Hi, I'm Victor
Engineer, reader, and dad. I lead AI & Engineering at Boon AI (previously Apple Intelligence). Here I write about traveling with my family, technology, books, and what it means to live a good life.
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El Salvador with Kids: 5 Days of Adventure, Vomit, and Unexpected Familiarity
Our family of four spends 5 days in El Salvador on a budget, navigating rental car chaos, armed security everywhere, two vomiting kids, and discovers a country in the middle of a post-gang renaissance that feels surprisingly like Indonesia.
Why I Left Apple to join Boon
After seven years at Apple, I joined Boon, a logistics AI startup, seeking greater growth potential and leveraging a team with deep domain expertise that knows how to sell what I know how to build
Recent Posts
Turn On Your Camera
Keeping your camera on in remote meetings builds trust, helps people remember you, and signals engagement, and the benefits far outweigh the minor fatigue cost.
Stewart Butterfield on utility curves, Parkinson's Law, and why most features fail before reaching value
Stewart Butterfield, founder of Slack and Flickr, explains why most products fail by optimizing for friction reduction instead of comprehension, how organizations drift into "hyperrealistic work-like activities" that accomplish nothing, and why the "owner's delusion" prevents builders from seeing their products through users' eyes.
Why Your Fear of Looking Stupid Is Your Biggest Career Risk
The people most afraid to look stupid - those with middle status - are trapped in a psychological prison that prevents them from learning and adapting, while both high-status and low-status individuals paradoxically have the freedom to embrace being beginners and thus learn faster in our rapidly changing world.
From MS-DOS to LLMs: Why This Is Computing's Next Great Transition
Andrej Karpathy's Y Combinator talk reveals how we're experiencing computing's most fundamental transformation in 70 years, as LLMs evolve from command-line interfaces to become the new operating systems that will reshape how we build and interact with software.