Leverage Notes

Consolidating My Writing Ventures

Integrating my writing to work towards Iron Temple Ranch.

Oct 3 • 

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September 2025

Leverage Maps: Knowledge Hoarding and Knowledge Curation

An evaluation of when knowledge documentation and transfer is appropriate.

Sep 26 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Leverage Maps: Job Descriptions as Organizational Blueprints

How well defined roles enable strategic hiring, prevent growing pains, and accelerate careers at scale.

Sep 19 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Leverage Maps: Integrity as Energy Conservation

How living out integrity keeps your energy up.

Sep 12 • 

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Leverage Maps: Parallel Lives, Optionality, and Sequencing Your Future

How to strategically build optionality across the span of your career to get what you want out of life.

Sep 5 • 

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August 2025

Leverage Maps: When Culture Amplifies Or Neutralizes Leadership

Why engineering teams thrive or burn out depending on this hidden feedback loop.

Aug 29 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Workplace Jiujitsu: The High Achiever’s Survival Playbook

Avoid collapsing or exiting by staying sharp when the system is stacked against you.

Aug 23 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Leverage Maps: Building Strategic Influence in Low-Trust Environments

Even in low-trust systems, leverage can still be built. It just requires a different playbook.

Aug 15 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Hard Guarantees: How Bitcoin Protocol Updates Work

Breakdown of a decentralized system's evolution patterns and organizational dynamics that shape technological consensus

Aug 8 • 

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July 2025

Leverage Maps: Even Senior Teams Need Vertical Leadership

How scaling requires hierarchy for teams with even the most autonomous engineers.

Jul 31 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Workplace Jiujitsu: Stop Asking Senior Engineers to Be Accidental Managers

How flat organizations excel at delivery but struggle to scale without proper management structure.

Jul 24 • 

Gilberto Guadiana

Hard Guarantees: What Bitcoin Promised the Poor And What It Actually Delivered

How high fees and technical barriers exclude the world's unbanked

Jul 18 • 

Gilberto Guadiana