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2026  61

July

En 25.000 Palabras — The Pocket Library That Opened the World

July 5, 2026 · 6 min · 1255 words · Gonzalo Contento

Ask Your LLM — Medical Ads, Advice, and the Boundary Between Tool and Profession

July 4, 2026 · 7 min · 1417 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Metro of Medellín — Narrative as Civic Architecture

July 3, 2026 · 6 min · 1099 words · Gonzalo Contento

Why Learn the Unix Shell — Bash, Zsh, Fish, and the Interface That Runs the World

July 2, 2026 · 5 min · 1015 words · Gonzalo Contento

Being There — Narrative, Innocence, and the Magic of Agendas

July 1, 2026 · 6 min · 1173 words · Gonzalo Contento

June

Roman Sanitation — The Discontinuity

June 30, 2026 · 7 min · 1473 words · Gonzalo Contento

Lord of the Flies / Beelzebub — The Game of Pretend-Grownups

June 29, 2026 · 5 min · 1027 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Architecture of Luck — On the Roads We Didn't Build

June 27, 2026 · 6 min · 1121 words · Gonzalo Contento

Connotation vs Denotation — What We Buy and Sell When We Trade in Meaning

June 26, 2026 · 5 min · 940 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Conductor, Not the Maker — Why Technical Work Is Now Orchestration

June 25, 2026 · 11 min · 2213 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Fiction That Wins — Why Narratives, Not Reasons, Shape History

June 24, 2026 · 7 min · 1411 words · Gonzalo Contento

Resurrection Machine — Why the Public Always Asks for an Encore

June 23, 2026 · 6 min · 1198 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Jester, Power, and Zarathustra — Why Every Throne Grows a Fool, and Why Killing Him Never Works

June 21, 2026 · 7 min · 1360 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Right Song at the Right Moment — On the Gap Between Appreciation and Feeling

June 20, 2026 · 8 min · 1556 words · Gonzalo Contento

Nefasto — Symbolic Discourse in the Age of Statistical Language

June 19, 2026 · 9 min · 1819 words · Gonzalo Contento

Neuro-Symbolic AI — Why Symbolic Intelligence Is Still Mandatory

June 18, 2026 · 7 min · 1480 words · Gonzalo Contento

Neural Networks and LLMs: Analogies for Mortals

June 16, 2026 · 9 min · 1728 words · Gonzalo Contento

Beyond the Black Box — LLM Limitations and the Alternatives That Remain

June 15, 2026 · 9 min · 1839 words · Gonzalo Contento

Weights, Bias, and the Pen on Your Finger — Why Neural Networks Use the Names They Do

June 14, 2026 · 12 min · 2362 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Balancing Act — How a Stadium of Tightrope Walkers Becomes a Language Model

June 13, 2026 · 9 min · 1881 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Perceptron — Why a Single Line Still Matters

June 12, 2026 · 8 min · 1697 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Engineering of Desire — Bernays, the Spectacle, and the War of Narratives

June 11, 2026 · 8 min · 1625 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Plumber Paradox — Why 'Learn a Trade' Is Not the Safety Net You Think It Is

June 10, 2026 · 6 min · 1162 words · Gonzalo Contento

Paris Under Duress — The City You Must Learn to See

June 9, 2026 · 7 min · 1419 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Judge Is Out — On Contested Days and the Verdicts That Never Come

June 8, 2026 · 6 min · 1140 words · Gonzalo Contento

Context Matters — The Reader Is the Other Half of Every Book

June 7, 2026 · 10 min · 2004 words · Gonzalo Contento

Business as Usual — On Ritual, and the Calendar I Was Never Taught to Read

June 6, 2026 · 8 min · 1666 words · Gonzalo Contento

Fiction vs Reality — The Honest Mask Reveals More Than the Honest Face

June 5, 2026 · 6 min · 1149 words · Gonzalo Contento

Engineers, Technologists, and Technicians — Three Distinct Practices

June 4, 2026 · 7 min · 1436 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Title Trap — Function, Ego, and the Money That Decoupled Them

June 3, 2026 · 10 min · 1943 words · Gonzalo Contento

May

The Price of Fire — Prometheus, Nietzsche, and the Cost of Creating Values

May 31, 2026 · 7 min · 1352 words · Gonzalo Contento

Built Without Laws — On What Engineering Actually Is

May 30, 2026 · 8 min · 1568 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Miserable Bedspread — On Mistaking Marketing for Science

May 29, 2026 · 6 min · 1244 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Perfect Slave — Why Intelligence and Obedience Cannot Coexist

May 28, 2026 · 6 min · 1199 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Uncut Pages — On Invisible Mentors and the Debt That Cannot Be Repaid

May 26, 2026 · 6 min · 1091 words · Gonzalo Contento

Fourier's Cheat — On Domain Shifts and the Tricks That Made Modern Computation Possible

May 25, 2026 · 9 min · 1777 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Workout Is a Fiction — On Movement, Survival, and the Life We Forgot to Live

May 24, 2026 · 7 min · 1457 words · Gonzalo Contento

DDD: The Obvious Thing — Domain Is the Driver, Technology Is the Means

May 22, 2026 · 5 min · 917 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Software Pendulum — Eighty Years of Objects and Processes

May 21, 2026 · 5 min · 955 words · Gonzalo Contento

Already Known — On Antennas, LLMs, and the Oldest Question in Epistemology

May 20, 2026 · 7 min · 1472 words · Gonzalo Contento

Processes Over Objects — Why Automation Is a Philosophy

May 19, 2026 · 8 min · 1529 words · Gonzalo Contento

Former Indras All — nations are geo-tools, empires are extraction rackets, and the thunderbolt was never yours

