 I work for Muvid. Surprisingly, to my surprise, I found out that a lot of people actually know where it is and that's cool. We're like a small country which between Brazil and Argentina. To give you an idea of size, Brazil is a little bigger than the contiguous U.S. Argentina is about four times the size of Texas and Uruguay is actually about the size of Missouri which I find kind of cool. We just have half the population but otherwise it's kind of the same. And one thing that really distinguishes us is that Uruguay has the highest level of or per capita we have the more software export in South America which is pretty cool so it's a lot of software going on in Uruguay. We love barbecue which in Uruguay we call asado and it's kind of popular I guess everywhere. I love that barbecue is actually a thing in Kansas City. I hope to try some out and we'll see how it goes. We love to drink mate if you think coffee in the U.S. that's what mate is like in Uruguay. It's kind of like green tea but not really. It's not the same leaf. It's a different one but it is like an energy drink if you will. And the other thing that we love is soccer and I hear that some of you recognize him. This is one of the best players right now. We love him and sometimes hate him for the things he does on the pitch but you know we're all humans. Anyway so excellence through diversity. I want to start with humankind. What can we say about humankind? I think one of the things that really defines or you know you can say about humankind is that we're great. Throughout history we have accomplished many great things, buildings and still today the advancement in technology especially in the last century it's like it's crazy how much we have accomplished. But also one of the other things that we are is we're very different from each other. We have different you know backgrounds, different upbringings, different culture. There are a lot of different things and all of this contributes to us having different perspectives on almost any topic. I'm sure that there's like you know you can have a discussion on almost anything and we've been known I mean humans have been known to pick a fight on like the weirdest topics that you wouldn't believe. But today I want to show you kind of a different take on on this perspective thing and it kind of has to do with with my story with yeah something that is a kind of a part of me. Who can see something on there? Cool what's on there? An 8? That's cool. Who's seeing a 3? Someone said 3? Does someone not see anything? You see Batman? Okay that's not the answer I was expecting but cool. So yeah. So this is actually called the Ishihara test and it's for colorblind people yeah it's kind of tested if you're colorblind in some way and so people that are usually not colorblind see an 8. If you are like colorblind like me you see a 3 and some other colorblindness may render that you don't see anything recognize anything. Next one who sees anything here? Come on anyone has to yeah sorry but no yes what do you see? No there's no number on there okay I thought I thought some of some some would see it but there's actually a no in there you wouldn't believe it maybe you see it now now that you know to look for it yeah okay so colorblind people will see that no like it's like screaming in my eyes but of course it's not yours so we're different right and we have a very different perspective on what we recognize there or don't recognize there and and so I want to so my question with this is like which one is actually true? Is there a no or is it not a no? Is there an 8? Is there a 3? Which one which one is true? I'll leave you without hanging for for a while this actually this as you can guess like brings some challenges with it and one of the challenges is with food when I was growing up like I was having a really hard time knowing if a fruit was ripe or wasn't ripe I would be like you know eating one and whoa this is really sweet and you know nice and the other one would be like oh this really doesn't taste good and you know visually I wouldn't have a clue about what I was doing wrong so so my mind kind of started adapting and and you know looking for different things for example if I want to know if a banana is ripe I start looking for the black spots yeah it's it's probably maybe over right but yeah that's one of one of the things that you need to look for or the the texture of the fruit I always like when I'm at the grocery store I have to touch them to know if you know they're ripe or they're really green also one with me and he can see the difference like I said we love barbecue I I like barbecue I like to cook and and I I didn't know it before but when I discovered that I was colorblind I said yeah no wonder you have a hard time knowing if the if the meat is cooked or not if it's done or or and the other one is clothing imagine it's Sam Patrick's and you show up at work yes all green and no you're red I actually I never did it I'm married and I asked my wife for it was advice so you know the other one is skin color changes it's really hard for me to tell if if I'm sunburned like or I can tell when it's really late like dude you're burning out and the other one is and this can lead sometimes into some social awkward social encounters is I have a hard time seeing if a person turns pale or or they're like red like they're blotting to the face because and that's like I may not notice if I'm embarrassing someone or maybe they're sick or stuff like that and yeah so it'd be careful there and the last one is board games and this is actually how I kind of discovered that I was colorblind I didn't know I was colorblind until I was like 21 years old that's kind of crazy and we were playing cards you know they were like six colors and I think they were playing red and I like I threw my card I thought I was throwing the same card they were that was going on and a friend who actually is my wife now said you don't have any any any red anymore I'm like why what are we playing well you threw I we're playing red and what did I throw you throw a green card I'm like really and then I'm like they look into my car and see oh you got a red thread over there and and they said you're colorblind I'm like no I'm not and then I guess you are and yeah finally so yeah you're colorblind and anyway but not not everything not everything is so you know challenging so there are also some interesting things that that give you an edge we apparently have better night vision there's a scientific reason for this if you want to know more about it I don't want to get into it can you can talk me up later and the military have been known to to use colorblind people for seeing through camouflage because they're not confused by the same color patterns and yeah I think they now have like technology that that does that for them but at some point they they used to use that so the point I'm kind of trying to make here is that really what happens is your mind starts to work differently than an artist because and why does this happen because color becomes non-deterministic when I when there's