Latest posts from Ray García y sus cosas de cada día
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⎯ 👏❤️5It'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
⎯ 🔥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
⎯ 🔥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
⎯ ❤️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
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…
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Resistance Creates Beauty
⎯ 👏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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