We’re currently considering bringing contractors to help us with a backlog of work and, in theory, unblock our engineering team to work on more valuable initiatives. We began by thinking aloud about what it would look like for external contractors to work with us. For context, we rarely work with external contractors since we have […]
We’re currently trying to seed a new team to work on a high profile high-value initiative. In this post, I will walk you through the different options we came up with, as well as the DACI format we’re using to get to a decision. Existing team The fastest option but also the one that carries […]
Both my wife and my mother-in-law are visiting family in Mexico, while I’ve stayed back to take care of the kids while they go to school. Instead of taking two weeks off, I decided to work half days. There were some interesting finds that I would like to share with you here today. Focused My […]
Today, I saw a post from a close colleague of mine that they have joined a new company. Anytime someone leaves it makes me wonder if I could I be next, what is keeping me here? what drove them to leave? how much money are they making now? are their benefits better? what is it […]
this is just today’s mini post based on the atomic habits book. I was recently reading atomic habits and it made me realize that I had wanted to start writing more often, specifically in this blog, but I always felt like I never had time to do it. In the book they suggest that you […]