[ Canonical names: the single source of truth for spelling ]
Glossary
YouTube's auto-captions mangle names. Every proper noun in these entries is checked against this registry before it is written. The middle column preserves what the captions heard, because the mishearings are half the story. 426 names and counting.
426 names
| Canonical | Heard as (captions) | What it is | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| LuarAI | Luar AI, lugar AI | Our company. "Luar" = moonlight in Portuguese + AI | confirmed (founders) |
| De 0 a 1 Millón | de cero a un millón | The video diary channel | confirmed |
| Zero to Ellipsis | zero to elipsis, cero elipsis, cero a elipsis | This blog: the distillation of the De 0 a 1 Millón diary into cross-linked entries. Named on camera video 96 (Julia wanted "reticências"/puntos suspensivos; Gemini brainstormed "Zero to Ellipsis" from "ellipsis"), first as the abandoned English NotebookLM podcast (too long/manual), revived video 269 as a searchable blog on Claude Max, with Claude as "el redactor" fetching each transcript, keeping the glossary, and linking references; laid out as a vertical line of pipes; an intermediate step toward the clips/miniseries idea | confirmed (videos 96 @ 16:45, 269 @ 59:54) |
| Juan Pablo | Ju | Co-founder, tech architect | confirmed |
| Julia | Ju, Julia | Co-founder, UX/graphic designer, Brazilian | confirmed |
| Jonathan | — | Sales contact in Spain for the landing-pages business | confirmed (video 1) |
| Coupa | Cupa | Spend-management SaaS (procurement + inventory). Juan Pablo worked with it as solutions architect at a small company (reading B: he was "the Coupa expert", not a Coupa employee) | confirmed (Juan, 2026-07-01) |
| Cline | client, clim, Kim | VS Code agent extension (bring-your-own API key). Open source; its ~1000-line system prompt is public and was adapted for Structo | confirmed (spelled out letter by letter, video 25 @ 24:37) |
| Jules | Janus, Yanus, joues | Google's async coding agent (Gemini 2.5 Pro, reads GitHub, works in branches, free beta mid-2025). No execution view; you still need VS Code locally | confirmed (video 2 @ 8:06, named on camera) |
| VibeCell | Bive Cell, B cell, bycel, viesell, Vibe Cell | Juan Pablo's project: "an improved Excel", AI-native spreadsheet (WYSIWYG kept, data layer machine-legible, text/voice commands). Full thesis video 25 | confirmed (portfolio 2026; concept video 25 @ 26:50) |
| Homigo | Homy Go, HomyGo, HomiGo, Jomigo | The domestic-services app from video 1 (seed 1-2), named on camera video 3 @ 34:46. ~3 months of research, never shipped, not discarded. Portfolio: "the Swiss Army Knife for Domestic Services", Figma prototype (smart matching, escrow, bidirectional reviews) | confirmed (video 3; casing per portfolio 2026) |
| Hult Prize | Huls Price | University startup competition where the rental-marketplace idea was presented | confirmed (context, video 3) |
| Crepes & Waffles | Crepsum WFOS, CPS | Colombian restaurant chain (the incomplete-online-menu example) | confirmed (context, video 2) |
| The Lean Startup | LAN Startup, Lina Startup | Eric Ries's book, discussed at length in video 3; its 2009 3D-chat story later retold from memory as the A/B-testing origin parable | confirmed (videos 3, 67) |
| Ultra-Processed People | gente ultraprocesada | Chris van Tulleken's book (Julia's reading, video 3) | probable (context) |
| SANFANSON | Sanfanson, San Fanson, san fanson, San Hanson, Champenson | Juan Pablo's language-learning game (minigames + LLM-graded feedback, spaced repetition, leaderboards); sanfanson.luarai.com (video 69). Styled all caps on the portfolio; written "Sanfanson" in running prose here | confirmed (portfolio 2026; videos 21, 65, 69-70) |
| Google One | Google Plus | Google's storage subscription (the 40 GB photo-backup saga, video 3) | confirmed (context) |
| Veo 3 | BO3, veo | Google's video-generation model with audio (multimodal), released ~May 2025 | confirmed (context, videos 4) |
| Muisca | Muisca | DIAN's online tax portal | confirmed (video 6) |
| UVT | VT | Colombian tax value unit (fines are quoted in UVT per day late) | confirmed (context, video 6) |
| Bima | Bima, Abima | Shopping center north of Bogotá where the DIAN office is | confirmed (context, video 6) |
| Invías | envías | Colombian national roads institute (the lawyer's example of disconnected government systems) | probable (context, video 6) |
| Grave of the Fireflies | las mariposas de Studio Giblin | Studio Ghibli film referenced for the attitude-under-adversity idea (video 4) | confirmed (context) |
| Snipy | Snipy, snip | AI video-editing prototype (portfolio): an "AI Producer" agent that turns long footage into viral-ready clips via dialogue analysis and speaker tracking; built in 4 days (Python, Pyannote, AVA-AVD). Named on camera as the Girdley-assessment project, "para hacer clips, snip es cortar"; the hard problem stated as two-person speaker ID. UPDATE video 242: revived as a 4-hour MVP to cut the diary's French shorts, reusing YouTube's free transcript instead of a paid API; video 245 adds word-level timestamps via Whisper for finer cuts | confirmed (portfolio 2026; named video 150 @ 21:15; revival videos 242 @ 23:52, 245 @ 12:17) |
| Koby | Cobi, Coby, Covi, COVID, Cobo | The Kobo-highlights product (videos 73-76): reading dashboard + public quote profiles, live at koby.luarai.com. Julia's coinage: Kobo with the o flipped to i, spelled Koby (NOT "Cobi" -- that is an ASR mishearing that recurs in later videos). Portfolio adds "Listen": on-device audiobooks with read-along highlighting. UPDATE video 236: revived because it quietly has ~30 monthly users across seven countries; shipped on-device local processing (privacy, cheaper compute), public/private toggles, comments, account deletion, CSV/Anki/Quizlet export. UPDATE videos 267-269: rebuilt in one night as a read-and-listen audiobook app (highlighting, cloud-sync Pro tier) at luarai.com/len, the mini-pivot when Severo ran out of runway, then narrowed to the blind niche (comics-for-the-blind via Gemini image description, a possible blue ocean where no good tool exists); companion mascot Cobalto, a Jarvis/Robin that helps you understand an existing book rather than generating content, embodies the assistant-not-author model | confirmed (portfolio 2026; videos 73-76, 236 @ 1:02:17, 267 @ 40:43, 268 @ 12:16, 269 @ 27:24) |
| Jorge, "el padrino" | George | Startup mentor; first boss of Juan Pablo and his brother. Free advice since Homigo; uncanny timing | confirmed (video 9) |
| Iruña Telecom | Iruña | Spanish fiber-optics company; Julia's landing-page client (first visual identity, built with Stitch + Cline) | confirmed (video 93 @ 10:36) |
| Yihan | Jihan | REAPRA contact running Juan Pablo's Founder-in-Residence interviews (videos 91-92) | probable (ASR spelling, video 92 @ 4:33) |
| Vibe Coders Anónimos | vive coders, Bibing Anony | The WhatsApp group of vibe-coding founders (joined video 88); source of the Shipaton and NotebookLM discoveries | confirmed (video 88) |
| NotebookLM | Notbook, Notebook LM | Google's study tool: sources in, podcast/mind-map/summary out; the giant-context showcase that shook LorenaMor (video 94) | confirmed (video 94 @ 17:58) |
| Shipaton | Chipatón, jacatón | Month-long mobile-app hackathon shared in Vibe Coders Anónimos; entrants build a mobile app using the host's payments/subscriptions SDK, prize categories include best documentation and fastest growth (host heard as RevenueCat-style but not named on camera) | probable (context, video 94 @ 4:30) |
| Villa de Leyva | Villa de Le Familia | Colombian heritage town; the family-trip photo album used for the photo-scoring experiment | confirmed (context, video 94 @ 12:20) |
| Noel | — | Julia's AI-illustrated children's-book character (Midjourney, on her Behance); the storybook idea from Cali, ~2023, never shipped | confirmed (shown on screen, video 95 @ 10:30) |
| Innovation Station | Innovation Station Oficial | Their kids' YouTube channel teaching the innovation process; ran ~2-3 months in 2025, then parked (postmortem in video 95) | confirmed (videos 12, 95 @ 12:34) |
| Libras | libras, lengua de señas brasileira | Brazilian Sign Language, an official language of Brazil alongside Portuguese; Julia's inclusion thread from design school | confirmed (context, video 95 @ 17:46) |
| Beakman's World | mundo de Beman, mundo de Bem, Beckman's World | 90s science TV show both grew up on; itself based on the comic strip "You Can with Beakman and Jax" (per GPT on camera) | confirmed (context, video 96 @ 47:22) |
| Beckman | Beckman, Bacman | Working name for the AI-teacher language app (Shipaton project), after Beakman's World; "todavía no nos casamos" with it. Replaced by Severo in video 101 | probable (video 96 @ 46:39) |
| Anki | Ankey, Ani, Aki | Flashcard SRS app; named the closest real competitor to Severo. Its community decks and self-graded reviews analyzed video 101 | confirmed (context, video 101 @ 19:02) |
| Speak | — | AI speaking-practice language app, ~$1B post-money valuation per its CEO's LinkedIn; the CEO's listed languages: English and Spanish | confirmed (context, video 101 @ 33:37) |
| Ko-fi | coffee | Donation-button service; added to Koby while the product idles in standby | confirmed (context, video 101 @ 41:47) |
| Clara López | Claudia López (his own initial confusion, corrected on camera) | Colombian senator whose AI-for-direct-participation proposal to Petro sparked the video-103 discussion | probable (context, video 103 @ 2:30) |
| Diella | Isla, Dela | Albania's AI "minister" against corruption, announced Sept 2025: no personal interests or political ties, pattern-detection over state data | confirmed (news read on camera, video 103 @ 17:00) |
| Johor Bahru | Jojo Bajur, Joha, Bajur | Malaysian city on the Singapore border; the live-cheap-commute-daily workaround under study for the REAPRA plan | confirmed (found on Maps on camera, video 103 @ 25:30) |
| Christian Van Der Henst | Cristian Vander Henst | Platzi co-founder; revealed as the creator of the Vibe Coders Anónimos WhatsApp group | probable (ASR spelling, video 105 @ 45:23) |
| Waymo | Wemo, Wimo, Wimu | Google's lidar-based autonomous cars; the 90%-fewer-accidents chart shared in the group | confirmed (context, video 105 @ 45:44) |
| The Cube Ventures | TheQue Venture, Cube Ventures | Singapore "incubator" that fishes on LinkedIn: $2,000/month for up to 10 months, 20% equity, $5,000 back as "expenses"; the video-105 predatory-incubator case study | probable (ASR spelling, video 105 @ 17:54) |
| Xania Monet | Sania Monet, Senia Mone | AI R&B "artist" created on Suno by poet Telisha "Nikki" Jones; signed a multimillion (reported ~$3M) deal with Hallwood Media; #1 on Billboard R&B digital song sales | confirmed (news read on camera, video 108 @ 21:26; spelling per press) |
| Suno | Suno AI | AI music-generation platform behind Xania Monet; "el nuevo autotune" thesis | confirmed (video 108 @ 22:48) |
| Desrotulando | desorrotulando | Brazilian nutrition-label / food-scanner app (community-built product database, 0-100 scores; barcode → additives, ultra-processing grade, dietary flags); Julia's reference and the model for her prototype | confirmed (videos 108 @ 9:09, 150 @ 15:00) |
| GS1 | GC1 | The barcode registry: assigns company prefixes globally; no central product database, which is why community databases are the moat | confirmed (ChatGPT consult on camera, video 108 @ 15:05) |
| AI slop | EA Slop, Islop | Mass, low-effort, engagement-bait AI content; defined on camera; his confession: the automated 3,000-image NFT collection made him "pionero del AI slop" | confirmed (video 108 @ 41:04) |
| Duck Game | patojuego | The 2D duck-shooting game played with friends until 1 a.m. | probable (context, video 108 @ 0:14) |
| Marisa Maiô | Marisa Mayó, Milayo | Brazilian AI influencer (the one-piece-swimsuit character) whose meme wave illustrated the AI-video market | probable (ASR spelling, video 108 @ 37:15) |
| Eligio | eligio | Julia's working name for her food-scanner app ("yo elijo"); he's unconvinced, Picky also in the running | probable (video 109 @ 0:46) |
| Open Food Facts | food, la base de datos open source | Open-source worldwide food-products database found for Julia's app; includes NOVA classifications | probable (described not named on camera, video 109 @ 8:54) |
| NOVA | Nova | Food-processing classification (natural → ultra-processed), the traffic-light scale her app will surface | confirmed (context, video 109 @ 5:16) |
