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Product designer, builder and art lover. But mostly a curious mind who loves stargazing and putting ideas together.

Barcelona, Spain
Joined May 2009
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Unplugged and clear perspective.
convergence to the mean when everyone looks at everyone else to decide what to make, we eventually stop making anything of our own. we copy what works. borrow the language, the aesthetic, the features. we call it learning from the market, following best practices, staying competitive. together, everything starts to feel familiar. polished, interchangeable. nothing wrong. nothing alive. the mean isn’t necessarily bad. it’s where everything lands when we remove the reasons for it to be different. numbers are easier to compare than feelings, so we make things that produce numbers. we study what gets attention, then shape ourselves around it. eventually the feedback stops informing the work and starts authoring it. we’re no longer asking what we want to say. we’re asking what will be rewarded for saying. ai makes this loop frictionless. it can draw from more references than we could see in a lifetime. but access to every perspective isn’t the same as having one. it hasn’t lived a particular life that makes one detail unbearable and another beautiful. when we ask it to choose for us without bringing any intention of our own, we get something plausible, easy to approve. then we ship it, measure it, copy it, and feed it back into the next round. a tidal wave of mid. this changes not just the work, but the people making it. we describe ourselves in categories platforms can distribute and markets understand. designer. founder. creator. pick a niche. build a brand. be consistent. the parts that don’t fit become inconvenient, even when those contradictions might produce our most interesting work. we become easier to classify and harder to tell apart. i think we need to approach making things more like artists. an artist develops a perspective through the work. making, noticing, choosing, failing, returning. learning what matters even when nobody else cares. craft gives that perspective a form precise enough for someone else to experience. the life outside the work matters too. the places you’ve lived, the people you’ve loved, the things you’re embarrassed to care about. these aren’t distractions from having something to say. they’re how you come to have something to say. we understand this with music, paintings, photographs, movies. we expect a person to be present in the choices. we want to experience something we wouldn’t have encountered without them. software can do this too. a piece of software expresses beliefs about how life should feel. what deserves your attention. what you should be free to change. whether a task should feel like paperwork or play. even a small interaction can carry someone’s care, humor, or curiosity. but we rarely talk about software as a medium. we talk about it as an industry. markets to capture, workflows to optimize, competitors to catch up with. we add a feature because someone else has it, without asking whether it belongs. products accumulate the same parts and lose what made them worth choosing. underneath the branding, it’s all the same thing. artists learn from others too. the question is whether you’re absorbing those influences into a point of view, or using them to avoid developing one. what are you trying to let someone feel, understand, or do? why this particular shape? what have you noticed that the existing tools don’t seem to notice? those questions don’t have answers you can borrow from a competitor’s roadmap. if we can make almost anything, deciding what deserves to exist becomes more important, not less. speed gives us more chances to exercise judgment. it doesn’t remove the responsibility. i don’t want a world where every person becomes a more efficient distributor of the same ideas. i want people to use these tools to go further into what they actually care about. to make things specific enough that we can feel someone behind them. what is the point of everyone being able to make something, if we all end up making the same thing?
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Increíble de ver a los “expertos” en solventar la emergencia de vivienda que vive España! En cada televisión! @telediario_tve @A3Noticias @tele5_noticias @noticias_cuatro La realidad es que tenemos a políticos que intentan crear decretos y soluciones cuando no tienen la preparación ni el conocimiento para idear una solución real al problema que vivimos. España no tiene un problema de falta de decretos. Tiene un problema de falta de viviendas. Y mientras el Gobierno siga confundiendo anunciar medidas con resolver problemas, seguiremos pagando las consecuencias de su inacción. Subvencionar la demanda sin aumentar la oferta presiona los precios. Regular cada vez más un mercado sin construir vivienda nueva no elimina la escasez: la administra. Castigar fiscalmente una modalidad de alquiler puede cambiar incentivos, pero tampoco pone un solo ladrillo. El Gobierno puede aprobar todas las medidas que quiera y venderlas como grandes soluciones. Puede encadenar decretos, anuncios y campañas de propaganda. Pero hay una pregunta que desmonta cualquier discurso: ¿Cuántas viviendas nuevas crea todo esto? Porque la vivienda no se abarata repartiendo la escasez. Se abarata acabando con ella. España necesita construir. Mucho. Más suelo disponible. Licencias en meses, no en años. Más densidad donde sea posible. Seguridad jurídica. Muchísima más vivienda pública y también privada. Pero el Gobierno no está haciendo lo necesario. Prefiere intervenir sobre las pocas viviendas que existen antes que crear las condiciones para que haya muchas más. Prefiere presentar parches como soluciones y cargar sobre propietarios, promotores y ciudadanos el coste de su fracaso. Lo demás puede servir para redistribuir, proteger a determinados colectivos o cambiar incentivos. Pero no confundamos eso con solucionar el problema de fondo. No se arregla una falta de vivienda repartiendo mejor las pocas casas que existen. Se arregla haciendo que existan muchas más. Menos propaganda. Menos parches. Menos obsesión por intervenir sobre el mismo piso. Más oferta. Más construcción. Más casas.
