About

Hi, my name is Oscar Del Ben and I am the guy behind Freestyle Mind. In 2005 I left school at age 18 and I went to do some manual labor work in order to get some money. In that period everyone was telling me that what I could have expected in my life was only a miserable future because I left school early and I was only an average guy living in Italy.

Despite being that average guy and having a surely discussible lifestyle at that time, on January 2007 I started my own company and later that year I started offering programming consulting. Eventually, I went doing consulting full time because doing programming is something that I really like and enjoy to do.

In those years I learned a lot about being my own boss and I have also studied and tested a lot of information regarding personal development and productivity.

In early 2009 I started to have the desire to help others achieving their dreams. I always enjoyed helping others because I believe it’s the best way to contribute to the world. Suddenly, something in April 2009 changed my life forever, as my first grade cousin passed away. He was only 20 years old and we grew up together. From that moment I realized that if I wanted to do something, I had to do it right now, without having to wait for something special to happen, because life is one, and we never know what will happen tomorrow.

In june 2009 I started this blog with the intention of touching other people’s life by providing real world information on personal development regarding all areas of life, from productivity to goals and much more.

This website is dedicated to my cousin Matteo, and to everyone else who believes we have something special to give to the world.

About this website

I built this website from scratch in two days. I wrote all the code for it because I was tired of the complexity of wordpress. I'm a software developer so it was relatively easy for me. For the design I used photoshop but I was inspired a lot by pearsonified. I'm definitely not a designer so this was the hardest task. For the typography I used a web application I built myself called web fonts comparison. I still need to tweak a few things here and there, but overall I'm satisfied from what I got.

Update: Daniel Richard has done a redesign of my website, without me even asking for it. How awesome is this!