Last updated Jan 29, 2026 — Building in DOWNPOURING Bogotá ⛆

What's happening in my life right about now. You can see previous updates here.

Ignia is off the ground 🔥

It has been ~8 months since I last updated this blog. Since then we launched Ignia together with Camilo in Jun 14th, got ~30 starting fellows for our initial program (the Action Lab), and made it run - with some hiccups, but mostly well. The company was profitable from day one - we also sold a couple of B2B programs and are now a team of 5. The second cohort of the Action Lab is about to start in Feb 25th.

It is amazing to imagine something and make it reality. Entrepreneurship is the finest of creative pursuits for me - immediate and real impact and feedback. Art that lives on real world inputs and outputs.

Here’s hoping we can keep up the good news for this year.

Happiness Meter 🤩

9/10. I now have a strady income (1/6th of my previous salary but at least its steady) - and while the school costs are looming large in the horizon, I feel my income will keep increasing steadily throughout the year.

Ignia doing good keeps my spirits high - and I’ve managed to stay present in family life so not anywhere close to burning out.

We ran the half-marathon and I did 2:10:00 🏅 - but exercise is down a ton again. Need to get a new goal and make time for training. Probably the only thing keeping me from a perfect 10/10.

Family 💛

Christmas and New Year’s was an amazing time for us as a family.

In Colombia we have what’s called “Novenas” - 9 days before christmas, we get together to sing carols and spend time together. We got to spend time with most of our family. We also ate an obscene amount of buñuelos.

My sister flew in from Mexico and we travelled with her and my dad (and her wife and my step-sister) to Cartagena for a week to enjoy New Year’s Eve. We worked from there, but work is much more pleasurable when you go down for lunch in the beach and eat fresh catch 🐟. We also saw the fireworks display from a yacth.

We then spent a week of actual vacations in my dad’s place in Anapoima. The kids barely got out of the pool. Franco learnt how to swim underwater for about 10 seconds, and Luca learnt how to go downhill on his bike and brake with the hand brake instead of his feet.

We also lit a bonfire together. It was lovely 🔥