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Iván González

@dreamingechoes.bsky.social
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We measure the time an AI agent saves us. We rarely measure the conversation that no longer happens. What teams may stop seeing when questions move somewhere nobody else can see: dreamingecho.es/blog/asking-...
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When Asking AI Means Asking People Less
Asking AI instead of a teammate can solve the problem instantly, while quietly removing the small interactions through which teams built context and trust.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Delegating execution is getting easier. Deciding what to delegate is not. Working with agents keeps bringing back skills I learned in management: context, autonomy, judgment, span of control. What happens when those become part of an IC’s daily work? dreamingecho.es/blog/managem...
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The Management Skills I Brought Back to IC
A deliberate chapter back in an IC role, and the delegation skills from managing people keep resurfacing in the daily mechanics of working with agents.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Technical depth still matters. But AI is making implementation cheaper to produce. That makes execution a weaker proxy for the judgment underneath. What should we look for when evaluating seniority now: dreamingecho.es/blog/ai-brea...
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AI Is Breaking Our Proxies for Engineering Seniority
Technical depth still matters. What changed is that producing a plausible solution got cheaper, so execution is weaker evidence of the judgment behind it.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Entry-level engineering was never just a job. It was also an apprenticeship that quietly taught us how to form a view, be wrong, and learn why. What happens to engineering judgment when AI starts removing the work that used to build it: dreamingecho.es/blog/growing...
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Growing Engineering Judgment Without the Grunt Work
Entry-level work ran a loop that quietly produced senior judgment. AI shortens that loop, so teams have to build on purpose what they used to get free.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Building software gives us years of practice solving framed problems. But Product Engineering extends beyond implementation: framing, positioning, pricing, distribution, and learning from users. What building Avenida, my own product, taught me: dreamingecho.es/blog/half-pr...
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The Half of Product Engineering Nobody Assigns You
As AI makes implementation cheaper, product engineers grow by practising the product, writing, pricing, and distribution decisions their briefs omit.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
One of the best things to come out of my career break last year was starting a project with a former colleague 😄 That project became Avenida: www.avenida.so I’ve been quietly working on it since, aiming to release 1.0 by the end of summer 🚀 Current beta → 1.0 👇
Current Avenida beta landing page, featuring a collage of product images around the headline “Shop smarter.” and a simple navigation with a login button.Redesigned Avenida 1.0 landing page, featuring the headline “Buy with more intention. Shop smarter.” alongside product cards, wishlist interactions, and clearer calls to action.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Publishing a salary range is not the same as reducing uncertainty. Cornell research found that wide ranges can discourage women from applying or negotiating, unless companies explain typical offers and the criteria behind them. Transparency should reduce ambiguity. news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...
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Job listings with wide pay ranges may deter female applicants | Cornell Chronicle
Research finds women have a stronger preference for jobs with narrower salary ranges compared to men, and that this preference is associated with less assertive negotiation behaviors.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I built an AI harness to carry more of the repetitive work around delivery. The deeper lesson was where it should stop: where engineers need to talk to people, understand context, and exercise product judgment. dreamingecho.es/blog/the-ai-...
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The AI Harness Should Follow the Conversation
Building an AI harness for my team taught me that the tooling was only part of the work. The more important outcome was making our working agreements visible, discussable, and executable.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The AI Fatigue Curve: Why Intensity Is Not Free.
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The AI Fatigue Curve: Why Intensity Is Not Free
AI-driven productivity follows a predictable curve — boost, stretch, crash. Three operational limits help teams sustain intensity without burning through attention and judgment.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
AI Shrinks Cycle Time. Humans Don't.
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AI Shrinks Cycle Time. Humans Don't.
AI compresses delivery cycles, but trust and emotional processing don't. That gap — Human Latency — is the friction your team can't ship away.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Learning to Build in the Age of AI.
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Learning to Build in the Age of AI
AI is changing how we write code — but not why we build. A gentle, optimistic note for juniors and career switchers learning software today.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Career break = time + headspace ✨ I finally wrote down my lived lessons from leading remote teams—my personal Engineering Leadership Playbook: a home for my principles today, and a place to pour new learnings as I grow #TechLeadership #EngineeringManagement 👉 dreamingecho.es/playbook
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Engineering Leadership Playbook
A practical, copy-pastable operating system for healthy, high-performing engineering teams in remote-first SaaS environments. Covers team operations, delivery, metrics, culture, and people growth.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
The Year I Paused to Move Forward.
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The Year I Paused to Move Forward
A reflective recap of 2025 — choosing a pause, rebuilding capacity, returning to the market, and remembering that people are the point.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
High Achievers, Heavy Minds.
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High Achievers, Heavy Minds
Ambition can look like strength from the outside — but for many high achievers in tech, success comes with a quiet emotional weight rarely seen or acknowledged.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
When Your Worth Becomes Your Output.
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When Your Worth Becomes Your Output
When productivity stops being what we do and quietly becomes who we are — a reflection on identity, self-worth, and performance culture in tech.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
The Invisible Burnout.
