“The following are short guidelines (on building, leading, business) from me to myself. It's a curated list from content I read over the years. I regularly update this list. These apply a special meaning to me as an individual - either strongly reflecting truths I already knew to be true, or forcing focus on aspects I need to improve.”...

Lisbon has become a fair. The fair's theme? Lisbon itself. Approximately one year ago I read a tourism article that stuck with me. It took the words of a foreign (but culturally close) journalist to finally dissect what I feel every time I visit the city for the past 5 years. The government's laissez-faire attitude towards tourism and ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...