Kill the graffiti

The Excel gets presented, along with the backend architecture, and the padrino likes it, taking the numbers for what they are, approximations built on data that mostly isn’t public, and offering to hunt down real industry documentation ▸ 7:02. Next session: Tuesday, at a coworking he insists on ▸ 8:01.

The homework, read straight from the notes he took in English: “kill the graffiti, pivot design immediately”, the padrino’s unvarnished verdict on Julia’s urban style ▸ 9:34; a mockup of the one flow that matters, user scans a bill, system detects, user confirms, paid ▸ 9:52; and validation with teeth, show the design to five or ten people, record their reactions, ask “¿se ve seguro? ¿pondría su pago aquí?” ▸ 10:13. Only the naming push gets quiet resistance from both of them ▸ 10:45.

de “la plata será la misma de antes” a “les diré cuánto y cuándo”: la señal →

The sentence that matters slips out early in the meeting: “si esto se alínea, yo les diré cuánto voy a poner y cuándo” ▸ 12:11. His read: the first meeting anchored on the old 25-million figure from the Tencargo days, and the reframing suggests the padrino now sees it seriously enough to fund seriously ▸ 13:21, because 25 palitos, he says plainly, buys a good product only if the builders work enslaved and hungry ▸ 13:51. So they set their one non-negotiable: two million pesos of salary each, minimum, “de ahí no le bajamos,” and he agreed ▸ 15:32. The credential for living on that number is read aloud from the dictionary: frugal, moderate in money, food, and time, avoiding waste, “me sentí 100% identificado” ▸ 17:48, from a couple currently holding about 150 in a bank account ▸ 16:21 who still bought their socio a birthday pizza, “porque sabemos que la plata va a llegar” ▸ 19:41…