Growth vs maintenance time
Someone asked me if I would have a property manager if I lived 5 minutes away from my rental property instead of across the Atlantic from it. Yes, of course I would! You have two types of time in your life: Free and Taken. Taken time is the one consumed by tasks...
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...
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