Leverage Maps: Mental Models For Making Systems Move

About the Author

Gilberto Guadiana is a systems-minded engineer and writer who has spent his career moving between messy, complex environments: embedded software, blockchain, aerospace consulting, and organizational design. His nonlinear path has taken him from being a mechanic’s assistant and camp counselor to working on smart contracts, technical architecture, and engineering leadership.

In June 2025, he took a sabbatical to step back, study patterns across these experiences, and write about the hidden levers that make work and organizations move. His writing blends engineering clarity with lived experience, turning abstract systems thinking into practical frameworks for careers, teams, and technology.

Gilberto shares essays through his newsletter, Leverage Notes, and is building the Leverage Maps series as a set of tools for knowledge workers who see patterns and want to act on them. He also writes blog posts on systems thinking, workplace dynamics, and Bitcoin protocol analysis that he publishes on his website gilbertoguadiana.com and on LinkedIn. 

You can reach out to him at gguadiana100[at]gmail.com