Og Maciel

Growth

8 posts tagged “Growth”.

2025

  1. Questions for a Happier 2026

    Questions for a Happier 2026

  2. The Gift You Don’t Open Right Away

    The Gift You Don’t Open Right Away

  3. Finding My Feet Again

    Finding My Feet Again

  4. When the Armor Slips

    When the Armor Slips

  5. No Is a Complete Sentence

    Google Calendar says I spend an average of 20 hours a week in meetings. Add to that the fact that I have to block my own lunch just to prevent people from scheduling over it, and suddenly 25 hours of a 40-hour week are already spoken for. Then there are the ad-hoc calls that pop up out of nowhere and don’t even show up on the calendar. So I’m pretty convinced I actually spend

  6. My Origin Story: Baptism by Fire

    When I walked into Synaptic Pharmaceuticals for my first official software developer job interview, I had never written a line of professional code.

  7. If You Want to Grow, Get on the Bull

    I can’t remember exactly when I first heard the advice about taking ownership of your own career and destiny instead of leaving it up to chance. Maybe it came from a book, maybe a talk—I can’t remember. But I do know the exact day when it finally hit me

  8. My Origin Story: From Syringes to Software

    Sometimes the path finds you long before you recognize you’re walking it - my journey from biochemistry to software engineering