro. Es una foto de Groenlandia

[Yas 👽🛸✨ @Yasde]

Hoy en la calle oigo a una argentina decirle a otra: “el doctor venezolano se quiere ir. Voy a presentarle a alguien para que se enamore y se quede”.

JAJAJAJAJAJAJAKAKAKAKAKAKAKA ❤️

Los amo.

[Ana Pérez @Anacarolinatz]

Otros países en navidad: Venezolanos, devuélvanse a su país 😠😡🤬

Los argentinos en navidad:

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Show this video to your kids…Wow😳

[Enséñame de Ciencia @EnsedeCiencia]

📵🇦🇺 AUSTRALIA ACABA DE ROMPER LAS REGLAS DEL MUNDO DIGITAL.

Desde el 10 de diciembre, el país implementará una medida histórica:
👉 ningún menor de 16 años podrá tener cuentas en redes sociales.

No es rumor.
No es teoría.
Es la primera ley de este tipo en el planeta.

Las plataformas como Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, YouTube, X y más, estarán obligadas a eliminar o bloquear cuentas de usuarios menores de 16 años. Y si no lo hacen… enfrentarán multas millonarias. 💰⚠️

¿Por qué una decisión tan radical?
📌 Expertos en salud mental alertaron del impacto en la ansiedad, depresión, adicción y exposición a contenido dañino en adolescentes.
📌 Las autoridades dijeron basta.

Lo que pase ahora podría cambiar el futuro del internet.

[Jorge L. Rodríguez @rodriguezjorgel]

Thomas Sowell, considerado el economista de mayor influencia intelectual en el Siglo 21, reacciona a la opinión de Alexandra Ocasio Cortez sobre el capitalismo dándole una clase magistral de economía. Veamos.

AOC: “Para mí, el capitalismo es una ideología del capital. Lo que prima es el capital, lo más importante es la concentración del capital. Significa que buscamos y priorizamos las ganancias y la acumulación de dinero por encima de todo, y lo hacemos sin importar el costo humano y ambiental.”

TS: “Las personas que piensan que pueden rehacer el mundo para adaptarlo a sus visiones suelen acabar destrozándolo. La declaración de la señorita Ocasio-Cortez es un ejemplo clásico de ello. Una mezcla de palabras de moda y posturas morales que se derrumba bajo el peso de los hechos y la historia. No está describiendo el capitalismo, lo está caricaturizando y muy mal. Analicemos esto pieza por pieza, porque hay demasiada ignorancia aquí como para dejarlo pasar.

En primer lugar, ella llama al capitalismo una ideología del capital que prioriza las ganancias por encima de todo. Eso es un eslogan, no un análisis. El capitalismo no se trata de adorar el dinero; se trata del intercambio voluntario. Las personas intercambian bienes, servicios e ideas porque ambas partes se benefician, no porque alguien esté acumulando una pila de oro. La riqueza no se concentra como una injusticia cósmica. Se crea.

Tomemos como ejemplo a Henry Ford: él no robó su fortuna, sino que fabricó coches que millones de personas podían permitirse, revolucionando el transporte y dando empleo a miles de personas. O fijémonos en Steve Jobs: las innovaciones de Apple no concentraron la riqueza, sino que la generaron, elevando el nivel de vida en todo el mundo. El Banco Mundial afirma que la pobreza extrema mundial se redujo del 36 % en 1990 a menos del 10 % en 2019. Más de mil millones de personas salieron de la pobreza, no gracias a las promesas del socialismo, sino a las oportunidades que ofrece el mercado.”