git checkout ‑b october

September was chaos, personally and professionally.

The personal part I’m keeping to myself, but the professional part I can tell. I wrapped up the ANFAIA fellowship, the project picked up some press coverage (and I hope to have more news about it in the coming months), I went to HackSpain, I started teaching at a tutoring centre and, almost without noticing, I’m already working alongside GEMEDATA, the startup behind HISTORA.

Somewhere in the middle of all that I realised something I already knew but had never written down: I’m the kind of person who gets hooked on something different every month.

In June I was convinced research was my thing. Reading papers, investigating, discovering and building things, measuring the noise before trusting a number. Today, in October, what I care about is the startup I’ve just started working with getting somewhere.

For a while I thought that meant I didn’t know what I wanted. Now I think it’s exactly the opposite: everything that hooks me leaves me something for the next thing. What I learned doing research this summer is precisely what I’m applying at HISTORA today. I’m going in eager and excited. I want the company to grow and to get credit for the work it does, because from the inside you see everything that goes into it.

Part of the blame for this restlessness goes to ecosystems like Exponential and itnig. Two months ago I knew nothing about this world (big shoutout to my brother, who’s the one who showed it to me), and now I’m hooked: people betting their time and their money on building something that didn’t exist before. If I’ve learned one thing from listening to them, it’s that the idea is worth little. What matters is shipping a product.

But one thing hasn’t changed between June and October: I want to go far. Researching, building product, or whatever December throws at me, what drives me is seeing how far I’m able to get.

And there has never been a better moment to try. In the agentic world we live in, a small team can do what used to take a whole department a few years ago. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. It means the barrier is no longer having a hundred people behind you, but being clear about which problem you want to solve and for whom.

(And if you’re asking what’s next: the end of 2026 is already loaded with personal assistants, and more show up every month… Imagine 2027. But that’s another article.)

So yes: every month I open a new branch, and maybe in December I’ll be into something else. But they all come off the same main: getting as far as I can.