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The psychedelic insight that started a sobriety arc
During a psychedelic high, I realized I want to stop drinking. The sentence that came through was simple: “I want...
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How the operation actually works. Booking, venues, community architecture, financial models, growth mechanics, and the systems that run a solo-operator event brand. The parts most promoters hide — we publish.
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The arrest paradox: how getting locked up opened every door
I told someone the night it happened: “This is either going to ruin me or 10x the whole brand and...
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The Grecia model: how CDMX runs without the founder
The question that determines whether a brand becomes an institution or stays a personality cult is simple: does it survive...
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The framework: how SLIST actually grows
Most collectives talk about growth like it’s a marketing problem. More followers, bigger headliners, shinier production. SLIST operates on a...
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The EJ theft: when your co-organizer robs your party
I was naive. That’s the short version. EJ was a co-organizer during the early NYC planning phase. We were building...
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The co-promoter who threatened to strangle me
March 2024. TAT3 — Techno Afters Trap 3 — at Galospace NYC. I’d booked 10 out of 12 DJs personally....
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The Basement door rejection that started everything
My grandmother died a month before this happened. I had a pile of regrets I hadn’t dealt with. The kind...
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The 800-person WhatsApp collapse
In September 2023, I deleted the biggest rave WhatsApp group in Mexico City. 800 people. Gone. It had gotten too...
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How we democratized the guest list
Guest lists in the rave scene have always operated on the same principle: know the right people or pay full...
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The Nalgoticas: weaponizing gender imbalance
The rave scene has a gender imbalance problem. Too many guys, not enough women, and that imbalance makes it harder...