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I'm based in Barcelona, although I'm happy working for anyone
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I'm based in Barcelona, although I'm happy working for anyone
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<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablomartincalvo/">On LinkedIn</a>
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for professional matters.
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of data, but not in professional, production-grade settings.
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On Nostr. My npub is:
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Austrian economics and its societal and political implications
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If you are looking for my CV, no need to reach out,
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<a href="my_cv.pdf" target="_">you can fetch it yourself here.</a>
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<p>Good reasons to reach out include:</p>
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Some of my interests, projects or writings caught your attention and
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you want to discuss them with me.
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<a href="https://github.com/pmartincalvo/dni" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">My Python package to
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On Nostr. My npub is:
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npub1a29gdc6p7c05az2ka3qwwpl9kfcqmws3xlwmjefmtkulfhgd7u6shuqatg
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<a href="https://www.meetup.com/bitcoin-barcelona" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Barcelona Bitcoin
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Only, a local Bitcoin meetup and community I've
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<a href="my_cv.pdf" target="_">you can fetch it yourself here.</a>
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That one time I made a lot of money doing something everyone said
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was stupid
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you want to discuss them with me.
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Some work around helping people ignore EU regulations around
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exchanging Bitcoin and Fiat
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You want to sell something to me, and you mostly care about selling
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that thing to me, not me loving the thing.
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<p>Sometimes I like to jot down ideas and drop them here.</p>
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<a href="writings/notes-and-lessons-from-my-departure-from-superhog.html" target="_blank"
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feelings.
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<a href="writings/gresham-law-has-nothing-to-do-with-bitcoin.html" target="_blank"
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<a href="writings/i-want-code-defined-dashboards-so-badly.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">I
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<h2>Notes and lessons from my departure from Superhog</h2>
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<p>I'm writing this a few days before my last day at Superhog (now called Truvi). Having a few company
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departures under my belt already, I know a bit on what will come next. I know one part of it is that 99%
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of the details of what happened during my tenure at the company will completely disappear for the most
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part, only triggered by eerily coincidental cues here and there every few years. I will remember clearly
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a few crucial, exciting days and situations. I will also hold well the names and faces of those with who
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I worked closely, as well as my personal impression and judgement of them. I will remember the office,
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and some details of how my daily life was when I went there.</p>
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<p>But most other things will be gone from my brain, surprisingly fast.</p>
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<p>Knowing that experience is a great teacher, and regretting not doing this in the past, I've decided to
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collect a few notes from my time at Superhog, hoping they will serve me in making the lessons I've
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learnt here stick properly.</p>
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<li>Growing really fast an organization without an incredibly solid vision you're going to stick to is
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terrible. Time, money and effort will be wasted left and right, and unless you have some magic tric
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up your sleeve, you'll run out of money and panic. Growth is about having a great vision, going for
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it and hoping for the best, not about collecting resources and hoping that they will somehow align
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themselves towards making money.</li>
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If you're in the leadership of a company, you make decisions, and then things go badly because of
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them, people are going to think you've fucked up and won't be happy about it. Should you publicly
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retrospect in an intelligent way, you have a chance at some degree of redemption, and you might even
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make some of the employees hopeful again that there's still a second chance to go for success. If
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you don't retrospect at all and pretend the mishaps have nothing to do with your management, they
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won't just think you're incompentent: they simply won't take you seriously anymore, and won't be
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honest to you.
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If you're in a B2B business where customers will have a long term relationship with you, and you
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have sales people, giving them incentives that are all about getting people onboard, and not about
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long term performance, might be an expensive mistake. I've observed sales people who only care about
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scoring deals engage in undesirable behaviours such as:
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<li>Sell to anyone, regardless of whether there's a good fit between your offering and the
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customer needs.(no matter if they're a good fit).</li>
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<li>Cut corners, surely do and say thing that are in moral gray areas. If you're unlucky, cross
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moral red lines.</li>
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Drive the people who build and deliver your offering crazy. Since they have no incentive to
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care about what happens after a deal is signed, they don't care if their actions in the
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sales pipeline turn into landmines during the long-term business relationship and execution
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of the service.
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I think many of these issues get solved by structuring compensation so that they do well once the
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leads they convert have been doing well for some time, however you want to measure that. Not only
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nasty
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behaviour can be avoided, but even new, good and constructive actions might arise. For example, your
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sales people will care more about building a great product, and so they'll regularly feedback to
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engineers and operations and care deeply about collaborating in improving things.
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If you're lucky to find talented employees, go crazy about retaining them.
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The unexpected death of collegues can be a great blow to the business.
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<li>Non-technical founders need CTOs with strong characters nearby to protect them from themselves.</li>
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<li>I managed to deliver astonishing amounts of value with extremely simple tooling. This had many
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advantages and was a silent win. It's not sexy, but I think it should be.</li>
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<li>If you are silently efficient budget wise, as in you manage to achieve something consuming way less
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money than whatever is average for your context, but you don't explain it are notably noisy about
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it, nobody will give a damn. Even worse, your levels of efficiency may be taken for granted and you
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might encounter trouble when asking for more bucks, even if you're still way below average.</li>
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<li>When there's a feeling that a ship is going down, I've observed there's a direct correlation between
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how talented an employee is and the chances he departs early. The less gifted will stay until the
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end.</li>
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If you're a SaaS and want to scale, don't leave your Finance team orphan of IT resources. Invoicing,
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gathering customer payment details, the most frequent accounting journals, etc. should be treated as
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first class requirements of your architecture, not as an afterthought. Your finance team needs to
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grow in engineers, not accountants. And if you have the feeling that the number of accountants is
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growing linearly with the volume of the business, you are in serious trouble and need to do
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something. Failing to do this will lead to some very nasty tech debt that will kill your speed and
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potentially make you lose a lot of money.
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<li>If you've had employees rotating through various departments in your org, doing very different jobs,
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their views and opinions are worth solid gold and should be valued as such.</li>
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<li>Right befores starting in this company, I had just read the book It doesn't have to be crazy at work
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by
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Jason Fried and DHH, and I thought I believed by then that it's worth creating a calm environment to
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think clearly, since doing the right thing is way more important than executing fast, and fast paced
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environments are not great to keep your head clear. After my time here, I'm now even more of a
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believe of it.</li>
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<li>Giving people in the business some basics on SQL is really useful, but that usefulness gets
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multiplied by the tidyness and documentation of your DWH. If they need to call you up every time
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because there's no way they can find and understand what they need in the DWH, teaching them SQL is
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pointless and only leads to frustration.</li>
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If you were part of the decision to hire someone, and then they decide to leave, you should talk
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with them. Even if you're not working together every day and the org has changed quite a bit. You
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had a stake in this person's entrance, they remember it vividly, and not calling them up will
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disappoint them.
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<li>
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Engineering leadership is quite a bit like parenting when it comes to mirroring. Regadless of what
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you say should be done, people will ignore that a lot and tend to do what you do. If senior
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engineers do patchy shit on the database, don't document a thing, cut corners instead of building
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properly, submit to absurd requests instead of collaborting productively with their non-tech
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colleagues, etc, the rest of engineers will do it as well. Conversely, if you focus on quality, give
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time and room to do things right, reward ingenious solutions to problems, treat incidents in
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professional and serious ways, push back from stupid managerial situations and work things into a
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way of working that is good for everyone, document your work properly, etc. you will soon find the
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rest of your colleagues (specially, the most junior ones) following your lead, without you even
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needing to insist on good practices.
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</li>
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<li>People care little about having an office on the beach.</li>
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