From the biggest city
to the quietest mountains.
I'm Alex Mendoza. I was born and raised in Mexico City, and nine years ago I packed up and migrated north. Somewhere between those two facts is everything this site is about: leaving what you know, testing what you find, and keeping what has a heart.
The route so far
- the beginning
Mexico City
Born and raised in one of the biggest cities on earth — twenty-two million people, all of them honking. A city that teaches you early that life is negotiated, improvised, and louder than any plan you brought to it.
- nine years ago
North
Migrated to the US with what fit in the luggage allowance. Migration is the dialectic lived instead of read: everything you assumed meets everything you find, and what survives the collision becomes who you are.
- since then
Up
Traded altitude of buildings for altitude of mountains. Learned to ride snow, read trails, fix what breaks, and sit still long enough to notice things. Two huskies supervise all of it.
- now
Here
A life assembled deliberately — building things by hand, playing music for rooms, walking paths because they have heart, and writing it down as I go. This site is the record.
What I'm made of
By day I work in the space where AI, data, and automation meet — I like systems that do real work and then run themselves. The rest of the time I'm on a snowboard, behind two decks, under a soldering fume extractor, past the end of a fire road, or on a trail with the dogs setting the pace. I read philosophy the way some people check the weather: Nietzsche and Spinoza mostly, with the Buddha keeping both of them honest.
The name of this site is older than its current shape — it began as a data project, putting common beliefs on trial. That work still lives in the Workshop, and the method stuck even as the subject widened: thesis, antithesis, keep what survives. It turns out that's not just how you test a claim. It's how you build a life.
Find me elsewhere
“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”— Nietzsche