Behind the Scenes of «Dancing»: The Cracks

06/10/2024 | carlosgoga | cambio, dancing our way, experiencias | No hay comentarios

The story of «Dancing our Way to Human-AI Consciousness» is also the story of key cracks that I have gone through, both breakdowns —moments where things broke down—and jointures—moments where seemingly disparate parts of my life came together to form something new. These breakdowns and jointures represent profound realizations where the automatic pilot of my behaviors was interrupted, my limited consciousness was manifested, and new awareness emerged. Each of these moments guided me on a path toward greater understanding of life and my place on it, something that we could refer as consciousness.

If I had to trace the beginning, I would have to explore these breakdowns and jointures chronologically, as each one represents a step in my journey.

Etiquetas: cambio, corazón, crisis, oportunidad

Behind the Scenes of “Dancing”: The More and the Bigger, the Better

21/09/2024 | carlosgoga | dancing our way, English | No hay comentarios

There’s a narrative that has quietly, yet powerfully, conditioned much of our collective behavior for centuries. It’s the story that tells us “the more you have, and the bigger you are, the better you become.” This mantra isn’t new—it’s been around for as long as humans have sought survival and security. But today, this same narrative has embedded itself at the heart of our capitalist culture, driving an obsession with endless growth, profit maximization, and the pursuit of «bigger and better» in every aspect of our lives.

Etiquetas: cambio, innovación, oportunidad

Behind the Scenes of “Dancing”: The Energetic-Self Hypothesis

01/09/2024 | carlosgoga | cambio, dancing our way, English | No hay comentarios

In the journey of writing Dancing Our Way to Human-AI Consciousness, one of the foundational concepts that emerged is the “Energetic Self Hypothesis.” This idea is woven throughout the book, offering a lens through which we can understand not just ourselves, but our interactions with the world and with the rapidly evolving technologies around us. Today, I’d like to take you behind the scenes to explore the origins and implications of this hypothesis.

Etiquetas: amar, corazón, innovación, oportunidad, tecnología

Behind the Scenes of “Dancing”: The Vision and the Dance

26/08/2024 | carlosgoga | cambio, dancing our way, English | No hay comentarios

Welcome to a behind-the-scenes look at my upcoming book, Dancing Our Way to Human-AI Consciousness. This project has been a labor of love, born from a desire to explore a question that has been with us for centuries: “How do we become better human beings?”. In the 21st century, as we stand at the crossroads of rapid technological advancement, this question takes on new layers of complexity and urgency.

The Big Question: How Do We Become Better Human Beings in the 21st Century?

Etiquetas: AI, amar, cambio, consciousness, corazón, dancing, english, innovación, oportunidad, tecnología

Behind the Scenes of “Dancing Our Way to Human-AI Consciousness”: The Authors’ Journey

21/08/2024 | carlosgoga | cambio, dancing our way, English, experiencias | No hay comentarios

Writing a book is often a deeply personal journey, one that weaves together the threads of past experiences, present challenges, and future aspirations. Dancing Our Way to Human-AI Consciousness is no exception. Today, I’d like to take you behind the scenes to share the story of how this book came to be and the journey that has shaped its pages.

The Call to Transformation

Etiquetas: corazón, oportunidad, sexualidad

Ese «discurso de graduación» que me hubiese encantado escuchar

04/06/2023 | carlosgoga | cambio, educación | No hay comentarios

¡Queridos graduados, todos y todas, aunque hoy me dirijo especialmente a quienes habéis realizado el doble grado de Periodismo y Relaciones Internacionales! Habéis logrado algo que solo unos pocos logran. Pero antes de que seáis devorados por el gigante llamado «vida real», quiero ofreceros algunos consejos y, si me lo permitís, también unos cuantos chistes para alegrar el ambiente. (más…)

Etiquetas: amor, historias, innovación, nuevo trabajo, oportunidad

La práctica de mindfulness: ¿qué es lo que entrenamos?

28/10/2021 | carlosgoga | cambio | No hay comentarios

Por lo general, los que practicamos mindfulness y meditación no tenemos mucha claridad sobre lo que estamos cuidando en nuestra experiencia interna y lo que estamos entrenando en nuestro cerebro. Sin embargo, esta claridad nos ayuda a comprender nuestra práctica desde la raíz, convirtiéndose en un aprendizaje clave que luego nos ayudará a mejorar y dirigir la práctica. (más…)

Etiquetas: amor, ayuda, cambio, corazón, innovación, love, oportunidad, siyli

AI is coming

04/07/2021 | carlosgoga | cambio, clase creativa, nuevas tecnologías, otra economía | 1 Comentario

Two years ago, I felt the need to update my own understanding regarding digital technology and the IT industry. I keep offering my 25-years point of view to businesspeople in a masterclass and it was maybe lacking some key points regarding “AI” (by “AI” I mean Artificial Intelligence).

