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Vandella: What the novel is about?

My grandfather once had the strangest of dreams. He found himself walking the cobblestone streets of a town at twilight. The habitants emerged from every door, corner, and alley in total silence, carrying oil lanterns ahead of them to guide their steps. The gloomy streets quickly populated with feeble lights. Hundreds. Thousands. The crowd gathered […]

Vandella: Book Cover Reveal

As I revealed to you in a post back in March, I’ve been working diligently during the past months, giving the final touches to my upcoming novel titled VANDELLA. I’m very excited to let you know it is now very close to release, but first I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you, […]

Afghanistan, or The Modern Frankenstein

On August 16th, 2021, Taliban forces took control of Kabul after nearly two decades of US and NATO occupation. The gruesome images of Afghans crowding the airports to abandon the country, preferring to cling to the fuselage of the parting planes and drop to their certain deaths instead of staying, had previously belonged solely within […]

The Conquest of Space

When I was a toddler, like most children, I loved balloons. It seemed so magical. A sphere floating above everybody. So ethereal, that had to be tied to the ground to prevent them from abandoning surface and lost themselves in sky’s immensity. But after a few days, the magic always started vanishing. The impetus of […]

What is the most relevant skill to survive in the future?

The future is now. Maybe not the future we imagined with flying cars, but when we look at it from the perspective that “90% of the world’s data has been created in the last two years” and that according to the DOMO report of 2018, “over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every single […]

The Incurable Affliction of Intelligent Life

If, in a not much distant future, humanity received the unpleasant news that a humongous asteroid is heading toward Earth, promising a collision which would wipe out all intelligent life forms, would that be considered a catastrophe? Most agree that would be the worst tragedy ever. But it would, really? I say it depends. It […]

How I became a novelist by accident

There are people who discover what they want to be as grownups in childhood. And there are others like me, who figure out just by accident. I basically bumped into the profession like you do with a stranger in a crowded street. If you would ask the child version of me, “what would you like […]

Internet Privacy: Should we worry about our digital footprint?

One facet of my job is Big Data, that for those unaware consist in computationally analyze enormous data sets to reveal patterns, trends, and associations. In other words, is about determining human behavior from data collected and use it for making predictions. To make sense of such complex data ranging in billions, sometimes you need […]

How Soon Is Now?

We have already waited too long. And for many, all their hopes are gone. We have gone home, and we have cried. For most of us, 2020 has felt like being trapped endlessly in a song of The Smiths—a bitter one. We are tired and want COVID-19 gone from our lives. We yearn for freedom. […]

Debunking Divinity

Last week Pope Francis became news after “endorsing same-sex civil unions” during an interview for a documentary. The pope stated that “they’re children of God and have a right to a family,” and added “nobody should be thrown out or be made miserable because of it.” Despite LGBT community revered the comments and critics praised it […]

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