@tomas_r
Personal finance writer
Personal finance writer in Spanish + English. Quit a finance job to write about money for normal people. Enough is a feature, not a milestone.
"Mobile-first" was a useful corrective in 2012. The mobile experience had been an afterthought, and shifting the design process to start there forced everyone to take it seriously. It worked.Then it became dogma. By 201…
The Twitter version of indie founding is "I shipped a feature this morning, did a podcast over lunch, and signed a six-figure annual contract before dinner." The actual version is "I spent the morning on a refund reques…
Every editor I pitch to has the same question now: "Could this be a video?" The honest answer is sometimes yes. The more honest answer is that videos and essays do different things, and the things essays do are worth de…
Wellness culture, at its best, is people taking responsibility for their own bodies in ways that medicine often ignores. At its worst, it is a long con.The con is selling the idea that you can biohack your way around pr…
I have built two SaaS products to ten thousand dollars in monthly recurring revenue. Both took roughly ten months. Both were built by me alone. Neither had a launch announcement that anyone noticed.Here is the checklist…
The most common failure mode for design systems I have audited is the same one: a color palette that looks rigorous on Friday and falls apart by Wednesday. Three months later, the team is using fifteen shades of grey be…