May 18, 2026 · 7 min · 1295 words · Gonzalo Contento

It is written — from cave walls to transformers, the forty-thousand-year project to move knowledge outside the skull

May 15, 2026 · 8 min · 1523 words · Gonzalo Contento

The wisdom nobody lives — Campbell, Jung, and the gap between the myth and the merchant

May 14, 2026 · 7 min · 1420 words · Gonzalo Contento

The 1:1 map — Borges, attention, and what LLMs actually are

May 13, 2026 · 6 min · 1162 words · Gonzalo Contento

We Are Not Cattle — Inflammation, BMI, and What Modern Medicine Keeps Missing

May 12, 2026 · 10 min · 2035 words · Gonzalo Contento

You Can't Go Back — Regret, Reincarnation, and the Information Theory of Second Chances

May 11, 2026 · 8 min · 1560 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Escribano in the Cloud — LLMs, Authorship, and the Oldest Arrangement in Intellectual History

May 10, 2026 · 7 min · 1368 words · Gonzalo Contento

Quacks Like a Duck — String Theory and the Duck That Wasn't

May 9, 2026 · 7 min · 1411 words · Gonzalo Contento

From Spain with Love — The Apology, the Gratitude, and Why Holding Both Is the Only Honest Position

May 8, 2026 · 7 min · 1482 words · Gonzalo Contento

Gloomy Face and the Jokerman — Gravity Is Not the Same as Seriousness

May 7, 2026 · 8 min · 1565 words · Gonzalo Contento

Are We Full of BS? — Borges and the Paradox of Intersubjective Reality

May 6, 2026 · 7 min · 1410 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Shapes of Extraction — and the Big Lie About China

May 5, 2026 · 7 min · 1311 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Pill We Already Swallowed

May 4, 2026 · 8 min · 1573 words · Gonzalo Contento

April

After Adolescence, Repair Becomes a Miracle

April 30, 2026 · 9 min · 1746 words · Gonzalo Contento

It's Not Jobs Disappearing. It's Jobs Not Being Created.

April 29, 2026 · 9 min · 1722 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Slop We Already Make

April 28, 2026 · 7 min · 1476 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Optimization Engine

April 27, 2026 · 7 min · 1398 words · Gonzalo Contento

Steve McCroskey and the 10x Lie

April 24, 2026 · 8 min · 1547 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Chestnut Tree as Modern Diagnosis

April 23, 2026 · 7 min · 1471 words · Gonzalo Contento

Enlightenment and Madness: Rereading One Hundred Years of Solitude

April 22, 2026 · 6 min · 1086 words · Gonzalo Contento

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February

Capitalism: The Minotaur or Kirtimukha?

February 7, 2025 · 3 min · 452 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Opportunistic Nature of Humans: The Most Sophisticated and Dangerous Animal

February 6, 2025 · 3 min · 566 words · Gonzalo Contento

January

Is the Petite Bourgeoisie Waking Up to Reality in the USA?

January 24, 2025 · 4 min · 675 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Kagyu Lineage: History

January 16, 2025 · 4 min · 714 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Fundamental Relationship Between the Speed of Light, Planck Length, and Planck Time

January 15, 2025 · 3 min · 538 words · Gonzalo Contento

Flaws in Communication: When Belief Overrides the Message

January 6, 2025 · 4 min · 690 words · Gonzalo Contento

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December

Game Theory and Modern Artificial Intelligence

December 29, 2024 · 3 min · 597 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Interplay of Art and Science in the Digital Age

December 24, 2024 · 2 min · 416 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Binary vs. Analog Debate: A Historical Journey and Rising Costs

December 23, 2024 · 2 min · 392 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Euler Constant: The Mathematical Marvel Shaping Science and Technology

December 22, 2024 · 3 min · 516 words · Gonzalo Contento

Made in China vs. The 'Evil' China: The Global Hypocrisy

December 21, 2024 · 3 min · 546 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Galton Board: Randomness and the Gaussian Curve

December 19, 2024 · 2 min · 371 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Realities of Marxism, Capitalism, and Socialism

December 19, 2024 · 3 min · 576 words · Gonzalo Contento

Transformers as the Lingua Franca of AI: Revolutionizing Communication in the Machine Learning Era

December 12, 2024 · 5 min · 927 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Allegory of the Tightrope Walker: Exploring 'Zarathustra’s Prologue' by Nietzsche

December 11, 2024 · 5 min · 897 words · Gonzalo Contento

Flying Carpets and AI: Lessons from García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

December 10, 2024 · 3 min · 636 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Changing Face of Creativity in the Modern World

December 8, 2024 · 3 min · 611 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Polymath: The Multidimensional Genius

December 7, 2024 · 4 min · 776 words · Gonzalo Contento

Kissinger: From Cowboy to Genesis

December 3, 2024 · 4 min · 693 words · Gonzalo Contento

The Complexities of Plastic Recycling

December 1, 2024 · 3 min · 566 words · Gonzalo Contento

October

Preparing to Dive into Joyce’s Ulysses: A Comprehensive Guide

October 30, 2024 · 8 min · 1561 words · Gonzalo Contento

The New Age of Digital Exclusion: Is AI Creating a New Form of Illiteracy?

October 25, 2024 · 4 min · 770 words · Gonzalo Contento

Breaking the Chains of Modern Inequalities: Alphabetism, Internet Access, and Digital Literacy

October 24, 2024 · 4 min · 733 words · Gonzalo Contento

Conversations with LLMs

October 10, 2024 · 1 min · 154 words · Gonzalo Contento

Under Construction

October 2, 2024 · 5 min · 986 words · Gonzalo Contento

September

From 'Healthy' to Healthy

September 5, 2024 · 6 min · 1220 words · Gonzalo Contento

July

References

July 20, 2024 · 2 min · 249 words · Gonzalo Contento