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In 2021, after literally spending years trying to sell our apartment in search of more space, the opportunity appeared. Our apartment was not exceptionally small, although the family had grown since the initial purchase. It was not giant either and in practice it seemed to be smaller than it really was in the harshest moments of the pandemic quarantine. In the apartment, the TV played an important implicit role in our lives. In fact, in my case, it was one of the first things I did when I woke up, turning on the TV to watch the news. A fundamental part of family breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The TV was always on, known, expected, watched programs and other moments where, with no one paying attention, it continued to be on in the background covering up the silence. ...

I know people who can work for hours without seemingly needing to take a break, eat or even drink something. They can stay long hours working on a task or several tasks. That is not my case In my case I learned or understood I work best in bursts. A cycle of actions, achieve something or several things and then rest for a while while thinking about the work done, the next priorities and preparations for next cycle ...

I remember in my childhood situations when my mom or dad explicitly told me or somehow demonstrated I was special or very good at something, little subjects in some cases. Like tinkering things, at school, running fast.. I think it is the right thing to do, especially with your kids, to show recognition, pride, explicitly show how much you love them and how her/his effort at the school, playing a sport, specific activity, etc doesn’t go unnoticed. Contribute to her/his emotional bank account ...

Two years and a half ago I accepted a position as an IT Manager. Before that I was working on different technology companies with positions like developer, devops, software architect and technical lead. Since 2013 also working on positions that involved different levels of management, always technical and working mainly with remote teams These are some notes about my learnings on the path to become a better manager (work in progress), personal experience and challenges ...

On my last vacation, I took the opportunity to spend more time with my family, go to the beach, read some books and resume old software projects (and also start new ones..) On of those technological adventures included the opportunity to buy at a very good price an used Intel Stick I have to recognize that I didn’t know about their existence until I saw a picture in the marketplace and start to read about their technical specifications. Surely considering the form factor they seemed fairly good at release date (Q1 2015) but for 2022 they seem limited at least ...