Étienne Garbugli https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/ Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:19:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/cropped-etienne-garbugli-ico-1-32x32.jpg Étienne Garbugli https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/ 32 32 Oh. Hello. I Now Live In Italy 🇮🇹 https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/moving-to-italy/ Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:58:03 +0000 https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/?p=11589 Lean experiments aren’t just for startups. In 2013, I made a big decision. I decided that I was not going to spend the rest of my life living in Montreal, where I had grown up. I had no idea where to move, so I made a plan to find my new hometown. Here’s how it

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]]> 11589 If I Were to Do it Again… https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/do-it-again/ https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/do-it-again/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2019 22:39:43 +0000 http://www.etiennegarbugli.com/?p=8965 I’m nowhere near the age of retirement. In fact, I’m not sure I actually believe in the concept of retirement. Yet, for some reason, a key line of thought this year has been “What would I do if I were to do it again?” I decided to take a crack at writing my thoughts on

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]]> https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/do-it-again/feed/ 0 8965 Year in Review – Mitigated Success https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/year-in-review-mitigated-success/ Wed, 02 Jan 2019 18:11:53 +0000 http://www.etiennegarbugli.com/?p=9224 It’s easy to spin a negative into a positive. It’s also easy to make a positive sound negative. But there’s really no point in doing a year-end review and bury the facts under spun positives, so here goes the hard truth: 2018 is the year during which I worked the most, but have the least

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]]> 9224 5 Productivity Experiments for 2026 https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/5-productivity-experiments-2018/ https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/5-productivity-experiments-2018/#respond Sun, 06 May 2018 15:36:39 +0000 http://www.etiennegarbugli.com/?p=8958 Ludo and I are pretty big on productivity. With an app to build and the need to get production-ready in a bit under 6 weeks, there’s a lot of things we need to get done. As a bootstrapped, two-man unit, it makes sense to try and do more with less. That’s why we thought we’d

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]]> https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/5-productivity-experiments-2018/feed/ 0 8958 Why Rate of Learning is Your Most Important Metric https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/why-rate-of-learning-is-your-most-important-metric/ https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/why-rate-of-learning-is-your-most-important-metric/#comments Sun, 17 Dec 2017 15:00:35 +0000 http://www.etiennegarbugli.com/?p=8649 Growing up, I was always fascinated by the effort and energy that my father put into underlining anything in books, reports or magazines that could be relevant to his work. It’s hard to imagine how much work that is but, to give you a rough idea, my parents’ basement is filled with bookshelves, boxes and

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]]> https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/why-rate-of-learning-is-your-most-important-metric/feed/ 1 8649 Why Knowing Your Multiples Might be Your Greatest Strength https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/why-knowing-your-multiples-might-be-your-greatest-strength/ https://www.etiennegarbugli.com/why-knowing-your-multiples-might-be-your-greatest-strength/#respond Tue, 29 Aug 2017 17:03:49 +0000 http://www.etiennegarbugli.com/?p=8699 Work on your strengths. Shore up your weaknesses. Where to start? The problem with being told either of those things is that it’s usually heavily influenced by the context you’re in. In other words: work on the strengths required for this current role and improve the weaknesses highlighted by this organization. This makes sense short-term,

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