What it means to build in public, while life happens

My name is Mike

I'm a 29 year old dude, from México, who just began three journeys this year.

First, i proposed to the love of my life, Mine, just in March, and that's a journey i've been looking forward for a long time. I felt the right time was coming, went to purchase a ring, with the blessing of my mother in law, and kept it for a couple of months waiting for the right moment.

Second, i began working as a CTO for Skysset, a startup based in Monterrey, México. I met Antonio, the founder, because one of my best friends, Argel was working as manager of sales and thought i would be a great fit. When i spoke with Antonio, it was supposed to be a 20 minutes talk, not even an interview, and we spent 3 hours talking about everything, from his vision, up to mindfulness too. On the spot i told him i wanted to be a part of his team, and two weeks later, i was part if it. This was early April.

Third, i began feeling some weird things by February of this year, but i assumed it was normal, since i was working out, eating healthy, and lost a decent amount of weight since the last year, but suddenly it was a drastic drop, and began feeling a small bump on my abdomen, that coincided with lower back pain. By April 27th, Mine ordered a imaging study, and instead of a Hernia, it was found that a adenopathy was taking a large place of my lower abdomen. The next day a biopsy was taken and by the end of the week, i was officially diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, that thankfully, has a high cure rate, and was staged as Stage 2B.

Having said this, my story is just one of many about the people building things, and their reasons for working so hard building amazing things while dealing with life at the same time.

In this space i'll try to talk about software development, management, ways to deal with pressure, life in general and about trying to put things in perspective, since i'm seeing a lot of my colleagues sacrificing their health, pursuing their goals, and that's something that should be balanced, because there's no point in working so hard, if you and your beloved ones can't enjoy it.