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Beyond the Veil
Dec 09 ⎯ 🔥1My 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…
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Nov 18 ⎯ 🔥1I'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…
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Farewell, Factorial
Nov 04 ⎯ ❤️1After 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…
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The Manager Interview
Nov 04During 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…
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Resistance Creates Beauty
Oct 21 ⎯ 👏2If 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…
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Run & Relax
Sep 16My 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…
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The Gas Meter Check
Sep 14As 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, …
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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…
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