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Candost

I used to think that reading would make me wise. One day, ten pages before finishing a book, I realized that I had read that same book before. At that point, my perspective on reading and, therefore, my life had changed. Now, I don’t care how many books I read; I take many notes, connect dots, and share what I’ve found on my blog and newsletter. I’m interested in many things at the same time (I’m a multipotentialite). On this blog, you’ll find me talking to about multiple aspects of life like leadership, software engineering, philosophy, psychology, software architecture & design, urban & industrial design, exercising, finance, Formula1 Racing, eating healthy, and many more. I’m a software engineering manager; that’s my current job. At home, I’m a writer and an avid reader. I rarely watch TV, movies or TV series. I don’t have any social media account (except Mastodon where I have automated posting of my new articles). Hence, I often miss the popular culture references in conversations. That’s alright. I don’t have FOMO; I embrace JOMO. I rarely read fictional books.

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Often, there are situations where one of the engineers wants to develop a feature in a certain way, and another engineer finds the solution stupid. The engineer may insist on the solution they suggested or push a significant change in...
In organizations and communities, people work hard to agree. Although decision-makers have valid reasons to make meaningful choices, they often communicate poorly. If they make mistakes, they either apologize or defend themselves and...
Every engineering team has some sort of documentation of their team's work. Most often, these documents get disorganized reasonably quickly. People have a hard time finding their way around. When adding new records becomes painful,...
I live-streamed for fourteen weeks, every Tuesday at 19:00 CET. I had thirteen amazing guests. We talked about many different things in the software industry, ranging from DevOps to marketing. I learned a lot from my guests and enjoyed...
14: Protective Leadership & Finding Your Leadership Style - Suzan Bond Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
Many software engineers step back when the time comes to write documentation or a report. Although most communication in life happens in writing via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc., we avoid writing structured text. Amid the quick conversations...
I've worked with timely estimations, story points, t-shirt sizes, and no-estimations. I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. I've worked with software engineers who are defendants of timely estimations or opposing them. When they...
Hello friend, Every last Thursday of the month, you get this newsletter from me. It takes less than ten minutes to read. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, please share it with your friends. After a long time, I traveled by car to see my...
When I took ownership of my one-on-ones with my manager, I searched for a one-one-one template, and most of the things I found did not suit me. As a software engineer, I found most of the templates were focused on the manager's...
For the last seven years as a software engineer, I have had managers who don't care about one-on-ones and managers who do one-on-ones but not effectively. Managers (or leaders, whatever we call) who are doing adequate one-on-ones are...
13: DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering as a Career - Rene Hernandez Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
This post is Chapter 4, Part 2 of my notes from the book Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems. Chapter 1: Microservices and Their Benefits Chapter 2: The Evolutionary Architect Chapter 3: How to Model Microservices...
This post is Chapter 4, Part 1 of my notes from the book Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems. Chapter 1: Microservices and Their Benefits Chapter 2: The Evolutionary Architect Chapter 3: How to Model Microservices...
11: Learning and Growing in Front-end Development - Ali Spittel Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
12: The Life of a Generalist Software Engineer - Ricardo Smania Reply via email | Reply via Mastodon | Comment
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