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  • Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1582

    Same here… I’m probably going to the tour, but ill not be able to be there for the presentation…

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1325

    @paolomarenco unfortunately I don’t… It’s​ the field of computer science that I’m interested in studying, but for now I don’t have any experience…

    Can we already start our crowdfunding campaign as we are all eligible or do we need to wait for your response after receiving all of our curriculums?

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1323

    @paulomarenco, I am also interested in AI, so you can send them my curriculum… At least I hope to have as many contacts with any of the companies that are interested to understand better how tech scouting works and what do companies expect from us…

    I also have seen on techscoutsv.com that there are some companies that supports the tech scout project. Does that means that they are also interested in looking for scouts or are they just supporters for the project itself?

     

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1217

    @pietromarenco, I’ll try my best to answer (hoping that I understood well what you want):

    Networking: “Networking is a process that fosters the exchange of information and ideas among individuals or groups that share common interests… Physically, a network forms interconnecting lines through passages, lines or cables. One line may intersect with another, and then the second line goes in a different direction to connect to more lines, and so on and so forth to form a netlike structure. Metaphorically, someone’s network remains connected through a series of symbolic ties. Business connections may form due to someone’s education, employer, industry or common colleagues…” (From Investopedia: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/networking.asp).

    My point of view: Nowadays when someone hears the word “network”, the first thing that comes in mind is “social media”. From what I think, it’s a way to represent it, but I think it’s not precise. There are some lacks (I think) on social media as pure networks that are:

    Interaction: One may have thousands of friends on facebook or followers on twitter, but actually interacts with just few of them;

    Image: On social networks you create picture of yourself that may not represent the reality, so the connections you create may note be strong as they seem;

    Why did I say “pure” before? Because for me, network is a connection between people (or corporations, startups, etc) that is refined over time through interactions, avoiding stalls and it has to be double sided (both sides need to cultivate it), and differently from the definition from Investopedia, i think that (socialy speaking) it’s not extremely necessary a common interest. I just want to precise that I don’t think that “dead branches” on a network are a bad thing as anything can born from there also, but i wanted to highlight the need to “cultivate” it.

     

    When do we do networking? Always. Every interaction we have with someone is a kind of networking (online or offline, for business or not). After the first interaction with anyone, we have the choice to continue this interaction through time, adding an active branch to our network. If we don’t do it, we are adding a “dead branch” to it (that, as I said before, is not a bad thing). At this point I can say that I think Networking is Interaction, and we do it everywhere, all the time. Just as example, we can see

    Busness networking: “… activity by which businesspeople and entrepreneurs meet to form business relationships and to recognize, create, or act upon business opportunities,share information and seek potential partners for ventures…” (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_networking);

    Personal Network:  “…a group of caring, dedicated people who are committed to maintain a relationship with a person in order to support a given set of activities…” (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_network);

    Why do we do networking? I think it depends on the context you are… If we talk about personal networks, we create them for our need to connect with other people (acceptance, appreciation, belonging and companionship – from Reference.com: https://www.reference.com/world-view/social-needs-8e3901f003c9203e). If we talk about business networking, as said before, it’s to improve business connections, or if we just talk about an employee’s network, we can see the need to seek for new opportunties, other than their personal relationship with his/her coleagues (Work it daily, Why Networking is important for your job search: https://www.workitdaily.com/networking-job-search-important/).

     

    How do I network? Well, I am very open to new connections, and I prefere the “physical” ones. I usualy use social media such as Facebook for far branches on my network (with my family and friends around the world), but I prefer to keep my connection with near branches as a “face by face” connection, when it’s possible. Also speaking of work connections, often the connection is just through e-mails (I’m talking about my experience when working as a freelance graphic designer), but where I can, I prefere face to face meetings, because it’s easier to creat a work connection when someone sees your commitment to the job or even just to the connection you have, then just through a curriculum, portfolio or presentation letter, even if a networking job search is actually one of the best choices to create new connections nowadays.

