A Motor Per Machine
·11 min read
Electricity took forty years to pay off because factories kept the old layout. What AI-native means, what 25x looked like, and why the team is the layout.
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Where We Actually Are: AI, Generalists, and Everything Else
·25 min read
The code got easier and the job got bigger. On token bills with nothing to show, the apprenticeship we're deleting, and what's scarce now.
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Profitable, Pragmatic, and Still Standing
·15 min read
How we built a €190M revenue fintech by being contrarian, what broke when we scaled, and why critical thinking beats both rebellion and conformity.
High Agency: The One Trait That Actually Matters
·13 min read
What high agency really means, how to spot it, and why it's the trait I keep coming back to when building teams.
Agile Was About People. Then We Made It About Jira
·3 min read
The Agile Manifesto valued people over process. Then we built Jira and made two-week sprints mandatory for everything.
Road to CTO with Àlex from Mars Based
·2 min read
I talked with Àlex Rodríguez Bacardit about being CTO. Kubernetes came up only once, spoiler: to talk about when FTP was cutting edge.
Our Product Manifesto: Why We Wrote It and What It Means
·7 min read
Years of building products, distilled into the few principles that actually matter.