pabloio — since 2026

Taste is thecompoundingasset.

I'm Pablo. I build, filter, and occasionally ship ideas worth keeping. This is the personal side of the studio — essays on operating, a portfolio of what's made it through, and the things that inspired any of it.

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Three doors

Writing

Essays on operating, taste, and the filter.

First-person. Specific. Not how-to content.

Work

AI projects — active, discarded, everything between.

A public scoreboard for the system.

Tastes

Books, people, tools, and essays that shaped it.

Curated, not comprehensive. Linking out, always.

Latest essays

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Apr 10, 20262 min readoperating · validation

How I decide what deserves $100

A $100 test across five angles over thirty days. The cheapest version of a clear answer I've found.

Mar 22, 20262 min readoperating · taste

On the 30% discard rate

The hard part isn't killing bad ideas. It's killing ideas you still like.

Mar 4, 20262 min readoperating · doctrine

System over projects

The system is permanent. The contestants are replaceable. Guilty until purchased.

Selected work

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2026Live

/output

A podcast published as one of Pablo IO's outputs. ElevenLabs voice, Spotify distribution, weekly cadence.

Producer, host, everything

2026Live

Remotion Video Factory

A working video pipeline: script in, finished video out. ElevenLabs for voice, Remotion for composition.

Builder, operator

2026Live

Pablo IO Social Templates

Editable quote-card templates for socials, live as a tiny Cloudflare Pages app.

Designer, builder

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