José Antonio David Nasser

July 20, 2025

Outliers: Les Schwab by Shane Parrish

Charlie Munger once asked me: ‘How can someone give away fifty percent of profits and make billions more than if he’d kept it all?’ Before I could answer, he told me about Les Schwab, a tire shop owner who understood incentives better than almost anyone. What Schwab discovered will change how you think about business and life. Here are...

July 20, 2025

Looking Back in Time

The speed of light is a mighty ~300,000 km/s. But even at that speed, because the distances in space are so vast, sometimes it has to settle in for the ride. When we see the light from a distant star or galaxy, we're not seeing it as it is now—we're seeing it as it was when the light first left on its journey to Earth. Why Looking at S...

July 18, 2025

Los hikikomoris | Juan Villoro

Los hikikomoris Juan Villoro, «No soy un robot» La disolución de la personalidad aqueja de distinto modo a las generaciones. Las familias enfrentan una nueva disfuncionalidad, provocada por el repentino aislamiento de uno de sus miembros. «Voy a ver al zombi», me dijo un amigo al despedirse. Se refería al hijo de diecisiete años con el...

July 13, 2025

Formas de ver el cielo | Juan Villoro

Fragmento del libro No soy un robot En 2016 visité el observatorio astronómico de Paranal, en el desierto de Atacama, y un año después conocí a su fundador, el italiano Massimo Tarenghi, en la ciudad de Antofagasta. En 1993, después de la dictadura de Pinochet, en esa tierra baldía el poeta Raúl Zurita, formado como ingeniero civil, la...

July 1, 2025

Editorial Boletín ICSI | Julio 2025

“Todo empezó con una taza. Alguien la dejó sucia en el fregadero común. Nadie dijo nada. Al día siguiente había dos. Luego, un plato con restos de comida. Una servilleta grasosa. Para el viernes, el lugar parecía zona sin ley. Lo que era una oficina funcional se volvió un sitio hostil, donde cada quien operaba a conveniencia: si el otr...

May 31, 2025

Detallitos...

Juan Enríquez Cabot EN REFORMA 3 MIN 30 SEG 30 mayo 2025 En la crisis diaria se nos olvida que las cosas chiquitas, las que ignoramos y posponemos, las que se acumulan, pueden llevar a percances mayores. A la larga, es lo que se pospone o ignora lo que define un régimen. Años de "austeridad republicana", desinversión, malversación y ab...

May 27, 2025

Sketchplanations | ✍️ Unknown unknowns

To business: In a 2002 Pentagon briefing, then U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously said: "Reports that say something hasn't happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some things we ...

May 11, 2025

Contra la opinión binaria | Juan Villoro

Contra la opinión binaria Juan Villoro, del libro “No soy un robot” Mi generación aprendió más cosas en la calle que en la escuela. El saber se transmitía en la tienda del barrio donde compartíamos refrescos después de jugar partidos en los que las porterías se marcaban con suéteres. Ese modesto espacio cumplía para nosotros la función...

May 5, 2025

Variable Rewards

Variable Rewards Variable Rewards are remarkably powerful. Sometimes, you get something good. Sometimes, you get nothing. But every so often, it's something amazing. That unpredictability keeps us coming back. What Are Variable Rewards? A variable reward is a type of reward given unpredictably. You don't know exactly what you'll get or...

April 27, 2025

Henry Singleton—Distant Force [The Knowledge Project Ep. #225]

Henry Singleton—Distant Force [The Knowledge Project Ep. #225] Outliers: Most people look to Warren Buffett as being the king of capital allocation, but Warren Buffett looks to Henry Singleton. Singleton built one of the most successful conglomerates in American history, transforming business while remaining virtually unknown. While Wa...

April 18, 2025

Manejo de la Ira

"Cómo emperador serás provocado y te harán enojar pero antes de hacer nada requiero que recites todas las letras del alfabeto." -Atenedoro Cananita, Consejero del Emperador Octavio La raíz de la mayoría de nuestros errores es resultado de un arrebato provocado por alguna de las pasiones humanas: ira, envidia, lujuria, miedo, dolor. Est...

April 17, 2025

Your Vision vs. Your Mission | Core Values & Core Focus

De Business Works: Your Vision vs. Your Mission, 29 abr 2018 Most small business people especially, and professional practices, have a tendency to think that vision and mission are the same thing. Mission is where you want to go over a given period of time. It's almost like stating your goal. “Where we're going this year. What's happen...

April 17, 2025

Keys to proper branding | Processes & Gaining Traction

De Business Works: Keys to Proper Branding, 1 jun 2018 “Branding is not about getting your target market to choose you over the competition, but it is about getting your prospects to see you as the only one that provides a solution to their problems.” “They branded themselves so well that anybody who wants a tissue, you ask, do you hav...

April 17, 2025

Managing Your Time

De Business Works podcast, 24 jun 2018 “So one of the stories that stuck in my mind the most was about Charles Schwab, not the one we know today, but Charles Schwab was one of the richest men in the world in the early 19th, 20th century. By 1918, he was the president of Bethlehem Steel and the largest shipbuilder and the second largest...

April 17, 2025

Bruce Flatt on Value, Discipline, and Durability

1 abr 2025 We capitalize on opportunities where we understand the value and the price is not trading at that in the markets. We invest in three things: digitalization of everything (moving information to the cloud, data centers), artificial intelligence applied to businesses to make them better and more productive and transition to low...

