You know that feeling when you wake up and suddenly realize it’s Christmas again? You wonder where on earth the last 11 months went. People love to say, “Time flies as you get older.” I used to believe that. Now, I’m pretty sure that’s just a lie we tell ourselves. I just wrapped up 2025. For the first time in my adult life, the year didn’t fly by. It didn’t drag on forever, either. It just felt… accurate. It had the exact duration it was supposed to have. No more, no less. I’ve been trying...
5 days ago • 2 min read
Back on November 8th, my wife and I went to see a show by Dani Rovira. If you don’t know him, he is a massive standup comedian here in Spain. My absolute favorite. During the show, he dropped a line that has stuck with me ever since: “Anxiety is living in the future, depression is living in the past.” He delivered it with his usual funny touch, but let’s be real—it is a simple, powerful truth. It reminds me of that famous quote by Michel de Montaigne: “My life has been full of terrible...
12 days ago • 2 min read
About a month ago, I got back from Paris. I was there for the FOST conference (formerly API Days), and while the tech was cool, the vibe was… heavy. I talked to a lot of people. I’m talking about some of the best engineers in the world. People who know more about specific technologies than almost anyone else on the planet. But you know what I smelled? Fear. Way too many people were terrified of losing their jobs. Others had just been fired and were scrambling. And a huge chunk were stuck in...
18 days ago • 2 min read
2025 didn’t start with a bang. It started with total silence. If we spoke back in January, you wouldn’t have found a “thought leader” or a “founder.” You would have found a guy recovering from a really rough 2024 that left me burnt out and navigating depression. My KPIs for January weren’t revenue or reach. They were days I exercised, hours meditated, and time spent playing with my daughter. My objectives for April 2025. The first 3 are there to make sure work doesn't absorb me. I kept that...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
On November 3rd, I announced I had joined Hookdeck to lead Outpost. It looked like the perfect setup on paper: a founder-like role, a smart team, and a problem space (EDA) that I’ve spent the last 12 years mastering. On November 24th, exactly three weeks later, I resigned. I’ve spent the last month processing this. I’m sharing the story not because I like talking about my mistakes, but because I bet a lot of you are stuck in the exact same trap I fell into. I spent over a decade in the...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Nine years. That is actually wild to think about. If you asked me back in 2016 if I saw this becoming a global standard, I would have laughed. I wasn’t trying to start a movement. I was just trying to fix a specific headache I had. I wanted to generate documentation and code skeletons for my event-driven services. I was using RabbitMQ, and the whole thing was a total mess. So I built a tool to fix it. For the first two years, I felt like I was speaking to a wall. I’d push code, write about...
3 months ago • 3 min read
I’m writing this to share some personal news that I’m incredibly excited about. I’ve officially joined Hookdeck as VP & General Manager of a new product called Outpost. This isn’t a decision I took lightly. My time since leaving Postman has been invaluable, allowing me to focus on building my own ventures. But when Alex at Hookdeck showed me what they were building, I saw a rare opportunity. A chance to solve a fundamental, unglamorous problem that plagues our industry and aligns perfectly...
3 months ago • 3 min read
I’m deep in the writing process for my new book, Shift: The Playbook for Event-Driven Architecture Advocacy. An important part of the book is psychological safety. Why? Because I’ve seen it time and again: most big tech transformations don’t fail on the tech, they fail on the people. To make this point crystal clear, I needed a powerful, real-world story. So I hit up my friend, Fran Arismendi. Fran’s a world-class Chilean psychologist who, in a cool turn of events, is now my neighbor here in...
3 months ago • 6 min read
Seventeen months ago, I was completely burned out. I felt drained, disconnected, and like I was running on a treadmill I couldn’t get off. Many of you in tech know the feeling. The constant pressure, the endless to-do lists, the feeling that you’re never doing enough. Today, things are completely different. I’ve found a sense of balance and happiness that I didn’t think was possible back then. It wasn’t about finding a new productivity hack or a better time management system. It was about a...
4 months ago • 4 min read