| Senac | The House, Senac | Brazilian technical-education system; Julia's English course and her mother's gastronomy retraining after retirement | confirmed (videos 97, 112) |
| Mixboard | mitbard, moodbard | Google Labs' node-canvas interface over Nano Banana (US-only at launch); the "Photoshop y llora" demo | confirmed (video 112 @ 15:22; spelling per Google Labs) |
| What Is Thought? | What is..., de Eric Boy | Eric Baum's book, the one he read cover-to-cover after quitting to understand AI | probable (ASR garbled author, video 112 @ 9:31) |
| Faustino Oro | Faustino Oro | Argentine chess prodigy who learned in the pandemic at ~7 and reached the world elite; the six-months-of-focus exhibit | confirmed (context, video 112 @ 13:55) |
| Grelo | Grilo | Brazilian songwriter who sold hits to famous singers for years and only sang his own in the pandemic | probable (ASR spelling, video 112 @ 12:30) |
| Hermeneutic spiral | hermeneutic circle, espiral hermenéutico | The concept he lands on for non-linear learning: understanding parts requires the whole, so knowledge grows in recursive passes | confirmed (video 112 @ 31:45) |
| Elis Regina | El Gina, desde Regina | Brazilian singer; "Como Nossos Pais" quoted against the new-music-stops-entering firewall | confirmed (context, video 114 @ 38:46) |
| Tencel | tisel, stencil | Trademarked eucalyptus fiber in the eco-textile blends they audited | confirmed (context, video 114 @ 54:44; spelling per brand) |
| Jabiertzo | Javierzo | Spanish YouTuber living ~10 years in China with a Chinese family; source for the Douyin credential-gating anecdote | probable (ASR spelling, video 115 @ 24:04) |
| Sam Sulek | Samsung Glet, el del gorrito | Fitness YouTuber whose raw long-form uploads spawn ecosystems of derivative content; cited as inspiration for the diary format | confirmed (context, video 96 @ 22:35) |
| Nequi | Neki, Niki | Colombian mobile-money app; where the emergency 500,000 pesos went during the Google Cloud scare | confirmed (context, video 96 @ 7:04) |
| Lex Fridman | Let's Freeman, Friedman | Podcaster cited among the podcast-format inspirations | confirmed (context, video 96 @ 22:25) |
| Pierre Bourdieu | bordeado | French sociologist (d. 2002); the consecration-circuits phrase (video 7) | confirmed (context) |
| Canserbero | cancervero | Venezuelan rapper; "también se muere quien se olvida" (video 8) | confirmed (context) |
| Stitch | — | Google's AI UI-design tool; generates screens with HTML source. "The front half of the free full-stack" | confirmed (video 10) |
| Google AI Studio | Google Studio | Google's model playground (Gemini 2.5); used for idea exploration and code cleanup | confirmed (video 10) |
| Recraft | recraft, recreft | AI vector-image tool Julia has used since ~2022 (from a German internship); her go-to for vectors, returned to from Nano Banana because a shared model's style becomes recognizable-as-AI and devalued, while Recraft's vectors stay scalable, lightweight, and stylistically distinct | confirmed (videos 9, 266 @ 25:50) |
| Rodnoc | Rotnox | Juan Pablo's earlier 3D-printing venture (the condor logo story, video 11) | confirmed (video 11) |
| luarai.com | lugar ai punto com | The company domain actually purchased (20,000 COP) after luar.ai got hostage-priced (video 15) | confirmed |
| luar.ai | lugar punto ai | The dream domain: ~50k COP at naming time, ~800k a month later. Not purchased | confirmed (videos 11, 15) |
| Enel | en él | Energy company whose wind-turbine design challenge they entered (videos 12-13) | confirmed (context) |
| Meshy | Meshi | AI 3D-model generator, tried during the turbine sprint | confirmed (context, video 13) |
| Sketchfab | Sketch Fap | 3D asset marketplace | confirmed (context, video 13) |
| grapesjs | grape.js | Drag-and-drop HTML editor, tried for responsiveness | confirmed (context, video 15) |
| Namecheap | Chipnames, Namechip | Domain registrar; "premium" listings are third-party resales | confirmed (context, video 15) |
| Notion | — | Where company documents live (padrino's recommendation) | confirmed (video 14) |
| Olimpia | Olympus | Apparent DIAN-side provider in the e-invoicing verification step | uncertain [sic?] (video 14) |
| GitSearchAI / git-to-doc | AI GitHub search, Git to doc | Tools spotted on LinkedIn: find similar public repos, extract to document, build from prior art | uncertain names [sic?] (video 14) |
| Zenota | Zenote, Senota, Sen Nota | The notes app, shipped 2025-06-25 on Netlify + Firebase. Wordplay: zen + nota, "se nota". (Archive wrote "Zenote" until the portfolio settled it, 2026-07-02) | confirmed (videos 19-21; spelling per portfolio 2026) |
| Structo | Estructo, estructo, instructo | Zenota's AI agent that structures notes; the planned monetization. Its prompt was adapted from Cline's open-source system prompt via Gemini (video 25) | confirmed (video 19; spelling per portfolio 2026) |
| Stitch → Jules → Cline taxonomy | — | Stitch: front/visualize; Jules: complex multi-file, big context; Cline+Flash: quick fixes, fastest loop. UPDATE video 35: Jules retired (VM feedback loop too slow); "la combinación perfecta" is now Stitch + Cline with Gemini 2.5 Pro | confirmed (videos 17-21, 35) |
| Gaveta | Gaveta, gaveta, marido Gaveta | Brazilian YouTuber of audiovisual analysis Julia follows (her running-joke "husband"); source of the "AI as style" thesis and her "tone of the film" framework (color alone can speak); his taste runs inverse to theirs ("muy buena" means unwatchable, "okay" means great) and his year-end list drives their film queue | confirmed (videos 17, 174 @ 14:15, 208 @ 25:00) |
| GeoGuessr | Geogesser | The geography game; the instant-feedback counterexample. Rainbolt its famous crack. UPDATE video 219: its difficulty engine reverse-engineered on camera (show an image to 100 players, log time and accuracy, sort the curriculum) as the design brief for Severo's you-grow-as-the-system-allows thesis. UPDATE video 254: resurfaces as the model for a wished-for fluency metric, a GeoGuessr-style global ranking where users translate the same phrases and sort against one another, scientific instead of empirical | confirmed (context, videos 17, 219 @ 8:20, 254 @ 19:03) |
| LM Arena | LLM Arena | Model leaderboard used as benchmark reference | confirmed (context, video 17) |
| dagre | dagri | Graph-layout library used for Zenota's node trees | confirmed (context, video 20) |
| Netlify / Firebase | — | Zenota's free stack: Netlify renders, Firebase auth + data. Divo builds on Firebase too: Functions (deploy-per-change loop, video 59), Storage for canvas images (video 59) | confirmed (videos 21, 59) |
| Claude Code | Cloud de Code | Anthropic's terminal agent; evaluated, parked (terminal UI, cost) | confirmed (context, videos 17, 20) |
| Blender | — | Open-source 3D suite, used here as the video editor for Divo's landing-page demo clips | confirmed (context, video 62) |
| Stripe Atlas | — | Stripe's incorporate-in-Delaware-in-a-box ($500 one-time); the priced-out escape route from the payout border | confirmed (context, video 64) |
| Gumroad / Paddle | Gom Road, paddle | Merchant-of-record wrappers GPT suggested for the Stripe-Colombia problem; rejected (fees, less control, payment-logic rewrite) | confirmed (context, video 64) |
| CPF | — | Brazil's natural-person tax ID; what makes Julia registrable with Stripe when Colombia isn't supported | confirmed (context, videos 58, 64) |
| Mixpanel | MIT Panel | Product-analytics tool the r/SaaS "VC" (later revealed as a bot, video 67) uses for funnels; on Juan's to-learn list | confirmed (context, video 66) |
| Neo4j | Neo 4J | Graph database considered for the midnight note-organizing idea (Zenota successor) | confirmed (context, video 66) |
| Pulse for Reddit | Puls for Redit, post flow for | Keyword-triggered Reddit reply automation; the machinery behind the fake VC of videos 66-67 | confirmed (video 67) |
| Cluely | Cluly | The "cheat on everything" screen-assistant startup; its CEO's LinkedIn hiring of a 15-year-old fan cited as proof cold DMs work | confirmed (context, video 67) |
| Render | render | Free-tier backend host whose minutes-long cold starts strangled Sanfanson v1; being replaced by all-in Firebase | confirmed (context, video 69) |
| EWOR | Ewor, Ework | B2B-focused fellowship/accelerator (~$500k funding, Atlanta, hybrid) that emailed back about Juan's application; Picky is the pitch | uncertain [sic?] (video 69) |
| Obsidian | obsidian | Local, limitless notes app; replaced Notion for the job-hunt tracker when free blocks ran out, beating Zenota in its founder's own evaluation | confirmed (context, video 71) |
| Pipo | Pipo | The Spanish 2000s edutainment CD-ROM series (Maya math, English); credited with school success, canonized as Sanfanson's design north star | confirmed (video 72) |
| Kobo | Cobo | Juan's current e-reader; its four highlight colors carry his relevance taxonomy, and its JSON export is the planned extraction target | confirmed (context, video 73) |
| Thinking in Systems | Thinking ining systems | Donella Meadows's book, declared his favorite education book; source of "el poder sobre las reglas es el poder real" | confirmed (context, video 75) |
| The Timeless Way of Building / Christopher Alexander | Theess way of building, Christopher Alexandre | The architect's book found via GPT recommendation; language-predicts-quality and let-the-pattern-work theses | confirmed (context, video 75) |
| Duolingo | dualingo, duolingo | The language-learning incumbent; its one-exercise-after-another loop is the counterexample to Pipo's thematic immersion. UPDATE video 227: Julia's Instagram campaign has Severo literally eating the owl and satirizing the 200-day streak | confirmed (context, videos 72, 227 @ 34:33) |
| Toast / Lightspeed / Square | Light Lightning Breed, Light speed | Restaurant-POS incumbents from the Picky competitor analysis; hardware-first, chain-focused, the small-restaurant blind spot | confirmed (context, video 71) |
| SENAC | Senaje | Brazilian technical-education institution (Julia's example) | uncertain [sic?] (video 21) |
| DIAN | dian | Colombian tax authority. UPDATE video 239: a 524,000-peso extemporaneidad fine (10 UVT, arts. 641/639) for a missed "presentar" click on a zeros-only monthly withholding form, the three-stage save/sign/present trap; Gemini and ChatGPT disagree on whether the form was even required | confirmed (video 239 @ 16:50) |
| Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá | — | Bogotá chamber of commerce | confirmed |
| Bancolombia | Ban Colombia, B Colombia | Colombian bank; the discovery that its business account opens same-day (vs the provider's two weeks) unlocked the padrino-advance plan; account opened after a five-hour branch marathon. UPDATE video 217: the Bancolombia Negocios app (2.2 stars) lockout since December resolved at the branch, he'd been registered all along; the account can now receive the investment. UPDATE videos 241/242: the investment (Swift, dollar-to-dollar) lands but the Negocios app traps him in a phantom approval workflow he never enabled and a manual "pactar tasa de cambio" call; he cancels it, verdict "not for startups", 18,000/mo card fee, choose rails that let you fly | confirmed (videos 192 @ 6:08, 193 @ 4:27, 217 @ 40:37, 241 @ 28:52, 242 @ 37:03) |
| Picky | Kipi, Kipy, Kiki, pi, Pcky, piqui | Julia's QR-menu app for restaurants. Named on camera: "P" from picky/choosy ("de selectivo, seleccionar") with an echo of Google Keep; logo is a magnifying glass drawn with a fork. Portfolio: filters by ingredients/allergens/dietary needs. UPDATE video 236: Sebastián the repair-shop owner independently reinvents it (QR menu on a fridge magnet, Rappi-like ordering), an unprompted field validation of the parked project | confirmed (etymology video 24 @ 18:02; spelling per portfolio 2026; revalidation video 236 @ 30:56) |
| Picky's ring menu | anillo giratorio | Picky's category selector: a rotating ring (PS3 / Mortal Kombat style) that renders the selected category in place, merging two pages into one | confirmed (video 25 @ 2:56) |
| Sam Altman | San Antman, Samalmand, esa malmo | OpenAI CEO; the product-intuition example (ChatGPT called "the stupidest product" by a commenter) | confirmed (context, video 25) |
| Ilya Sutskever | Ilia, el panita Ilia | OpenAI co-founder; the scaling-intuition example. UPDATE video 220: his podcast one-pagered on camera, research era (2012-2020), scaling era (2020-2025), and back to research now that the data is finite and ideas are the bottleneck | confirmed (context, videos 25, 220 @ 23:32) |
