Archive (Page 3) • Oscar Funes • Buttondown

Context Switching

September 20, 2022

I’ve had this topic a few times in the past week, around how I handled it and if I had any tips. I think there are several ways I’ve tried to handle this...

September 12, 2022

Change is always hard, but more recently, lack of clarity has been giving me headaches! It creates such a deep “fog of war” that nobody is able to give a...

Radiating Intent

September 5, 2022

It’s Labor Day here in the US. My wife made a quick trip, and I’m alone this long weekend. So I’m writing this new issue next to my dog while he sleeps on...

August 30, 2022

Per the usual night’s restlessness, I’m lost for words. I’m looking, not for inspiration, but for motivation. motivation to start and carry on my goal of...

August 22, 2022

As I was trying to write this newsletter and going through what I had done during the week. Writing is always tricky in front of the proverbial "blank...

Collaboration Across Organization

August 15, 2022

For the past few months, I’ve been part of a few programs where another organization within the company wanted and needed to change our system to create a...

Alignment with Authority

During the past few weeks, I’ve noticed that I work away from my manager for long period of times, where I’m still required to provide a proxy to her org, or...

Mind the specifications

February 1, 2022

Mind the spec The first month of the year has gone by. I still feel like the year hasn’t started. For some reason, everything has been very slow-moving...

Keep climbing the ladder

This week I had my “mid-year” conversation with my new manager. As we were having this conversation, we talked about being aligned on vision, as I’m now a...

Digital Gardening

These past few weeks have been very tiring, and I had to work a few more hours than expected. But I also took the time to research tools like Foam or...

What's up with code reviews?

I recently saw this tweet getting on my feed One of the biggest cultural shifts in my experience from Mozilla to Stripe is code review speed. At Mozilla...

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