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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The New Job Market
The modern job market didn't break — it was redesigned. What changes, what stays, and how to navigate a system that has stopped being what it claimed to be.
From 'Healthy' to Healthy
An essay on the gap between looking healthy and being healthy — insulin resistance, food, sleep, stress, isolation, and status, argued as one mechanism — followed by the full working reading list it draws from.
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The Successful and the Uncounted — Merit, Luck, and the Lives Outside the Frame
Success stories are told by the people who made it through, and they turn a contingent outcome into proof of deservingness. Merit may explain an achievement without explaining who got the chance to achieve, and the comparison always leaves out the lives that never became visible.