João Figueiredo

Hey! I'm Joao. I write about life, work, their confluence and whatever else is on my mind this week. Thanks for visiting, thanks for reading.
February 29, 2024

Are we hitting concrete?

We woke up to find the Amazon package staring at us by the door. In it, three wall hangers that we bought to hang their little jackets. The kids rush to open and lay out the package contents on the floor, I go downstairs to grab the tools. The goal was clear enough and after some planning, we start drilling. My youngest was eager to he...
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January 20, 2024

From economics

Over my professional learning in the past 13 years, I've tended to resonate with approaches that embrace the unknown in contrast to those assuming it is known. This comes from an analogous personal change I've had at 27 years old - fundamentally revealing my true fabric to myself - which showed just how much we still don't know about o...
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January 3, 2024

The joy of building again

The past few days I picked up developing software from scratch again - something I hadn't done for a few years. The sheer amount of accumulated creative energy immediately overflowed to the other areas of my day. I felt immensely productive, with full creative liberty and fully empowered. It has also shown me how much I've changed and ...
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June 1, 2023

Slack is not Slack

Remote work does not imply async work. Using Slack does not imply async work. And Slack does not imply Slack. JIRA, Trello, Confluence, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Clockwise, Loom, <Insert Your Org Tools> are all in Slack now. For the great majority of these tools, you don’t ever need to open them if the things you’re interested in a...
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