Pablo Fernández | A bit of this, a bit of that, and a lot about computers

Disclaimer: I'm blatantly tooting my own horn here because I'm proud of what I achieved, and very proud of what my team achieved. This is a personal story and a shout out to some awesome people. Today Jordan Bundy, someone I hired when I was at Wifinity sent all of us...

First some definitions: Bad debt is debt that was incurred for a liability, for example, buying cars, throwing a party, buying a boat, going on a trip. Good debt is debt that is used to buy a producing asset. Debt used to start a business that is producing profit, buy...

If you are managing a team of people that are transporting rocks from A to B and you spend one hour picking ups rock from A and dropping them on B, you added one hour of work. If you spend that one hour procuring wheeled carts so that people don't have to carry rocks...

This is an essential tool that every worker on a distributed team or company should have, no exceptions: a headset. Let's explore why. When working distributed you are going to be having a lot of calls and the quality of audio is important. All meetings are tiring the...

There are two motivations that drive the creation of distributed teams or companies: it's cheaperthere just isn't any available people locally There's nothing wrong with these motivations as starting point, but if they become your sole driver for being distributed the...

I remember two onboarding experiences the most. Joining Google was an amazing experience, I felt like a hero in a hero's parade. Joining a Swiss Investment Bank made me question my life choices. Google At Google, I had clear instructions sent to me well in advance...