Since I started writing this series of posts, everything around us went upside down. The whole world is now remote because of the corona virus. How has this impacted my team? To be honest, not much, and that’s the beauty of remote, you have more flexibility as a team. Let’s…

After presenting this option to the team and getting general buy in, we are kicking off with one remote day a week to start. The idea is that we can feel the pain gradually as we move forward. Here’s the summary of the kick off deck. Note: The information below…

Starting a new job is hard. You have to absorb an exorbitant amount of information, meet a ton of people, start discerning what’s important and what’s just noise, and start thinking and planning your path forward towards being successful at what you were hired to do. To make things more…

I’m starting a new job as a CTO of a Series A tech startup in LA and one of the many challenges I’ll face is how to shift the product and engineering team into being remote-first. The company has been around for about a year and the current ProdEng team…

Having a child is a profound experience on many levels. From awaking your deep instincts to protect and nurture to giving a new meaning to your own existence by fulfilling your genetic destiny, it’s a powerful and unexpected rollercoaster of emotions. Like any powerful tool, it can be tucked away…

One of the things that intrigued me about the Withings Body Analyzer was that it measured levels of CO2 and temperature. According to Withings, CO2 can build up in confined spaces, like your bedroom. Excess levels of CO2 are not good for your health and can cause problems that affect sleep, induce headaches, and cause dizziness among other health problems. I noticed that the levels over night were high, so I started playing around with opening windows and doors to get to the perfect levels. To be quite honest, I haven’t noticed any difference, but it was fun just playing around with it ☺

If you’ve been following my previous posts, you’ll know that I’ve been on a slow carb diet for about 2.5 months now. I’ve almost reached my goal and I will write about that very soon, but I just wanted to talk about some insane weight swings. This Saturday I went…

Now what? — It has been an extremely exciting and educational 3.5 months since I started my slow carb experiment by following The 4 Hour Body diet. My ultimate goal was to get in the best shape of my life, which I defined as being in equal or better shape than I was…

This mission was never going to be easy and last week came at me swinging. Early in the week I tweaked my shoulder and then I got the flu, meaning I couldn’t really exercise. Staying on the slow carb diet was a real challenge, but I somehow managed to fight…