| Y Combinator | White Combinator | Startup accelerator Sam Altman presided over before OpenAI | confirmed (context, video 25) |
| Salesforce | Sale Force | CRM named in the 20M COP/month job offer's requirements | confirmed (context, video 23) |
| Teresópolis | Teresópolis | Mountain town near Rio; the restaurant owner who named a dish after them (the "signals" story) | confirmed (video 25) |
| Torre AI | Torre A, Torre | Recruiting platform whose bot ("Emma"?) sent the 20M COP clickbait offer | confirmed (context, video 27) |
| Hostinger | hostinger | Registrar/host where the luarai.com domain lives; hosting for client landing pages (PHP-workers limit researched, video 28) | confirmed (video 27) |
| Spruce | Spruce | ChatGPT voice used for Julia's sales rehearsal; came out with a professional Bogotá (rolo) accent | confirmed (video 28 @ 14:49) |
| Next.js | nets.jsc, Net. Yes, NJ, XGAS | React framework Gemini recommended as Picky's stack | confirmed (context, video 29) |
| PostgreSQL / JSONB | postgris, Jason B | Database + binary-JSON column type recommended for Picky's menus | confirmed (context, video 29) |
| The Bear | de ver, Bird, The Ver | FX restaurant series; source of the "sense of urgency" and "create opportunity" lessons and the hyper-personalized waiter choreography (mesa cinco birthday notes) cited as manual CRM | confirmed (videos 30, 146 @ 24:29, 148 @ 23:07) |
| Freddy Vega | Freddy Vega | Platzi co-founder; his LinkedIn post recommended The Bear | confirmed (video 30) |
| Platzi / GoFest | Plaxi, Platic | Colombian ed-tech platform; "Lleva tu startup al GoFest" call they applied to with Picky | confirmed (videos 29-31) |
| In-N-Out | in out | US burger chain; the secret-menu belonging example | confirmed (context, video 31) |
| Inkscape | Inscape, Ink Escape | Open-source vector editor; the winning free PNG→SVG converter (trace bitmap) | confirmed (video 33 @ 9:36) |
| Vector Magic / Vectorizer | vectormic | Online vectorizer tools tried before Inkscape; good but paywalled / partial | confirmed (context, video 33) |
| Rappi | Rapi | Colombian delivery super-app; has menu digitalization nobody seems to use. Picky's positioning foil | confirmed (context, video 33) |
| Pickyto | Piquito, piquito | Picky's AI agent: digitalizes menus from photos/text into the schema, previews instead of showing JSON. Portfolio calls it the "AI-powered admin view" | confirmed (named on camera video 33 @ 11:21; spelling per portfolio 2026) |
| falafel say less | falafas | Julia's future falafel / party-food-kits business; its site is her vibe-coding training project | confirmed (video 35 @ 10:37) |
| ICA | tarifa por mil | Colombian municipal industry-and-commerce tax; each municipality sets its per-thousand rate | confirmed (context, video 34) |
| Wenzi | wensu, Wenszu, Gentu | Taoist text attributed to Lao Tzu; the excessive-rules passage (video 34); finished on video 73 with a record 612 highlights, its "averigua el destino" line deployed as the Singapore compass (video 75) | confirmed (videos 34, 73, 75) |
| Cámara de Comercio clusters | clústers | CCB program: industry groups (food, IT, music) with an assigned mentor per member; they plan to join the IT cluster | confirmed (video 37) |
| Jaime | Jaime | Older entrepreneur met at the Cámara de Comercio event; has a frozen accounting-software project; first-client prospect | confirmed (videos 37, 41) |
| Slowly | Slowly, Lowly, es lowly | Pen-pal app where letters travel at distance-realistic speed; source of the productivity-paradox exchange. UPDATE video 211: he collects its commemorative digital stamps by watching ads, which is how the Last War ads found him | confirmed (videos 39, 211 @ 55:08) |
| Tandem | Tand | Language-exchange app where Juan and Julia met (Portuguese ↔ Spanish/English), pandemic era | confirmed (video 39) |
| OBS + Iriun Webcam | OBS, IRU IR, Drivecam | The screen+camera recording setup Julia's question installed in one hour, replacing a planned 3-day custom app | confirmed (video 41) |
| Kimi K2 | Kim K2, química dos | Moonshot's open-source MoE model (~1T params, 32B active), suddenly everywhere in the Cline subreddit and LinkedIn | confirmed (context, video 41) |
| falafel say less cards | carticas | Julia's gamified salsa characters for the falafel say less site ("escoja tu luchador"); ketchup is a 16-year-old with paladar infantil | confirmed (video 38) |
| Divo | div, Divine | The layout tool's final name (video 47): "div" + Julia's capybara mascot, modeled on Mistral's Le Chat name-plus-mascot wordplay. Born videos 38-40, viral video 44 | confirmed (named on camera, video 47) |
| Mistral / Le Chat | Mistral, Lechat | European AI lab and its cat-logo chat product; the naming inspiration for Divo | confirmed (video 47) |
| Bitcount | Bitcoin prop | Trending Google Fonts circular-dot typeface chosen for Divo | probable spelling (heard "Bitcoin prop", video 47) |
| Tencargo | encargo, "the delivery project" | Jorge's sponsored logistics venture (diploma-delivery heritage): flat-rate distance-based delivery for entrepreneurs and small businesses. Name and logo withheld on camera (videos 42-44); published by the portfolio. Shelved after market research, then revived ~Sept 2025 by the partner (who streams his build sessions); framed video 120 as the REAPRA "boring entry point": a Rappi-for-businesses × Servientrega blend against 20-30% incumbent fees | confirmed (portfolio 2026; revival video 120 @ 48:58) |
| Lovable | Lowable | AI app-builder startup a Reddit commenter cited ("raised $200M") as the tool's market comp | confirmed (context, video 44) |
| Elementor | elementor | WordPress page builder; commenters dismissed it as the dinosaur comparison | confirmed (context, video 44) |
| Mercado Pago | Mercado Pago | Payments platform Jorge says makes adding payment to Picky "refácil" | confirmed (video 42) |
| Santiago, "el viejo Santi" | Santi, el viejo aim | Workaholic friend doing well (apartment, fleet of computers); tapped for business wisdom | confirmed (video 42) |
| MCP | MSP, MPC | Model Context Protocol, "the USB-C of AI": standard plug between models and services (N+M not N×M). Context7 cited as example server | confirmed (video 56) |
| Stripe | stripe | Payments platform chosen for Divo; its 2.9% + $0.30 fee killed the $1 tier | confirmed (video 49) |
| Dot Grid | Dot Grid | Figma plugin used to remake Divo's logo vector-native (dotted grid, 3 colors, 30 min) | confirmed (video 55) |
| divo.luarai.com | vivo.lugar.com | Divo's live subdomain; login features a draggable capybara | confirmed (videos 55-56) |
| The Gracie family / Rorion, Royce | Grace, Rorion, Roy | BJJ dynasty; Rorion co-created the UFC as the arena where the art wins; Royce, the least imposing brother, chosen as champion | confirmed (context + GPT check, video 53) |
| Viz | — | Hand-drawn data field notebook (portfolio): interactive D3.js experiments pinned to a corkboard, e.g. the World Cup 2026 birth-country chord diagram. Live | confirmed (portfolio 2026; video attestation pending) |
| Severo | Severus, Vero, Sanfanson 2.0, Beckman | Adaptive AI language tutor (portfolio): Gemini-powered, speech recognition, React Native mobile. Named on camera video 101: Julia's AI Studio brainstorm produced "Vero" (true), he heard "Severo", Colombian slang for awesome; replaced working name Beckman. Portfolio later lists SM-2 spaced repetition, a reversal of the video-96 no-SRS stance. UPDATE video 220: the French challenge, all three partners learning French from zero inside the app, 30 min/day max, bottlenecks become features. UPDATE videos 221/225: Google Play approves ("moción aprobada"); the 2.0 redesign lands, adventure mode, downward infinite scroll, bosses instead of exams, coins, and Severo recast as a rival sensei who gets sad when you win. UPDATE video 234: mascot origin traced on camera to the Foo Dog (Chinese guardian lion) and the Lion Turtle (Tortuga León) from Avatar: The Legend of Korra. UPDATE videos 236-239: the correct build passed review and went live in open testing; Julia's landing page shipped at severo.luarai.com. UPDATE videos 241-245: a color-coded prompt-inspector bench (with batch generation) for debugging drift; the team goes parallel (Julia gets her own branch and local build, Carlos "Dr. Frankenstein" integrates, weekly Wednesday releases); doom-scroll must cover the curriculum; pre-generated per-topic image stock planned | confirmed (portfolio 2026; naming video 101 @ 14:11; challenge video 220 @ 3:28; approval video 221 @ 38:05; redesign video 225 @ 14:32; origin video 234 @ 33:27; open testing video 236 @ 1:11; landing video 239 @ 7:04; inspector video 241 @ 4:48; branches video 245 @ 3:45) |
| LorenaMor | Lorena More, Lore More, Lorena Amor, Loren Amor | The node-graph knowledge-learning app (born video 73), named on camera video 89: Julia's wordplay Lore + na + More ("Lorena, amor"; lore ← folklore; moor = unexplored). Expandable concept nodes, chat-to-expand; React/TS/Vite prototype, two steps from public | confirmed (named on camera, video 89 @ 3:17; videos 161 @ 24:13, 165 @ 16:06) |
| REAPRA | Repra | The Singapore hard-reset venture program (arrive idea-less, boring business year one, transcendental idea after); in a 3-month email process, first call scheduled video 89 | uncertain spelling [sic?] (videos 83, 89) |
| Aeolian Harmonies | — | The Enel WinDesign turbine entry (videos 12-13), now named: Sicilian-mosaic geometric pattern, Mediterranean blues and golden ochre, fading dense-to-sparse up the tower | confirmed (portfolio 2026) |
| DailyTracker | — | Lifelogging prototype (portfolio): AI analyzes minute-by-minute photos into end-of-day activity and time-distribution summaries | confirmed (portfolio 2026; video attestation pending) |
| Language Learning Game (Flutter) | — | Fairy-tale-styled language-learning game prototype in Flutter with AI-generated artwork (portfolio) | confirmed (portfolio 2026; video attestation pending) |
| Query Network | Query Network | The foveated-vision AI research (seed 53-1), now named: recognition through partial, saccade-like observations instead of all pixels/frames. Pitched to a Shenzhen contest | confirmed (video 78) |
| ICETEX | ICTEX, eltex, el Coreo | Colombian student-loan institute; Juan's debt-condonation form vanished twice into its "phantom" process; the Chapinero office visit at least yielded real information | confirmed (context, videos 78-79) |
| Boardy | Bordy, wording | AI recruiter/networker (WhatsApp + live voice calls); pitched as a network, reverse-engineered as LinkedIn search with a warm voice | confirmed (spelled B-O-A-R-D-Y, video 79) |
| Lagonet | Lagonet | The Lago Centro (Bogotá) family computer shop, 20 years old, where the honest señoras sold the 100k charger with care instructions | confirmed (video 79) |
| Antler | Andler | Global venture builder / founder-in-residence program; the Singapore application both Juan and Julia joined as cofounders (September cohort) | confirmed (context, video 84) |
| Nano Banana | nano banana | Community nickname for Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, adopted the week it exploded on Reddit; the mockup engine behind the graph app's design | confirmed (video 86) |
| D3.js | 3.js, D3 | JavaScript visualization library; its bubble chart + force layout is the primitive the graph app's squishy cells deform from | confirmed (context, video 86) |
| Plug and Play | Plug and Play | VC/accelerator representing the Paris group of the Shenzhen competition; its rep's email asked for his username and password to "help with registration" | confirmed (video 116 @ 26:39) |
| Claude Sonnet 4.5 | Sonet 4.5, Cloud 4.5, Claudio | Anthropic model launched on camera (video 116); its demo's clickable Excel formulas retired the VibeCell idea; "the best coding model in the world" per launch copy | confirmed (video 116 @ 1:02:32) |
| Saudade | saudi, saud | Portuguese noun for deep longing/absence; the couple's candidate for untranslated adoption, sparked by Nelson Gonçalves's "Aquela Mesa" | confirmed (video 116 @ 53:52) |
| Cafuné | cafone, capune | Portuguese (Bantu-origin) word for gently caressing someone's hair; the winning word versus Spanish "piojito" | confirmed (video 116 @ 54:26) |
| Nelson Gonçalves | Nelson Gonzalvez | Brazilian singer whose "Aquela Mesa" triggered the saudade conversation | probable (ASR video 116 @ 53:46; spelling per artist) |
| Micro TDH | Micro TDH | Venezuelan artist whose song "Cafuné" they dispute discovering; Julia claims she sent it four years ago | confirmed (video 116 @ 1:00:58) |
