“¿No es la vida cien veces demasiado breve para aburrirnos?” — Nietzsche Hay días en los que hay que dar un paso hacia el vacío y esperar lo mejor. Hace un par de semanas decidí inscribirme para correr medio maratón y antes de hacerlo encontré muchas razones para no hacerlo: …

Change is something scary. We tend to stay in our comfort zone to avoid losing what we already have. Some of us would rather have a world that is predictable and stable most of the time. Better the devil you know than the devil you don’t. But we live in…

Some ideas about things I’ve learned over the last years on what it takes to write world class software. Deliberate Practice As a software professional, you are always facing new challenges and changes in the technologies being used. Also, your clients expect the best from you, the same way you…

Hace 4 años aproximadamente me inicie en el mundo de Ruby y fue para mí, como para muchos otros un parte aguas para poder encontrar nuevas maneras de hacer las cosas y modos de pensar que nos invitaban a desafiar lo conocido, pero sobre todo era la puerta a una…

Today is a good day to start — Reading Gary Bernhardt’s post TDD, Straw Men, and Rhetoric you can find this very insightful paragraph: TDD is useful and test isolation is useful, but they both involve making trade-offs. Unfortunately, doing them 100% of the time seems to be the best way to learn what those trade-offs are, and…

How to get things done — No matter if you use post-its, complicated lists or simple reminders. Everyday you accomplish things. If you are not happy with the things you achieved today (or yesterday), ask yourself what do you really want to do. If you feel overwhelmed by the things you “have” to do, maybe you should ask yourself how many of those are truly yours. If you feel like you are not doing anything valuable, maybe you are taking the wrong decisions or you haven’t clarified your values.

Dentro de cada roca se esconde una flor. — ¿Alguna vez has mirado el cielo que se abre dentro de ti? Cierra los ojos y respira la luz, bebe lentamente el silencio y deja que el aire llene tu mirada. En las noches lluviosas no recuerdas el canto de la luna o el sonido de los colores. Has olvidado la primavera. Despierta. Dentro de cada roca se esconde una flor. Dentro de cada hombre se esconde el amor.

We can all be part of an amazing future — Introduction It all started when Ron Evans gave a talk about teaching kids to program, it open my eyes to a future I haven’t seen yet. Some years later he also gave me a really nice present, a robotic ball called Sphero. My girlfriend is a language teacher and we have…

Inspired by the book: “The war of Art” — If you are like me, there is a difference between the image of yourself in your greatest moments of inspiration and the actual person that carries your daily life. There have been a lot times where you have thought about fulfilling your dreams and do the things you always say…