FC Barcelona's leaders made some very expensive mistakes, yet the club's youth academy, La Masia, is producing world-class players again. Its story shows how the people who do the daily work can keep an institution or a company good when the people at the top fail.
Life is school, and nobody gave me the syllabus: different subjects, discipline, homework, and a little time in the playground. It's a sentence I keep coming back to — so here is the case for it, the case against it, and what survives both.
The people building the most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) systems in the world have just asked, in public, to slow down. The headlines say it is because the machines are getting too intelligent. That is the wrong lesson. The right one is less flattering to everyone involved, and a lot more useful to know.
A tu et roben dues vegades. La primera te la fa un paio que et rebenta el bombí un dijous a les set de la tarda i marxa en tres minuts. La segona te la fan cada mes, per domiciliació bancària, amb contracte signat, factura amb Impost sobre el Valor Afegit (IVA) i servei d'atenció al client.
We have a precise word for a politician taking an envelope. We have no everyday word for a decade of decisions that all happen to land on the same side of the same argument. That gap in the vocabulary is not neutral — it is doing work.