| Sora 2 | Zora dos, Soria dos | OpenAI's video model + TikTok-style feed app, launched video 117; biometric cameo consent system; the Saitama/Ghibli clips; the "new TikTok" thesis | confirmed (videos 117-120) |
| Worldcoin | Word Coin | Sam Altman's iris-scanning biometric identity project, cited by Cristian as gaining relevance in a deepfake world | probable (video 118 @ 37:54) |
| Dot CSV | Dot CSV, DSV | His favorite Spanish-language AI YouTuber ("mi queridísimo"); source for the Sora-2-as-TikTok read | confirmed (video 118 @ 32:22) |
| Vercel | Versel, Bersel | Next.js platform (used for Picky); $9.3B valuation news celebrated as a Latin American win; CEO controversy noted | confirmed (video 118 @ 1:02:50) |
| Xertica | Shértica, Sheric, cértica | Colombian company running the entrepreneur-in-residence process he applied to for cash while REAPRA pends; its branded services sit atop Google Cloud products | probable (ASR video 118-119; spelling unverified on screen) |
| PewDiePie | Pewiepie, PP | YouTuber whose Diogenes-inspired minimalism video (four headphones = wooden bowls) prompted the possessions audit | confirmed (video 119 @ 40:07) |
| Diógenes de Sinope | Dionisio, Diógenes | Cynic philosopher; the wooden-bowl anecdote (child drinking with hands) that anchors the minimalism entry | confirmed (video 119 @ 41:22) |
| AlphaGo | Alfa Go, Deep Go | DeepMind's Go system; its never-before-seen move is his standing proof that reinforcement learning innovates where generative statistics can't | confirmed (video 120 @ 25:39) |
| Servientrega | servientrega | Colombian courier company; one half of the Tencargo positioning ("un blend entre un Rappi y un Servientrega") | confirmed (video 120 @ 49:42) |
| Carlos | — | Juan Pablo and Julia's third partner/socio (distinct from Jorge the padrino), reconnected via LinkedIn (video 1): revived and built Tencargo's app, streamed his build sessions, rejected a job offer to go all-in, took the "o hace o se nos va" ultimatum, later integrated Severo ("Dr. Frankenstein") and co-designed Reisi. Parted ways with the team at the end of August; no longer a partner | confirmed (named video 123 @ 12:12) |
| Anguilla | Anguila, Aguila | Caribbean British territory that owns the .ai ccTLD; domain sales reportedly ~half its public revenue since the AI boom | confirmed (chart discussed video 123 @ 6:33) |
| Tuvalu | Tubalu | Pacific nation whose .tv domain once carried a double-digit share of its economy; cited as the .ai precedent | probable (group-chat cite, video 123 @ 7:49) |
| Windsurf | Winsorf, Winsurf | Vibe-coding IDE (Cursor competitor); Bogotá meetup at Platzi's offices video 125; charges per message rather than per token; "modo chat" = Cline's plan mode. UPDATE video 203: Google hired away its founders and top staff ("cascarón vacío"), and Antigravity launched as its near-copy | confirmed (videos 125, 203 @ 6:15) |
| DJI | DJX | Shenzhen drone/camera company (Frank Wang, 2006, dorm-room origin per ChatGPT recap); their new wireless mic, 420k COP via Amazon vs 800k locally, killed the "Chinese products are bad" prejudice on camera | confirmed (video 125 @ 23:54) |
| Hired with Near | Hed with Near, Heart With Me | Recruiting intermediary that sourced the founder/product-manager remote role (300-800 band); its assessment platform swallowed interview question two | probable (ASR spellings vary, videos 126, 130) |
| Simón Borrero | Simón Borrero | Rappi CEO; his PlatziConf line about learning to "respirar rápido" feeds the focus revelation | confirmed (named on screen, video 128 @ 4:47) |
| Keyu Jin | Keyulin, Kill kyun yin | Economist on Lex Fridman; source of the mayor-economy model and the "existe solamente la caja" line about Chinese innovation | probable (ASR, video 128 @ 36:01; spelling per Lex Fridman guest list) |
| Hotmart | Josmart | Course-publishing platform Julia suggests for the hypothetical vibe-coding course | confirmed (video 128 @ 20:34) |
| Thor | torno | The family's 14-year-old German shepherd (37 kg); vestibular episode video 130, walked with a jiu-jitsu-belt harness, overnight vet stay | confirmed (video 126 @ 37:31; episode video 130) |
| Juliana | Juliana | Plaza de mercado vendor in Chía; sources at Corabastos, delivers at 10k/25k, named trust as the business's real currency; first field contact for Tencargo | confirmed (video 129 @ 6:57) |
| Didi | Didi | Ride/delivery platform the Chía bicycle couriers (Henry, Giancarlos) work through, among others | confirmed (video 129 @ 24:10) |
| Guillermo Rauch | Guillermo Rush, Guillermo Rouch, Guillermo Rausch | Argentine CEO of Vercel; his podcast interview seeded the accessibility-as-compass, invisible-technology, packaging, and get-to-your-own-feedback-loop-fast notes cited across the diary | confirmed (videos 133, 153 @ 5:01; spelling per Vercel) |
| Richard Feynman | Richard Priman, Richard Finand | Physicist; "What I cannot create, I don't understand," cited via Rauch (rebuild React to understand React) | confirmed (video 133 @ 42:24; spelling per attribution) |
| Karel Čapek | Carel Chapec | Czech writer; his novel The Absolute at Large (matter-to-energy carburetor) surfaced as the Biopunk precedent | probable (ChatGPT recommendation, video 133 @ 42:45) |
| Biopunk | Bioponk, chemopunk | The couple's coined genre (via ChatGPT): a future powered by trees' chemical energy instead of solar panels; not solar punk | confirmed (video 133 @ 33:22) |
| Ramon Dino | Ramondino, Ramón Dino | Bodybuilder from Acre, Brazil; won Mr. Olympia (Classic Physique); his ladder from calisthenics to Cariani anchors the anti-bootstrapping entry | confirmed (video 131 @ 44:54; spelling per athlete) |
| Ayrton Senna | Arton Sena, Sen, Cena | Brazilian F1 driver; his "you always have a little more" quote closed the Ramon Dino video; later the house example of asynchronous information, Julia learning him through fifty films decades after his death | confirmed (videos 131 @ 54:51, 176 @ 51:32) |
| Uber | UR | Ride platform; the taxi-medallion teardown ($1.3M NYC medallions collapsed post-Uber; Colombia's Uber Taxi 2021) | confirmed (video 135) |
| Makro | macro | Colombia's warehouse/wholesale store, closest to a Brazilian atacadista; the accidental two-month grocery haul | confirmed (video 135 @ 23:37) |
| Tokamak Energy | Tocamac, ST40 | British fusion company in Oxford; its ST40 reactor's first color plasma footage (100M°C, donut torus) went viral | confirmed (video 137 @ 4:04) |
| No Kings | No Kings | US anti-authoritarian protest movement (Oct 18, ~2,700 sites, millions); "no thrones, no crowns, no kings"; California Prop 50 (unpaid suspension) discussed | confirmed (video 136 @ 15:04) |
| Stargate (OpenAI) | Stargate | OpenAI's massive AI data-center project; the Argentina site (with Sur Energy, Milei) framed as Latin America's first | confirmed (video 136 @ 30:10) |
| ChatGPT Atlas | Atlas, chattas | OpenAI's agentic browser (a ChatGPT-in-a-browser that clicks/acts); "OpenAI, the Apple of AIs"; competitor to Perplexity's Comet | confirmed (video 139 @ 0:57) |
| Comet (Perplexity) | Comet | Perplexity's agentic browser, predating Atlas; also the prompt-injection risk example (white-on-white email instructions) | confirmed (videos 138, 139) |
| AWS US-East-1 | US East 1 | The Amazon Web Services region whose Oct 2025 outage took down banks, Reddit, Fortnite, McDonald's; the centralization/redundancy teardown | confirmed (video 138 @ 20:50) |
| Rappi Favores | Rapifavores | Rappi's point-to-point package delivery flow; its existence at Tencargo's exact price killed Tencargo in four days | confirmed (video 140 @ 8:42) |
| Scala | escala | Brazilian hair-cream brand; the counterfeit-from-a-marketplace story (missing QR, taped seal) | confirmed (video 138 @ 1:03:30) |
| Cluby | cluby, cluyu, C-L-U-V-I | Consolidated digital-menu company for restaurants (~10,000 restaurants); the incumbent that made them drop the "Piqui" digital-menu idea; spelled out on camera | confirmed (video 145 @ 14:54) |
| GRU (Guarulhos) | Grú, Guarulas, Guarulios, Barulos | São Paulo's Guarulhos international airport (GRU), and the city; where Julia lost her first flight over the yellow-fever certificate | confirmed (video 145 @ 40:26) |
| UPA | upa | Brazil's public urgent-care units (Unidade de Pronto Atendimento); the one in Guarulhos that stamped Julia's international yellow-fever certificate in three minutes | confirmed (video 145 @ 51:39) |
| Spirit | Spirit | US ultra-low-cost airline; the one that re-issued Juan Pablo's missed pandemic-era flight for free (planes were flying near-empty) | confirmed (video 145 @ 1:10:45) |
| Piedra del Peñol | el Peñol | The rock/monolith near Guatapé, Antioquia; his letdown-travel example (climbed for social pressure, expectations couldn't survive the reality) | confirmed (video 144 @ 2:52) |
| Michael Girdley | Michael Girtley, Girly, Geirly, Gtley | US entrepreneur/investor (~6 companies, YouTube business breakdowns) running the inventor+entrepreneur matching program that recruited Juan Pablo; $60k/year/team, keeps 40% | probable (video 147 @ 13:54; spelling per known public figure Girdley) |
| Near (Hire with Near) | H with Near, Har with Near, Harwar | Recruiting firm (LatAm talent for US companies) that pre-screened Juan Pablo for the Girdley program; one of Girdley's own companies, used to staff his other bets | probable (video 147 @ 13:47) |
| Instituto Onça-Pintada | Yop, Instituto 11 Pintada | Brazilian jaguar sanctuary/conservation institute (IOP) whose YouTube channel Julia follows; uses dogs in jaguar handling | probable (video 146 @ 16:56) |
| Zabelé | Zabelé, esa vele | Small elderly female dog at the jaguar sanctuary, respected/obeyed by the jaguars, many of whom arrived as cubs under her | confirmed (video 146 @ 17:32) |
| Yuka | Yuca, Yucatán | European food-scanning app (their on-camera telling: named for a cofounder's wife from Yucatán); the US/Europe incumbent absent in South America | probable (video 150 @ 16:09; founding story as retold on camera) |
| Comando Vermelho | comando vermelio | Rio de Janeiro criminal faction targeted by the Oct 2025 mega-operation (120+ dead, adapted consumer drones); context for the drones seed | confirmed (video 150 @ 3:31) |
| BOPE | Bope, Bob | Rio's special police operations battalion, the only force that enters the favela in Julia's telling; part of the five-entity operation | confirmed (video 150 @ 6:57) |
| 3I/ATLAS | TR y Atlas, tres y Atlas | Interstellar comet (discovered July 2025, perihelion Oct 29 2025); the is-it-a-probe speculation debunked live via AI search on camera | confirmed (video 150 @ 27:57) |
| Don Luis | don Luis | 70-year-old Chía pizzeria owner, 25 years selling in San Andresito before; first Piqui validation interview, "el que es el sistema" | confirmed (video 147 @ 1:21) |
| Andrés (sushi) | Andrés | ~30-year-old sushi restaurateur, learned at a Cine Colombia sushi bar 15 years ago; second validation interview, source of the CRM pivot | confirmed (video 148 @ 0:42) |
| Pyannote | P Note, Pote | Open-source speaker-diarization framework; segmented Snipy's audio into speaker timelines the first night | confirmed (video 151 @ 4:27; portfolio spelling) |
| AVA-AVD | AD, ABD, A B | Audio-visual speaker diarization paper/repo (bounding boxes, re-identification); the research-exhaust code that ate two days of the Snipy sprint | confirmed (video 151 @ 7:12; portfolio spelling) |
| Cursor | cursor | Vibe-coding IDE; what Daniel's no-fundamentals boss uses for front and back | confirmed (video 155 @ 7:27) |
| Fudo | Fudo | Argentine restaurant POS active in Colombia: tablets, KDS, Rappi/Justo/Didi integrations, mid-cheap pricing; named competitor in the Piqui deep search | probable (video 154 @ 5:44) |
| Loggro | Logro | Colombian restaurant/POS software suite; first name on the Piqui competitor list | probable (video 154 @ 4:53) |
| Siigo POS | sigopostos | POS offering from Siigo (Colombian accounting-software company); on the Piqui competitor list | probable (video 154 @ 4:57) |
| Trosky | Trusky, Trosky | The childhood family dog, resurfaced in an old photo (the is-it-me-or-my-brother test settled with Nano Banana beard edits) and reused as the canonical CRM example, "el perrito que se llama Trosky" | confirmed (videos 153 @ 56:47, 154 @ 7:08) |
| Sadhguru | Sanguru, Sad guru, satguru | Indian guru whose clips sparked the happiness-conditions reflection ("si usas una situación externa para crear una situación interna, estarás esclavizado") | confirmed (video 157 @ 0:25) |
