by jordicabot | Mar 21, 2022 | Research Rants, stories entrepreneur, writing
Paraphrasing Reid Hoffman famous saying: “You may have heard me say: If you’re not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late”, I’m confident to say: If you’re not ashamed of your blog post, you...
by jordicabot | Aug 23, 2021 | presenting, Research Rants
The research community is now discussing whether conferences should be back to being in-person, continue as virtual or follow some kind of hybrid model. I have a different proposal. I suggest taking this opportunity to “kill” a bunch of conferences. Even...
by jordicabot | Feb 24, 2021 | Research Rants, stories entrepreneur
We often complain about the challenges associated with a fruitful research-industry collaboration. The current pandemic has just aggravated them as, clearly, companies face difficult times and have mostly paused their R&I activities. In this context, we propose...
by jordicabot | Nov 2, 2020 | publishing, evaluating research, Research Rants
This year, we got two best demo awards: Gadolinium: Monitoring Non-Functional Properties of REST APIs won the best poster/demo award at ICWE 2020 PapyGame: Let’s Play Modeling won the best demo award at Models 2020 And I’m proud of it. You may think that...
by jordicabot | Sep 21, 2020 | doing research, job, Research Rants
I hate working from home every single day. And I miss a lot seeing my colleagues at the office (ok, I especially miss our coffees together, great for team building!). We don’t need to be together to write a paper or a project report but I still prefer...
by jordicabot | Aug 17, 2020 | doing research, evaluating research, philosophy, Research Rants
Last month, I was discussing with Feli, from the budgeting team at my university, to upgrade the plan I had with WPEngine as we were paying overage charges due to excess visits. The plan was capped 100.000 thousand visits per month. And many months we were going over...
