Quick Timeline

"My First Business"

I studied Civil Engineering and didn't have exposure to IT. However, in 2015, I bought my first 3D printer using my savings and launched a custom phone case 3D printing service. By doing so, I started learning more about electronics and coding.

Blog: (my first 3d printer)

Project Management

After graduation, I got a job in Real Estate as a project manager. "Luckily" my boss left within 3 months, so I quickly learned: Finance, Legal, Architecture, Engineering, PMP Project Management and more.
I did "old school" project management. I had a notebook and a phone. If you needed something, you called, sometimes an email. Managed full $32M Real State projects with no PMS. It's funny to go back and see how things have changed.
In the background, I bootstrapped my 3D printing business and kept learning about material science, industrial design and mechanical engineering.

Blog: (project management)

Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp.

One day I was scrolling in FB, and I saw an ad. "MIT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp" I needed that.
Applied- got accepted but needed money to attend. I took the crowdfunding route and raised over $5k (that was a lot of money for me). I could manage +$30M on projects, but the pay was always low. $5k was a number out of my league back then.
Being in the Entrepreneurship ecosystem in Mexico helped. Those were the guys that donated the most I really didn't do F&F.
Enjoyed the bootcamp and it gave me the final piece of the mindset I needed to quit my job.
Loved the experience, and weeks later I left my job.
Full story here:(My First Crowdfunding Campaing)

Entrepreneurship

Being a solo entrepreneur is hard. You need to self learned everything.
Never found a mentor and never got accepted to accelerator programs. Incubators were not valuable after the MIT program.
Worked 24/7
I had ~5 business and all the profits were used to scale my startup for indsutrial 3D printing .
Businesses were ding great but cash flow was critical. To "fix" that I got a part-time job as a STEM teacher. I gave classes about business, 3D printing and 3D modeling from 7-11AM. Then I was back on business.
Blog: My REAL first business

Innovation

Money

I got into Crypto in 2019 by mining Ethereum, and I became an advocate of decentralization. 

Most of the books I was reading were about Technology, Self-development, Sales and Psychology. I never really read about money.

From a philosophical point of view:
Money is hard to get. If it was easy, everybody would have money.
Money is "physical energy" you use it to make people give life time and energy to accomplish something you want to do.

I had a basic view of money. Just like everyone. We think about money as physical stuff that gives us the power to buy more things.
I'm thankful I now see money differently.

I still do trading (swing) and crypto mining.
I also learned how to build computers, and how they worked. It's an important skill to have as we take computers for granted but don't really know how they work, similar to cars.  

Growth Mindset

Life's hard, and you will always have problems.
It doesn't matter how positive your mindset is.
In this life, I think we reach the lowest of the lowest at least 2 times.
After living through this stage, I think most people die without truly knowing who they really are.
We all have a huge crash in life, and we need to look at ourselves and embrace a growth mindset.  This is and works differently for everybody.
Even at this stage, I kept experimenting with new workflows and materials for industrial Additive Manufacturing methods. It was my way to ignore misery.

Master's

The best traditional path to change your lifestyle is to become a student again.

I went to Australia for a Masters's because I wanted a real change in my life.
I enjoy international communities and getting to know people from different parts of the world, and Australia is a great place for international culture.
I'm mid way my master's, and I can confirm that titles and degrees will never speak on a person's behalf.
There is a certainty about the effort a person had to make to obtain a title, but that will never never tell you something true about what a person knows/executes.
Blog: The truth behind a Master's degree.

Life and the Digital World

Let's be honest. AGI will be here soon. Our systems and business models need to adapt to absorb AGI into our lives.
Intelligence and breakthrough ideas will be more common on the internet.
Operations are still the key for success.

The only way to keep yourself out of atrophied is by reading, writing, doing math, and embracing critical thinking.
I have a theory: Threads only launched to gather a whole new data set of organic information about new users for LLM's. I don't care about my basic data being stolen, but we need to get the bigger picture of "why" things happen.

There needs to be more appreciation of the real world. I enjoy feeling the grass and looking at the birds, trees and spiders. Society is so biased and addicted to controversial topics that we forget what real life is all about.

People who distinguish and are aware of the differences between real and digital life will be happier. They will be mindful of the present moment and less likely to get caught up in the endless stream of information and stimuli that comes with digital technology IMO.

Of course, happiness is one of those words that each person understands and interprets differently...

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