Yet another now page inspired by Derek Sivers.

Work

I joined Elastic mid-pandemic in 2020 as a Senior Engineering Manager - changing job during the pandemic felt weird and was emotionally challenging but there isn’t any other place I’d like to be during these funky times; I can work from home, fully supported in taking care of the family (myself included) whenever I need to.

Life

Random stuff that’s going on:

• After being on a diet during the whole winter and spring 2020/2021, I touched my lowest weight in May 2021. These days I’m not following any strict regimen, I’m more into “good habits” when it comes to food. I took back about 3 kilograms but staying on this weight is effortless at this point.
• I’m still teaching myself basic financial education, I should’ve done this 25 years ago but I like thinking it’s never too late to start doing the right thing.
• I keep practicing guitar, my gear consists of a Seagull S60 acoustic guitar and an Acus One Forstrings 5T amplifier. I recently acquired a travel guitar, a Crafter Mino and it’s unbelievable how much more I’m playing it compared to the S60. I think the fact that’s smaller and lighter (along with a great sound and volume) makes super easy to pick it up whenever I have a second to sit down.
• I keep adding notes to my Zettelkasten and I finally used to write something!

Inspiring notes

• _See, managers tell you where you are. Leaders […] tell you where you’re going._
• Management is not a promotion, management is a change of profession.
• Would you buy a car if it eats 100 liters per 100 kilometers? How about 1000 liters? With computers, we do that all the time.
• You only have this one crazy and precious life. That’s why you owe it to yourself to see who you can become, and how far you can go.