Vibecoding Coliseo in 4 Days: How I Built a Live Startup-Ranking Game with Claude Code & Codex

July 14, 2026

I’m writing this post without the use of AI so that I can say I did at least something myself, because wow, I just spent the past 4 days vibecoding Coliseo, a Wordle x Fantasy Football League head-to-head daily game competition for the top startups in the world, and I really barely did anything. I’ve … More Vibecoding Coliseo in 4 Days: How I Built a Live Startup-Ranking Game with Claude Code & Codex

Do Higher Rates Actually Drive Progress?

February 2, 2025

Something ironic and seemingly paradoxical is happening in the world of capital investment. Just as money got expensive, with interest rates at their highest levels in 15 years, funds and companies are pouring unprecedented sums into massive infrastructure projects. Trillion-dollar investments in AI infrastructure. New chip factories. EV gigafactories. Energy infrastructure buildouts. VCs backing capital-intensive … More Do Higher Rates Actually Drive Progress?

Somos

May 24, 2023

The known unknown of 2023 has been resolved. The question of what I intend to do next with my life has an answer. I have begun to work at Somos Internet as their Head of Finance in Medellin. I love how life works. A conversation with an ex-JPM coworker, a zoom chat with a CEO, … More Somos

Magical Realism in the Bogota Gastronomic Scene

December 5, 2022

A hefty dose of magical realism has been applied to the Bogota food scene in the past twelve months, as an explosion of fine dining restaurants and a massive influx of venture capital to food tech companies seems to defy the grim reality of the local and global macroeconomic backdrop facing Colombian restaurant owners. Recently the … More Magical Realism in the Bogota Gastronomic Scene

A world in contrast: Colombia, the UK, & the US

September 26, 2022

Seven weeks of travel in the past ten weeks spread across three trips to the UK & France, within Colombia, and 9 days in New York, has left lasting impressions on the current differences in outlook and sentiment in the world today.  The hot button issue everywhere is the rising cost of living, but each place … More A world in contrast: Colombia, the UK, & the US

The Pizza Paraiso NFT Collection 2022, and why Small Businesses <3 NFTs

May 9, 2022

This tweet is funny because it’s true. My old neighborhood of Williamsburg, the now-gentrified, formerly hipster neighborhood in Brooklyn is today the unofficial capital of Web3, and represents a caricature of all the memes (good and bad) about crypto and Web3. But I don’t think it’s funny because it’s ridiculous; quite the opposite, I think … More The Pizza Paraiso NFT Collection 2022, and why Small Businesses <3 NFTs