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What I write about tech, AI and business
- 2026-08-02

User-Centric Design: A Lesson from Steve Jobs
Introduction to User-Centric Design Throughout my career as a systems architect and CEO, I've had the chance to work on a wide range of tech projects, from building cloud computing infrastructures to…
- 2026-07-30
Vectron: I stopped asking them to imagine it
Why I built a navigable 3D map of an LLM's meaning, and why measuring where it lies is the other half of the project
I teach an artificial intelligence course almost every month: four sessions, an hour and a half each. At some point in the first session I always end up in the same place: I ask the audience to…
- 2026-07-28

Follow the dots
What the latest iOS update tells us about Fable and the new security gap
Yesterday, I did something that almost nobody does: I read the release notes for the latest iOS update. And what I found left me stunned, not because of the new features or emojis, but because of…
- 2026-07-27

My adventures with Fable
How I spent $845 in 48 hours to solve problems that didn't exist
There's been a lot of talk about Fable, the new supermodel of AI, lately. Forums are debating its implications for cybersecurity, lawmakers are discussing its political impact, and financial analysts…
- 2026-03-30

The Big Blind Spot of AI: The Invisible Risk of "Ghost" Credentials
In the world of corporate cybersecurity, we've always had a favorite culprit: the human factor. The employee who clicks where they shouldn't, the executive who uses the same password for everything,…
- 2026-01-23

The Internet is "Too Big to Fail": The Dangerous Comfort of Centralization
Yesterday, the corporate world held its breath once again. A massive Microsoft 365 outage left thousands of companies and millions of users staring at error screens instead of working. It wasn’t just…
- 2026-01-21

From the "Health Credential" to the National Vault: Why Are We Still Fragmenting Our Identity?
Yesterday, President Claudia Sheinbaum and the Secretary of Health announced with great fanfare the start of the credentialing process for universal access to the healthcare system (IMSS-Bienestar).…
- 2026-01-20

While the World Scrolls, a Giant Moves: Artemis II and the Path to Mars
We live in an era of attention deficit. Between the latest political scandal, stock market fluctuations, and the relentless noise of social media, we often let the events that will truly define the…
- 2026-01-17

The AI Glass Ceiling: The Invisible Crisis That Could Freeze Your 2026
A few days ago, I wrote here about how memory manufacturers (RAM and SSD) are turning off the faucet for the consumer market to feed data centers. I warned about hardware’s “VIP club,” and why 2026…
- 2026-01-12

The Blueprint for Disaster: When Technical Incompetence Exposes Citizens
There's a maxim in project management, both in engineering and public policy, that rarely fails: a bad idea with poor execution is the perfect recipe for disaster. What we're experiencing in Mexico…