    Strategies? Well, I have to say I don’t have many. For personal connections, I think the only strategy is being yourself. You need to let people know who you are. Instead, when it comes to work connections, I try to do the best I can in every single project I have, trying to cultivate the connections that I already have, and I hope I can learn about creating new connections from this new experience.

     

    Hope it’s not too long 😀

    • This reply was modified 7 years ago by Carlos.
    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1190

    @lorenzotabasso, don’t be afraid of being dispersive… I actually am really dispersive myself… Working remotely helps you develop this part of yourself… You learn how to be “focused and present” when you have to work, and dispersive after that… I’m still a lot dispersive (hyperactivity or ADHD), but actually working that way made me become more responsible…

    For the interaction with the colleagues I can’t do anything though 😂

    Anyway, you should try both 😁👍

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1184

    @lorenzotabasso, I think working remotely is very similar to being a freelancer, except for the fact that a freelancer has to keep searching for new jobs… At the beginning you get a bit worried thinking if you’ll be able to manage your time by yourself… But I think that working this way you get more responsible and it gives you also the possibility to learn how to manage your time and your projects.. It also doesn’t gives you more free time as many could think, but on the other hand, you have the freedom to organize your work time and free time…

    It also depends on how everyone feels working this way… Some people prefer the office… I like this idea of “freedom” 😀

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1170

    The firs thing I thought seeing the video was about how much can we improve this technology?

    Think about using it to help people with spine damage? if they were able to control muscles that way, maybe improving the technology (obviously there’s a big difference between their 8 muscles and ours :D) to help people start walking again?

    Anyway I also think the uses they’ll have for this technology will be mostly industrial espionage, but the proposal these scientists are making (rescue, research etc) are great!

    Thanks for the video… Didn’t knew about it 😀

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1111

    Let’s all give our numbers to @nemanja that already gave us his so we don’t use the forum for lunch plans, so then when the others log in they don’t have to search through all the lunch messages to find out what’s the real topic 😀

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1103

    @nemanja actually this semester we are almost living at the university so i don’t think it’s a problem to meet and have lunch 😀

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1102

    @nemanja great video… I have seen something similar long time ago when browsers started to have tabs… There was a study showing how people were startind to be more dispersive, starting a task and then losing themselves between tabs, because obviously you start with a mail, than youtube , thane facebook, etc… And now it just got worse with the smartphones… It’s a great tool for sure, and it gets better everyday, but as @lorenzobersano said: “how can younger people, that grew up with modern technology since they were babies, be aware of this problem?”. This is for sure something that sooner or later (sooner i think) will become a huge problem… We already see that kids today, aged from 2/3 years already have tablets and smartphones in their hands, so kids start to being dispersive at a really early age…


    @leonardo
    , greate quote (“We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us”)… I think it summarizes everything we were talking about till now… We will keep evolving, but with the new technologies we provide, we also need to be aware of the repercussion that it will have on society and prepare them for it… God or bad…

    About kelvin Doe (sorry but at this point i dont remember anymore who posted it…), i hope we’ll have a way to have affordable tech for underdeveloped countries, because big minds are born eveywhere every year, and while here we are living in a world where social media tells us everything about averyone, we are also losing great minds that are already doing something great, but could do much more and better with help… Great to know this time we found someone like him…

    About leadsbridge, it was really a great idea and at the right time, (timing is important as we heard on monday’s conference)… If you want some more information about why it’s great and how it works, i found a link:

    LeadsBridge—bridging the gap between your Facebook leads & Top Producer CRM

    They have made something not that complicated, but maybe a bit long task, into just few simple steps… Really great idea…

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1060

    Wow! I wrote only this morning and now the forum just blew up 😂

    About getting, I agree that we need to automatized things… What was saying is that the way they want to use the data is not functional. Use the data to know how many people are using a bus is difficult… Anyone who uses the public transportation, knows that there are moments where you almost can’t get inside a bus… You get in hoping the door will not smash you… If you count that for each door in a long bus, they will be counting at least 20 people less than the ones that are there… That’s the only thing that I thing will not work… About the drivers, what I meant is that they know the usual times when the bus get overcrowded… So the use of big data in this case will probably be less effective than what they think…

