Mar 6, 2022Radical CandorManaging Successfully and Humanly — This post is based on the summary of Kim Scott’s book Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity. As a manager, your action can fall into 4 categories: Ruinous Empathy That’s when you care personally about your team member, but stay silent about something that needs improvement in them. Manipulative Insincerity That’s when you personally don’t give a shit about your…Management2 min readManagement2 min read
Feb 26, 2022Talent ExodusYour sure path to expelling talents from your organization — I have worked in a variety of companies that had different scales and cultures, from a handful of people in a startup to hundreds of people on a single floor in a large corporation. I think I’ve learned a few lessons about talent expulsion that are worth sharing. By talents…Organizational Behavior8 min readOrganizational Behavior8 min read
Mar 29, 2021I Don’t Know How Long It’s Gonna TakeIn software development we usually work on things that are completely new to us. Sometimes we have a problem to fix, it’s not a bug per se but more of a user or business problem that we wanna fix but we don’t know which solution would work. Sometimes it’s a…Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
Published inupday devs·Mar 4, 2021Learnings From a Failing ReleaseFailure is not necessarily a bad sign — Last week we launched a new Beta version of our app. This beta release brought an immense amount of negative feedback from our users, and I have collected some learnings that I think are worth sharing. I’m writing this article on March 1st 2021. Let’s have a flashback to reach…Product8 min readProduct8 min read
Jan 14, 2021Just do it!That’s a little reminder that things don’t get done by themselves, it’s very easy to fall in the trap of over analysis or excessive fear of failure and then you don’t start. Perfectionism won’t get you anywhere if you don’t take a first step. Watching 100 videos about body building…1 min read1 min read
May 22, 2020Facebook saving articles to collections is a broken featureEvery time I save a link/post/video on Facebook I get asked If I would like to add it to a collection. Whenever I want, I suffer from a broken experience imho. To explain it, imagine you have these 3 collections on Facebook Advertising Memes Product management And then you see…Facebook1 min readFacebook1 min read
Published inupday devs·May 7, 2020The Pandemic..I have been thinking for some days actually before deciding to write on this topic. COVID-19 has a huge impact on the world, nobody can ignore this. While most of that impact is sad and bad news, I see that COVID-19 also revealed some positives that we can learn and…Covid-197 min readCovid-197 min read
May 2, 2020The Pandemic..I have been thinking for some days actually before deciding to write on this topic. COVID-19 has a huge impact on the world, nobody can ignore this. While most of that impact is sad and bad news, I see that COVID-19 also revealed some positives that we can learn and…Covid-197 min readCovid-197 min read
Apr 14, 2020Retarded-proof SoftwareThis is a short blog post, basically because I miss blogging and I had a recent idea that’s worth documenting. I aim as much as possible to make my software products user friendly and easy to use. However, in a recent discussion with one of my colleagues we were talking…Product Management3 min readProduct Management3 min read
Mar 8, 2020In a Relationship with a Feature..In relationships between human beings, there is some pattern. In the beginnings you have the fascination, you’re dazzled, you feel like how can it be more perfect than this?! .. But then, while the time goes by, the fascinating uniqueness start to become less important, and what lasts is the…Product Management2 min readProduct Management2 min read