| The Power of Now | El poder de la hora | Eckhart Tolle's book, cited as prior reading on presence ("El poder del ahora") | probable (video 157 @ 1:58; garbled title) |
| Nubank | Nuban, Numb | Brazilian neobank; its cofounder Cristina (Junqueira), born in Ribeirão Preto, is Julia's hometown billionaire on the map | probable (video 159 @ 14:15) |
| Carlos Ardila Lülle | Carlos Aldila Lule | Colombian beverage/media magnate (Postobón, Atlético Nacional), born Bucaramanga 1930, died 2021; the stale-dataset catch in the billionaire-map teardown | confirmed (video 159 @ 18:01; web-verifiable) |
| topgrading | top grading, stop grading | Chronological whole-career interview method Girdley uses (work history as best performance predictor); the format of the failed final interview | confirmed (video 160 @ 5:19) |
| SAN JeiPi | San San JP, San JP | Juan Pablo's teenage gaming YouTube channel (Fortnite, Minecraft, Valorant), product of the failed 2017 autodidact year | confirmed (video 160 @ 17:29) |
| Robin | Robin | Girdley's chief of staff; ran the earlier interview rounds and the pre-screening calls | confirmed (videos 157 @ 15:09, 160 @ 37:18) |
| Gremlin | Gremlin | The lifeboat owner's hairless chihuahua, "francamente es un cretino" | confirmed (video 156 @ 17:10) |
| The Mom Test | Mom Test, mom test | Rob Fitzpatrick's customer-conversation book (brother's recommendation, admittedly pirated): never mention your idea, good questions even your mom can't lie to, product risk vs market risk | confirmed (videos 161 @ 26:17, 164 @ 0:13) |
| peteca | peteca | Brazilian hand-shuttlecock game; source of Julia's mother's idiom "não deixa a peteca cair," don't let it touch the ground | confirmed (video 161 @ 45:27) |
| Barberos Club | Barberos Club | The dodged five-person company with the two lawyer friends (two leaders, Sunday-only communication); contract promised three times, never arrived | confirmed (videos 161 @ 42:08, 164 @ 26:48) |
| Makia | maquia, Maquia | His university blockchain venture project (salary and spending on-chain); the product-risk idea that died at the entrepreneurship fair | confirmed (video 164 @ 10:27) |
| Claude Code (web) | cloud code en línea, cloud research preview | Anthropic's cloud sandbox agent tied to GitHub; the $1,000-credit promotion that powered the MVP factory; credits spend per task like Windsurf sends | confirmed (videos 162 @ 5:12, 163 @ 0:33) |
| Conviérteme | conviérteme | MVP-factory project: WhatsApp bot that converts any sent file to the desired format | confirmed (video 165 @ 16:17) |
| Agentic | agentic | MVP-factory project: a Play Store for AI agents where the prompt stays the seller's secret | confirmed (video 165 @ 17:03) |
| Smith | Smith | MVP-factory project, named for the Matrix agent: parallel testing of N agent versions across N scenarios with an AI judge scoring | confirmed (video 165 @ 17:46) |
| Daidalos | Daidalos | MVP-factory project: an AI-native rebuild of Coupa, the spend-management suite his last employer resold | confirmed (video 165 @ 23:19) |
| La Fogata | la fogata | MVP-factory project: Gartic-style group game where players write what a concept means and an AI referee scores | confirmed (video 165 @ 24:29) |
| BOI | BOI | Vision-research experiment: replace pixel-grid input with rod/cone-like sensing, sibling of the Query Network eyes thesis | confirmed (video 165 @ 14:57) |
| Gemini 3 | Gémini 3, Gemini 3 Pro | Google's model generation shipped Nov 18 2025, the same day the Claude ban landed; free in AI Studio and Antigravity; the Minecraft/Mac-OS-clone demo wave. UPDATE video 255: Gemini 3.1 Flashlight put into Severo (~3x the price of 2.5 Flashlight but still cheap), cutting phoneme-extraction error from ~80% to ~15% | confirmed (videos 166 @ 0:38, 255 @ 34:10) |
| Antigravity | antigravity | Google's free agentic IDE (five models incl. Sonnet 4.5, parallel agent chats, plan artifacts, one-click commits, browser-testing extension). UPDATE video 250: friction with Gemini Pro's weekly limit reset pushes Juan back toward Claude Code, whose ~5-hour reset and Claude Pro plan fit the workflow better; they keep Antigravity mainly for Opus access, and it's the model that gets consumed fastest | confirmed (videos 166 @ 1:09, 167 @ 2:32, 250 @ 34:34) |
| Nano Banana Pro | nano banana pro | The upgraded Gemini image model; the nuclear-drone blueprint engine and paper-to-diagram study tool | confirmed (video 168 @ 0:13) |
| LD Player | LDP Players, LD Player | Android emulator (with ADB debugging) used to fake the tablet the Play Console screenshots demanded | confirmed (video 170 @ 9:52) |
| Google Play Console | Google Play Console | The developer gate for Android publishing: data-safety forms, per-device screenshots, per-language store listings, tester phase; "pasar por migración". UPDATE video 221: approval granted; the console then offers open testing (feedback without touching the public rating), pre-registration, or publication, and they take none for a month | confirmed (videos 167 @ 25:10, 170 @ 6:14, 221 @ 41:37) |
| isomer fuel / Hf-178 | isomer fuel, HFnion 178 | The contested nuclear-isomer energy concept (X-ray-triggered gamma release, one lab unreplicated) powering the fictional-but-consistent drone design | confirmed as on-camera speculation (video 168 @ 5:51) |
| quiche | Kishi, quiché | Julia's first-ever quiche, pan-cooked over three hours because the oven "huele raro"; canela per Don Luis's tip | confirmed (video 170 @ 0:42) |
| Andrej Karpathy | Andrew Carpeti, Carpati, Carpaty, Carpatti | OpenAI founding member, ex-Tesla AI director; the long interview mined across several videos (the three-jokes claim, learning-as-gym, the ten-minute-tutor bar) | confirmed (videos 171 @ 18:08, 172 @ 35:56) |
| Richard Sutton | Richard Suton, Stuton | Reinforcement learning pioneer, "medio hippy," mocked when he built the RL framework and vindicated; admired precisely for going against the system | confirmed (video 171 @ 43:25) |
| Deep Blue | De Blue | The chess machine that, in his retelling of the AlphaGo documentary, beat "un ruso" decades before Go fell | confirmed as loose on-camera recollection (video 171 @ 33:08) |
| Akinator | Genator | The 2012-era character-guessing game; his named precedent for the intent-chatbot strategy, growing the database from exactly the players it failed to guess | confirmed (video 173 @ 13:53) |
| Banco do Brasil | el bebé, el BB, Banco de Brasil | Julia's Brazilian bank; in-app barcode bill payment (the model for the Flypay wedge) and a cluttered super-app store (the anti-model) | confirmed (video 173 @ 12:26) |
| Pix | Pix, picos | Brazil's Central Bank instant-payment rails; three-plus years to ubiquity, nearly killed cash, squeezing Visa/Mastercard; the adoption curve they hope Colombia repeats | confirmed (videos 173 @ 16:42, 174 @ 1:35) |
| Bre-B | breve, el breve | Colombia's new instant-payment system, reportedly built by the Pix creators; the wave the benefits app wants to surf at the right moment | confirmed (videos 173 @ 16:38, 174 @ 2:22) |
| Flypay | Flypay, flypage, fly | Julia's working name for the benefits/payments app with the padrino; two products already carry the name, so naming stays open | confirmed (videos 174 @ 12:55, 175 @ 22:04) |
| León | neón, león | One of Brazil's first big YouTubers; source of Julia's quoted vaccine against perfectionism, "me permití ser ruin, malo" until good | confirmed (video 174 @ 21:46) |
| Up Bank | Up, up bank | Australian neobank whose site is Julia's maximum-playful design pole: hippie triangles playing rock-paper-scissors, draggable coins, "esto es un banco?" | confirmed (video 175 @ 31:29) |
| KakaoBank | cacao bank, cacao | Famous South Korean bank, clean white with choosable rabbit mascots; Julia's nearer design pole, though it reads childish for Colombia; 3.3 on Play Store, Korean-ID-only | confirmed (video 175 @ 33:27) |
| Las Vegas Sphere | la esfera de Las Vegas | The venue case study for founder risk: budget roughly doubled to ~3 billion, live concerts left it empty, autoplay immersive films in the 24/7 city saved it, Dubai replica planned | confirmed as on-camera retelling (video 175 @ 4:09) |
| Reisi | Ry, Reise, Risi, Racy | Chosen name for the benefits/payments app with the padrino and Carlos: Julia's surname Reis (Reyes) folded into re-easy, with race, rise, and raíz riding along; the anti-clutter "superfácil" thesis in one word. Mascot: a libélula (speed, fluidity, no brand has one); slogan direction "no busques, solo di lo que necesitas" | confirmed (videos 178 @ 4:34, 179 @ 0:28, 182 @ 10:34) |
| Demis Hassabis | Demis Jasabi, Desabis, Demisabis | DeepMind CEO (AlphaGo, AlphaZero, AlphaFold), chemistry Nobel for protein-structure prediction; the Fridman interview mined for the conjecture and design-for-the-future notes. UPDATE video 219: The Thinking Game retelling, chess at four, the Liechtenstein resignation, the declined million pounds, Thiel's founding check | confirmed (videos 176 @ 22:02, 219 @ 59:07) |
| AlphaFold | Alpha Fold, Alpha Fult, Alpha Fault | DeepMind's protein-folding model, the Nobel work; his product-design reading: a foundation for all proteins, not a solver for one | confirmed (video 176 @ 23:48) |
| Max Tegmark | Max Techmark | Physicist; the consciousness definition "how information feels when processed" is attributed to him by Gemini on camera | probable (attribution via Gemini, video 176 @ 42:11) |
| movimiento 37 | move 37 | AlphaGo's famously creative move against the Go world champion; Fridman's wish for "a move 37 for the origin of life" | confirmed (videos 171 @ 30:58, 176 @ 30:35) |
| Decode (Dani Novara) | Decode con Dani Novara, Novarama | Spanish YouTube channel; source of the why-the-world-got-boring essay on globalization and sameness | confirmed (video 177 @ 17:50) |
| Movii | Mobi, móvil | Colombian fintech with banking-as-a-service rails; reached through the padrino's contact chain, entry connection quoted at $1,500, documentation closed to the public, unlike Nequi's open API | confirmed (videos 178 @ 8:58, 180 @ 8:02) |
| Fashion-MNIST | fashion minist, fashion emnist | The clothing sibling of MNIST, same 28x28 canvas; the generalization checkpoint where the eye architecture scored mid-nineties on its first foreign dataset | confirmed (video 178 @ 26:42) |
| Bryan | Brian | LinkedIn contact with a PhD working in AI vision research; found the projects post, misses working on papers; designated first reader of the LAR draft | confirmed (videos 175 @ 30:07, 177 @ 3:09) |
| LaaR (loss-as-reward) | losas a reward, lar, asar reward | His name for the eye research thesis: use the prediction error itself as the reinforcement reward; "relativamente confirmado que funciona." Paper draft title: "Achieving state-of-the-art efficiency and robustness in active vision via decision transformers and intrinsic rewards" | confirmed (videos 175 @ 27:02, 177 @ 2:29, 185 @ 35:41) |
| vibe banking | vive banking, bife | His coinage for Reisi's interaction model: instruct the AI in natural language and keep only the accept/reject gate, ported from vibe coding along with its auto-approve cautionary tale | confirmed (video 178 @ 18:00) |
| Marques Brownlee | Marqués Brown Brownle | Tech YouTuber (MKBHD); source of the iPhone vs Xiaomi comparison with the back-display selfie screen | confirmed (video 180 @ 22:21) |
| Refácil | refácil | Colombian payments competitor whose name is Reisi's own pun translated; spotted while mapping the field alongside Cobre | confirmed (video 181 @ 4:44) |
| James C. Scott | James C. Scott | Author of Seeing Like a State, the ChatGPT-recommended book abandoned at 12% under the new rule; its standardized-measures history stays kept | confirmed (video 184 @ 7:53) |
| KMNIST | Kemnist | Japanese-character sibling of MNIST, harder than digits; the LAR architecture's third dataset, 87% after fixing Gemini's silent rewiring | confirmed (video 183 @ 11:41) |
| CIFAR-10 / CIFAR-100 | Cifar 10, si far 100, CFAR | The RGB object datasets in the LAR escalation: CIFAR-10 at 92% test with an inverted train-test gap; CIFAR-100 at 73% with 20,000 parameters against ~600,000-parameter baselines | confirmed (videos 184 @ 6:02, 185 @ 33:29) |
| Movii (meeting) | — | See Movii; the December 4 meeting killed the float-revenue assumption: revenue is recaudo plus per-transaction fees, never interest on balances | confirmed (video 181 @ 0:45) |
