February - Madrid. Breaking home at home.

🏃‍♂️ TL;DR

I solo climbed a mountain. Messed with the wrong people in the wrong neighbourhood. Questioned everything around me for weeks. Got punched in the face big time, but nothing happened. Planted the seed for 4 ventures in the mobility sector. Bought a plant. Found a skate in the street and redesigned it. Fought a croc.

🍋 Thoughts

"We're one genius away from saving the world”

I am definitely no expert and it is probably harder than the catchy phrase I wrote in bold, however, I do believe we are better off sharing what we learn, than keeping it for ourselves. Aside from being one of the motivations for this project, locking up knowledge is counter-intuitive for progress.

We are entering a dangerous area when it comes to sustainability and humanity’s balance on Earth. We are definitely in need of a set of solutions that make our lifestyle sustainable, so we should definitely put out our best out there to make it easier for those with the big ideas to build the future.

Building in public is the way. Share your ideas, anon.

There are a million methodologies for anything and nobody really cares anymore. The output tyranny.

Methodologies put us on a track, but what actually matters is what you do by following it and where you get with it. Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying these are useless. However, I do believe they should act more as a way of selling to outsiders from your industry, rather than a process to be followed detail by detail.

Projects are mutants. Time, deliverables and outputs change based on the client in front of you. Relations are colder because we barely see each other and we are always in calls. We cannot assume they all want to see the same, and finding out what they want is harder everyday. Old industries want websites with their business shown, regardless of their business. Newer industries want product validation and precise product drops.

Also, sometimes is great not to be an expert in an area because you get used to the conventional way of doing things rather than reading the facts. Otherwise, look at corps, they’ve got all the resources in the world and they tend to overcomplicate things.

We are afraid of saying we can’t do something.

We live in a professional world where none is willing to say something cannot be done. We’d rather say “that’s ambitious”, than “that’s impossible”, even though we all know what “ambitious” really means.

Market bubbles appear when the gap between actual productivity and ‘that’s so cool’ vibes is too wide.

AI is the pinnacle of outputs and productivity - not evaluating quality in this comment. Productivity is real and that’s the reason why it has changed the market completely for pretty much every single industry. But then we get some other innovation (i.e. Vision Pro) that are genuinely amazing, but the impact in productivity, so far, is not as relevant. We are just getting a lot of famous cool people wearing it, and we feel like we need it just because they say it’s cool, even though we know we cannot do much with them yet.

So yea, when innovation is truly good we barely spend anytime in the “that’s so cool” territory and we skip directly to insane use cases. Happy to discuss this.

🗳️ What’s going on now

• It’s been quite an emotional month, ngl. Going through a break up really messes with everything around you, and makes you question yourself and what’s going on around you. I am lucky to be surrounded by amazing people that help me navigate this and I am super grateful to them.

• Going to Eth Global London to hack. Still looking for a team, and down for beers and meet ups with friends and new friends, so just hit me up if you’re around!

• Applied to ETH Bucharest to give a talk there. Moonshot, but nothing to lose and the experience can be very fun. Let’s make it happen!

• Already deep down the Product Manager course at CoderHouse. I’ve been working as such for 2 years already, but wanted to see if there is anything I am missing out and I can improve the process/approach to it. Learnings coming in!

• March needs to be the month were we kick off the Morvo project aiming to have it ready by May. You can find more information on the link. I am looking for someone on the journalism world that wants to benefit from this idea and present it to Cannes. We’ll see what happens. 🌱

🥷 Questions in my head

• Why is social media so addictive if it does not really generate anything good? Drugs at least give you a specific feeling, but social media’s output is just you laying in your bed counting likes, feeling mildly attractive based on the like count.
  

• Are we really in a bull market? Are we here again already?

• Attention is a scarce resource. Our attention span is fucked. Advertisers live from capturing our attention. How are they going to reframe their industry to capture bits of attention to sell us something? Feels like the effort-to-attention ratio will increase heavily and can’t see that being profitable.
  
  “The fastest growing sector of the culture economy is distraction… But it’s not art or entertainment, just ceaseless activity”

• If you can’t explain your business idea to a 10 yo in less than 5 mins then it is probably not worth it. Do you agree? Are this things true or fuck twitter?

💎 Inspiration

• “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" - Albert Einstein

  

  Check your sources. Phrase is good though.

• The work of meditation is not so much to be in silence, but the exercise of returning to silence - Dieguito.

• Why we don’t trust each other anymore

• Some crypto optimism

• Laugh your ass off a bit

• Is higher education really the way for everyone?

💙 Cheers

Cris, Livi, Germán, Carri, Guardi, Rama, Lula, Pablo, Maxi, Lucho, Emi, Papá, Pilu, Olimpia, Mamá, Lola, Mauri, Fabri, Eze, Cande, Gems, Juls, Luis, Gerardo, Mehdi, Adri, Santi, Javi, Fabi, Ine, Paul, Guada, Pablo, Mar, Alex, Dieguito, Cris, Giulia, Palma, Fer, Joaquín, Seba, João, Dani, Victor, Lavi, Patrick, Manu, Roge, James, Lu, Ernesto, Ash, Sof.