Selected essays in English
A small English edition of Impermanente: memory, tools, cities, photography, systems, and the ways machines try to think on our behalf.
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The Personal Myth
A personal myth is not a productivity trick. It is a small, stubborn story that helps you notice when a system, a platform, or a machine has started thinking on your behalf.
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The One-Person Mini-Cult
LLMs can become a private validation machine: you as leader, convert, and congregation, with the model applauding from the front row.
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The End of One Size Fits All
AI makes tools personal and biographical. The trap is trying to turn your own fitted tool back into a universal mould.
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This Is Not It Either
After two hundred and something cities, travel does not enlarge the world so much as focus it. It keeps pointing back to Madrid, which is also busy expelling you.
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Personal Digital Sovereignty
If your ideas are yours, access to them should also happen on your terms. Open formats are not purity; they are practical hygiene.
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On Why I Take Photographs
Photography as a prosthesis for memory: a small, useless, necessary surrender before impermanence.
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The Machine Is Not Broken
POSIWID: the purpose of a system is what it does. Inequality is not a glitch in the current machine; it is one of the things the machine knows how to do.