There are some songs that we will always associate with somebody, Idk why but I always think about Masu when I heard this song.
Reason #01 for my MBA
One of the reasons I studied an MBA was to help me identify a good manager once I have it.
As an IT person, against all the other careers we can actually grow ($$$) without having to become manager, so I decided if my future growth depends on another person is not me, I should be able to identify them.
To quote my first manager “perception is truth”, whatever everybody person perceives as truth is their truth,
In the same line of thought, I knew he wasn’t such a great manager, I got moved to an Indian manager who was great but some months later my first manager was going to become my mid-level manager, so I had to move.
Bad management or bad manager can destroy your career, your job or at least stagnate your professional growth, each of those is something every person cannot risk.
Welcome to a master
I always wanted to give the very first class in a master, because at that moment, they dont know each other and they are starting a new chapter in their lifes, coming back to another that they most likely had left behind some years ago.
I never had the chance since I teach mostly optional classes at the last or second to last semester.
Finally this semester I was able to do it and not only that, this class was the first class ever, since the master in data science just started, so I was able to teach at first semester, the first day on a newly created master.
LACS linkedin recommendation
Some time ago I used to be on comics forums, some of them were only accesible if another user invited you, I was added twice by some of the most respect users there was; that was something I was really proud but nothing as this recommendation I received on LinkedIn by LACS
Fernando is one of the most motivated and driven person I have ever know. I had the opportunity to be his academic advisor, professor and, eventually, partner in the University of Guadalajara. We had the chance to exchange a diversity of matters during enriching chats. He is the kind of person you do not need to teach anything. It’s been an honor to share with him!
I asked for that recommendation to him and as always he helped me out.
I have a bunch of recommendation all of them are very special to me, but given the circumstances this is most meaningful to me; LACS recalls when he was my tutor and marks that eventually we became peers, at least by working on the same place because he was the teacher I felt I will never be a match.
LACS visit
So day of the dead passed last weekend, it was last Saturday, for me it was another Saturday since nobody on my MX family normally do something for that day.
In the evening I went out to Jan´s house, had some drinks and talk about a lot of things.
I went to sleep as normal in the bedroom that used to be mine and I had a dream with LACS, he was still dead but some researches managed to build something that kind of communicates with the dead but wasn´t quite successful , I ended up seeing him as a projection while they were checking something on the PC, but his projection wasn´t like he was alive, he was just a projection of what people there remember of him or some relationship with the place.
Next day on my dream I was passing a store walking and I saw him again, talking with a lady about the bag of groceries he had. He managed to walk out of the store but he will immediately go back to the store and start all over again but this time he noticed me and greeted me with his usual “Hola mi fer” or ” Ese mi fer”, I talked with him and I think he told me that he knew he was dead but didn’t know what else was going, I let him know about the research because I thought he might be interested, he did and come up with the idea that maybe if all the versions of him that were created with the machine from memories or places got together he might be able to come back somehow.
He and me started walking to the university, then some other versions of him came along but I was unable to reach the university, there was kind of like stopping me, I jumped from a tree to another but always came back to the same place.
I didn’t think of him that day and the only thing related to dead was Dr Who S8 season finale, I know dreams are the way the mind fixes itself and confronts dreams but for this time I choose to believe that it was a visit =)
The best teachers I had
I had around 40 teachers who taught some topic on the university, as expected some where good, others ok and some of then were marvelous.
I had 5 that were marvelous, totally topnotch:
- JRLA
- MA
- LHR
- JFHA
- LACS
I already started posting about LACS, I will post about the others too.
My real life Batman
One of my favorite comic-book characters is batman, he is the epitome of the human race, he is the smartest and overall strongest human in earth(Maybe Ubu or Bane might stronger under some circunstances with venom or something else).
So in real life, probably the most similar could be Mariusz Pudzianowski, successful entrepreneur and several times world strongest man, his main strength are his muscle, his brains is quite impressive too but all to consider, I don’t believe he is the best combination I could imagine.
My gramps was the person who embodies Batman to me, he was a walking enciclopedia, the must successful entrepreneur I knew and for his advance age when I met him on 94(I met him before but I don’t really recall anything before that year =) ) he was on pretty good shape.
Dodged a bullet
Some years ago, I applied to an outsourcing company that provided some service to HP, I passed the interviews with HP and got an offer for little more than 2.15x what I was earning at the time.
I hesitated a lot because:
- It was using a mix payroll(mostly bonus and just 1 minimum salary via payroll), which means I will get less money for my retirement( I could just put some voluntarily to avoid this but consider 2).
- I wanted 2.5x what I was earning at the time and I knew if I moved then, I should wait before moving to another job for at least 2 years.
I decided to pass on the offer because of those 2 reasons, the tech recruiter wasn’t to happy about that but hey that’s business.
It all turn out for the best for me, 1 week after that, HP broke into HP inc and enterprise, so I would have been fired pretty soon.
Welcome gift
When I started teaching at the university, I had a lot of acquaintances since I was a student there, so a good amount of the professors were my teachers.
I had been teaching for a week or two at the time, but I still haven’t got my key to the classroom, so I had to ask another professor passing by to open the classroom for me. One day LACS was passing by and I asked, he of course opened the classroom for me and went to his cubicle, he came back and told me he heard I was teaching but hasn’t seen me yet, now that he saw with his eyes he wanted to the welcome me to the guild, so he gave an eraser and a marker.
I already had a marker(exactly the same as the one he gave me) and a similar eraser and what he gave was just another marker and eraser he had but it is the only welcome gift I received at the time on my first job and it came from the best professor the faculty had who was also my tutor…to the day I still have both marker and eraser, stored on a ziploc bag as a fond memory of my early years and one of the only 2 things I have from lacs.
LACS first meeting
When I started my bachelors in informatics, I was randomly assigned a tutor as everybody else, I didn’t how he was nor he knew me.
Sometime in the semester, he scheduled a meeting to get to know me and plan for the next semester.
I asked around how he was, my programming teacher told me that he was one of the best teachers and was certainly the brightest, so I went with high expectations.
When I met him, he was wearing casual clothes, not at all like an academic snob I thought he will be.
We talked about his role in my career and stuff like that, at the end of the meeting I asked him for his big Simpsons’ poster and he told me that he loved the Simpsons, we talked about them around 1 hour and he told me the was afraid of becoming stupid like Homer, cuz’ he was getting fatter and balder with the time. I remember I spotted Homer dressed with other clothes and he explained that he was Homer’s brother and that he only appeared so far in 1 episode so far.