This week I had the honor of speaking at the UN during the Open Source Week, and I discussed about the importance of “true open source AI”, and sovereignty. It was amazing to be able to share insights and conversations with amazing individuals. Here are my remarks published (as seen in other media) If you are interested in seeing it… Read more →
An interview from the good guys from Mars Based. (Spanish) Read more →
Sergio Gago – CTO, Guitarist, and Reluctant Frontman There’s a reason great teams feel like great music bands, or viceversa. I’m not talking about the dysfunctional ones where the bassist walks out mid-tour because the drummer slept with his girlfriend. Or the dysfunctional teams where everybody is fingerpointing each other (note to read Lencioni’s “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”).… Read more →
It is 6am, at least somewhere in the world. I am in a transatlantic flight on and I refuse to count the number of miles. I am a “road warrior” as they say. Spend two to three weeks per month traveling. And that affects my health specially with the food I eat. Like many people, I decided to start taking… Read more →
A few weeks ago I finished writing a README document on “how to work with me”. While this can sound a bit preposterous, I thought it could be a good summary for onboarding employees and tenured ones alike, in order to share what moves me, who I am (a little bit at least) and the things I value. This is… Read more →
I’ve been in the software industry some time now. I’ve hired a few hundred coders, software engineers or however you want to call them from different backgrounds and experiences. Also from different countries and regions. Unfortunately I also had to fire a handful of them, most in good terms, some in bad ones. For the latter, I always blame myself on bad… Read more →
Recently I stumbled across this post: Programmers should not call themselves engineers He claims that software engineers shouldn’t claim themselves as “engineers” at all, and that it undermines a long and stablished tradition and school. Apparently, we “software guys”, don’t like to call ourselves programmers, and we like the term of software engineers, or software developer. In a first read, you… Read more →