I'm getting ready to leave to the station, to get a train to Brno. When I get a call from a friend of mine. Very important fella, yet, this is not about him, so, I didn't even try to check if I could mention his name… He said: "Bruno, Reuant Bkom is looking to become […]

This week, after I talked about Brazil vs Japan, I got this message, from a non-Brazilian: ===== Hi Bruno, Just one thing unrelated to subject. Brazil has always been admired not only for its championships and beautiful football, but also for proving that talent and hard work can overcome wealth or facilities… Vai, Brasil! ====== […]

I wrote yesterday about boldly going where no man has gone before… And when I was writing it, I kept thinking not of Captain Kirk… but of… Bilbo Baggins… Bilbo went where no Hobbit had gone before… When he came back, Bilbo wrote the book "There and back again", recounting his adventures with Thorin and […]

Yesterday, I talked about jobs and careers… A subscriber asked… "What's the difference?" Here is how I see it… First… Let's recognize that there is an obvious difference between a "job" and a "hobby"… A hobby is something you do because you love to do it. You can be very good at it. Sometimes, amateurs […]

Many devs want to contribute back… Many already know that sharing is important… Many developers want to share about something… Yet… "Does it even make sense for me to share content about this? There are so many other people… who are much better than me… already sharing about the same thing?" I was thinking about […]

Yesterday when I wrote in the end of my email "Going Anywhere"… I immediately remembered one of the most iconic phrases of TV: "Space… the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission… to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations… to boldly go where […]

I was talking with a developer early today… And he told me something that really bothers me… "During the interviews" he told me… "they reject me for things that were not listed in the job posting…" "Like what?" I asked. "Things like requiring that I'm fluent in a language, even though the posting only required […]

The more developers I talk to, the more it seems burnout is just a part of the job.

Conway’s law is an adage that states that organizations design systems that mirror their own communication structure.

Have you ever felt like several days passed and nothing happened?

You were very busy, and worked a lot…
Maybe even staying late or working weekends…
You run around solving urgent problems…

But… You still feel like you are stuck…
That nothing really happened…