https://conten.to/ Recent content on conten.to Hugo en-us Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/njm/njm/ Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:00:00 +0500 https://conten.to/posts/njm/njm/ 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. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/20/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/20/ If the world already produces enough to feed everyone, hunger and war are not production problems. They are failures of convivence — the civilizational skill of sharing rules with people we did not choose. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/17/ Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/17/ Decades after a first reading, Pedro Páramo stops looking like a haunted-town fable and starts looking like a diagnosis of how private violence hardens into public order. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/16/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/16/ A free evangelical magazine mailed from Pasadena to a kid in Colombia produced, decades later, a Voyager-shaped idea about what images are for — proof that good ideas don't check your beliefs at the door. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/15/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/15/ Survival is biological; work as we know it is historical — from the fifteen-hour week of the Kalahari forager to the factory clock, the Protestant calling, and the modern case for decoupling survival from imposed labor. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/14/ Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/14/ Some of science's biggest leaps were not inspired guesses but forced entries — the ledger of observation refusing to balance against the ledger of theory until something new was named to close the gap. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/13/ Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/13/ Creativity, productivity, and managerial competence all resist measurement. The market prices signals, visibility, and narrative instead — and calls the substitution objective. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/10/ Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/10/ The telephone stood trial for fifty years on charges that read, word for word, like a smartphone op-ed. The panics were wrong about every device — or right about all of them, and merely early. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/09/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/09/ A psychoanalytic reading of the wall of framed photographs: what the display announces, what fear it wards off, and what the need underneath is actually asking for. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/08/ Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/08/ Growing up with Selecciones in Spanish, arriving in the real America decades later — and the strange way the body ends up where the mind was already living. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/07/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/07/ When everyone became a photographer, the photograph stopped meaning anything. Five mechanisms behind the dilution of the image—and the case for intentionality. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/06/ Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/06/ What Cervantes understood about women's refusal in the 16th century—and what society still refuses to learn. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/05/ Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/05/ A suitcase full of pocket books taught a child that the world was wider than school admitted — and that curiosity, not curriculum, is the real education. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/04/ Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/04/ Pharmaceutical ads taught us to self-diagnose and then ask a doctor for permission. The model enters the same sequence one step earlier — and nobody signs for the answer. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/03/ Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/03/ A city built a subway and, before the first train ran, told its citizens a story about who they'd become inside it. Decades later, the story is still holding. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/02/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/02/ The Unix shell is not the best tool for every job—it is the most portable standard we have. Learning it means inheriting decades of engineering instead of reinventing it. https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/01/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/07/01/ The final scene of Being There reveals that narrative, not truth, is the ultimate driver of human belief. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/30/ Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/30/ Why did Europe, inheriting Roman aqueducts and sewers, take over a millennium to rebuild public sanitation? https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/29/ Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/29/ We worship the same god as Golding's island — we've just given it a better disguise. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/27/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/27/ A reflective essay on inherited privilege: the invisible infrastructure of advantages that compound over time, and why naming them is not guilt but honest accounting. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/26/ Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/26/ Joseph Campbell's distinction between what something is and what it means reveals the hidden engine of human civilization. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/25/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/25/ We are transitioning from making tools to conducting them. The future engineer is a conductor of agents, not a solo builder. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/24/ Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/24/ Wars are not fought over reasons. Nations, religions, and movements win because their fiction is more compelling than the reason offered by the other side. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/23/ Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/23/ Violence against a symbol does not destroy it. It consecrates it. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/21/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/21/ Power always grows its jester; Rigoletto and Zarathustra's fool show why — and why violence against a narrative only canonizes it. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/20/ Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/20/ Why the music that saves you does not always come from the top of the hierarchy — and why there is nothing to apologize for. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/19/ Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/19/ In 1989 a 100-line Turbo Prolog program on an NEC PC satirized academic verbiage. Thirty-seven years later, it still has something to teach the age of LLMs. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/18/ Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/18/ Why intelligence requires both statistical reasoning and deterministic logic — and why every AI system that matters now uses both. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/16/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/16/ Not the math. The principles that live everywhere: in orchestras, conversations, starling murmurations, forests. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/15/ Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/15/ LLMs hit architectural limits. Here's what happens next: augmentation, hybrids, or replacement paradigms. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/14/ Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/14/ Every neural network has 'weights' and 'bias.' The names are not arbitrary — they carry the physics that the math obscures. A pen on your fingertip explains the whole thing. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/13/ Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/13/ An LLM is a stadium of tightrope walkers, each balancing signals it did not originate, passing its wobble forward until the last row spells out the next word. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/12/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/12/ The perceptron was dismissed for failing at XOR. Every neural network since is the same machine, stacked, trained, and scaled until the ceiling disappeared. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/11/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/11/ How Edward Bernays weaponized psychology to decouple brands from reality—and how that technology became universally available. