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I bet on crypto at 17 and failed. I bet on AI and it paid. Now I'm betting on robotics. Here's how I tell the difference between early and wrong. In May 2021 I published an article called "Raising investment with crypto: futuristic or stupid?" I was 17. I genuinely didn't know the answer. Five years later, I think I finally do. And it's not the answer I wanted. I've said this to myself more th

I tried college twice. I couldn't continue either time. This is what I did instead, and what it cost me. I never went to college. That's not entirely true. I tried. Twice. And both times, I couldn't continue. I'm not going to write one of those posts that says college is a scam and you should drop out. I don't believe that. College gives people things I had to find the hard way: structure, cre

At 20 I was making around $120,000 a year from Costa Rica. In August 2025 I quit all of it. This is why. Let me start with the number, because it's the part people ask about. In 2025 I was making around $10,000 a month. About $120,000 a year. I was 20. I live in Costa Rica. I never finished college. For someone my age, in my country, that's a record. I don't say that to brag. I say it because

I can take an idea to an MVP in days. Selling it took me years to learn. And I'm still learning. I can build an MVP in less than a week. I've done it more than once. Studently went from idea to MVP in less than three weeks. Hoosling's MVP was designed in Figma and live on WordPress in less than seven days. In one weekend hackathon, I built a full-stack app for a former NASA employee and got paid

Getting fired was the best thing that happened to my career. Not because it felt good. Because it forced me to find out what I actually was. At 19, I got fired. The reason wasn't politics. It wasn't bad luck. It wasn't a mean boss. I got fired because I didn't know enough. Not enough about development. Not enough about project management. That's a hard sentence to write. It's easier to say "it

¿Te acordás de ser estudiante? ¿Eras el que hacía explotar a tu profe, o el tipo estudioso callado? Yo era el segundo (todavía lo soy, tenía 17 cuando escribí esto). Pero el primer tipo, junto con otras razones, causó un problema que Fabricio y yo notamos: **ansiedad docente**. Según el Instituto Nacional de Educación de EE.UU. (IES), más del 57% de los profesores universitarios reportaron sentir

Hace unos meses, con dos socios, empezamos Hoosling: una plataforma de crowdfunding con crypto. La idea era simple. Dejar que cualquiera invierta en startups con crypto, sin importar dónde vivía o cuánto capital tenía. Tenía 16 cuando empezamos. ## Por qué crypto La inversión tradicional está rota. Si querés entrar a una startup prometedora, necesitás: - Ser un inversionista acreditado (tener