There's a hidden economy in every team. Not the one where favors are exchanged. The one where trust accumulates or erodes based on how people handle their mistakes. If you move fast enough, you will always break things. Some people break things constantly but somehow leave with more
career
I picked up Jordan Mechner's journals on making Prince of Persia expecting game development nostalgia. As a kid I played Prince of Persia - or PoP as many called it - and wanted to read how it was made. What I got instead was some of the clearest
nomad
Tomorrow I'm taking the train from Elche to Madrid. Again. Four days with the team, then back - we do this every month now, last week always in the office. As I pack my bag for the seventh time, I can't shake this feeling: I'
career
2024 was the year of doing everything at once for me. I jiggled a full-time job as an engineer, teaching data science and AI engineering, mentoring, some consulting gigs, attempts at building my own product, a bit of writing. It was exhausting. Also kind of addictive. There's definitely
ai
After months of building AI agents, I've come to a counterintuitive conclusion: those fancy agent frameworks everyone seems to be using? You probably don't need them. Let me explain how I got here. essential complexity is not in tech A few months ago, I joined an
nomad
In summer 2014, after my sophomore year in Kazakhstan, I went to Toulouse for French classes. It was my first time traveling alone, and it completely reset how I saw the world. before going solo Growing up in Kazakhstan, I was lucky to travel with my family. By the time
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Eight months ago, I stopped writing. Not intentionally, it just happened. One week turned into a month, then several, and suddenly I found myself staring at a blog that hadn't been updated since late 2024. In that time, I wrapped up three years at Capchase (it was time
education
Why, despite living in an age of unprecedented access to knowledge, do so many people feel that education is fundamentally broken? As someone who has navigated the world of formal education, self-study, and teaching, I’ve picked up insights that I’d like to share. As we all "stand
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I haven't written for more than two months now, which means that I broke a "contract" with myself of writing and publishing something at least once every week. It has been weird time for me overall, but regardless let's see if I return to
career
For the past few years my day-to-day activity was writing code. In 2016? Doing PowerPoint slides and making calls. Lots of calls. I am currently Software Engineer and Data Scientist at Capchase, FinTech scale-up, working mostly on Risk Intelligence. That's what everyone sees on the top of my
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When everything is googleable, every modern professional already has an online presence. Here some random links that appear when I google my name: From the privacy and security perspective it is not great and I don't like it. However, if you can't make it go away,
career
If you want to get a remote job, you need to stand out among global pool of candidates and CV isn't a great tool to achieve that. old way of getting interview which doesn't work anymore I have been using CV in job search since 2014,