Desarrolladores vs “Emprendedores”

Falsas dicotomías o de cómo aprendí a no preocuparme y a amar crear cosas

Los seres humanos amamos las etiquetas. Nos hacen entender qué esperar de otros, y cómo interactuar con aquellos que…

Depression

I’ve been living with depression since I was 13.

It appeared one day; suddenly and totally unsuspectedly. Slowly, it managed to creep into my life. Gradually, and without being given much attention, it found a nest and decided to stuck around. For long. It took some time. Some long…

Five tips on dating again after a while

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It’s ok to feel awkward. Relationships are an important part of anyone’s life, and starting anew can feel quite scary. Embrace everything you face as a new experience and try to learn something about yourself in the process!

(Real) artists ship

Una reflexión que tenía hace un tiempo

El año que inventamos Facebook

Era una tarde de Julio del año 2001 cuando, junto con uno de mis mejores amigos, veíamos funcionar finalmente la aplicación que habíamos estado construyendo esos últimos meses.

The year with two winters

These are some of the things that happened this year, without any order, agenda or criteria.

• Managed to only live four months in Perú.
• Spend seven of the rest in Mexico, and one in the US.

Plans

I don’t quite like plans. I never had much use for them.

I didn’t have them when teachers asked me at high school what I wanted to major in, or what college it’d be attending.

Everyone else did. They had been preparing for years back then, applying to colleges, and…

Loop

I’ve lived through this moment thousandths times by now.

It tends to start different each one. A discovery. A bug. Some experiment gone awry or some study that went well. Too well. But the end result is always the same. The Machine wakes up. Artificial Life conquers all and it binds them all…

Instructions for when you fall down

Fall down.

Give yourself a time to breathe. Do it then. Breathe. Feel the wind leaving your body. Exhausted. Feel life giving in and you going on. Feel the chill of summer and the heat of winter.

Tatooine

It all started with the discovery of SIG-IV, with its two moons, as dry as a desert as it could get. It made sense at that time, then, to pay a homage, and no less than three years of it being found, we ended up renaming it as Tatooine.