Ray García y sus cosas de cada día

Ray García y sus cosas de cada día

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It's been a while since I last wrote. They say it takes 21 days of repetition to build a habit, but dropping one takes just two or three. Funny how that works. I've always said it's easier for good things to go unnoticed. That bad things are sticky. That one equals seven (seven good things automatically destroyed by every bad thing that happens). I wrote about it in this post when I was at Factori…

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  • Beyond the Veil

    Dec 09 ⎯ 🔥1

    My name is Amelia Haart, and I'm fortunate enough to know how to identify a good story the moment I see one. It's something I detect quickly—those small details that, when I see them together, set off all my alarms. Some call it a gift, talent, or knack. Some compare it to the musician who composes a song that stands out from the rest in an oversaturated market, or the filmmaker who manages to mai…

    Beyond the Veil
  • The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

    Nov 18 ⎯ 🔥1

    I'm not going to lie: the topic came before the title. My extreme creativity led me to connect it with the name of a band I've been listening to lately, leveraging the incredibly complex relationship of... using the same word. Now I have to build a narrative that fits and pretend it was all planned from the beginning. I know, I'm a fraud. But these days, what isn't on the internet? At least I writ…

    The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
  • Farewell, Factorial

    Nov 04 ⎯ ❤️1

    After more than three and a half years, today I'm saying goodbye to Factorial. I don't intend to make a drama out of this. I won't be the first or the last to leave a company. But given that this is my blog and I'm the one writing, allow me to add all the epic flair my heart desires so this entry serves as a keepsake for my future self. The reasons are quite simple. Factorial's remote policy preve…

    Farewell, Factorial
  • The Manager Interview

    Nov 04

    During my time at Factorial, we tried to centralize and normalize our engineering hiring process. We created a Slack channel (#engineering-bar-raisers) where the name said it all. The challenge was getting as many people as possible to share the same concepts: how to hire and evaluate candidates, why someone is good and others aren't... In the end, it was about having the same message, the same ex…

    The Manager Interview
  • Resistance Creates Beauty

    Oct 21 ⎯ 👏2

    If there's something I'm especially proud of, apart from being a father and the incredible title of this post (What a title, eh?), it's writing a book (well, two, because you can never brag too much). It was precisely there where I learned, in a totally unexpected way, this lesson that has stuck with me ever since like acne on a teenager. Let me give you some context first. I came here to talk abo…

    Resistance Creates Beauty
    • creativity
    • product
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  • Run & Relax

    Sep 16

    My grandmother (wiser than seven management books put together) used to say: "el que mucho aprieta, poco abarca." She had cleverly flipped the traditional Spanish saying, and would explain it to seven or eight-year-old me: "child, running faster won't get you there sooner." It's curious how this stuck with me, and when I came across this story I'm about to tell you, the dots connected and I sudden…

    Run & Relax
    • effort
    • relax
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  • The Gas Meter Check

    Sep 14

    As I approach retirement (which I look at with greedy eyes, I only have 22 years left), I'm going to get a bit grandfatherly to tell you a story. One you haven't asked for, but which makes it clear that the writer here is a rebel who doesn't listen to reason. So much so that it's probably not even true. I only saw a thread on Twitter and adapted the story to tell what I wanted to tell. Therefore, …

    The Gas Meter Check
    • business
    • data
    • +1
  • I'm running a blog. Again.

    Sep 13

    "I don't have a crystal ball" is my second favorite response when people ask me "you know what?". The first one is "yes". I love dismantling a conversation with such a stupid and funny response at the same time. I say this because the crystal ball thing is true. I don't have one. At the moment I'm writing this, I'm a 44-year-old man with practically white hair, a hernia, who's starting to sigh and…

    I'm running a blog. Again.
    • blog
    • me
    • +1
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