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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Borges and the Fictions We Live In — Ideas, Possibility, and the Images Machines Make
Borges proposed pretending that vast books already exist and offering a summary of them. Language models now do the same thing without saying so. His fictions, built from an idea and shown with their machinery visible, may be the best training we have for living among constructed representations.