April 14, 2025

Lessons from Cornelius Vanderbilt

The sources for this episode include The First Tycoon by T.J. Stiles and Tycoon’s War by Stephen Dando-Collins. Lessons from Cornelius Vanderbilt: 1. Catch the Right Wave.When a better technology came along, Vanderbilt jumped on it. He went from ferries to steamships to railroads without trying to cling to the past. 2. Gradually, then ...

March 30, 2025

Lessons From James Dyson

By Shane Parrish 1. Persistence is key. Dyson’s story isn’t about genius—it’s persistence. He built 5,127 prototypes over five years to launch the G-Force in Japan, then spent another decade perfecting the DC01 for the world. Innovation meant questioning experts, embracing failure, and owning his vision. He was told no, over and over a...

February 7, 2025

Musk vs. Gobierno de EU

BENCHMARK / Jorge A. Meléndez Ruiz EN REFORMA 4 MIN 00 SEG 03 diciembre 2024 Dice Elon Musk que en gastos de gobierno empezarán de cero. Promete meter un bulldozer para recortar 2 billones (millones de millones) de dólares del presupuesto federal de Estados Unidos. Dado que el mismo se ubica en 6.75 billones de dólares, quiere recortar...

February 6, 2025

México precursor monetario

Por Gabriel Zaid EN REFORMA 3 MIN 30 SEG 26 enero 2025 Se pudiera pensar que el signo de pesos ($) se copió del dólar ($). Pero es al revés. El dólar (no sólo el signo) se copió del peso. Ni las colonias inglesas, ni los Estados Unidos (en sus primeros años), tuvieron moneda propia. Usaban la libra inglesa y algunas libras locales, per...

January 26, 2025

Brain Food | Mental Model of the Week V2 | Physics | Leverage

Mental Model of the Week V2 | Physics | Leverage Leverage is the force multiplier of the world, the principle that allows the small to move the large and the few to influence the many. It’s the idea that a little force, strategically applied, can yield outsize outputs. At its core, leverage is amplification. Think of a crowbar prying t...

January 17, 2025

Managing Oneself by Peter Drucker

Book summary by Samuel Thomas Davis The Book in One Sentence • Managing Oneself is about discovering who you are, then focusing on what you can contribute, and taking responsibility for how you communicate. Sam’s Five Favorite Ideas 1. Use feedback analysis to uncover your strengths and weaknesses. 2. Acquiring the skills and knowledge...

December 3, 2024

How I run my business

By James Clear 2020 was my 10th year as an entrepreneur. Here are some "rules" I try to follow after a decade of stumbling around building my company. (Not rules for all businesses. Just how I choose to run mine.) Create something timeless. The more evergreen your work, the longer timeline you have to find success. Optimize for time be...

November 28, 2024

Universitarios descalzos

Gabriel Zaid EN REFORMA 4 MIN 00 SEG 27 octubre 2024 Una sequía terrible causó una hambruna que dejó más de 2,000 muertos de hambre en Bihar (la India), en 1965. Bunker Roy, un joven universitario y deportista (campeón nacional de squash) acudió al desastre, y quedó tan impresionado por la miseria que vio, que decidió dedicar su vida a...

November 21, 2024

Track the number one metric

BE 2.0 Jim Collins/Bill Lazier "History is the study of surprises." This line from history professor Edward T. O'Donnell captures the world in which we live. We're living history, surprise after surprise after surprise. And just when we think we've had all the big surprises for a while, along comes another one. If the first two decades...

November 15, 2024

Book The HP way

By David Packard Forming a nucleus Mutual understanding and respect is the core of our successful business relationship lasting more than half a century. Working together “Managing by walking around” means that to do the job right, personal communication is necessary to back up written instructions. Norman emphasized the importance of ...

November 8, 2024

Terminator II | Juan Villoro

Juan Villoro EN REFORMA 08 noviembre 2024 "No hay segundos actos en las vidas americanas", dijo F. Scott Fitzgerald. Para el melancólico autor de El gran Gatsby, el triunfo era un tren que pasaba una sola vez. En Estados Unidos la mayor épica no consiste en llegar a la cima, sino en perderlo todo y luchar para recuperarlo. Lo decisivo ...

November 6, 2024

Redacción de Negocios simplificada

Por Dickie Bush La redacción de negocios es un superpoder. Pero las escuelas y los empleadores hacen un trabajo horrible al enseñar a la gente a escribir. En 1981, dos ejecutivos de publicidad escribieron una guía atemporal sobre cómo escribir en el mundo de los negocios. Y aquí hay 12 de sus consejos que debe tener en su escritorio: E...

November 6, 2024

Mensaje del Papa Francisco

14 de Abril de 2017. "Puedes tener defectos, estar ansioso y algunas veces vivir irritado, pero no te olvides que tu vida es la mayor empresa del mundo. Sólo tú puedes evitar que ella vaya en decadencia. Hay muchos que te aprecian, admiran y te quieren. Me gustaría que recordaras que ser feliz, no es tener un cielo sin tempestades, cam...

November 5, 2024

Hypersales Growth

By Jacky Daly Fundamentos para el éxito. • Se necesita una visión que motive al personal. • Gente clave en puestos clave. • Crear un ambiente de trabajo en donde la gente quiera ir a trabajar en lugar de que tenga que ir a trabajar. • Esforzarse por ganar la confianza del personal “Dos cosas que tu competencia no puede copiar son la ge...

November 5, 2024

First Ten

By Seth Godin This, in two words, is the secret of the new marketing. Find ten people. Ten people who trust you/respect you/need you/listen to you… Those ten people need what you have to sell, or want it. And if they love it, you win. If they love it, they’ll each find you ten more people (or a hundred or a thousand or, perhaps, just t...