One of the things about traveling a lot for work is that I have to adapt to different local realities, the concrete example I’m talking about is that in this project, I have to visit Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, every week.

Premature optimization is quite often the root of all evil, by performing optimizations for problems we don’t have yet we are doomed to end up with an over-engineered system difficult to reason about and build on top of.

One of the things I dreamed of was being able to travel a lot, I did a couple of times travel to conferences with expenses paid, it was nice meeting new people, walking through the city because I was there for the conference days but… I’m not required at the conference site unless I’m speaking so, I took the time to go around the place when there were no interesting talks.