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Aug 20, 2026
Cursor is now part of SpaceX. That puts Grok on the software engineering radar
On August 14 Cursor became part of SpaceX and almost nobody heard. In June the number ate a week. The close, which is what changes the board, is the part worth telling.
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Aug 19, 2026
Culture is not translated. It is decoded.
A Kuala Lumpur keynote on how AI reads real-time culture. Vélez, kopi, and why brands still act like tourists.
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Aug 19, 2026
I left vibe coding for a graph that actually runs
Grok routes. Other models write and review. A real command says whether the gate passed. That is how I stopped coding with one model.
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Jul 15, 2026
ROI vs ROL: the return I never learned to measure
We mastered ROI. We never gave Return on Life a second. A morning with nothing on the calendar made that obvious.
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Nov 19, 2025
Do you need a pause? Me too.
What I'm learning while I slow down for the first time in a long time: burnout, space, simplicity, and why starting over doesn't erase what you built.
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Nov 17, 2025
My first Web Summit experience: what I saw, what I learned, and why I'd go back
70,000 people, thousands of startups, four days of AI everywhere. What I learned, the lines that stuck, and why Web Summit is worth it.
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Jun 11, 2025
A month in Singapore: starting from zero again
Living in Singapore, letting go of Mexico, saying yes to everything, a new relationship with money, and why moving to the other side of the world rewires you.
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