Now

Writing this from Barcelona, keeping things quiet and close to home this year.

Location & travel

No big trips on the calendar. The only real holiday this year is the Costa Daurada; deliberately low-key and family-oriented, all about time with the kids and a much-needed change of scenery.

I haven't done any business travel for almost two years now. I wanted to resume it in January but a series of misfortunate events with the Spanish high-speed trains system forced me to postpone my plans to visit Madrid for work.

Later on, I was due to visit the US to meet our clients and friends at Citadel, but the US-Iran war forced some cancellations on flights - including ours. I am expected to reschedule this particular visit to September, so I really look forward to it!

MarsBased

Still the center of my working life. We're now 30 people and have crossed €2.5M in annual revenue (bootstrapped, remote and officeless as ever). A big focus lately has been getting us ISO 27001 certified: the internal audit is nearly wrapped and we've got the green light for the third-party audit. More exhausting and less dun than planned, but it helped us to land a new client that had requested we were certified. I hope it pays off this extremely idiotic and cumbersome process.

Podcasts

The MarsBased podcast, Life on Mars, is having its best run yet. It's weekly now and going through the roof: past 13,000 subscribers, more than 10,000 of them added in the last six months thanks to upping the quality of our videos and focusing on the Road to CTO series.

On the Catalan side, Foc a terra (with Marc Collado) is also experiencing big growth. We've consolidated the format and landed a sponsor, so we're taking it up a level, and we're planning a big event in December to celebrate five years on air, and we're doing guests every week now. Crazy how another one of my side projects is taking off crazily, like Startup Grind BCN did more than ten years ago.

Angel investing

After almost 40 investments and a first significant-yet-not-life-changing exit (Kantox), this is my first year without a new angel deal since 2017. Not out of the game, though: I've joined Masia.vc as an LP, a more hands-off way to stay close to startups minus all the admin work related to being an angel investor. Let's see the returns in a few years time.

Music

I play bass and sing in the punk band RES!. We're in the middle of reactivating it: new name, new line-up, trying some new things. Still a long way to go, but it's moving again, after two years of hiatus.

Habits & tools

I've failed at most of my habits this year. I did build my own journaling system using Claude Code, mixed up with a second brain approach, which I'm sticking with. I keep expecting AI to help more here, but the current tools hit real limits: the biggest being that there's still no shared context layer across my apps and devices and that they're not sticky enough for me to develop the habit of using them. Maybe I'm failing at porting them one-to-one, and i should rethink them thoroughly instead. I am also building too much, using too little, but I expect the novelty will wear off in a couple of months.

I usually reevaluate my habits and goals in September, so I expect a clean start from there.

What's next

Ship more stuff, in the open, truly. That's exactly why I built the /projects page: a social accountability wall that pushes me to launch more and keep it visible. Less talking, more shipping. I'll be busy, the rest of the year.

This page was last updated on July 28th, 2026.