After months away, I’m back on social media, but I hate the feeling of becoming a product. My eyes puke when seeing "silver bullets" offered by gurus (incomplete free tips with a poisoned intent to upsell something else). Alex Hormozi is a hero of mine. His message, like Ava’s from @personalbrandlaunch, is simple: take action and outwo...

Everything seems to be figure-out-able. Seriously. Everything. Turkey is a place where barely anyone speaks English outside the tourist zones. I love that. You’re not a local, you’re not fluent, you’re not even functional. You figure out how to read the taximeter, how the bridge tolls work, how people live. You sit in taxis while peopl...

Applying to a job is like having a Restaurant in which, one day, you get the chance to invite a food critic to review it: The first critic doesn’t even taste the food, they check the outside. Is the sign clean, is the menu clear, is the floor swept, does it look like you care. A quick scan, hunting for reasons to walk away, not to stay...

I’ve always been “the new guy”. My dad was a Navy Officer, so we moved a lot in Chile. New schools, new cities, new chances. I had to start over pretty much every two years. Make friends, never talk again but some stayed, repeat. That gave me a weird mix of skills. I always wanted to settle somewhere. Spoiler alert: I never did. I went...

As developers our problems are often optimized. This makes finding ideas complicated. Finding clients is tricky, and solving problems for them is easier if they are experts in their fields and they understand what they need with depth. I was always drawn to help small businesses. They struggle a lot in Chile. My friend’s dad has a tele...

In the summer of 2018, I needed a reason to apply to the Computer Science program, so I gave myself one: build something. I had some experience with websites during my AFS Exchange year program in Arizona, but now I wanted to make mobile apps. My research began. Everyone said React Native, but I wanted something different, something ne...