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Five apps, four months, no bases

The learning-by-doing thesis, stated with its evidence: five shipped apps in four months from someone who 'no sabía nada', the rebuttal to 'sin las bases no se puede', and the first stranger met who shares the universities-are-over conviction.

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Prepping for Thursday’s interview with the Singapore hard-reset company, the thread that keeps surfacing gets stated as doctrine, with its evidence attached: “hoy en día se aprende mucho más rápido haciendo, y es así que he logrado crear cinco apps en cuatro meses, literal. Yo no sabía nada” ▸ 13:17. Zenota, Divo, Picky’s guts, Koby, now LorenaMor, from someone who understood programming logic but had never shipped.

The objection gets quoted and answered: “mucha gente dice que sin las bases no se puede hacer nada bueno. Yo la verdad difiero”, the real prerequisites are curiosity and the itch to look one layer deeper each time ▸ 13:46. And the permission slip that makes the method survivable: “las primeras cosas van a salir una porquería, pero a nadie le importa, la verdad” ▸ 14:08, on your own projects, nobody is grading; the bases get backfilled by the doing, exactly when a bug demands them.

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The conviction found company at PlatziConf: an Italian entrepreneur, 14-year-old son in tow, saying flatly he won’t send the kid to university, “es la primera vez que escucho a alguien que tiene una opinión parecida a la que yo tengo” ▸ 12:33, while the kid absorbed a programming conversation with visible hunger. The institutions haven’t evolved; the knowledge is ambient; the AI answers every “why” instantly.

The date matters for this one. It’s an aggressive claim, universities obsolete, doing beats credentials, made by someone whose own degree (international business) contributed nothing to the five apps. The diary files it as the aphorism of the day states: knowledge becomes real in the hands, and the hands, this year, got very fast…

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