something painted green or painted yellow or and it's kind of similar I don't see the difference and so I'll say someone says well what color is this and I say green but if you tell me it's yellow I mean that's okay with me it's yeah I wouldn't know and and so a funny story there is like I used to live in a student's home and one time I woke up to eat breakfast and like and I'm like oh they painted the volleyball sticks with with green and and my friend next to me said yes especially because they're red but yeah color becomes non-deterministic and we start relying on other things like I said touch touching things and you know just looking for shapes maybe or other stuff and maybe you know just getting a different angle on things and at work of course it can sometimes pose a challenge during communication just a few weeks back a client said okay I want this color to be tooltips this other color to be pop-ups and this other one to be something else and I'm like okay I'm trying to sort through that and if the colors are very similar I can I can have a hard time and but if the other person knows that that you have that that challenge with it or that that that you're different that way it can it can be solved very easily because you just color code differently or for example we like to use red to you know signify something that we want we think it's very important and red doesn't stand out to me I thought it did but it doesn't like the other day I was driving with my wife and she like it's red I'm like where and then like a hundred meters a hundred yards later I noticed oh there's a traffic light there so I actually have to look for the for the red things because they don't pop into my eyes other other things are do and there's also the interesting thing with design here because like I said we we process the color differently and and we see we see other things when when like non-color blind people look at the design they their eyes go to the things that should like catch their attention and like I said I I don't I don't I'm not the same thing catches that my attention or you know and and then I kind of tend to see other other things there like I said we're not so focused focused on color maybe because it's not deterministic to us we're maybe more more focused on a contrast on where the content is placed and the shapes of things I really like to rely on shapes to to identify things so but again the communication is key here like if you if in your team you have these differences and you know being able to to to notice and to share about this it's it's very important like to know each other because if I don't tell anyone I'm colorblind and that I have an issue with that I may I may you know deal with it sometime but maybe I run into trouble or maybe I implement the wrong thing or whatever happens and so so it's important to share about that and it's important to be respectful I think that like I said it can lead me into into maybe sometimes complicated situations but you need to be respectful about this and and be respectful about the different perspectives because okay I may see a 3 or or nothing where other people see an 8 and I can I can't do anything about colorblindness but sometimes I also see other things differently and being able to discuss these things and do it respectfully is key to you know bring those those differences together and create something better and the other one I think is very important for it for a team and and to use communications is to share is to share your experience because when you're part of the team you you bring something very important to the table and that is all your experience all that all that stuff you you did in life and and you didn't do and your background and who you are I think that is there's a lot of rich context in there and when you know each other and you respect each other and you're able to share your things in a safe environment and where you know that you know these things will use for for the better you can you can become a better team but the the thing here is to understand that we are different and I like the sports and energy a lot because when you when you have a team you actually need these differences you don't want you know the QB in every position that would be terrible for the running game or the you know the passing game and yeah this when when when we let these things to cause division it can when we when when we look at our differences and how we are different if we let that cause division the team can break down and as we know in sports is very obvious when a team doesn't click when a team don't when they don't respect each other when they don't want to play together it's a mess it's like immediately and and I think it's in soccer we love soccer like I said in soccer you see it more you see it more because especially with strikers when a striker is like selfish and then doesn't want to pass the ball to the other one who is like the perfect opportunity and they're like so anyway if they're constantly fighting they won't create anything better and the team and the sum of the part of the parts of the team is actually less than than on paper maybe but the the other thing we can do and but what I am excited about is that if we come together and we use these differences that we have we can actually push on the limits of what we can do the team can be more than than what you think they are like if you evaluate each individual maybe you come up with you know something in your mind but when when you combine that and you use these differences and put them together you can actually push on the limits of what you can do and you can do greater stuff and this happens in sports too sometimes the underdog is like who just you know wins and you're like what happened well they played as a team and I think that's awesome and so the question that that arises from this is like how do we do this how do we get a team to to to go beyond their limits and I think the difference there is actually in in a team is it a group of individuals or is it actually a team you know because you can pick you know the best players in the league and put them together but if they're not a team that they're not gonna be you know a great team so one of the things I've heard a lot lately is about hiring from the top percent and at move it we we sometimes you know can say that too we we maybe hire one every 30 people we interview but I don't know does that mean we're hiring the top X percent I think it doesn't and it was a great block post the other day I've read I'm sorry I don't remember who it was but it says like if you're hiring the top 3% of the people you interview that that's that's that's what you're hiring the top 3% of who you interview now if everyone would do that in the end you would you would notice that you're actually hiring from the top maybe top 97% not the top 3 you know you would have to like interview everyone to maybe pick the top 3 but even if you did that it's probably an illusion so so we at move it believe way more in building actually building the team instead of just hiring the top X