
Founder @zone2ai · Co-founder @LaHausCom ($162M raised) · MIT · Stanford GSB · Zone 2 obsessive · Medellín
Medellin, Colombia
Joined January 2011
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My Apple Watch told me my Zone 2 range was 125-135 bpm.
I trained in that range for 3 months. Religiously.
Nothing happened.
Here's what I got wrong — and what I built to fix it (spoiler alert: my real range was 139-153 bpm). 🧵
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
As a board member at @axon_enterprise, I'm delighted for Axon to partner and invest in Skydio, the #1 American drone manufacturer.
In the next decade, millions of drones will serve as first-responders, to secure and monitor infrastructure, to save money and save lives.
Skydio is changing the world. Congrats @adampbry and @SkydiHQ
Skydio is announcing a $1.2B investment from Axon today.
Axon is a special company: pioneering products, an optimistic vision of the future, an inclusive and thoughtful approach to building towards that future, and a truly special team. They have been an inspiration for me and Skydio on many fronts, and they have been an incredible partner in bringing the benefits of DFR to public safety.
Axon is the only company I’ve encountered that I could see acquiring Skydio and having it actually work. Both companies seriously considered doing it. But we came to believe we can both be most useful to the world as independent companies.
With this investment, we’re doubling down on a phenomenally successful product and GTM partnership. The vast majority of our state and local public safety business was already going through Axon and they will now become our exclusive reseller for US and Canada public safety. Similarly, Skydio becomes the exclusive drone Axon will sell in those markets. And the investment gives Axon a large and well deserved stake in the enormous upside of Skydio.
Skydio didn’t need the money, so this is mostly going to provide liquidity for existing shareholders and employees - which I am equally excited about.
What does this mean for our customers?
It means Skydio remains a fully independent company (Axon is a minority shareholder and is buying non-voting stock) with the resources and mandate to continue making massive investments to build the flying robot infrastructure our civilization needs across all of the industries we serve from energy, construction, the military, transportation, and of course public safety.
In public safety, this strengthens a partnership that has enabled us to reach and better serve thousands of agencies, and it opens up even more product-level collaboration. But we also remain committed to integrating and collaborating with any/every company we need to to deliver results for our public safety customers, including companies that Skydio and Axon may have competitive overlap with.
We are charting a course to build one of the great physical AI companies of this century with civilization-scale impact.
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
El Estado glotón es el principal causante de las insatisfacciones y tensiones sociales de la modernidad y es el enemigo número uno del capitalismo.
Our Zone2AI plugin is now available in ChatGPT, in every country where ChatGPT offers plugins
Start a prompt with "Zone2AI" and ask "what's my Zone 2 heart rate ?" to get an estimated range from your age and resting heart rate
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Most of the world’s problem would be solved
If people slept 8 hours
And governments allowed enough housing to be built.
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Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
OPUS 5.5 IS THE ONLY MOTION DESIGNER YOU NEED
this launch video cost $0 and is pure code
everyone else on X claims the same shit, then sends you to their website or mcp
this is completely free with 0 external tools
steal the prompt and try it in your claude ↓
<inputs>
Ask me for: a one-word brand name for the wordmark (a verb works best), 9 to 12 high-res photos, a royalty-free song around 120 BPM with a drop and a quiet breakdown (Mixkit, free for commercial use), and a free stock clip of a plain wall with moving plant shadows (Pexels).
</inputs>
<direction>
An Apple-keynote launch film, 2D only, one continuous take. Every scene is made out of the previous one: nothing fades, blurs or cuts. Objects change shape instead: text rises out of a mask line, icons pop from zero on a spring, bars draw across, pages push, and a black shape floods the whole frame and contracts into the next scene. Warm off-white canvas, black UI, iOS 26 liquid glass over the photos. Archivo (wdth 125, weight 800) for the wordmark, Geist for UI. A cursor drives every change with real clicks, drags and long-presses. The camera zooms screen-studio style so each moment fills the square, and the cursor scales with it.
Banned: crossfades, blur-ins, brightness "developing", 3D flips, particles, glows, holds longer than 1s, anything that looks like a template.
