About a year and a half ago, I heavily invested myself in founding my first tech startup, Yepic — a venture that ultimately failed. It was supposed to be an app for spontaneously finding things to do and finding people to do things with.   Screenshots of the Yepic User Interface — A Very Brief Background Over the course of roughly a year, I recruited a technical co-founder, raised some money, built a small team of advisors, and hired a few contractors. Ultimately, at a tiny fraction of cost compared to most app startups, I got functional Yepic apps (with […]

I chose to travel to Mexico – alone, with almost no Spanish skills, and with an unconventional travel philosophy involving hitchhiking and sleeping in strangers’ homes through Couchsurfing. I was warned so many times not to do this, so choosing to cross the border was a big test for me of guts, persistence, and clear mental thinking. Some say I failed the mental thinking test, but I disagree. Traveling Central America has been a goal for me several years now – in order to experience different people, cultures, and ways of life. And, despite quite a few odds and despite many people […]