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The Invisible Burnout
Burnout doesn’t always arrive as collapse. Often it comes quietly — through numbness, over-functioning, and the slow fading of joy in work that once mattered deeply.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Qual + Quant Reviews in 45 Minutes.
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Qual + Quant Reviews in 45 Minutes
Fast, high-signal qual + quant reviews help triads reconnect with reality—turning scattered data, user feedback, and technical signals into shared judgment in just 45 minutes.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Post-Launch Care Windows.
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Post-Launch Care Windows
Shipping isn’t the finish line — it’s when the real signals start. How triads can use care windows to learn, restore coherence, and protect the team’s rhythm after each release.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Design Debt Is Real Debt.
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Design Debt Is Real Debt
Why ignoring design debt quietly drains product velocity — and trust. How Product, Design, and Engineering can recognize it early, address it together, and rebuild coherence without slowing down.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Weekly Bets vs. Backlog Treadmills.
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Weekly Bets vs. Backlog Treadmills
How triads can turn endless task lists into meaningful progress. Moving from backlog autopilot to intentional weekly bets that bring focus, ownership, and rhythm back to teams.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
From PRD to Prod Without Ping-Pong.
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From PRD to Prod Without Ping-Pong
Cross-functional collaboration shouldn’t feel like a game of hand-offs. Here’s how Product, Design, and Engineering can move from alignment theatre to shared flow — building clarity, trust, and moment...
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
When Overcommunication Becomes Noise in Remote Teams.
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When Overcommunication Becomes Noise in Remote Teams
Overcommunication can look like alignment, but often it’s anxiety in disguise. Learn how to design remote communication that builds trust through clarity, not noise.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
People‑first, for real: adapt your management style to the person.
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People‑first, for real: adapt your management style to the person
Understand how each person thinks and decides, then choose a management style that fits. A practical, people‑first guide with day‑to‑day styles, a lightweight personality map, and weekly rituals.
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Elixir Radar @elixir-radar.com · 24/09/2025
Elixir Radar issue 485 is out! 📣 You can read it here: buff.ly/HGjAeCB This issue comes with content from @dreamingechoes.bsky.social @ievgenpyrogov.com @yellowduck.be @lawik.bsky.social @elixircasts.io and Masatoshi Nishiguchi. Thank you! #ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Engineering Management isn’t a promotion; it’s a different job. Emma Bostian’s article clearly outlines what effective EM looks like.
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What Engineering Management Is, And What It Isn’t
If I were to ask any random engineer, who didn’t have management experience, “what does your manager actually do?”, I bet they would say something along the lines of “well&#…
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
High‑impact 1:1s in Remote Teams: Building Trust and Psychological Safety.
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High‑impact 1:1s in Remote Teams: Building Trust and Psychological Safety
A practical, people‑first playbook for running remote 1:1s that build trust and psychological safety, surface risks early, and drive growth—without turning into therapy or status updates.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I love music, especially discovering new albums that bring me joy. So I built a small GPT to help me find daily album recommendations, and it works great! 🎶 🔗 chatgpt.com/g/g-67dbd8fe...
The Daily Album GPT interface showing album recommendation prompts.Example GPT response recommending 'Carrie & Lowell' by Sufjan Stevens.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Career growth in software engineering doesn’t happen by chance. The best engineers don’t just write great code, they take ownership of their learning, seek meaningful challenges, and focus on real impact.
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Owning Your Career as a Software Engineer: Beyond Code to Real Impact
Career growth in software engineering isn’t just about writing better code—it’s about taking ownership of your trajectory and focusing on real-world impact.
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Rafa Garcés @rafagarces.com · 26/02/2025
I did this test in 3 h to see how Cursor works. Without knowing React or Typescript. Conclusions: 1. Wow 2. Be prepared for tech bros who think that developers won't be needed 3. Excited to see products that make the most of LLMs 4. Fingers crossed for more environmentally conscious technology soon
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Font Modifier - Experiment with variable fonts
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Creating an AI-Powered Search Input With Phoenix LiveView #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang 🔗 dreamingecho.es/blog/creatin...
A project listing table with a search bar for natural language queries. Projects have statuses, estimations, and action buttons.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Building a Minimal Blog in Pure Elixir with Notion as a CMS #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang 🔗 dreamingecho.es/blog/buildin...
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Small Signals, Big Impact: How Tiny Acts of Self-Care Can Transform Workplace Well-Being.
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Small Signals, Big Impact: How Tiny Acts of Self-Care Can Transform Workplace Well-Being
Small, thoughtful ways to support each other at work can have a big impact. Normalizing simple signals—like Slack statuses or images—helps create a healthier, more mindful workplace.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
How to Change a Field Type in an Ecto Embedded Schema with a Migration #MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang
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How to Change a Field Type in an Ecto Embedded Schema with a Migration
Changing a field type in an Ecto embedded schema requires both a code update and a database migration. This guide walks through the process, ensuring data consistency and avoiding common pitfalls.
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Iván González @dreamingechoes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus
The chill guy character wearing a sweater with the "Elixir" logo stands confidently before a modern computer setup, with dual monitors displaying code and Ecto documentation, with ambient blue lighting.
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