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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 […]

Going out the Cave.

Once the Winter has ended, after a long period of hibernation, the bears finally come out from the cave. They awake starving after all the months of confinement, during which they depended solely on their fat deposits. But by Spring, the fields are green now; the flowers are blooming and there is plenty of food […]

Rushing Through Life

The other day, I was hurrying down the street, worried to fulfill my errands as soon as possible when I came across the most unexpected passerby which forced me to an abrupt halt. Down over the concrete floor, I found a huge snail. I knelt beside to have a better look and take a photograph […]

The Second Step

People say that the first step is always the hardest. Experts entrepreneurs and motivational speakers alike surround the first step with a halo of mysticism as the “barrier breaker”, as the mean to “overcome the fear of failure” or to take “the leap of faith” towards the uncharted territory that our heart so passionately craves […]

Don’t teach your children to love others, teach them to be Honorable.

“You shall love your neighbor as yourself” reads in Mark 12:31. Most of Christians grew hearing that there was no greater commandment than this. To love. To love everybody else as we love ourselves. Paradoxically, interpreting this commandment is particularly challenging to everybody, because in some notion sounds even antinatural, considering the fact that the […]

Racism or Narcissism?

Black Lives Matter protests have generated an enormous backlash towards a variety of actions and attitudes flagged as “racist”, especially on the internet. The general discourse has turned dichotomic for my taste, considering the fact that we live—or I like to believe—on a democracy, where a plurality of voices should enrich the society, or at […]

Is Christianity Responsible for Racism in Western Civilization?

Napoleon used to say that “Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich,” highlighting not only its relevance within society but also implying that is religion the responsible, in some degree, of upholding the class hierarchy that has permeated since Napoleon until our days. Nowadays, the news of the killing of Afro-American activist […]

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