Welcome to CarlosMiceli.com, and what I’ve been up to lately…

It took me a while, but it’s finally here. Today, I’m proud to launch my new website, CarlosMiceli.com, which I designed in its entirety from scratch. For those of you that don’t know me, I used to blog at OwlSparks.com, but it was time for a more holistic approach to my online work and contributions, so I transitioned here.

If you used to read and enjoy my writing in OwlSparks, I encourage you to sign up for my Newsletter, and to subscribe to my RSS feed, so you can get all the new content on the site delivered straight to your inbox or reader of choice.

I have many ideas for this new site, but I’ll be releasing them slowly. Let’s just say that I’ve never been so motivated about the possibilities of creating content online. Hopefully, I won’t disappoint you.

What you’ll find on the site:

About Carlos: You can read more about what I’m working on, my past work, education and ways to connect with me.

The Blog: My writings and musings on a wide variety of topics, from business and productivity, to education and philosophy.

Newsletter: A brief explanation of my newsletter format, and a form to sign up.

Testimonials: Read what business leaders and influential thinkers have to say about my work and writing.

Press: A compilation of my articles, interviews and guest posts elsewhere.

Contact: Here’s how to get in touch with me, whatever the reason.

What have you been up to?

Many people have asked me what I’ve been doing lately. Here’s a quick run through:

• Moved to Perth, Australia and lived there for a year. Also traveled through Vietnam, Thailand and New Zealand. Now I’m back home, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• Have been working with Josh Kaufman, author of The Personal MBA on many, many projects, and it has been the most rewarding professional experience in my life so far. Josh is one of the wisest and kindest people you’ll find.

• Learned the craft of business consulting and coaching from Josh firsthand. I’ve been helping clients work through their business and personal/professional goals and strategy for a while.

• Became Director of Expansion of UnCollege. UnCollege is a social movement focused on showing that there’s more than one path to professional success than going to college. It has been featured by almost all major media channels and publications.

• Made a conscious decision to step away from social media, and re-evaluate my approach and involvement with it. Things became much clearer once I became a temporary observant of the current trends, and more aware of my interests.

• Read a lot. Around ~80 books in the last year or so.

• Started working with Adam Gilbert, my health coach and CEO of My Body Tutor, and switched to a protein and complex carb diet. Have been enjoying abundant energy and focus because of it. I couldn’t be happier with the results.

• Acquired, and learned to love, many skills that I never cared for before: HTML/CSS, SEO, online publishing, and more. I’m currently working my way through programming languages, such as Ruby and Python.

• Working, struggling, and eventually succeeding, in building this freakin’ site. Why did it take so long, you ask? Because this site is being generated by Jekyll, and hosted on Heroku, two tools I had no idea how they worked at first. It was a rewarding experience to learn to use them, but it was damn hard.

Huge thanks to the these great people…

Huge thanks to Josh Kaufman for giving me countless tips on how to work with Jekyll and Heroku, the tools I’m using to generate and publish this site online, and with his constant encouragement with my crazy endeavours.

Thanks to Andrew Norcross for coming to my rescue during my many HTML/CSS breakdowns.

Thanks to Colin Wright for designing the banner for the site, and for his very valuable aesthetic feedback.

Thanks to Ash Moran and Jean-Daniel Tanguay for their restless technical support and tech skills. They saved me when I was about to give up.

Thanks to all the wonderful friends and colleagues who provided testimonials and words of support. It helps a lot to have you guys on the other side of the screen, even if virtually.

Finally, thanks to you for giving me some of your time. I’ll do my best to provide the best possible value in a consistent basis. See you around!