Santiago Bilinkis l Risk and Reward - Trying to live a life out of the comfort zone

Apart from attending the Menorca Tech Talk, my trip to Spain included some vacation days (a few days to get my classic “Loose notes” I do when I travel) and presentation at a new conference on technology and innovation called La Red Innova.

Organized by Paul Largu�a, an Argentine who has lived in Spain for a while, the goal is to become THE conference for Spanish-speakers, like the Web 2.0 Expo is to USA, LeWeb is to France or the DLD is to Germany.

According to Damian Voltes, the first edition turned out very well. Myself in particular, I got to be in a panel that was moderated by Jos� Mar�a Figueres, former president of Costa Rica, where entrepreneurs shared the stage with such notables as Marcos Galper�n, Alec Oxenford and Romero Rodrigues.

Leer más…

For those who could not see it live on Sunday but want to watch it, this is the video of Argentina para Armar last Sunday, where together with other Entrepreneurs we talked about how to deal with the crisis. I also include my presentation from Palermo Valley.

Leer más…

In this historic Election day, my friend Enrique sent me a video that I found really interesting and wanted to share with you. And soon after I published the post, Martina sent me another version, this time “uncensored” so ypou will also find it below. And for more reader feedback, you may want to see the Spanish post on the winners of my latest contests, with the “acceptance speech sent by Fede Munichor!).

The fact that voting is not mandatory in the US gives place to interesting dinamics. I always wondered what would happen if in our countries voting was optional. I tend to think that, if even Americans have to be called upon to vote, that here the only people that would vote are those who get some dirty money from politicians to do so.

Anyway, in case you are not interested in all these stuff, you will at least enjoy seeing, among others, Scarlett Johanson and Cameron Diaz or Di Caprio and Tom Cruise (according to your preferences).

My favorites…? Borat and Jason Lee. And Jennifer Aniston… but she appears so little!

Leer más…

We all know there is only one certainty in life: that sooner or later we are all going to die. However we all live most of the time misaligned with our true priorities in life.

A lot has been written in the last few months about Randy Pausch, even more so since last week when unfortunately he passed away. So much has been said that most likely you have already seen his last lecture (there is also a short version out of Oprah’s TV show). So this post is not to recommend that you watch it, even if you definitely should if you haven’t yet.

Leer más…