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efficiency, productivity, speed we keep worshipping these words like they are what we live for ship faster merge more manage more agents compress every loop remove every pause turn every hour into output but what is the point of endless production if there is no time left to think deeply? not react not optimize not summarize not clear the queue think to sit with a question long enough that your real intention starts to appear to find the purpose underneath the motion to ask whether the thing being accelerated should exist at all ai could be a new canvas a way to make strange things personal things impossible things tools, worlds, poems, games, interfaces, films, languages, rituals things that let more people touch the shape of their own imagination but instead, so much of it is becoming slop factories more content more funnels more tickets more fake work pretending to be value you can merge 2000 prs you can manage 500 agents you can wake up to dashboards proving that the machine kept moving while you slept but what is the point if you only sleep 5 hours a day? what is the point if you stop talking to other humans? stop learning about the past? stop playing? stop wandering? stop being surprised? what is the point if your whole life becomes optimizing the system that is consuming you? speed is not meaning scale is not wisdom automation is not freedom if it only makes everyone run faster and where are we running? toward what? a world where every person becomes a manager of machines, and every machine produces more things no one had the time to truly want? the danger is not that ai makes us lazy the danger is that ai makes us endlessly busy that it gives us infinite production before we have found intention infinite execution before we have developed taste infinite motion before we have learned how to be still maybe the real frontier is not more speed maybe it is discernment knowing what not to make knowing when to stop knowing when the most productive thing is to sleep, read history, call a friend, play with a cat, walk without tracking it, or stare at the ceiling until the false urgency dissolves tools should give us more life not turn life into a tool if ai is going to matter, it should not just help us produce more it should help us become more human more imaginative more free otherwise, it’s the same old factory just without humans
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Moon circling 🌙 Also a little Earth there on the corner 🌎 with all of us in the picture🖼️
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Venezuela tendrás tu momento, paciencia 🇻🇪 hoy celebramos contigo el primer paso 🤎
Delcy, Balaguer y la lógica de la continuidad, por qué las potencias no imponen al líder popular tras la caída del dictador Cuando un régimen personalista colapsa, ya sea por la captura de su líder, como ocurre hoy con Nicolás Maduro, o por su eliminación física, como sucedió con Rafael Leónidas Trujillo en 1961, surge una pregunta inevitable, ¿por qué no se impone de inmediato al líder opositor más popular?, ¿por qué no María Corina Machado hoy, o por qué no entonces el candidato con mayor respaldo popular en República Dominicana? La respuesta no es moral ni ideológica, es geopolítica y de control del riesgo. En Venezuela, Estados Unidos tenía capacidad material para neutralizar a Delcy Rodríguez, o para desconocer cualquier continuidad del chavismo y forzar una transferencia directa hacia la oposición. Sin embargo, no lo hizo. Al contrario, toleró, aunque no legitima, que Delcy Rodríguez, figura orgánica del régimen, quedara al frente del aparato estatal de forma provisional. Esto no equivale a respaldo político, sino a una decisión estratégica clásica, preservar continuidad administrativa, control de fuerzas armadas, cadena de mando y estabilidad mínima, mientras se diseña una transición. La historia dominicana ofrece un espejo casi perfecto. Tras el asesinato de Trujillo, Estados Unidos pudo haber desplazado de inmediato a Joaquín Balaguer, figura íntimamente ligada al trujillismo, y haber impuesto otro liderazgo. No lo hizo. Joaquín Balaguer permaneció como presidente formal porque representaba la continuidad institucional del régimen sin Trujillo, permitiendo descomprimir tensiones, evitar una guerra civil y garantizar que el aparato estatal no colapsara. El líder popular de la época no era Balaguer, ese líder fue Juan Bosch, quien gozaba de legitimidad social y respaldo democrático real. Sin embargo, Bosch no fue impuesto tras la muerte del dictador, llegó después, mediante elecciones en 1962, cuando el sistema estaba mínimamente estabilizado. Incluso así, fue derrocado al año siguiente, lo que demuestra que las transiciones no se ganan solo con legitimidad popular, sino con control efectivo del poder real. Este patrón se repite, las potencias no colocan primero al líder más querido, sino al que reduce el riesgo inmediato. El líder popular representa ruptura, el continuista representa contención. En términos crudos, la estabilidad precede a la democracia, no al revés. Por eso Delcy, como Balaguer, no es el futuro deseado, sino el amortiguador temporal. Y Corina, como Bosch, representa la legitimidad democrática, pero también el desafío al aparato que aún sobrevive. La transición real comienza después, no en el minuto cero del colapso del dictador. La lección histórica es incómoda pero clara, las transiciones pactadas casi nunca comienzan con justicia plena ni con el líder más legítimo, sino con el mal menor que garantiza que el Estado no implosione. El riesgo no es reconocer esa lógica, el riesgo es confundir la fase de contención con el destino final
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The secret:
Because you take life more seriously doesn't mean you're going to win better than the guy who takes it less seriously.
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The people who don't split into radicalized views and fuel the polarization are literally holding this world together right now.
That’s how the matrix occult forces behind the divide and conquer game win. Hook, line, and sinker. Too easy.
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Our society has to lose it’s patience with failures of integrity.
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The yearly Pilgrimage 🔻
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Lately having some fun playing @ in house events 🎈
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Growth isn’t a byproduct of ease. It’s a byproduct of struggle.🌵
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Light of my days. Thank you.🌹💫
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Recognition is an echo. Don’t let it define the song. 🎼
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No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus. RR.
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The fact that AI can code better than most humans but still struggles with design tells you everything about how complex design is.
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