On Living A Better Life, Screwing It Up, And Everything In Between
Today I got out of the house to change my bombona (bottle gas). Since today was also the first day in which kids were finally allowed to go out, with their parents (for the first time since the start of the lockdown), I saw a lot of new people on the streets. The vast majority … Read more We Live In A High-Tech Medieval World
Imagine a sunny, beautiful day. Try picturing yourself walking down a nice street, watching people’s faces and feeling the fresh, morning air. Then try imagining another person coming right to you, with an open smile and whispering in a calm, but firm voice: “Hi, I’m going to change your life forever”. What would you do? … Read more Hi, I’m Going To Change Your Life Forever
When the Covid-19 epidemic started to spread In Spain, I started my self-isolation on March 11th. I chose to stay at home and not mingle with people in public places (even if that meant I wasn’t working from coffee shops anymore) because I didn’t want to be an infection vector. The “estado de alarma” was … Read more Coronavirus Quarantine Log
The current Coronavirus crisis will remain in our collective memory not only like the biggest social engineering in recent times, but also like the most interventionist approach towards a crisis in history. By “interventionist” I mean a central intervention, from the top to the bottom. In other words, the state intervening abruptly, altering the life … Read more Covid-19 – A Proposal For Pandemic Proximity Civil Duty
History has this interesting way of uncovering human race transformations from one type of organization to the next one. When you take the time to study it, it’s like a movie in which each scene blends into the next one in a very predictable way. It also shows us the upsides and the downsides of … Read more Skills Required In Times Of Pandemic-Induced Mass Surveillance
We are experiencing a pandemic. An epidemic of global scale, that is. But, mind you, this is not the only pandemic we’re experiencing. I’m sure that 99.99% of the people reading this right now have no idea that we were experiencing an epidemic before Covid-19 too. It’s not conspiracy, it’s not something hidden, it was … Read more People Seldom Think, They Mostly Label
For reasons beyond my comprehension, I’ve been exposed to various types of crises for a long part of my life. Career crisis – going from a radio journalist to a self-made entrepreneur, and then back to being “just a coder” – relationships crisis (too many to mention them) or even identity crises, I know them … Read more Every Crisis Is A Portal – And So Is The Coronavirus Crisis