Don't let the peteca fall

The email came as predicted after the disaster interview: very nice everything, but “vamos a buscar otro candidato” ▸ 0:42. He lets the feeling be what it is, a swamp, trying to climb out and not quite getting traction ▸ 1:43, and asks the forbidden question out loud: is this the point where you quit entrepreneurship, or is entrepreneurship exactly this, sliding out a little at a time until you’re out ▸ 2:27. He leans to the second, on evidence: “sí que hemos avanzado” ▸ 2:50, and on temperament, the path already feels like no return ▸ 3:00.

The response is the gym rule: not growing, train harder ▸ 3:38. Concretely, three commitments. No new ideas, each one is another distraction ▸ 3:59. A hype detox: off the AI news, off LinkedIn, because every shiny tool hijacks a day and a dose of motivation, “para un emprendedor no es tan bueno estar pendiente de todo esto” ▸ 4:14, with the n8n corollary earned that same day: automate only what you’ve long done by hand ▸ 5:16. And a single objective: revenue, however it comes, from the things already built ▸ 41:02.

rechazo procesado: no ideas nuevas, menos hype, y la peteca no toca el piso →

The relay gets its first real assignment: Julia takes marketing, posting their progress in English because that’s where the opportunities are ▸ 41:46, and both take the harder vow underneath it, “perderle el miedo a hablar de nuestras ideas” ▸ 41:53. The closing image is her mother’s idiom, demonstrated live with a feathered shuttlecock you volley bare-handed and must never let land: peteca ▸ 45:26. Rejections knock it sideways; the game is that it doesn’t touch the ground…