I live on an island in the Atlantic, work remotely with teams across Europe, and spend evenings in a small workshop. The patience I learned with wood (slow joints, sharp tools, no shortcuts) is the same patience I bring to product work.
Joinery, hand tools, mostly furniture. I started because I needed a desk, and I kept going because the feedback loop is honest. A joint either fits or it doesn't. No A/B test required.
Follow along on YouTube, @CarpinteiroAmador
A weekly humbling at Checkmat. I'm the worst person in the room most nights, and that's exactly why I keep showing up. Slow progress, real people, no ego.
I'm kind of a junkie for motorcycles. My first bike was a Yamaha XJ6, then a Ducati Monster 821, then a Fantic Caballero Deluxe, and now a Triumph Street Scrambler 900 Sandstorm Edition. Volcanic switchbacks, fog rolling in off the Atlantic, the smell of eucalyptus when the road dips into the hills. Some of the best thinking I do happens at sixty kilometres an hour with nowhere in particular to be.
I live on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic, so every trip starts with a long flight and ends with the same one back. The map gets a little fuller each year, usually somewhere with good food, slow afternoons, and a language I have to butcher politely.
The common thread is slow, deliberate work, whether that's a dovetail, a corner of an app, or a sweep on the mat.