Juan's blog
A human who writes in natural and programming languages
Currently living in Argentina and working as an iOS/watchOS engineer at Runna (acquired by Strava).
This is my little corner of the internet. My tiny garden. I write about whatever inspires or interests me, usually in the form of blog posts.
Life isn't about finding yourself, or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself. And creating things.
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Writing
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Simulations
§ 02
Work
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2024 → now
Senior Engineer II · Runna (acquired by Strava)
The Swift side of a personalized running coach: watchOS app, widgets, Live Activities and HealthKit.
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2022 → 2024
Senior iOS Engineer & Technical Scrum Master · PayPal (Venmo)
Built Venmo's Teen Account from its inception, then drove its planning as Technical Scrum Master.
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2021 → 2022
Senior iOS Engineer · Moen
iOS app to pair and control Flo and Moen smart water devices.
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2020 → 2021
iOS Engineer · IncluIT
Client apps across VoIP, banking, insurance and health, including a tech lead role.
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2019 → 2020
Mobile Developer · OZ Digital Consulting
Xamarin.Forms app for construction companies to manage property listings.
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2018 → 2019
Mobile Developer · DGENIX
International Xamarin projects and contributions to MvvmCross open source.
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Reading
Pages torn from whatever I'm reading. All my highlights are collected on my Readwise account, and you can get them in your inbox by joining my newsletter. A summarized version of my highlights lives in my library.
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Alguien es verdaderamente singular solo luego de haber pasado por la experiencia ininterrumpida de combinar, de forma única, su inteligencia con todos esos fantasmas que su curiosidad le acerquen. Decía Paul Valéry: "Nada es más original, nada más 'de uno mismo', que alimentarse de otros. Pero estos otros deben ser digeridos. El león está hecho de ovejas asimiladas".
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This strategy argues that you should follow Kreider’s lead by injecting regular and substantial freedom from professional concerns into your day, providing you with the idleness paradoxically required to get (deep) work done. There are many ways to accomplish this goal. You could, for example, use Kreider’s approach of retreating from the world of shallow tasks altogether by hiding out in an “undisclosed location,” but this isn’t practical for most people. Instead, I want to suggest a more applicable but still quite powerful heuristic: At the end of the workday, shut down your consideration of work issues until the next morning—no after-dinner e-mail check, no mental replays of conversations, and no scheming about how you’ll handle an upcoming challenge; shut down work thinking completely. If you need more time, then extend your workday, but once you shut down, your mind must be left free to encounter Kreider’s buttercups, stink bugs, and stars.
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Nacido en 1882 en un pueblo del interior de Córcega, en el seno de una familia de campesinos analfabetos, Martin Ceccaldi parecía destinado a llevar la vida agrícola y pastoral, con su limitado radio de acción, que llevaron sus antepasados durante una serie indefinida de generaciones. Es una vida que desapareció hace tiempo de nuestras regiones, y cuyo análisis exhaustivo sólo ofrece, por lo tanto, un interés limitado; de vez en cuando, algunos ecologistas radicales manifiestan una nostalgia incomprensible por ella; sin embargo voy a ofrecer, para ser completo, una breve descripción sintética de ese tipo de vida: uno tiene naturaleza y aire puro, cultiva algunas parcelas (cuyo número está fijado con precisión por un estricto sistema de herencias), de vez en cuando abate un jabalí; folla como un loco, especialmente con su mujer, que da a luz hijos; educa a los susodichos hijos para que ocupen su lugar en el mismo ecosistema; se pone enfermo, y se acabó.