The Voyager 1 museum
Voyager 1 is, as of now, 22 billion kilometers away from home. One day, we’ll be a space-faring species and we’ll have Voyager 1 in a museum. It’ll be trivial for us to go and reach Voyager but we won’t retrieve it. What’s wonderful about...
Book Review: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
I first came in contact with Scrum when I was working at Google and since then, I’ve been applying it to the startups I co-founded with good outcomes. Since I was searching for a job, I kept seeing “Scrum Master” come up over and over and I thought...
Book Review: Build the Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success by Chris Heivly
This is a short and sweet book that compares the act of starting a company, a startup, with that of building a fort. It’s a very enjoyable read with the childhood stories of building a fort and it reminded me of those days in which it seemed easier to find a...
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
If you are one of those people constantly watching news and worrying about the sorry state of the world. Read this book. It’ll convince you with data, instead of baseless sensationalism, that life has never been more peaceful, safer and better than right now. I...
I had to stop watching Lost in Space
I’m referring to the new series, the Netflix one. I’ve never really watched the old one but I’ve seen enough clips to know: “Danger Will Robinson”. There are several reasons why I stopped watching even though I’m starving for...Currently working on:
MoviePal
Spend less time choosing, and more time watching movies.
MoviePal helps you and your partner or your friends choose what movies to watch. It’s a social network that lets you connect with friends, rate movies, get recommendations, run watch parties, keep your list of movies to watch, etc.
Bestie
Don’t ask for help,
get help.
It’s an app to help friends check in on each other. Periodically it will ask: Are you okay? If there’s no response it will alert your friends to reach out to you. When you are down, all you need to do is nothing.
I'm writting a book...
Building and Managing
Distributed Teams
In this book I distill the techniques and methods that I’ve been using and advising others to use to successfully run distributed teams and whole companies. This book will be short, to the point, tactical, and have tool recommendations.
