Intro: A Life In Tech
As a result of both my chosen profession and my interests, I am finding myself continuously open-eyed in wonderment at the amount of opportunities I come across, at the incredible ingenuity and creativity displayed by people in all walks of life, and by the wonderful life changing endeavours continuously sprouting everywhere in the global technology economy. I come from Galicia , the North-western corner of Spain. Galicia is what you could consider a backwater. The way of life is amazing, and it is full of hard working people, but it is nowhere near any information or new technology highway. When I was growing up, I had no aspirations of getting close to, never mind participating, in any paradigm changing technologies, at large or small scales. I probably aspired to working for a bank, or to be employed as a manager in some traditional business. However, in the last few years, since cofounding MestrelabResearch with my friend Carlos Cobas, I have been getting more and more i...