Gonzalo Contento
Software engineer. Writing about tech, mythology, and everything in between.Thinker, not prose stylist. The ideas are mine; the articulation is assisted by AI — an honest arrangement, as old as the first scribe.
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The New Job Market
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.
From 'Healthy' to Healthy
A curated guide to the researchers, clinicians, and books working on the gap between 'not sick yet' and actually healthy — with a focus on functional medicine, metabolic health, and root-cause medicine.
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The Elevator That Learned — McCulloch-Pitts, Hebb, and the Birth of Learning
Before a neural network could learn anything, it had to stop being fixed logic. A dispatch elevator, rewired across three real papers — 1943, 1949, 1958 — tracks what 'learning machine' actually meant before it meant what it means now.