Research and practice

Four-plus hours of document study before tonight’s interview produce the diary’s full map of REAPRA, the Singapore program that has felt like the destination since the knowledge-over-gold fork.

The method: three months of Intensive Foundation Program, guided introspection two or three sessions a week, on the premise that who you are is the interaction of ego and environment, so you excavate the past before planning the future ▸ 4:14. Then the boring entry point: a deliberately unglamorous, already-validated business in your target industry, funded at S$50,000 (~155M COP) if you pass, to be made profitable within a year ▸ 5:58, his term: “mi vaquita de leche”, after which the ten-year transcendental idea gets funded by your own cash flow, not by permission.

The fine print gets audited like a pro now. REAPRA takes ~40% ownership, steep, accepted, “lo que me interesa es aprender” ▸ 7:26. And their idea clause is a right of first refusal, they get informed and may invest first, which he immediately benchmarks against his old employer’s version: anything you create, for a year after leaving, belongs to us ▸ 8:56. Option-to-invest versus ownership-grab: the clause tells you the institution’s soul.

la cláusula te dice el alma de la institución →

The founder’s biography is the doctrine, lived: a Japanese economist whose company SMS went profitable in year one, IPO’d in about five, ran eleven years under him ▸ 13:31, and whose second act is named after the loop itself: Re-Pra, research and practice, “ellos no se interesan en personas que ya saben; usted tiene que ir: aprende, aprende, aprende” ▸ 14:24. Which is, syllable for syllable, the thousand darts turned into an institution. No wonder it feels like home…