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/10/ Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/10/ The advice to 'learn a trade because AI won't replace plumbers' is 75% true but dangerously incomplete. It ignores saturation, structural obsolescence, and the economic model that now governs technological adoption. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/09/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/09/ Two cities wear the same name. One teaches you to see the other. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/08/ Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/08/ When a historical event stays in dispute nearly sixty years later, the problem is not the facts—it is that history and mourning never arrive on the same day. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/07/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/07/ Meaning isn't stored inside a text. It's completed where the work meets the life that reads it. Universality is the poorest reading, not the richest. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/06/ Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/06/ Raised in a convenience store with no weekends and no holidays, I never learned to feel a Friday. From that vantage, every ritual looks suspicious — and that is exactly why it's worth examining. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/05/ Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/05/ Movies are closer to reality than journalism because they admit their artificiality. The lie is that there's no lie. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/04/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/04/ How three distinct practices—execution, problem-solving, system integrity—get confused under a single title, and why the distinction matters. https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/03/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/06/03/ Seniority has become a destination rather than a function. What happens when you rebuild the taxonomy around responsibility instead of years in a chair? https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/31/ Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/31/ Prometheus chained to the rock, Nietzsche's three metamorphoses, and the eternal return—on why every act of creation is paid for, and paid for again. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/30/ Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/30/ A framework for understanding what makes software engineering different from physical engineering, and why that difference matters. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/29/ Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/29/ The danger of AI hype is not that it is false. It is that it is seductive even to people who know better. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/28/ Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/28/ Strip away the moralizing and examine the perfect slave as a pure engineering problem. It is not a solved problem that ethics prevents us from pursuing—it is a logical impossibility that physics and information theory enforce. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/26/ Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/26/ In 1990, a sealed magazine in a Medellín library changed a trajectory. The mentor never knew. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/25/ Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/25/ Digital computers cannot do calculus. The two-hundred-year history of computational mathematics is the story of pretending otherwise — by changing the domain in which the problem lives until it becomes trivially solvable, then changing it back. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/24/ Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/24/ We inherited a body built for constant low-level movement and dropped it into a world built for sitting. Then we sold the antidote to the same people who bought the problem. The workout is a real thing. The narrative around it is mostly a patch on a more honest question we have stopped asking. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/22/ Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/22/ Every mature engineering discipline figured this out centuries ago. Software took forty years and a 560-page book. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/21/ Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/21/ From punch cards to microservices, every generation rediscovers the same tension between objects and processes — and forgets it again. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/20/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/20/ Whether oral tradition, antennas, printing presses, and language models are stages in a journey toward truth—or increasingly powerful instruments for picking up a signal that was there the whole time. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/19/ Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/19/ We obsess over the object—the AI model, the tool—and miss the process. Automation isn't about intelligence; it's about encoding how work actually flows. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/18/ Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/18/ Nations are agreements, empires are franchises, and every thunderbolt belongs to the cycle. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/15/ Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/15/ Every technology we call 'communication' is the same project under different names: how do we move knowledge out of the fragile, mortal brain and into something that outlasts it? https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/14/ Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/14/ The human species has been generating the same wisdom for five thousand years. The question is why Babylon keeps winning anyway. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/13/ Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/13/ In 1946 Borges wrote a six-sentence parable about a map that was useless because it was perfect. In 2017 eight researchers at Google built one. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/12/ Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/12/ Modern medicine built itself around a proxy — weight, BMI, the visible body — while the actual disease driver, chronic inflammation, burns quietly underneath. We keep watching the smoke. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/11/ Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/11/ The fantasy of going back collapses the moment you take it seriously — not because time travel is impossible, but because you don't actually know the past. You know your observation of it. The coherent response to failure is iteration, not rewind. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/10/ Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/10/ The anxiety about using AI to write is a confusion between two distinct capacities: ideation and articulation. They have always been separable. The escribano is as old as writing itself. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/09/ Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/09/ String theory walked like physics, quacked like physics, and had the resume of physics for thirty years. The duck test failed. The harder question is what it was actually a duck of — and what that tells us about every institutional artifact that learns to spoof its own heuristics. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/08/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/08/ A friend from Spain offered a symbolic apology for colonial history. The correct response is not just 'I accept' — it is 'I accept AND I am grateful,' which is harder and more interesting to say. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/07/ Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/07/ The mistake is not taking life seriously. Life is heavy and deserves to be taken seriously. The mistake is confusing gravity — the correct response to real weight — with seriousness: the rigid, rule-hunting, certainty-demanding posture that doubles the load. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/06/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/06/ Every time I re-read Borges I cannot dodge the bullet. 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius' is not a fantasy story. It is a documentary about how human reality actually works. Civilization is a miracle built out of coordinated fictions — and the people who understand the mechanism most clearly tend to become either novelists or tyrants. