Mide Lo Que Importa 🎁
They wanted numbers for everything. Revenue per click. Hours logged. Units shipped. The world had become a spreadsheet, and we were all dutiful accountants, counting the wrong things.
The Cartographer of the Intangible
So go ahead. Keep your KPIs and your growth charts.
But one morning, I drew a different kind of scale. Mide lo que importa
I will be here, with my impossible ruler, doing the only work that ever mattered:
— Mide lo que importa.
I measured the distance a gaze traveled from a hospital window to a sparrow on a wire. It was farther than any satellite could track. They wanted numbers for everything
I counted the seconds of silence shared between two people who understood each other without a single word. It was longer than a century.
But I am learning a new unit of measure. It is not the meter, the gram, or the dollar.
I placed a single, quiet laugh from a tired friend on one side. On the other, I placed a quarterly bonus. The laugh was heavier. Units shipped
I calculated the volume of a hand placed on a shoulder during a storm. It was deeper than the Mariana Trench.
The corporate dashboards called this “zero.” The algorithms called it “inactive.” The world called it “unproductive.”
It is the weight of a promise kept at 3 AM. It is the altitude of a child’s first bicycle ride without training wheels. It is the thermal conductivity of a home-cooked meal after a year of frozen dinners.