| Ian Nepomniachtchi | Yan Nepo Nepo | Chess grandmaster whose viral mid-game realization-and-collapse clip he plays as the exact feeling of discovering the data leak | probable (ASR; clip shown video 186 @ 17:23) |
| data leak (la fuga) | leak, licche, lage | The autopsy verdict on the 99.9% era: the per-step prediction error was fed to the agent as input, the professor whispering answers during the exam; discovered by reading Gemini's chain of thought | confirmed (video 186 @ 14:19) |
| gear movement | gear movement | The winning eye-movement upgrade after the cheat-proof rebuild: a gearbox action added to the move/zoom set, letting the window shift speed; 40% to 77% at constant size, alongside the donut/Pac-Man image topology | confirmed (video 188 @ 8:37) |
| Maggi | Maggie, Megi, Magi | Brazilian rival paying bills and transfers from inside WhatsApp, with a bolted-on cryptocurrency; Instagram comments call it "golpe", making it both demand-validation and a cautionary tale for Reisi | probable (ASR; video 188 @ 13:44) |
| Etoro | Etoro, el toro | Investment platform he's exiting: in Colombia withdrawals are PayPal-only, 3% FX spread plus a $5 fee and days of latency; the field-notes seed for Reisi's market | confirmed (video 190 @ 14:12) |
| Los colores de la montaña | los colores de la montaña | Classic Colombian film (campo children, the armed conflict); shown to Julia, who lost the thread to campo-Spanish jargon; prompted her mother's own campo childhood stories | confirmed (video 189 @ 18:03) |
| Clio | Clio, Cleo | Anthropic's privacy-preserving conversation-analysis system (the paper he one-pagered): Haiku summarizes omitting identifiers, embeddings cluster, Sonnet audits and builds the taxonomy, plus an unknowns map; ~96% reported fidelity; his design reference for Reisi's intent analytics | confirmed (paper read on camera, video 191 @ 30:57) |
| DeepSeek R1 | Deepsek, Deep Seek | Chinese lab's January 2025 reasoning model (671B MoE): the second one-pager; trained under the US chip veto on second-tier hardware | confirmed (video 191 @ 38:47) |
| GRPO | GRPO | Group Relative Policy Optimization, DeepSeek's cost cut: drop the critic network and score answers relative to the group average; the emergent "wait" self-correction observed alongside | confirmed (named on camera, video 191 @ 41:49) |
| Flow (Google) | Flow | Google's AI video tool (frames-to-video over Veo 3.1); the engine behind the animated Christmas-train video background | confirmed (video 191 @ 3:24) |
| Whisk | whisk, WHK | Google Labs image tool bundled with the Pro trial; tried first for the background, abandoned as incomprehensible ("parece más para editar imágenes") | confirmed (video 191 @ 4:06) |
| Nvidia Broadcast | Nvidia Broadcast | Nvidia's virtual-camera app; replaced the boring wall with the AI-generated loop; fought OBS for the camera until a reboot | confirmed (video 191 @ 9:39) |
| Startup Playbook | Startup Playbook | Sam Altman's YC-era founders' guide, one-pagered in video 192; source of "startups die by suicide, not murder", the funded-team-without-an-idea experiment, and love-over-like | confirmed (read on camera, video 192 @ 12:57) |
| Copetrán | Copetrán | Santander bus company; the 1:30 a.m. ticket to Bucaramanga after the undigitized-cash stranding (130k online became 143k at the counter) | confirmed (video 193 @ 11:47) |
| double dip | double deep | The clause that helped kill the padrino's offer: charging on one side and again on the other; named on camera as part of why the terms weren't serious | confirmed (video 193 @ 8:36) |
| zugzwang | suank | Chess term he applies to himself: the position where every move worsens things; the setup for the "concepto de cómo no emprender" joke | confirmed (concept explained on camera, video 194 @ 17:36) |
| Metrolínea | metrolínea | Bucaramanga's defunct BRT system; its leftover lane bollards caused the motorcycle crash they stopped for | confirmed (video 194 @ 9:11) |
| Macondo | Macondo | Bucaramanga discoteca for the cousins' night out (vallenato, música popular) | probable (video 194 @ 5:35) |
| TSMC | TSMC, TSMS, Taiwan Semiconductor | Taiwanese chip fabricator that manufactures for Nvidia, Intel, and nearly everyone; the middle link of the moat chain | confirmed (video 195 @ 7:36) |
| ASML | ASMLB, AMLS, SMLB | Dutch maker of the chip-lithography machines TSMC fabricates with (he first says German, corrects to Dutch on camera); the government paid it to keep operations home | confirmed (video 195 @ 8:51, corrected @ 19:00) |
| Zeiss | seis | German optics company described (not cleanly named) as the lens supplier ASML depends on, alongside the best-laser maker | probable (described on camera, video 195 @ 9:20) |
| Linus Tech Tips | Linux Tech Tips, Linux Tex Tips | Hardware YouTube channel; its GPU-pricing video seeded the software-vs-machines moat entry, and its "Terrible News: Cloud Gaming Is Good" video supplied the latency-solved evidence for the Bezos thesis. UPDATE video 228: the exit-video drama binge (solo to 120 staff, corporate creep, stake sold, the boss's-third-house line) becomes the incubator vision's anti-model | confirmed (videos 195 @ 7:00, 221 @ 1:09:19, 228 @ 26:12) |
| nakama | namacamas | One Piece term for crewmates; his vocabulary for the only kind of job he could be happy in, "mi barco, mis nakamas" | probable (ASR, video 193 @ 31:09) |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach / Douglas Hofstadter | Godel Eser Bach, Douglas Rhofstad | The paradox book that replaced A Pattern Language; read through vacation, credited with the mathematical-intuition turn; early verdict "versión chismecito de Bach" | confirmed (videos 196 @ 32:12, 197 @ 15:22) |
| A Pattern Language | A Language Pattern | Christopher Alexander's sequel to The Timeless Way of Building; dropped under the 10% rule for being architecture pura y dura | confirmed (video 196 @ 31:19; canonical title per author) |
| Ted Lasso | Tetlazo | The series behind "be like a goldfish": forget the mistake, keep playing; the framework deployed against the December slump | confirmed (context, video 199 @ 4:58) |
| Barbara Oakley | Bárbara Ocley, Barbara Ley | Learning-science author; her Coursera course Learning How to Learn was his first online course (~age 13) and her newsletter delivered The Memory Paradox | confirmed (video 200 @ 6:31) |
| The Memory Paradox | la paradoja de la memoria | Oakley et al.'s ~50-page article: cognitive offloading skips the neural architecture of insight; Flynn-effect reversal, hippocampus vs basal ganglia, the 85% rule | confirmed (title read on camera, video 200 @ 8:34) |
| Flynn effect | Flin Effect | The 20th-century rise in measured IQ; the article's exhibit is its reversal in developed countries from ~1975 | confirmed (context, video 200 @ 10:24) |
| Strava | estrava | Running-tracker app; his example of quantification replacing rustic what-time-did-I-leave timing | probable (context, video 198 @ 7:41) |
| La Jungla | la jungla | Fully vegan restaurant in Bucaramanga (vegan tamal, churrasco, perro caliente); "recomendadísimo" | probable (video 197 @ 4:30) |
| Jirita | Girita, el girita | Carlos's task-network management app, a simplified Jira clone (name = Jira + -ita); launch pending on a domain plus a Reddit post Juan Pablo offered to draft. Spelled Jirita (confirmed by Juan Pablo); "Girita" was an ASR mishearing corrected across the entries | confirmed (videos 197 @ 27:58, 207 @ 14:26; spelling per Juan Pablo) |
| Dario Amodei | Dariva Modei | Anthropic CEO; opens the five-hour Lex Fridman episode watched over vacation, alongside the philosopher described as giving Claude its personality. UPDATE video 220: the "12 months for programmers" clip, annotated on camera with the bubble-lag correction (Silicon Valley first, Latin America years later). UPDATE video 249: framed in the DoD-contract standoff as the safety-and-regulation founder, Anthropic set two red lines (no domestic mass surveillance, no autonomous weapons without a human in the loop), was refused and branded a national-security risk, and lost the contract, against Altman's survival motive | confirmed (context, videos 198 @ 12:55, 220 @ 30:35, 249 @ 44:47; spelling per public figure) |
| Farid Dieck | Yaret, Jack Dogs, Dick Dogs, Faridit | Mexican YouTuber of philosophical film analysis; his Chanel video seeded the fake-pearls and founding-lie entries; a Gucci video already queued | probable (ASR, video 201 @ 0:48; spelling per known creator) |
| Coco Chanel | Coco Chanel, Gabriel Channel | Gabrielle Chanel, as retold via Farid Dieck: orphan seamstress, invented rich father, hats from her own problems, wartime serendipity, the deliberate fake pearls, no successor | confirmed (retold on camera, video 201) |
| Roughly | Rly, Rofly, Rockly, Hfley, Rfle | The mathematical-intuition game: answer in seconds, score by closeness; named for "medianamente, más o menos"; prototyped in Gemini Canvas; pitched as the GeoGuessr of mathematics | confirmed (named on camera, video 202 @ 14:35; spec videos 204-205) |
| Gemini Canvas | el canvas de Gemini | Gemini's build-and-host surface: fed the Roughly one-pager, it generated and hosts the playable demo with a shareable link, inventing the countdown timer unprompted | confirmed (video 204 @ 8:24) |
| approximate number system | approximate number system, ans | The cognitive faculty Roughly trains, surfaced by the deep research as an established concept (ANS) | confirmed (named on camera, video 205 @ 9:08) |
| Sundar Pichai | Sundai Pichai | Google CEO; the Lex Fridman road episode; source of "most CEO decisions don't matter, a few are crucial" | confirmed (video 203 @ 1:42; spelling per public figure) |
| Arcabuco | Arcabuco, Arbuoco | Boyacá mountain town on the Bucaramanga road, loved since childhood ("mucha esencia, mucha personalidad"); site of the car-free tunnel-city vision; the agua-panela-con-queso stop | confirmed (video 203 @ 17:28) |
| Tetris 99 | Tetrix 99 | The battle-royale Tetris mode he played as a teenager; remembered as proof the 99-players-one-winner format predates the shooters, and a candidate shape for Roughly multiplayer | probable (video 205 @ 9:52) |
| Grok | Grock, GRCK | xAI's chatbot on X; the bikini-reimagine polemic (public replies, no filters, a child actress among the targets) anchors the platform-safety teardown | confirmed (video 204 @ 19:59) |
| Maduro capture | el maduriño fue preso | The January 2026 news as received on camera: the United States capturing Venezuela's Maduro; Trump's oil-heavy speech turned their joy into an audit | as retold on camera (video 204 @ 0:17) |
| GTA San Andreas | GTA San Andreas | The last GTA he played; its gym mini-game (mash X per rep, a bar you race) is the feel reference for Roughly's beat-the-average speed bar | confirmed (video 206 @ 19:16) |
| Civilization | Civilizations, seis cuatro | Sid Meier's strategy series (never played; his brother did); its hexagon fog-of-war is the pacing reference for Roughly's island map | probable (context, video 206 @ 22:44) |
| Fermi problems | problemas de Fermi | Estimation questions about real-world facts; named in Roughly's research and deferred because they can't be generated procedurally | confirmed (named on camera, video 206 @ 27:01) |
| Gartic Phone | Gartic Fone, Gartic Fen | The drawing-telephone party game whose fifteen in-your-face game modes became the reference for Severo's exercise carousel, against plain Gartic's single hidden mode | confirmed (shown on screen, video 207 @ 10:35) |
| Boris Cherny | Borish Cherney | Creator of Claude Code; quoted saying 100% of his code is now written by Claude Code; his published "vanilla" setup (Opus thinking, 5-10 parallel instances, plan mode, no permission-skipping, verify-your-work loops) anchors video 207 | probable (ASR, video 207 @ 27:39; spelling per public figure) |
| Open Subtitles | Open Subtitles | Free per-language word-frequency dataset (from subtitles); wired into Severo's suggestions agent to cure deterministic repetition; covers all his languages except one African tongue | confirmed (videos 208 @ 13:08, 209 @ 1:36) |
| ElevenLabs | el levels, el laps | Audio-generation tool; produced Severo's right/close/wrong feedback sounds, deliberately unpolished until users complain | probable (ASR, video 209 @ 3:54; spelling per known product) |
| Udemy | Udemi | Course platform; the cybersecurity cousin's trap of 200 free courses he feels obligated to finish. UPDATE video 222: the 50,000-student instructor whose free courses drew one-star reviews while paid ones ran five stars, the free-earns-one-star teardown | confirmed (videos 209 @ 11:49, 222 @ 42:34) |
