A twenty-million-peso email
A recruiter offer of 20M COP/month arrives mid-startup. The response was written on day zero: take it if needed, build in parallel, leave when the projects out-earn it.
// trace: where this idea came from
- ↳ video diary @ 30:35 (el correo de la mañana)
- ↳ Entry 1-1: Day zero: the honest inventory (el plan B, escrito el día cero, activándose solo)
A referral email arrived this morning: sales team manager for what looks like an education company, someone who knows AI and CRM tools like Salesforce, hybrid in Bogotá, and the number that makes you read it twice, around 20 million pesos a month ▸ 30:35.
The requirements read like a checklist of the last five years: knows AI, check, arguably the whole channel is evidence. Has used Salesforce, check, used it and disliked it, which still counts as knowing what it does ▸ 31:34. Team leadership, probably check. The only friction is “hybrid”: everything virtual is the preference, but Bogotá is manageable ▸ 32:30.
dos años sin hacer una entrevista →
What matters for the record is that this exact scenario was already written down. Entry 1-1, day zero of the diary: if the money runs low, get jobs and keep building in parallel. The email is that contingency knocking on its own, unprompted, and the response follows the script without drama: apply (“opportunities arrive for a reason”), work the projects on the side if it lands, and the exit condition stated out loud on camera, if any project starts generating more than the job, I leave ▸ 31:49.
interviews in the last two years: zero
exit condition: projects > salary
There is a version of this where the salary quietly wins, the classic gravity of comfortable money that the early entries worried about. The defense is that the condition for leaving was declared publicly before the first interview even happened. The diary is now also a commitment device: it remembers what the plan was, even when the plan is being tested by a very generous number…