Gonzalo Contento

Software engineer. Writing about tech, mythology, and everything in between.

Thinker, not prose stylist. The ideas are mine; the articulation is assisted by AI — an honest arrangement, as old as the first scribe.

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Ten Thousand Years of Bread, Wine, and Disease
September 4, 2026
Ten Thousand Years of Bread, Wine, and Disease
Ten thousand years after the first cultivated grain, the diseases of surplus suggest we perfected the technology of abundance faster than the practice of living with it.
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