</direction>
<structure>
120 BPM, 54 beats, something happens on every beat.
Open: the wordmark squeezes into its own period like an accordion, the dot grows into a black pill, a label rises inside it. Click: six iris blades close over the label and snap open onto a photo. The circle becomes a square, shrinks, the grid unfolds from behind it like a paper map (center, plus, corners), reflows into a bento, and a click zooms into one tile, landing exactly on the drop.
Glass: a glass word pops in letter by letter, melts into a droplet that stretches into a glass toolbar. The adjust icon turns it into a slider. Dragging relights the photo from day to golden hour (two aligned shots), and the knob turns into a glass lens while held. It lifts into a glass orb, the next photo opens inside it as a circle, and the orb expands into a lock screen: glass clock digits, date, and a home bar that stretches into a glass music player.
Stage: the lock screen pulls back into a phone (the bezel grows out of the screen edge). The Dynamic Island stretches like liquid, pinches off, flies over and grows into a Mac window that rolls up like a blind. Long-press the wallpaper, drag it onto a Safari tab, the page pushes in, drop it and it becomes the hero of a landing page. Scroll: the hero morphs into a framed print on a product card, with the mat and molding growing out of the photo's edge. Pick a frame color (it paints across) and a size, then the nav button flies down into "Order print".
Order: one black shape keeps morphing: Ordered ✓ → Printing % → On its way (a van on a route) → Delivered ✓.
Wall: the delivered circle floods the frame edge to edge, holds black for a beat, and contracts into the framed print hanging on the real wall footage. The same iris opens onto the print, closes again, the frame floods the screen and contracts into the pill → the dot → the letters spring back out, landing on the beat return. Last frame = first frame.
</structure>
<build>
1. One HTML file, square 1440x1440. Every style is computed from time inside an async seek(t): no CSS transitions, no timers, no state between frames.
2. Springs are closed-form step responses. A value with many targets is the sum of one spring per change, so it stays a pure function of time.
3. Liquid glass: each glass element holds its own clone of the scene behind it, filtered with an SVG feImage displacement map (a rounded-rect distance field) through three feDisplacementMaps at slightly different scales for chromatic edges, plus a rim light. Glass letters: a canvas distance field per glyph gives the map, mask and highlights.
4. Goo: blur + alpha threshold, then composite the source atop it so the glass stays sharp inside.
5. Iris: 6 blades around a hexagonal aperture. Each blade is its two vertices, both edge extensions and the SHORT arc between them.
6. Wordmark squeeze: every letter moves toward the dot by the same factor and its drawn width follows (narrow the wdth axis, scale the rest), so the letters stay touching.
7. Footage: re-encode all-intra (ffmpeg -g 1), load it as a blob URL, await 'seeked' before drawing each frame.
8. Sound: a downloaded SFX for every event (Mixkit), never synthesized, each placed by its measured peak. The song starts on a downbeat: the zoom lands on the drop, the wall sits in the breakdown, the wordmark returns with the beat. Loudnorm to -14 LUFS.
9. Render with Playwright: 4 subframes per frame blended with ffmpeg tmix, 60fps. Check one frame per beat, then scan for single-frame pops (frame-difference spikes 3x their neighbours).
</build>
<gotchas>
backdrop-filter: url() misreads displacement maps in Chromium, so clone the scene instead. A flood must overscale past the corners and take about 0.3s, or half the screen changes in one frame. A child with visibility: visible shows through a hidden parent, so use inherit. Text that swaps inside a morphing shape needs its own mask. python http.server can't range-seek video, so use the blob URL.
</gotchas>
<start>
Ask me for the inputs, then show me the beat map and 4 stills (open, glass, stage, wall) before you write the full film.
</start>
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
Banning screens isn't enough. The ultimate solution is to find a healthier and more wholesome outlet. This is a key reason I decided to lead Payam Music — to help children fall in love with piano.
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
My conversation with legendary investor @mcuban about a top reason he invested in a piano school: to help get kids off phones and screens. Please share this message to inspire budding musicians, and encourage parents to check out Payam Music.
payammusic.com ❤️ 🎹
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
Buena reseña de Laureles, Medellín.