I guess this sense of vacuum was watered by the reading of Yuval Noah Harari’s trilogy and his obsessive signaling of AI as the number one threat that we humanity face. At that time, the seeds of curiosity where already planted by two important movies that I enjoyed in 2014: Her and Transcendence.

Of course, my curiosity is not an easy one. I started in the digital industry in 1993 and I do not have much time neither patience for vaporware neither technology flashes, that orchestra of people overselling technology and its thousand naïve, isolated pitches. This maybe because I fully recognize that Amara’s Law is one of the particularly important rules of the industry: “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”. Last times that I made some similar efforts were with the arrival of smartphones and social networks in 2008, which I fully understood as a big inflection point; and with the irruption of sales pitches around blockchain and bitcoin in 2016, which I felt annoying and confusing.

So, this 2019, somehow, two opposite industry forces got my attention. On one hand, YouTube released a series of documentaries by the name of The Age of AI which fully opened my eyes and helped separating the wheat from the chaff. On the other hand, I found about Tristan Harris and his Center for Humane Technology, which I felt as nicely embodying my own journey and my own worries. One year later, the documentary The Social Dilemma was released. Both happenings feed up my curiosity and kicked off my will to better understand the state of the art of the industry as a whole and that of AI in specific. By the way, I strongly recommended these documentaries to you.

Following my rule of three, I chose three books. Finally, they resulted in three plus one. I felt to start by reading again a novel that would help to reframe the situation with some sweetness and magic. So, these were my choices. In total, four books, more than 1.500 pages with hundreds of margin notes and underlines, and lots of side reading and watching to deepen in those concepts, people and companies that were flowing in front of me: (más…)

Etiquetas: apple, cambio, crisis, emprendedor, empresario, facebook, google, innovación, microsoft, nuevo trabajo, oportunidad, peligro, RBU, renta básica, SiliconValley, SillaSofáZapatilla, tecnología, tsunami

Jordan B. Peterson’s «Maps of Meaning»: what we should be grateful for

21/06/2021 | carlosgoga | cambio, educación, emprender | No hay comentarios

I got to know about Jordan B. Peterson while reading the The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Buzoff. She referred him in the context of the The Big Five Model and I was really in deep curiosity about this. In fact, I have been searching for a good way to learn it for years.

The Big Five Model, also known as the OCEAN model, is the most well known crossroads between technology and psychology. First time I knew about this model was when the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2017. Then, it came back to me while reading and researching Yuval Noah Harari‘s books during 2018 and 2019. Again, it appeared again with the The Social Dilemma documentary and in Shoshana Buzoff’s book in 2020. Finnally, i found it indirectly again in the book AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee associated to what he refers as «the first wave of AI: internet AI».

This model is what big technology companies like facebook, google and others use to organize and classify users. In other words, this model describes the «psychologicy profiles» that they «big tech companies» use to understand better who we are and what is it that motivates us in order to define who to serve and with which services . Please, note that «we» means  «you and me and all people that we know» up to 2,7 billion users (this is the latest «number of active users in facebook» as declared by the company). Of course, I fully know that this paragraph could be a bible itself if we focus on the words «who to serve and with which services», which happens to be the theme of Shoshana Buzoff’s book. (más…)

Etiquetas: ayuda, clase creativa, corazón, cuentos, emprendedor, innovación, nuevo trabajo, oportunidad

¿Dónde está la magia en un taller de sexualidad sagrada y consciente?

18/08/2019 | carlosgoga | bliss-u, educación, sexualidad | 2 Comentario

Son ya muchos los talleres que he compartido con Carmen y Michel, tantos como caben en diez años (¡si, diez años juntos, todos seguidos, uno detrás de otro, ni más ni menos!), y de ellos, con ellos (¡de vosotros, con vosotros!) he aprendido todo lo que no sabía que se podía aprender.

Pero ahora lo sé. He cambiado mucho. Los primeros años no era capaz de observar de la manera que hoy en día sé observar. Además, ahora disfruto de palabras nuevas que describen lo que antes sentía pero que no sabía reconocer, o no sabía ver, y que recibía tan difuso como confuso.

Estas que siguen son mis mejores palabras para describir “la magia” de Carmen y Michel, aquello que no se ve con facilidad pero que todos sentimos y recibimos con intensidad cristalina en el momento que estamos con ellos (¡con vosotros!) y especialmente, en los talleres de sexualidad sagrada y consciente. Así es como entiendo “la magia” que nos inunda, magia muy presente en la manera en que se ofrecen a la relación con el otro, generando «esa energía extraordinaria y acogedora» que permite que lo cerrado se abra y lo impensable suceda. (más…)

Etiquetas: amar, amor, love, lovetopía, oportunidad, sexualidad