🤔 Why did Mining ⛏️, Formula 1 🏎️, and MotoGP 🏍️ evolve—and Software didn’t?

In this episode of Forge of Unicorns, Nicolás Bañados, Managing Partner at Galgo Capital, helps us uncover the behavioral system behind industries that evolved from danger to precision—while the software world is still fighting over frameworks and labels.

From mines to pitlanes, Mike draws the powerful parallel:

In all those environments, people arrive as apprentices—and evolve into high-performance professionals through structured mentorship, feedback loops, and mastery.

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🎧 Episode 62: The Common Secret Behind Mining, F1 & MotoGP Evolution

Let’s Finally Bring It to Software.

Mine workers went from swinging pickaxes to piloting 50-ton excavators remotely.

F1 and MotoGP engineers now prototype, test, and iterate at millisecond speed in some of the most regulated environments on Earth.

And yet—they do it through engineering blended with craft, not checklists.

They all did one thing software forgot to do:

👉 Pair engineering with craftsmanship.

💡 Engineering paired with craftsmanship is not a luxury.

It’s survival—the only way to evolve without drowning in bureaucracy, tools, or hollow “transformation” initiatives.

🧱 What Software Gets Wrong

While other industries evolved, we in tech bought templates.

Frameworks. Acronyms. Certification schemes.

We tried to outsource mastery with blueprints and SaaS tools—ignoring the reality:

🧨 Digital transformation fatigue is real.

It breeds burnout, disengagement, and leaves people too numb to embrace the next big change.

But there’s another way.

We found it.

And it works.

🔍 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How high-risk industries evolved through mentorship and behavioral design

• Why software teams burn out under rigid process instead of growing through real feedback

• How to build true socio-technical systems using the Unicorns’ Ecosystem

• The role of Nonviolent Communication in team and leadership transformation

• What it takes to design an evolutionary path from apprentice to high-impact engineer

🎙️ Key Quote from Nicolás Bañados:

“The guy who used to dig in tunnels with a pickaxe can’t walk into a modern control room and succeed.

He needs mentorship, time in the field, and behavioral evolution.

Software is no different.”

🧠 Why This Matters—Right Now

As we enter the AI-native era, software must evolve.

But evolution isn’t a toolset. It’s a mindset.

It’s time to stop rebranding frameworks—and start rebuilding mastery.

We don’t need new labels.

We need systems of care, precision, and unity.

We’ve built that system.

And in this episode, we’re showing it to the world.

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