percent but when you're building the team you understand what you're looking for and I really love the talk about that Joe Masty did this morning on hiring with science if you can check that out I mean that's a that's a great talk on on on how to take the bias out of hiring and actually going for you know really understanding what you're looking for for your team and I think you need to understand that a team is like like I think it is like a soccer team you don't want to you don't want to receive her or yeah now I'm mixing things up but a football team you don't want to receive her everywhere you need you need those differences they are key to your success so you need to understand what you're looking for for your team and you need to consider the team when you're hiring also you need to understand that the person you're hiring will have to work with the team so how you need to understand that and then and I think the great issue here is that organizations love structure and and that is okay because we need structure but what if you know you put a put an interview in place and then you start executing it and then it kind of becomes part of the system but the interview is wrong you know and then you start just you know hiring certain people and then you start the scouting others and if you're not understanding what you're doing this kind of like creep up on you and suddenly you're like oh this is how we do it and it works great for us you know we really need to again check out Joe Masi's talk on that it's it's great how how wrong we can be sometimes about these things and I think that they really the key here is to understand that that it's not about us you know when you're hiring many times I've seen that the that the interview process kind of becomes about the guy who's interviewing or the person was interviewing and sometimes we I mean it happened to me too when I when I did some interviews sometimes I just wanted to see myself in the other person that's like the worst thing you can do because it will create homogeneous teams and and you're losing there and this is not something that I am you know that's grabs out of the air there is a there's a study from McKinsey that says that gender diverse teams are 15% more likely you know to outperform other companies that's that's 15% now there's also another study that says that ethical diversity will get you 35% if you sum that up like if you have gender and ethical diverse teams that's just like 50% off the bat you know it's it's a crazy 50% I mean that's a lot that we're talking about here but one of the things that can happen real quickly and I was talking about this with someone today was when you have a diverse team that that you know works from different countries from different places many times it can be hard you know to to avoid chaos because like I said we're different we communicate differently we sometimes we we say things and I've experienced this many times because that well we I'm from Uruguay and English is not our native native language so sometimes we want to say something in English and we're actually not saying what we think we're saying we say something else so so it is important that in your team you build unity and again the sports analogy applies you need you want a team that's that's united but not a team that is the same you need to understand this it's not a homogeneous team it's a united team they don't think the same way that's not unity thinking the same way is you know being homogeneous it's not the same and then again communication is it's so important when communication breaks down that's when when everything goes you know goes downward you need to be able to talk respectfully never ever offend someone else you gain nothing doing that absolutely nothing you need to be able to communicate and the buzzword here would be to communicate effectively but what does communicating effectively really mean I don't think that you need to you know just say the bare minimum we are you know we're people we we have a lot to say and it's not always all about work and it's not always all about you know we sometimes need to talk about life and and being able to share and I think that builds the team that builds the trust and I think that that two keys and here is when you're building a diverse team there are two things that I strongly believe and this is not scientific so if I'm wrong that's okay but I firmly believe in this that when you're building a diverse team you need to have two things clear you need to have they need to share the same values and they need to share the same goals why because the values keep the team together and again I know we're different and what I'm saying here is we don't need to share everything and that's okay we can we can be at work and and share you know the things we care about at work for example I care a lot about code review that's something I share with my co-workers outside of work I may care about other things but I don't need to bring that into the workplace I don't need to force other opinions I have on my teammates because it has nothing to do with work so what we need to understand is we we need to find this common ground and let that keep us united and be able to the other things that we don't share okay we don't share them we don't need to fight over it we don't need to get everyone on the same boat because again we may be losing on on on the diversity there and the goals are important to keep the team focused when you know where you're going it's it's easier to to to understand for the team to be focused you know to be in because it will the values will keep them together and then with with the focus they can go in the same direction this will avoid a team to to you know start going into different directions and talking about things they they they disagree from you know the other day on a project we I don't know we released something and then the product backlog wasn't really defined so we came into work and we were just you know working on bugs and that's not really fine because you you know you get bored and stuff so so really having those goals keeps the team focused and one of our values at move it that that we care about a lot is team over individuals we believe that the team is more important but we don't dismiss individuals don't take this as oh the team goes before everything and and you know if someone does something well that something might happen it's not in that sense it's in the sense that we want team players we want people that care about the team and that they don't you know they don't overstep they don't you know they don't just do stuff because they think they're the star or because I'm the important one here I was here five years before you so you're gonna do what I say or my important opinion is more valid because whatever it's not it's never about being you know selfish and and just getting your opinion through what is important the important thing is to be able to share in and and combine those those different we use and I say this because I think that it's never about the stars it's about the team