Miguel David

Fixed url blog.migueldavid.eu/posts/thoughts…

I wrote a blog post about my thoughts on our collective current perception of AI. I hope it resonates. migueldavid.eu/posts/thoughts…

True then, truer now. From @jasonfried: "It's never been easier to start something. It's never been harder to keep it going."

This keeps being truer and truer (now with AI): "Transactional jobs are declining but relational jobs are expanding.".

Evergreen idea: "Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is still better off with you having tried."

93% of people think they're above-average drivers. This is why leadership is hard. Great leaders balance confidence AND humility. Overconfidence blinds. Excessive humility paralyzes. The goal? A seesaw balance. buffer.com/resources/conf…

A reminder: Remote work ≠ Digital nomadism Remote: fixed base, consistent routine, reliable output Nomad: constant travel, perpetual adaptation Both valid. But confusing them leads to burnout. slite.com/blog/remote-vs…

Old wisdom from @gitlab: "We only need a few hours of deep focus every day to get meaningful work done." The key? Protect those hours ruthlessly. - Block 3-4h for deep work - Kill notifications - Single-task about.gitlab.com/2018/05/17/eli…

A long time ago the "Dynamic Duo" on-call model: pair a dev + ops engineer for urgent issues while sprint teams ship planned work. "Flow work and planned work improved at the same time." theagileadmin.com/2014/09/30/scr…

Just in time software (or personal software as I prefer) is likely the most interesting advancement of AI today. commaok.xyz/ai/just-in-tim…

Rivers, like technical debt, are easiest to cross early on.

People don’t talk about this enough. Planning is key to both startup mode (for companies as well as projects) and mature mode.

Waymo: The future of autonomous driving with Vincent Vanhoucke pca.st/episode/219a00…

Big PRs = potential large drifts

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work buff.ly/wfnEh4p

Imagine the future of AI agents. This would be it. readwise.io/reader/shared/…

Invert, always invert, from Charlie Munger, is a mental model that I've seen SREs embody better than most. It may feel superfluous, but inversion, or a pre-mortem is even more important with AI in the mix. theengineeringmanager.com/growth/invert-…

40% ALL books, this week on the Pragmatic Programmer publisher.

Some of the biggest wins of my leadership career have come from reducing friction to communication between stakeholders. This articles clearly lays out a tactic for it. readwise.io/reader/shared/…

Built a small macOS menu bar app for text-to-speech because the built-in one drives me nuts. Python prototype was fine. UI was not. Swift version is boring in the best way. Speakeasy: paste text or a URL, hit play. minac.github.io/speakeasy-mac/