Career

[Off-Topic] Carpe Diem and the Myths of Happiness

February 14, 2017

[Off-Topic] Free Software: An Exercise in CAPITALISM

April 22, 2016

[Off-Topic] If You Need "Validation," You're Probably Wrong

April 20, 2016

[Off-Topic] Talking with a University Professor

December 8, 2014

[Off-Topic] Agile: the Truth Behind the Method

September 28, 2014

[Off-Topic] DO NOT Do What You ("THINK") You Love

September 13, 2014

[Off-Topic] Career in Programming — Coding Isn't Programming

May 2, 2014

[Off-Topic] The New Generation's Dilemma: start a company or get a job?

February 20, 2014

[Off-Topic] Remote Work — Small Office, Home Office (SoHo)

November 18, 2013

[Off-Topic] Tech Startups, B2C overcrowding. Boring.

November 14, 2013

[Off-Topic] Programmers Are Terrible Communicators (UDP vs TCP)

November 2, 2013

[Off-Topic] Agile Done Wrong

November 1, 2013

[Translation] Letter to a Young Programmer Considering a Startup

October 31, 2013

[Off-Topic] Estimates Are Promises. Promises Must Be Kept.

August 23, 2013

[Off-Topic] Comfort Zone: Taking to the Streets Isn't the Only Solution

July 23, 2013

What Does It Mean to Be a Manager?

June 7, 2013

Processes and Methodologies Won't Help You

May 24, 2013

[Translation] Standards: excellence vs. mediocrity

May 17, 2013

Brazilian Portuguese Can Confuse Us: Standard vs Pattern

May 10, 2013

[Translation] Estimation — The Best We Can Do

April 5, 2013

[Off-Topic] A Vent III, Reflecting on 2007

December 30, 2012

Ruby is Beautiful? What is Beauty?

September 2, 2012

[Off-Topic] The Myth of the "Legacy"

August 15, 2012

[Off-Topic] Great Artists Steal

May 13, 2012

[Off-Topic] Opinions, Truths, Democracy and Ethics

May 4, 2011

[Off-Topic] Mea Culpa: Democratic Organizations Don't Work

April 25, 2011

[Off-Topic] The Humble Programmer, by Edsger W. Dijkstra

April 12, 2010

[Off-Topic] Wake up Call

February 14, 2010

[Off-Topic] Reading the Agile Principles

January 30, 2010

[Off-Topic] Companies, People, Success

January 30, 2010

Off-Topic: Literature for Agile Managers

January 6, 2010

[Off-Topic] You Don't Understand Anything About Scrum

December 10, 2009

[Off-Topic] Obedience to Authority

November 8, 2009

[Off-Topic] The Problem of Credentials

November 4, 2009

[Off-Topic] Thinking Makes You Better

September 26, 2009

[Off-Topic] All Marketers Are Liars

July 31, 2009

[Translation] What Makes a Good Programmer?

July 23, 2009

[Off-Topic] Intervene or Not? The "Catch-22" of Co-Pilots

July 18, 2009

[Off-Topic] Reference Books 2008-2009

July 11, 2009

Off-Topic: Should I Go to College?

April 17, 2009

[Off-Topic] Net Negative Producing Programmer

March 30, 2009

Translation: Technical Debt

December 18, 2008

Off-Topic: Scientific Method vs Cargo Cult

December 16, 2008

Off-Topic: The Agile Manifesto, or How to Become Google

October 7, 2008

Off-Topic: The Power of Myth, Redux

September 20, 2008

Translation: I Don't Know What I Want, But I Know How to Get It

February 10, 2008

Translation: Counting Is a Waste of Time

September 1, 2007

Off Topic: Enemies of Reason

August 23, 2007

A Rant, Part II

June 19, 2007

Off Topic: Be Arrogant!

April 14, 2007

Off Topic: A Rant

March 14, 2007