My life has been a tapestry woven across continents, cultures, and creative pursuits — and I've come to understand that the tension between them is not a problem to solve. It's the source.
The practice
For nearly two decades I've walked the path of Vipassana Buddhism. Not as ritual — as orientation. The practice shapes how I approach business, creativity, relationships, and everything I make. Stillness is not the absence of speed. It's what makes speed legible.
"Two cities, two books, sixty songs — one continuous attempt to pay attention."
The work
As a serial entrepreneur, I've launched ventures, learned from failures, celebrated successes, and built again. Each company has been an experiment in problem-solving — and in the discipline required to see something through.
I've published two books on Speedwo: Speed Without Tomorrow, a political-theoretical diagnosis of mythic acceleration, and Sufrimiento, a Buddhist-inflected meditation on suffering and collective practice. They were born from the same period, pulled in opposite directions.
The music
Sixty songs and counting. Music is my language for what prose can't reach — the textures of Chicago streets, the clave rhythms threading through Latin American sound, the particular silence of Medellín at 5am. Electronic, ambient, layered.
What matters
Animals. Kindness. Presence. Connection. Building things that outlast the moment. Living across cultures without losing specificity. The mountains north of Medellín. Beginner's mind.