Simplicity Police
An essay about intellect, complexity, perfection and treating software as play-doh.
Hi, I'm Valeria
Engineering leader and builder, writer and speaker, and, since recently, a founder of Great Little Software.
Engineer → Leader → Founder
There's a lot of noise out there. New frameworks every week. AI that's going to replace us all (it won't). The pressure to ship more and faster, learn faster, be everywhere at once.
Stepping up from individual contributor to leadership makes it even more challenging: suddenly you're expected to shield others from it without stiffling their growth. And sound confident while figuring out as you go too.
And if you've managed to find your footing there and decided to step into enterpreneurship... Well, that's where I'm at and I'm barely passed the "I have no idea what I'm doing" phase.
This website is a collection of tutorials, essays and articles about things I've learned along the way. I update it when I have something worth sharing with no particular schedule.
Recent Thoughts
The sunset of Arrogance as a Service
An essay about the past AI-promises-era and how we got here in the first place
How do I delegate when I can do it faster myself?
Transitioning from an individual contributor to a leader is not easy. Why would it be? One day you are the hero doing all the work, the next day you are expected to guide others to do it for you. I wish I had the knowledge I have now when I was starting out as a manager. Perhaps this article will help you avoid some pitfalls I dug myself into.