Developers Are Dead (Again) Every few years, someone declares developers dead. When low-code and no-code tools showed up, developers were dead. When cloud computing made infrastructure easier, developers were dead. When SaaS replaced custom-built tools, developers were dead. When mobile development frameworks abstracted away the hard parts, developers were dead. When ChatGPT could write a… Read More Developers Are Dead (Again)
The startup mode is over The company I used to work for transitioned from the startup phase into a scaleup phase. During this transition, there were many challenges for the company but I’m here to tell you what challenges I faced personally and how I tried to solve for them, some more successfully than others.… Read More Let go, the story of an engineering manager
Now that I’m a father I’ve become way more strict with my time. Not only with work time but with free time. I have fully paid for my house in a record time. Even with a 15 year mortgage we managed to become debt free in just under 5 years. As a family we have… Read More Five years from now
Here are my goals for 2020. I have divided them into three categories which I want to improve upon this year. All goals are quite ambitious therefore I’ve created a tier system so I can achieve all of them in small increments. That way I will stay motivated. Small wins take you to big wins!… Read More 2020 Goals
En algún momento escuché la frase “Para la mujer la maternidad inicia el día en que queda embarazada, para el hombre la paternidad inicia el día del parto”. ¡Qué equivocada está la frase! Para nosotros el día del parto nunca llegó, pero soy padre de dos hijos. Soy esposo de una madre amorosa que no… Read More El Camino
Week 1. A new technology startup is born. A hands on, tech savvy, entrepreneur found a purposeful project to work on. He brings the best people he can. Sooner than expected a team composed of sales, marketing, product and technology people assembles. Ideas start flowing. Drawings on the wall, napkins, desks and coffee stained notepads… Read More The Thriving Tech Startup
So, you want to stream? I mean, everyone is streaming, how hard can it be? Right? Well, if you are completely oblivious to video production as I was when I decided to start streaming, then it might not be as straightforward as you think. There was an article I wrote a couple of year ago… Read More So You Want to Stream
Over the past year I have been lecturing and facilitating workshops about Serious Games. One of the things we go over is the different types of categories Serious Games can fall into, mostly based on the purpose behind them. Persuasive Games are games that try to change your attitude (in real life) based on a… Read More Drunk Crow – You are drunk, go home. Don’t drive!
Here are my impression of some of books I read or listened during 2017 and 2018. As a rule of thumb I usually take on two books related to business or professional development for every fiction/fantasy book. At first I wanted to rank them from worst to best but then I figured that they are… Read More My 2018 Book Library Review
A few months ago the CEO of the company I work for shared an article about “Task-Relevant Maturity”. The author of the article elaborates on Grove’s High Output Management ideas on the matter and shares his own takeaways on that concept. My boss’ intention by sharing the article, I think, was for me to identify ways… Read More High Output Management