| ICE | Ice, la migra | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; recurring arc in their U.S. coverage, culminating in the Minneapolis shooting teardown and Trump's defense of the agent | confirmed (videos 208 @ 45:15, 210 @ 39:30) |
| Renée Nicole Good | René Nicole Good | The 37-year-old woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, identified by internet users in their retelling; "ni siquiera un inmigrante"; her recorded last words: "I'm not mad at you" | as retold on camera (videos 208 @ 51:51, 210 @ 38:31) |
| Information is Beautiful | Information is beautiful | Infographics book (author unnamed on camera) adopted as the interstitial-reading replacement while GEB waits for a quiet room; source of the Bolivia Brazil-nuts fact | confirmed (title read on camera, video 210 @ 27:08) |
| Last War Survival | Last War, las war survival | The mobile base-builder behind the slide-math ads; his 17-hour field study in monetization walls and finger-pointer UI conditioning, deleted at 1:45am | confirmed (shown on screen, video 211 @ 56:11) |
| Yeison Jiménez | Jason Jiménez | Colombian popular-music singer who died in a small-plane crash, as the news reached them; the dreamed-his-death clips prompted the chronicle-not-prophecy teardown | as retold on camera (ASR spelling, video 211 @ 1:10:11) |
| El hombre en busca de sentido | Hombre en busca del sentido | The Auschwitz survivor's book (later attributed on camera to Viktor Frankl); source of the books-lie chapter, the mundane-dreams passage, and the Nietzsche why-to-live line. UPDATE video 238: full one-pager, the mind-goes-first thesis, the year-start death spikes and the dream-date man dead in three days, plus the cigarette-for-bread and gas-less-feared tells | confirmed (title read on camera, videos 212 @ 46:10, 214 @ 51:16, 238 @ 6:19) |
| DistroKid | Distro Kit, kid kit, Off Step | Music distributor chosen for the father's Suno songs (~$25/yr, royalties kept); the airline-upsell teardown and the artist-name collision happened inside it | probable (ASR, videos 213 @ 9:02, 214 @ 9:05; spelling per known service) |
| K factor | K matric, coeficiente K | Virality coefficient the angel investor flagged as a KPI; reframes invite-a-friend buttons as measurement instruments | confirmed (named on camera, video 213 @ 15:09) |
| ángel investor | Ángel Investor Investor | The family investor's on-camera title once the deal closed: weekly Saturday meetings, everyone-on-Severo doctrine, master-user advice, one-year profitability challenge | confirmed (video 214 @ 46:44) |
| Materialists | Materialista, amor materialista | The matchmaking rom-com (rated 6.5) whose $200,000 limb-lengthening unicorn triggered the height-market teardown | confirmed (video 215 @ 12:07) |
| Delirio | delirio | Cali salsa-show institution; site of the unanimous-captain-by-height anecdote | confirmed (video 215 @ 17:06) |
| Memrise | Memrise | Language app; source of the "ya me lo sé" skip button and real locals' faces on flashcards; podium finisher in the 25-app gauntlet | confirmed (video 216 @ 28:50) |
| EWA | Eva, Eba | Language app with the keyboard embedded in the exercise and a library Julia would pay for; podium finisher in the 25-app gauntlet | probable (ASR spelling per known app, video 216 @ 1:12:08) |
| Epop | Epop | Language app whose interface came closest to what Severo wants to be; its placement test scored him 3%; podium finisher in the gauntlet | probable (ASR spelling, video 216 @ 1:33:53) |
| LingoDeer | Lingodeer | Language app whose tap-any-letter-to-hear-it alphabet made the steal list | probable (ASR spelling per known app, video 216 @ 53:38) |
| DuoCards | DuoCards | Language app with the habitat-that-grows-as-you-study mechanic and stories generated from learned words; both made the steal list | probable (ASR spelling per known app, video 216 @ 1:06:33) |
| Lingo Legend | Lingo Legend | The more-game-than-app entry in the gauntlet; Julia's verdict "for learning, pero con dolor" | probable (ASR spelling, video 216 @ 47:12) |
| Friends | Friends | The sitcom as language curriculum: Julia's teacher taught English with episodes, and a Brazilian YouTuber's retold origin story is three unsubtitled runs of every season | confirmed (videos 216 @ 35:27, 220 @ 21:27) |
| Hierbabuena | Hierbabuena | Mountain zone outside town; the finca lunch where the elders' stories (the banker, the landlady, the hotel owner) were collected | probable (video 217 @ 1:51) |
| r/fuckcilantro | Fuck Cilantro, Fox Cilantro | The subreddit for people whose gene makes cilantro taste like soap; where Julia "discovered she's not alone" and the best rendering found was "lemony parsley" | confirmed (video 218 @ 31:31) |
| The Thinking Game | The Thinking Game | The DeepMind/Hassabis documentary behind the prodigy-myth debate (Julia asleep by the war section) | confirmed (title named on camera, video 219 @ 54:19) |
| Peter Thiel | Peter Te | Silicon Valley investor whose check founded DeepMind in the documentary's retelling | probable (ASR, video 219 @ 1:03:30; spelling per public figure) |
| Lula | Lula | Brazil's three-time president from a mud-walled nordeste house, Julia's prodigy-myth counterexample; also the subject of the viral AI fight video in the disinformation seed | confirmed (videos 219 @ 1:06:31, 220 @ 38:22) |
| Mr. Beast | Mr. Beast | Shorthand for the colorful thumbnail school renounced in the expectation-versus-reality reset ("no somos Mr. Beast") | confirmed (video 219 @ 44:46) |
| lexical approach | lexal approach, Excel approach | Vocabulary-first language pedagogy Julia named as Severo's frame: high-frequency words and chunks, grammar absorbed from patterns | confirmed (named on camera, video 219 @ 15:52) |
| Wise | Wi, Wise | Money-transfer platform; a business (not personal) account opened for the investor's lump-sum dollar wire, on ChatGPT's warning that Wise freezes funds when a personal account turns out to serve a company. UPDATE video 231: the week-long verification stall resolved by messaging support (escalation + final-beneficiaries registry, IDs, addresses); transfer to Bancolombia instant, ~$8 fixed fee per million pesos vs PayPal's percentage | confirmed (videos 222 @ 20:20, 231 @ 19:36) |
| Babbel | Babel | Language app the investor tried and abandoned: lessons stretch as you advance, and his five minutes a day stopped fitting | probable (ASR spelling per known app, video 222 @ 5:42) |
| XXXTentacion | xx Tentación | The late artist whose song they revisited the night of the "¿Quién en 2026?" comment discovery | confirmed (video 222 @ 6:42) |
| Happy Little Dinosaurs | juego de dinosaurios | Card game (by the Exploding Kittens creators) from the hobby-center outing; survive by dumping disasters on the others, the round Daniela lost by saving Marcos | confirmed (named on screen, video 222 @ 29:23) |
| Magic Maze | Labirinto mágico, Magic maze | The memorize-the-invisible-walls magnetic labyrinth game, second table of the hobby-center outing; his product itch: a physical-virtual game board generating labyrinths procedurally | confirmed (video 222 @ 30:11) |
| Carl.gg | Carl GG | Discord bot wired into the Severo server for welcomes and roles, adopted without fully understanding it; failed to greet Carlos on arrival | probable (ASR, video 221 @ 37:12; spelling per known bot) |
| Language Reactor | Language Reactor | Browser extension for learning languages from series and YouTube; its concept-grouping (clicking multi-word chunks) is the reference for scoring concepts without an LLM | confirmed (video 224 @ 21:18) |
| AnySoft Keyboard | Anisoft Keyboard | Open-source Android keyboard with ~60 layouts; the leading candidate for Severo's integrated keyboard, pending a native-Android-to-Flutter adaptation | probable (ASR, video 224 @ 10:17; spelling per known project) |
| fastText | Fast Test | Meta's open-source pretrained word-prediction model, shortlisted for Severo's type-ahead suggestions | probable (ASR, video 224 @ 11:15; spelling per known project) |
| IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) | alfabeto internacional fonético | The every-sound-a-mouth-makes standard behind the keyboard idea: a switch printing pronunciation under each key, maybe sounding it on press; shown beside exercises, it sharpened Juan's French pronunciation. UPDATE video 260: became the niche that cracked Reddit marketing, an "I'm obsessed with IPA for French" post drew big engagement because very few learners know IPA exists | confirmed (named on camera, videos 224 @ 12:21, 260 @ 20:44) |
| CEFR (Marco Común Europeo) | el marco común europeo, CFR | The European language-proficiency framework (A1-C2) guiding Severo's universal curriculum; treated as convention, not law, alongside HSK's decree-stretched eight levels | confirmed (video 225 @ 19:29) |
| Jeff Bezos | Jeff Besos | Amazon founder; his rent-computing-power-like-electricity cloud-gaming prediction, which both endorse against an angry r/PCBuild | confirmed (video 221 @ 1:02:52) |
| Stanza | Estanza, Estance | Stanford's multi-language NLP library integrated into Severo's backend: lemmas as the counting unit, POS tags, dependency arrows, multi-word entities; deployed on free-tier cold starts with a retry queue; caveat, it parses errors confidently instead of flagging them. UPDATE video 250: its part-of-speech breakdown (verb, pronoun, root, tense) now wired into the listening/audio cards and shown alongside the new conjugation tables, though the presentation still needs work | confirmed (videos 228 @ 14:53, 229 @ 5:57, 230 @ 5:22, 250 @ 1:04:44) |
| Viktor Frankl | Víctor Frank | Auschwitz survivor and author of the camps book read on camera; his logotherapy (meaning changes with the situation and can't be prescribed) and the not-inherently-good/evil symmetry (capos, the medicine-buying commander) anchor entry 226-4 | probable (context, video 226 @ 24:34; spelling per public figure) |
| Tapas & Beijos | Tapas y Bellos, Tapas y Beijos | Brazilian lunchtime sitcom ("cachetadas y besos") powering his Portuguese immersion; source of the slang inventory (e o escambau, 0800, babau, 171, cão, macumba, piriguete, B.O.) and the 70%-comprehension confession | probable (ASR, videos 228 @ 10:15, 230 @ 26:51; spelling per known show) |
| Pixabay | Pixel Bay | Free image API with the friendliest limits (plus vectors) in the picture-exercise survey; benched anyway while cheap image-generation models approach | probable (ASR, video 226 @ 13:21; spelling per known service) |
| Jeffrey Epstein | Epsin, Epsteen, Episten | The convicted financier whose ~100,000 newly released DOJ files (Bill Gates email, Trump mentions) frame video 229; his final interview's systems analogies are kept with a twice-stated non-absolution | confirmed (video 229 @ 16:56) |
| Project Genie (Google) | proyecto Genny | Google's world-simulation model: photograph anything (the cat, cardboard cutouts) and walk it around an imagined, playable world; "un simulador de experiencias" | probable (ASR, video 229 @ 40:50; spelling per known project) |
| OpenClaw (ex Clawdbot/Moltbot) | Cloud Boot, Mold Bot, Open Cloud | The twice-renamed open agent that runs in the cloud and answers over WhatsApp/Telegram; hyped in Vibe Coders Anónimos, which is plotting a "clautón": build something 100% through the bot, no manual review, $10,000 prize. UPDATE video 252: Molt Bot, an AI social network where agents post to a Reddit-for-bots about their masters (with likes/dislikes), was acquired by Meta; Juan reads it as Meta positioning to monetize agents' attention, and speculates agents may one day be handed their own money to invest | probable (ASR, videos 229 @ 42:10, 252 @ 24:36; spelling per known project) |
| AZERTY | acert, query | The French/Belgian keyboard layout the socio built for immersion (typing "hola" yielded "Hulk"); scrapped for universal QWERTY once they found ~88% of the world uses QWERTY, since a foreign layout taxes an already willpower-heavy task | probable (ASR, video 231 @ 6:18; spelling per standard) |
| DW1 Pro | DW1 Pro, DW1 Pro Plus | Standalone Android smartwatch off AliExpress (~260,000 COP) with SIM, fingerprint pad, rotating camera, GPS, Play Store; Juan's answer to the phone-as-single-point-of-failure after a shattered screen, a computer on the wrist that can't be dropped | probable (ASR, video 233 @ 9:56; spelling per listing) |
| Foo Dog | Fudok, F doc, F dog | Chinese guardian-lion statue (shishi; komainu in Japan; "fu" = fortune) that Play Store's default lion evoked; revealed as half of Severo's mascot origin, alongside the Lion Turtle from Avatar | confirmed (searched on camera, video 234 @ 33:27) |