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/05/ Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/05/ Five centuries of economic history tell the same story with different characters: a surplus, and someone claiming it. The mechanism has changed shape five times — land, gold, factories, the state, platforms — but the underlying relation has not. China is not an anomaly. It is what happens when a state plays all five games at once, without the requirement that they cohere. The Western categories are not wrong about China. They are wrong about the West. https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/04/ Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/05/04/ In 1654 Pascal wrote that all of humanity's misery comes from a single fact: that we are unable to sit quietly, alone, in a room. Three hundred and seventy years later we have built the most extraordinary device in human history for the express purpose of ensuring no one ever has to. The smartphone is the latest anesthetic in a long line. The addiction is not to the device. The addiction is to the avoidance of the silence the device makes effortless to escape. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/30/ Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/30/ Almost everyone past forty knows the type — the man still operating, in the part that matters, as if he were twenty-four. There's a developmental window, roughly the late teens through the late twenties, in which certain psychic tasks are meant to be done. If they aren't, the probability of doing them later doesn't drop to zero. It drops to miracle, in the technical sense — requires a crisis large enough to crack the patterns that kept the work from happening in the first place. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/29/ Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/29/ The public conversation about AI and work is stuck on the wrong question. The real mechanism isn't the robot replacing a person; it's that one person can now do the work of five, so companies stop hiring instead of laying off. The crisis is not 'a world without jobs.' It's a world with plenty of work to do, and not enough jobs to go around to do it. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/28/ Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/28/ AI slop is the moral panic of the moment, and a lot of it is genuinely bad. But if you squint at a lot of professional work — boilerplate, memos, quarterly reports, status updates — much of what we make on a normal Tuesday already qualifies. A four-movement essay on whether AI introduced slop or just made the slop we always made cheap enough to see. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/27/ Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/27/ The universe is an optimization engine — but not the kind we usually mean. It runs on least action at the bottom, on opportunism at the top, and the part we call intelligence is the slack the engine learned to keep on purpose. A four-movement essay from photons to civilizations, ending on a quiet warning about expecting too much order. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/24/ Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/24/ Steve McCroskey in Airplane! (1980) was a joke. Then Silicon Valley made him a role model. A short essay on the 10x engineer myth, context-switching as culture, and why productivity-as-virtue is quietly the opposite direction from every contemplative tradition worth the name. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/23/ Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/23/ A sequel to Enlightenment and Madness. José Arcadio Buendía wasn't mad — he was trapped in a culture without a category for his state. We have categories now. ADHD, bipolar, schizotypy, the DSM. The medication replaces the rope. Whether that's progress is harder to answer than it looks. https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/22/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2026/04/22/ Rereading García Márquez with Remedios la Bella as the Buddha of Macondo and José Arcadio Buendía as the chestnut-tree madman — two faces of the same transcendence that modern life has no room for. With a detour through Chögyam Trungpa's crazy wisdom and Nietzsche's Zarathustra. https://conten.to/posts/2025/02/07/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2025/02/07/ Is capitalism a monstrous labyrinth that can be escaped or an eternal force that consumes itself but never vanishes? The myths of the Minotaur and Kirtimukha offer two powerful metaphors for understanding modern capitalism. https://conten.to/posts/2025/02/06/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2025/02/06/ Humans are the most opportunistic creatures on Earth, making them both the most sophisticated and the most dangerous species. This blog explores the dual nature of human intelligence and adaptability, with insights from Robert Sapolsky’s research on baboons. https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/24/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/24/ An exploration of the petite bourgeoisie's awakening to economic and political realities in 2025, reflecting on their golden era and modern challenges under recent policies. https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/16/ Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/16/ Explore the history of the Kagyu lineage in Tibetan Buddhism, its most famous monks, and its relationship with the Dalai Lama. https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/15/ Wed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/15/ Exploring the profound relationship between the speed of light, Planck length, and Planck time, which unites quantum mechanics, relativity, and gravitational principles. https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/06/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2025/01/06/ Exploring how belief systems shape communication and the importance of understanding historical context to decode why messages resonate or fail. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/29/ Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/29/ Explore the connection between game theory and modern AI, from strategic decision-making to historic contributions and ethical applications. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/24/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/24/ Exploring the transformative convergence of art and science, reshaping creativity and the human experience in the digital age. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/23/ Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/23/ Explore the evolution of binary and analog computing, the reasons behind binary's dominance, and the rising costs shaping the future of computation. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/22/ Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/22/ Explore the history, significance, and profound impact of the Euler constant (2.718182) across mathematics, science, and technology. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/21/ Sat, 21 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/21/ An exploration of the global hypocrisy surrounding China's role as the world's manufacturer and the simultaneous criticism of its political system. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/19/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/19/ Exploring the Galton Board, its connection to randomness, and how it beautifully demonstrates the Gaussian Curve. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/13/ Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/13/ An exploration of the ideals and realities of Marxism, capitalism, and socialism, examining their historical contexts and modern implications. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/12/ Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/12/ Exploring how transformer architectures are revolutionizing AI communication, much like language transformed human evolution. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/11/ Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/11/ An analysis of 'Zarathustra’s Prologue,' sections 5 and 6, focusing on the imagery of the rope, the tightrope walker, and the jester as metaphors for Nietzsche's vision of humanity and the journey towards the Übermensch. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/10/ Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/10/ Exploring the parallels between José Arcadio Buendía's dismissal of a flying carpet and the promises and limitations of modern AI, particularly large language models (LLMs). https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/08/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/08/ Exploring how creativity evolves in a world shaped by automation and consistency, and the roles where innovation continues to thrive. https://conten.to/posts/2024/12/07/ Sat, 07 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