    About mobility, I don’t think a fix job is bad… Probably the way I expressed myself seemed that way… Growing inside a company also is a great thing… I would not like to stay in the same place for all my life… Place of work or also just living in the same country/city…


    @pistillostefano
    , thanks for the links 😁👍

    I’ll watch the videos later and read again everything… Too much stuff 😁

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1029

    @alexandrumocanu, i agree with almost everything you said… I didn’t know about that use of big data in medicine, and actually that’s why i asked before “what can be other uses of big data”… That one actually is a pretty good one…

    Instead, i dont agree with the way GTT is trying to use it… Actually i think they are applying it pretty badly… The idea theyu are “Selling” is that you should “bip” everytime you get on a bus to let them know how important that bus line is and how many people uses it. But as it often occurs, there are buses that are so full of people that no one that gets in will bip… so an overcrowded bus will result “empty”, and so there’s the risk that the number of buses in critical times of traffic wil decrease… To know “How important a bus line is”, they could just gather information between the drivers that know exactely the problems they face with overcrowded buses…

    The rest of GTT’s “motivations” are just useless as this one… I think this is a pretty bad use of big data… Here is a short arcticle about what gtt wants to do (in italian):

    http://torino.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/02/04/news/_fai_bip_e_salva_la_tua_linea_da_lunedi_su_tram_o_bus_sara_obbligatorio_il_bip_anche_per_gli_abbonati-157561070/

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1028

    @mohamedlemzouri I agree with you that as developers we need to think about how big data can improve and simplify our lives, but I also think is our responsibility to look ahead and evaluate all of the effects of our researches…

    I mean, if I’m a scientist, and as a developer I create a code that can hack any kind of computer in the world (yes, I’m starting with my stupid examples again 😁), than I release it online for free… If someone uses that code to hack into the semaphores system of a city and starts playing with it just for fun, there would be life’s at risk, and the responsibility would be not only of the person using my code, but also mine, because that’s my creation and I was the one “stupid enough” to put a dangerous thing like that online so anyone could use it…

    What I mean is that we always need to remember that as scientists, its true that for everything we create, we need to pay attention to what improvement our researches will bring, but we can’t stop there. We also need to know that there can be a bad use of our work, and at least think of some ways to prevent it…

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #1027

    I think I come from a complete different environment as I am not Italian 😁

    The Brazilian mentality is very different, probably because we come from a very big country… Traveling from a city to another can take hours… I think I can say we have mobility in our blood… But about working in the same place for years, there are the two ways of thinking… The ones that look for a secure job that will “last forever” and the ones that work until they are satisfied, and than look for change… I think I’m on the second group… You need to travel, to change, to keep motivated…

    I think the most important thing we heard today is that we need to keep learning… And I find it’s very difficult to improve and keep yourself motivated if you do the same think every day for several years… Being “mobile minded” keeps your mind active, and we need to be actively looking for new things and paying attention to our environment… Nowadays we can’t say a contract can keep our job safe…We can lose our job at any time, and that’s why I think being able to be mobile from the start is having a huge step ahead…

    About being aware of changing, there’s a small book that I would like to recommend you all… It’s called who moved my cheese, by Spencer Johnson (“Chi ha spostato il mio formaggio”)… It costs only 12€ from Amazon, but it has great advices on ” how to deal with changing in your work and in your life”… I think is a good reading for everyone…

    Carlos
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    @carlosfilho
    #869

    @Riccardo i agree with you. There will be less jobs created than lost, but the problem will noot be this. I think the problem is that if people don’t keep studying and improving themselves, they will become obsolete… Like the jobs that will be extinguished by new machinery. There will be the creation of new specialized jobs, but if the people that are “at risk” doesn’t start improving their skills, when the time come, they will lose their job for sure, and it will also be more difficult to find any new job if that was the only thing they could do…

    I also agree with you about big data… This is also a use that i think didn’t came out before on our previous conversation… Use big data to analyse the will of working abroad…

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