I am writing this from the comfort of my home, in a quiet area of Barcelona.

Feels good to bring back my personal website after a couple of years of abandonment. After almost ten years running on Middleman, I have switched to Ghost.

Current location & travels

After an intense summer of travel with my family, I am back in my base camp. We have spent a few weeks in Germany and in the Greek islands of Naxos, Koufonissi and Irakleia, and in the Spanish region of Arribes del Duero, right at the border with Portugal.

Lately, I haven't been travelling for work. I used to do a lot of conferences before the pandemic but now I only travel to visit clients, mainly in the US, Madrid and sometimes Germany.

My work might take me to NYC before the end of the year and a visit or two to nearby cities like Madrid and Valencia, but I'd rather stay put in Barcelona for the rest of the year to spend time with my family.

Current projects

The lion's share of my day is still spent helping my own company, MarsBased to grow. At current, we're 20 people, doing +2MM euro in annual revenue, 30% profit, completely bootstrapped and officeless, all working remotely. It's, what a lot of people call it, a lifestyle business.

At MarsBased, I manage the biggest client we've got. Not because I do it better than anyone, but because my partners were overworked back in the day, and quite frankly, I enjoy corporate environments, so I figured I could help them this way.

After a six-months hiatus, I brought back the MarsBased podcast, Life on Mars. We have been very busy and I had to take a break, also for my own sanity. A podcast is a lot of work!

Besides the above, I also do a fair amount of angel investing, although now that I've got more than 30 investments, I've decided to take a break and reap some of the benefits. This year, I had my first exit as an investor, Kantox, while another of my portfolio companies is paying dividends.

Hobbies

As a side project, also technology related, I co-host a pretty successful podcast in Catalan, one of my two mother tongues, called Foc a terra, where my friend Marc Collado (of Ironhack, Wizmusic and Gamestry fame) and I discuss technology and trends every week. It's a mix of John Gruber's The talk show and Nadie sabe nada. I devote only an hour per week into it and yet it's becoming very popular!

Last, but not least, I play bass at a punk rock band called RES!. We've just released our second album, Les teves merdes. Go check it out, on our Spotify page.

Habits

I have become a man of habit in the last years, as you can read in my previous blog entries. I still use Everyday to track my habits but the last few years, I've switched gears completely, to focus on other areas of life, like growing a family and growing personally.

What's next?

I am trying to grow an audience with my own list.

Why? Because I want to share the cool stuff I find on a weekly basis and build community around a brand that I have yet to discover. It might be a brandless thing. We will see.

Let's ship this.

This page has been last updated on September 16th, 2024.