Imagining a world where Dieter Rams is a chef. — The 10 Principles of Good Food is part of a post series that explores unique places, people and lifestyles related to food and sustainability. Why all this research? Find the answer in Drawing My Ideal Home. Previous essay: The Best Meal Ever? There’s one subject that’s always brought up during…

Two years, many friendships and uncountable moments later — It’s the end of an era. Before I get too sentimental, let’s do this recap Ironhack-style. User is able to 🐣 Help people change their lives There are many things I didn’t expect before starting to work at Ironhack. One of them was the incredible evolution some students experience during the bootcamp. …

Exercise #2 of Ironhack’s prework for the UX/UI Design bootcamp. — The second Ironhack UX/UI prework task consists on using Design Thinking to solve a problem for our client Whole Bank. This company wants to become a more user-friendly and innovative bank. Right now their focus is on traveling customers and the problems credit/debit cards present when abroad. Whole Bank already…

The mixtapes, drama and Seth Cohen quips that shaped my adolescence — This month marks the 15th anniversary of one of my favorite shows. I’ve watched dozens of them and some have had a big impact on me — Seinfeld, Six Feet Under, The Office or Treme just to mention a few—so this anniversary could be not that big of a deal…

David Foster Wallace, a Buddhist monk and a developer walk into a bar — Today I’ve done something I repeat every few months. It has become kind of a ritual. Every once in a while, whenever something reminds me of it or I need some guidance, I reach for This Is Water [1], a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace at Kenyon College…

Overcoming my addiction to travel — I’ve been sitting on this article for a while. I wanted to organize my ideas (this is what these self-help-ish posts are for) but I couldn’t seem to do it. I had too many conflicting thoughts. …

Thoughts on self-improvement, working hard and being nice to people — For years my motto has been to work hard and be nice to people. I have been drawn to these words since the first time I read them in an Anthony Burrill poster. As most things I love, they are deceptively simple. They might pass as common sense but living…

Lunch at the world’s best restaurant — The Best Meal Ever? is part of a post series that explores unique places, people and lifestyles related to food and sustainability. Why all this research? Find the answer in Drawing My Ideal Home. Up next: The 10 Principles of Good Food. Many people think I like sophisticated food because…

From being a miner to a security guard to a web developer — Some stories seem straight out of a movie. Actually if you saw them in a film you’d probably think they are too over the top, there’s no way this can happen to someone. Films have to make sense but real life doesn’t. Héctor Fernández’s is one of those stories. We…