Replying to @sgarciaz
Laureles tiene todo: carne para almuerzo de $100 mil en Voraz con gringos. O de $25 mil en Punta y Solomo con puro paisa.
Hace calor pero tiene mucho verde que refresca.
Es vida de barrio tranquila y segura hasta que hay partido del nacional y la bulla es hasta el amanecer.
El complejo deportivo Atanasio es el club campestre de la gente. Increíble la energía a toda hora. Trotar en la pista y ver a talento de atletismo de talla mundial entrenar a lado tuyo es maravilloso. En la noche, darle vuelta patinando al estadio es como estar en central park.
Entiendo que gente se quejará, por que todo pasado “fue mejor”. Pero hay Laureles efectivamente es un paraíso.
Increíble que @RappiColombia no tenga un one-click “pide de Nuevo tu último pedido”
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What Winning Looks Like
My life goal of exactly what I want to accomplish in this world is very clear to me.
It doesn't involve money or storage facilities or vacation homes or bottles of rare bourbon.
I can picture it:
I'm an old man sitting in a comfortable chair with my beautiful bride of 50 years.
It's Christmas.
Crazy grandkids are running everywhere. 20+ people I love around me. Total chaos.
That right there is living the dream and how I'll know if I did my job here on this planet or not.
Bonus points if my sons or daughter decided they wanted to work with me in the family business and I just played a great round of golf with them the day before!
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Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
Felicitaciones al nuevo Pte. @ABDELAESPRIELLA y al VP @jrestrp, que su liderazgo traiga seguridad, crecimiento económico y superación de pobreza. Ante todo: que haya más Libertad para Todos.
Hoy debemos sentirnos orgullosos de nuestra Democracia y de nuestras Instituciones, fueron un contrapeso eficaz. El gobierno saliente entregó el mando pacíficamente. Triunfó la Democracia. Viva Colombia!
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
Libertad con Oportunidades:
Libertad de emprendimiento y oficio; mi libertad para escoger mi religión, mis creencias y formar mi familia no está por encima de la de nadie. Oportunidades y solidaridad para los más pobres.
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
💯 de acuerdo con @hernancadavidma
La única “guerra” del @CeDemocratico es contra la inseguridad y la pobreza en Colombia
Somos partido de Gobierno, sin renunciar a nuestro pensamiento, propuestas y agenda legislativa
Es lo que esperan los Colombianos y nuestros electores
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
.@CeDemocratico es Mano Firme y CORAZÓN GRANDE.
Colombia debería lograr un crecimiento de la economía privada con inclusión social de largo plazo, sin interrupciones. La política social sin riqueza privada es insostenible y generaliza pobreza. El mercado solo no hace inclusión social. Mercado omnipotente y socialismo fomentan odio de clase y atentan contra la democracia
Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
A Peachtree Street apartment tower with a distinctive paint job has a new owner. bizjournals.com/atlanta/news…
Buen análisis de la situación.
Dato simple.
El Pacto Histórico y el Centro Democrático amanecieron hoy siendo tan de izquierda y de derecha, tan distantes y tan contrarios como lo eran el domingo. Lo de ayer solo fue una acción mecánica que se aplica siempre en el Congreso para repartir mesas directivas, comisiones y secretarías. Cero identidad ideológica.
Esa votación uniforme no la verán en proyectos de ley o reformas constitucionales, y menos en debates de control político.
Quien alborotó el ambiente fue el electo presidente, que quiso imponer un capricho personal.
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Rodrigo Sanchez-Rios retweeted
El "CENTRO" en el nombre del @CeDemocratico viene del postulado que la vieja división entre "izquierda" y "derecha" es ANACRÓNICA y OBSOLETA para solucionar dificultades persistentes como POBREZA e INSEGURIDAD.
El CD defiende principios aparentemente contradictorios como COHESIÓN SOCIAL y CONFIANZA EMPRESARIAL.
Es un partido extremadamente DELIBERATIVO e INCLUYENTE, NO CLASISTA ni HOMOFÓBICO. Contrario a la leyenda urbana, las decisiones se toman por mecanismos competitivos y democráticos.














