Posts
2026
2024
- Observing
- New Coach
- Bouldering
- Dash Story
- Beyond Blame
- Delivery Matters
- Probation Expectations
- A framework to fix issues
- 🌳 New Opportunities TLDR
- Exploring with GPT
- Delivering Feedback
- New Opportunities (Why)
- Running Tips
- Collective issues
- Motivation
- Leaders and Managers
2023
- Álvaro de Campos
- Heroes
- Emails and moving on
- Small things
- Flash
- Dungeons and Dragons
- Wet Tomatoes
- Exercised (book)
- Business Goals
- Guiding line for new managers
- Post Mortem
- Revelation Space
- Food
- Man's reach
- The Manual (part 2)
- Fast forward
- A new podcast
- RE: Measuring the World
- Twitter nastiness
- Measuring the world
- World class talent
- A fine quote
- Avoiding friction
- Cardiovascular apps
- Twitter Blow Up
- The cost of bad takes
- Engineering Intensity
- Threads
- Manual: Epictetus
- Software engineers as gardeners
- Heart Rate Dip Insights
- Entropy
- Manager's opinion
- Wet grass
- Grabbing candidates attention
- Providing space
- Let go control
- In the evenings
- Repetition
- Idleness
- Strawberries
- Strangers
- Erik
- A fog that lifted
- Father's day
- Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software
- Stop and move on
- Fifth Science
- Shattered Trust
- Closing the Loop
- Killing a community
- Lex
- Degraded skills
- Hiring is still hard
- The opposite
- Hybrid work
- Saudade
- Andy's thoughts on VisionPro
- When meditation doesn't work
- Walking in nature
- Newsletters
- Diablo 4
- Recruitment fees
- Challenges
- Rejecting a rejection
- Physics
- blueprint
- 183
- Taking Criticism
- GitHub profile
- Leaders
- Friction
- Behaviour and Cultural session
- Lego Technic
- Next
- Lonely endeavours
- Mismanagement
- Changing opinion
- Switching Hats
- Intro call
- Knowing more
- Genius
- Vital's Hiring Manifesto
- Some things never change
- Books over articles
- Startups
- Hard conversations
- Burnout
- Standing Out (Part 2)
- Worned
- Mojo (part 2)
- Surrounded
- Mojo
- Things are online
- Working in Progress
- Moving On (again)
- Bluesky
- “Some Things I Think”
- Past struggles
- The Art of Leadership
- Taking responsability
- Product Engineer
- Feedback
- Communication
- Liability
- Prove X
- Load Balancer
- Artificial Altercations
- Dead and Buried
- Copy pasting ideas
- Asking questions
- What can I do?
- “What you give up when moving into engineering management”
- Cryptos and LLMs
- Purpose of an EM
- 2000 years later
- Working backwards
- Picking tech
- Strength vs Weaknesses
- Lotus
- Looking For a Role / Hiring for a Role
- Talk show?
- Penrose
- Eric and Roger
- Physics Paralysis
- Doing your best
- Pause
- Racing
- Fitness+
- 10 days in
- Moving On from Foundation
- Vacay
- Sam on Lex
- Recruiters on Whatsapp
- Meditation
- Habits
- Tech Leads over Managers
- Simplicity
- Focusing on the wrong things
- Diary
- Execution trumps Everything
- Highest Priority item
- RFCs
- Issue 15
- Junior candidates
- Everything Everywhere All at Once
- Kendo
- Communication at Senior level
- Nonsense at Twitter
- Withdrawing
- Issue 14
- Great leaders traits
- Step-by-step
- User centric engineering
- Humans over Processes
- Explaining things
- Acute confirmation bias
- Issue 13
- Concurrency in Go
- Rejecting candidates
- Writer's block
- Raising exceptional people
- APIs
- Giving feedback
- Issue 12
- Compounding effects
- The best candidates
- React.js: The documentary
- Determinism
- Unusual situations
- Conversations? What conversations?
- Issue 11
- Remote work as a manager
- State of Affairs
- Brand perception
- FB: Managers to ICs
- Product churn
- Communication in remote environments
- Issue 10
- Fitness and Health companies
- Making sense of Fitness data
- Therapy
- Breaking trust
- Managers who start the downfall
- Logistical expectations
- Issue 9
- Releasing on a B2B SaaS environment
- Referrals
- “What we look for in a resume” - Chip Huyen
- Nonsense
- Misaligned hierarchies
- Seniority
- Issue 8
- Mezzo-piano
- Culture and Values
- Trade offs
- Gas acquired by Discord
- Hiring for small companies
- Growing Pains
- Issue 7
- Feedback going wrong
- Receiving feedback
- Moods
- Expectatioms
- Talking with Customers
- Asking for help (Meta)
- Issue 6
- Second-Order thinking
- Confirmation bias
- Stressful moment
- Shoping - Purging Meetings
- Scaling Pain (Questions)
- Small changes
- Issue 5
2022
- 2022
- Asking for help
- 20,000 hours as a Software Engineer
- CV specific examples
- Manager as a buffer
- Managing Upwards
- Issue 4
- Christmas Gifts
- Humble Pie
- Building trust
- The lunatics are running the asylum
- A quintet of articles
- Side tasks
- Issue 3
- Holding managers accountable (Part 2)
- Writing
- Holding managers accountable
- IC to Manager
- Estimations
- Confidence
- Issue 2
- Work diversity
- Product Management
- Survivorship Bias
- ChatGPT
- Drive at small companies
- Productivity at small companies
- Shards of Earth
- Issue 1
- External recruitment
- Standing Out
- Handicap
- Native Language
- Elon and Twitter
- Tech debt
- Why EMs?
- Scaling pains
- Exploitation
- The thing about hard things
- Spotify is Broken
- Twitter Content Quality
- Not my job
2021
- Planning Session
- iOS Role - Beginners Questions
- Interviewing in 2021
- Coaching for performance (5th edition)
- Trust
- How I like to work as an IC
- Eyes on the prize
- "You need Software Developers to believe in your project"
- Dependency Injection with Functions
- How I like to work as a Manager
- What's next (Part 2)
- What's next (Part 1)
- Social Network from first principles
- On shows
2020
- Crucial Conversations [Book]
- Monads
- Career choices
- Meetings Approach
- Pick your Poison
- Bool?
- A half-hour to learn ReactiveSwift
- Thoughts on Cross-platform