Image by AdelinaZw from Pixabay A man told me a story of a woman he had known growing up and, one night, their relationship unexpectedly became more than friendship. It had all felt so natural and he had never felt so in tune with anyone as he did then. However, the next day he panicked, lost in a sea of feeling unworthy and misplaced loyalties to  ...

Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay Perhaps you do not understand This thing you think funny, where it will land? It hits a spot deep down inside I feel myself recoil, wanting to hide If I tell you my story will you then comprehend? Or will what is between us lie cold on the floor my friend? Too deep, too much, I hear you say Well, tha ...

Personal Thoughts — Death To 2021 If you felt like 2021 was not your year, you are not alone, but maybe it is not as bad as we think it was. Photo by Kalen Emsley on Unsplash The Netflix movie “Death To 2021” fittingly offered a comical relief to what in more ways than one, was a crazy year. If they did one about me too, it probably would have come ...

What I see is right ? Whenever I had a conversation about people with anybody I always related myself with the person who is naive or sweet. I hardly related myself with a character who is negative. Whenever I watched a movie, the super heroes in the movies or the ones who are shown good were the ones I related to. At first I wondered is it me actu ...

Over the past couple of days, I’ve become increasingly aware of an inner agitation to stillness. It’s this insistent feeling of demanding and wanting more. To do more. To have more. To be more. I was in the house alone with nothing planned for that day and something inside me felt like a failure. Why? Because I wasn’t doing anything productive. Or ...

And it turned out to be healing! Photo by Ben White on Unsplash Often humans reek with the shallow sense of hypocrisy, which to them is their first nature. Yes, I was one of them! Loud, brash and shallow. I participated in pity party Sundays, wailed over my failures, and judged fellow human very generously. I found peace-perhaps short lived-in plac ...

Is it better for opportunities to force their way in or knock first? The real question is: will there be cake? Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash Since the spring of 2020, IT organizations have scrambled through a crash course in change management or turbo charged transformation-in-progress. Business organizations didn’t have it easy either, but beca ...

Using the household economy as an alternative strategy to create a diverse, and resilient life Because complexity is the easiest way to reach your goals. source: George Eastman Museum, via flickr (No known copyright restrictions) I’m fairly new to Medium. I was looking for a no-hassle platform to easily publish content. Medium looked like the right ...

Part 1 — Craft They say “hindsight is 20/20”. It’s very true. 10 years ago I made the switch from graphic design to user experience after a 10-year stint working for print shops & manufacturing environments. It has been an incredible journey so far, but there are many things I wished I had learned earlier than I did. These are the top 30. I share t ...

Ever since the early 1990s, Israel has consistently been a hotbed of new innovation and emerging technologies. It is why some of the biggest tech companies dedicate critical resources in Israel, like Oracle’s new cloud region in Jerusalem and our startup program. The Startup Nation is positioned to become even more important, unleashing innovation ...

Does probability actually exist in the physical universe, or is it a function of our ignorance? If I’m rolling a die, I don’t know which way it’s going to land; so therefore I put in a probability. But does that mean there’s an actual probabilistic unknowable thing in the universe? Is the universe rolling a die somewhere, or is it always determinis

“I’m usually not that negative but this is bad…” — Well-meaning fellow designer In a matter of minutes, a few more comments popped out mocking my poor writing and lack of actionable information in my article. My mood sank. They are right! I start writing responses to each one, justifying myself like a schoolgirl without homework. Five seconds later ...

Interview with Josh Waitzkin on The Tim Ferriss Show podcast.

Exploring The Evolution of UX — The Brazilian Perspective I’ve been invited by Suj Premachandran from Digital Influx to talk about the Evolution of UX from a Brazilian Perspective with Bruna de Castro and Guilherme Skinner. So, I decided to put their questions into a context and write about it, also showing a little bit about the Brazilian scenery. ...

Write down the narrative of your project. Why you started this project? Is it because the executive told you to do so? Why do they think it’s a good idea? Is there any evidence to support their argument? By writing, you’re making sense of things. You might feel you know so little about the project after you write. This is great because you started ...

Good reads from the past week photo source The End Of Ancestral and Racial Superiority In his book, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, geneticist Adam Rutherford mentions some interesting things scientists have learned through the study of genetics… 7 Core Traits of Authentic People #4. They apply Kintsukuroi to their life… Searching In Th ...

Happy New Year and welcome to the first newsletter of the year :) I’m starting the year with a bit of spring cleaning. I decided to stop publishing to mjbraganza.com Yes, the book review and the photo website is now gone. I had started it to give my family and friends the option where they did not have to see me work rants and struggles. A few year

Huzzah! The sprint is over. So, now what? The end of a sprint is a great time to review the progress of an ongoing project. Teams can use a Sprint Retrospective to reflect on “what they have done” and “what they should do”. It’s easy to think of Retrospectives as merely an opportunity to capture lessons learned after every sprint, but this is not e ...

Photo by Jonathan Klok on Unsplash The image above perfectly depicts how my journey has been for the past couple of months working as a software engineer at an education tech startup company known as WorkSchool. Just as attempting to walk the bridge above, working at a startup has been a giant step out of my comfort zone. The thought of working at ...