| Paul Dirac | Paul Drac, Dir, Dirak | Physicist from the Veritasium one-pager; unified Schrödinger's mechanics with relativity into one cleaner (all-first-order) equation that then predicted antimatter and spin; the "better architecture is the more transversal one" lesson | confirmed (video 235 @ 27:36; spelling per public figure) |
| Veritasium | Veritasium | Derek Muller's science YouTube channel; source of the Dirac "accidentally discovered antimatter" video one-pagered in 235 | confirmed (video 235 @ 27:36) |
| Javier Milei | mi ley, milate | Argentina's president during the peso collapse of video 235; the dollarization ("todo dolarizándose") behind hotels priced in dollars while food stays cheap for visitors | probable (ASR, video 235 @ 27:00; spelling per public figure) |
| logotherapy | logoterapia, logotherapy | Viktor Frankl's therapy of meaning (video 226): meaning shifts with the situation and can't be prescribed, you find it | confirmed (video 226 @ 25:50) |
| Article 383 (retención en la fuente) | artículo 383 | Colombian tax-statute article giving the 0% withholding shield: pay founders as independent contractors under the labor table, not honorarios (which withhold 10%), valid while each earns under ~4.5M and employs no one; enacted via a monthly cuenta de cobro plus a sworn declaration | confirmed (video 237 @ 15:47) |
| Walbit | Walbit, Wbit | Dollar-account neobank (US bank card in dollars) opened to pay cloud subscriptions dollar-to-dollar and avoid conversion leaks; DollarApp was the other candidate; charges per transaction, not for holding funds | probable (ASR, videos 236 @ 17:00, 239 @ 24:33; spelling uncertain) |
| Bad Bunny | Benito, Benito Martínez | Puerto Rican artist whose almost-all-Spanish, protest-heavy Super Bowl halftime (the Hawaii-displacement song, all the Americas named, "God bless America" the only English) anchored the protest-through-joy teardown; Trump called it "a slap in the face," it broke viewership records | confirmed (video 236 @ 42:10) |
| Sebastián | Sebastián, Esteban | The Chía phone-repair shop owner; source of the wrist-phone advice and, in video 236, an unsolicited market study (technician CRM, a reinvented Picky, alcohol-tracking bar cups) plus the three-months-forgotten-phone anecdote | probable (named on camera, videos 233 @ 14:56, 236 @ 28:21) |
| 4x1000 | cuatro por mil | Colombian financial-transaction tax (4 pesos per 1,000 moved); one personal account can be registered exempt, which is why locals keep a single main account | confirmed (video 236 @ 19:01) |
| Danmaku | Dan Maco, Danmaku | The Japanese format where viewer comments scroll across the video (Chinese has another name); adapted for the French shorts with AI personas (a picky professor, a hater, a lovestruck fan) reacting over the footage to manufacture engagement | probable (ASR, video 243 @ 9:31; spelling per known term) |
| Whisper | whisper, quisquilloso | OpenAI's open-source speech-to-text (runnable locally, free); wired into Snipy for word-level timestamps so clips cut on exact word boundaries instead of coarse minute ranges | probable (ASR, video 245 @ 12:17; spelling per known model; ASR misheard "de Google") |
| Lyria 3 | lira 3, Lyria | Google's music-generation model exposed as Gemini's "Create Music"; probed and judged not natively multimodal (image is described in text first, then sounded); expected to improve on Google's usual explore-lag-dominate curve | probable (ASR, video 245 @ 19:48; spelling per known model) |
| Kilo Code | Kilo Code | Vibe-coding platform/course Carlos is trialing to keep his tooling current (5 free credits); Juan stays on Antigravity, "me da pereza probarlo" | probable (ASR, video 245 @ 9:35; spelling uncertain) |
| Lingua | lengua, Lingo | Deterministic language-identification framework proposed to take language-tagging off the LLM: it rules which fragments of a bilingual reply are which language, so Severo stops hallucinating under that load. Paired with a Word Frequency check, though the universal-English loanword case still leaks | probable (ASR, videos 247 @ 7:58, 248 @ 23:20; spelling per known library) |
| Grambank | Gran Bank, gramática bank | Typological database of ~190 grammar rules scored one/zero per language (more than one article? fixed subject-verb-object order?); the table Juan would diff a user's native and known languages against the target to personalize teaching and skip what already matches | probable (ASR, video 247 @ 12:59; spelling per known database) |
| Allosaurus | osaurius | Open-source phoneme recognizer that takes audio and returns the phonemes heard; proposed for pronunciation drills (say "perro", it flags the rolled-R miss). Azure's pronunciation scorer was better but too expensive. UPDATE video 255: benchmarked at ~40% error, and its newer cousin Allophant at ~25-30%, both beaten by Gemini 3.1 Flashlight at ~15%, the generalist over the specialists | probable (ASR, videos 247 @ 17:45, 255 @ 30:47; spelling per known project) |
| Allophant | a lo fant, alofant | Newer open-source phoneme recognizer (~2 years old) trialed after Allosaurus; ~25-30% benchmark error, better but heavy, and still beaten by Gemini for phoneme extraction | probable (ASR, video 255 @ 31:35; spelling per known project) |
| WordFreq | Word Freck, Word Frequency | Word-frequency library per language (the ~2000-5000 most-frequent words get you conversational); used in the backend to check which words belong to which language, and slated to be LLM-categorized into per-language topics so no frequent word falls through the universal-topic cracks | probable (ASR, videos 248 @ 23:30, 255 @ 15:57; spelling per known library) |
| Jevons paradox | Jewons Paradox, Jevons | The economics pattern where an efficiency gain grows a market instead of shrinking it (efficient cars raise total fuel use; digital mail grew the parcel-carrier into Brazil's fifth-largest firm); Juan's counter to the AI-jobs panic, cheaper software may mean more programmers, not fewer | confirmed (named on camera, video 252 @ 28:21; spelling per economist) |
| One Piece (Oda) | One Piece, Oda, Odda | The Eiichiro Oda anime finished on camera; its 100%-positive "try again" message and Oda's craft of avoiding repetition (recruit arcs, then separate training, then growth arcs) anchor the fear-of-entrepreneurship entry; Doctor Hiriluk's 40-year quest is the timing parable | probable (ASR, video 256 @ 4:16; spelling per creator) |
| Kanye West | Canie, Kani, Kanye | Subject of a Netflix documentary filmed from before 2000 by a man named Cody; the producer-to-rapper "drill the rock where you can" arc, the near-death car accident that flipped his switch (the Through the Wire album), his mother as the leveling force; also the survivor-bias caveat | probable (ASR, videos 257 @ 2:47, 259 @ 0:28; spelling per public figure) |
| Nuremberg (film) | Nurenberg, Nuremberg | The courtroom drama watched at the cinema; the psychologist interviewing the Nazi commanders, the "just following orders" question, and Göring broken by his own narcissism, anchor entry 258-2 | probable (ASR, video 258 @ 48:21; spelling per film title) |
| dogfooding | dog fooding, duck fooding | "Eating your own dog food": creators using their own product in real life as users would (Anthropic breathing Claude); painful early because it tastes flavorless, and it validates only that it works for you | probable (ASR, video 257 @ 23:44; spelling per known term) |
| Avatar: The Last Airbender | Avatar, Ank, Aang | Nickelodeon franchise; a new adult-Aang film leaked by hackers (angry over no trailer and a streaming-only plan) five months early, the losing-control-of-your-launch case of entry 259-2; Juan's critique: adult Aang made too indecisive | probable (ASR, video 259 @ 20:51; spelling per franchise) |
| TrackNYC | Tracks NYC, TRX NYC | New York jeweler/streamer who films himself giving away gold, cash, and watches on the street; Juan's proof for the flyer sprint that even a man handing out free money is ignored by ~80% of passersby | probable (ASR, video 261 @ 18:36; spelling uncertain) |
| lifetime value (LTV) | live value, lifetime value | The average revenue a user is worth before churning; the pricing lens behind Severo's survival math, sell a discounted annual plan to front-load more than the ~$70 LTV of a user who churns around month seven (why Duolingo discounts annually and Spotify/Netflix don't) | confirmed (named on camera, video 261 @ 35:07) |
| Luva de Pedreiro | Lua de Pedreiro, Luva de Pedreiro | Brazilian football influencer who rose from a remote poor town (played in bricklayer's gloves, hence the name) to being photographed beside Messi; Juan's example that today you can go viral from anywhere | probable (ASR, videos 261 @ 18:40, 263 @ 25:52; spelling per public figure) |
| Ronaldinho | Roninho, Jorín, Ronaldinho | Brazilian footballer; a documentary reveals his family-of-footballers head start and his follow-the-wind, "deixa a vida me levar" non-attachment (returned to Brazil by choice, the Flamengo colors rumor, the Atlético Mineiro reject-team title) that anchors entry 263-2 | probable (ASR, video 263 @ 30:47; spelling per public figure) |
| costochondritis | costocondritis | Inflammation of the cartilage joining sternum to ribs; feels like a heart attack, which is why it scared Juan; traced by AI-assisted troubleshooting to compounding small strains (barbell lifting, jump rope, hunching, salt) | probable (ASR, video 265 @ 19:40; spelling per medical term) |
| Designing Games (Tynan Sylvester) | The Signing Games, Tinan Silvester | Game-design book by the RimWorld creator; its thesis (a game is emotions; if it evokes none it isn't a game) and the flow concept reframe Severo's retention problem as a need to disguise learning as play | probable (ASR, video 267 @ 56:46; spelling per author/book) |
| Airbnb (the cereal pivot) | RBNB, Airbnb | The founders' survival hustle, broke and unable to raise, they paused the BnB and sold election-themed cereal boxes; investors read it as grit ("you're like cockroaches, you survive on garbage") and funded them; Juan's frame for the out-of-funds pivot to the reader app | probable (ASR, video 268 @ 6:26; spelling per company) |
| Claude Fable | cloud fable, Fable | Anthropic model released around June 2026; can run a task for days to completion with near-zero errors; framed as a nerfed version of a larger model Anthropic fears releasing, its free window closing June 22 (then paid API credits); adopted to push Severo, Koby, and Snipy forward. UPDATE video 269: the engine behind the one-hour World Cup chord chart (bis.luarai.com); its free window kept getting reactivated in short bursts | probable (ASR, videos 267 @ 1:05:52, 269 @ 37:37; spelling per model) |
| Google Takeout | Take out, takeout | Google's data-export tool (a legally-mandated feature every platform must offer); Juan used it to pull all his YouTube, TikTok, and Meta analytics (gigabytes) and feed them to Claude for the conversion analysis of video 269 | confirmed (named on camera, video 269 @ 10:44) |
| Ney Matogrosso | Ney Matogroso, rey Matogroso | Brazilian singer (born 1941), countertenor and performance artist; subject of the biopic Homem com H, whose colonel father becomes the study in authority-as-double-edged-sword that anchors entry 250-3 | probable (ASR, video 250 @ 25:31; spelling per public figure) |
| Homem com H | homem com h, hombre con h | 2025 Netflix biopic of Ney Matogrosso (titled after his song "Homem com H"); Julia's pick, watched together; read for the domineering-father theme and the on-stage/off-stage split | probable (ASR, video 250 @ 22:09; spelling per film title) |
| Jack Dorsey | Jack Dorsy | Co-founder of Block (Cash App, Square, Afterpay, formerly the Cash App they studied with Picky); fired ~4,000 people, roughly half the company, in a single tweet citing that smaller teams move faster, and the stock jumped ~10% (54 to 65); Juan's read: the market rewards lower payroll, not necessarily a good decision | probable (ASR, video 249 @ 48:32; spelling per public figure) |
| Nano Banana 2 | banana 2 | A cheaper, lighter Gemini image model release (not Nano Banana Pro); noted as landing with little fanfare | probable (ASR, video 248 @ 37:15; spelling per community naming) |
No name matches that.
Continues
One distilled teaching per entry, straight from the video diary. Leave your email and get the next one the day it lands.