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Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

355- Mental Bandwidth by Fernando Higuera

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Dissecting Popular IT Nerds

Technology

549 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Mental Bandwidth Fascinating conversation with Fernando Higuera on his evolution from teenage electronics hacker to tech leader in cloud architecture and AI. Fernando shares his breaking point – sitting frozen on an airplane, unable to move after weeks of 20-hour workdays building a practice from scratch. This pivotal moment transformed his approach to leadership and life. Listen now, discover: How early electronics experimentation shaped his tech career path  Creating innovative vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems   How to Manage stress and burnout in high-pressure tech roles  The importance of trust and communication in tech leadership  ️ Using AI as...

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0:00.0

All right. Well, welcome to another episode of Dissecting Popular IT NERDS. Today we've got Fernando Yagata joining us. Fernando, you've got a bit of experience in cloud native architecture. And then you've done some stuff with the AI so why don't you do me a

0:24.3

favor and and introduce yourself and tell us a little about what brought you into or what

0:30.4

got you excited about technology in the first place there and I appreciate the introduction

0:35.8

and I'm happy to be here with everybody.

0:39.3

Well, I mean, it has been a very, it has been a very joyful journey to be in 19.

0:46.5

It's a joy of discovering and making things so, I will say.

0:52.7

I started fiddling with things when I was in high school.

0:57.3

The very first thing that I put my hands on, it was a soldiering gun.

1:01.8

Even earlier than that, like a junior high, I had a class dedicated for electronics.

1:08.4

We call it metatronics.

1:09.8

So we created circuits we created different

1:13.0

or else I mean we manipulate us in the trachene cores and just just failing with

1:21.8

things like that's the spark light up sound things like that so well because my education, I never worked a chance to do any of the true electronics.

1:33.0

And even in all of my studies, it was more around coding or the visual effects versus the actual

1:40.9

courts and circuitry and understanding the flow of electricity and how on and off does everything.

1:49.6

Right.

1:50.0

Like, they're once in zeros.

1:51.4

How it starts those ones and zeros.

1:53.5

The logic in the circuit boards, it was just fantastic.

1:57.3

So that picked curiosity, and I started to fiddle with more things. So the next thing that I put

2:02.3

my hands on was the E&B prepaid calling cards. So I don't know. I don't think we have them here

2:09.1

in America anymore. I grew up in a different country. So that's how we used to call for our

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