I was reading an acronym about what we should avoid when “creating documents”. The acronym was WORN: Write Once, Read Never! And later I was reading this quote: “"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin” Ouch!! That hurts! But… how do you know something that is worth reading? My answer ...

Hey, We are always looking for this place. It’s like the perfect company or perfect project to work on. A place where we can work and fell we are delivering our best. A place where we can work just enough. A place where we can think when needed and work on discovery activities. We can also focus on delivery and have quality continuous ...

This sentence hit me today. I was listening to a book called Tools of Titans, from Tim Ferriss. It’s like a huge summary of the Tim Ferriss podcast. Bad decisions should make us learn something, right? And not only that. I was thinking about what could I write about today. I was giving a class today about decisions, journeys and discov...

It can be dangerous. And we need safety. I agree. Can we get trust and autonomy too? Can we get some space to experiment? Gever Tulley talks about dangerism, like a belief system where we see risk and danger in lots of things that don’t connect with real world risks. And Gever says we should let kids do some things in order to create h...

What’s next? The next one thing / project / goal. Not the next 100. We should care more about less stuff. Can you prioritize? What is your method? There are variables like reach, impact, confidence, effort, ROI, number of people / customers who asked about, available team, actionable market, timeline / due dates, dependencies… and many...

You should expect nothing from other people. Well, I would double that! I have zero expectations about myself too. Actually there are three things I truly expect daily about myself: 1. Journaling (~ 2-3 lines) 2. Blog (~ 1500 characters) 3. Walk at least 1km (146km so far in 2021) And monthly I have only one expectation: At least 2500 ...

One of the big questions while building a business is to understand who is your customer. Not the one you would like to be, but the real people signing up to try your service and people that will keep paying later on. I’m building some subscription based services and this is like the biggest question at this moment. I want to understan...

Please don’t get me wrong. I’m a trunk based development + feature toggle type of person. But that alone does not say a thing about how one can manage products and uncertainty. When you are building a new product you can use feature toggles (or feature flags) to release software. You can also use it to execute experiments and seek vali...

I see people building corporate culture manuals saying that employees need to act like owners. I don’t like that. I own companies since 2002, and I can assure you that most people don’t want to act like owners. And they should not need! As an owner you need to take care about a lot of things. You are the last person to see real money, ...

When it comes to help people and projects, please don't count the score. You are giving your time because you can help people that will be able to help people later on. You give your time to projects because they mean something to you and your community. By doing this, you are able to create a default behavior, and set expectations whe...

In places where people practice openness, I find people willing to listen and to provide more questions to what’s being said, instead of getting on defense mode. When working with people related with the concept of non violent communication (NVC), I find people more interested in listening and willing to solve the real issue more and m...

So I was looking for pictures related to consistency and a quote came by: “If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent you will keep it. -- No idea who wrote this. :P ” I love the idea about being persistent, but you may use a lot of energy to get into a certain point. The question is about actually about doing what y...

I'm fully focused on my practice process. I consider every single move as one shot from my basketball training. I take one throw at a time... sometimes they look the same, but they are unique. When I succeed I celebrate but continue to focus on what's really important. What can learn from this? This can become a principle? This can bec...

I was thinking about me during my nineteen years old time, where I was totally focused on not being two things: • Writer • Lecturer I just wanted to write code. Fast forward some years and I write to software development magazines and later on became a lecturer on undergrad courses and started a blog. Not quite as I expected, I should ...

People lives are getting worse over the years. And email is the root cause. W00t? Emails are the problem? Lots of people are feeling anxious and unable to understand that emails are an informative and long format asynchronous way to communicate. No need to continue arguing right? So what’s the problem? People believe they need to answe...