Green the finance before you finance the green
$7 trillion flows against nature every year. Voluntary biodiversity credits have only raised $8 million. The fastest way to help nature is fixing the money already moving.
Maintenance: Of Everything (2026)
Stewart Brand reframes maintenance as the work that keeps civilization alive. It left me thinking about maintenance in nature, and how it hides inside survival itself: maintenance is built into everything that lives.
Fear Algorithms, Not AI
🇨🇱Leer en español: Teme Algoritmos, No IA.
For years, I closed most
A country in Santiago
Santiago is too good for its own good.
All Electric
Once you understand that electricity does the same job better, combustion stops making sense. This is what I learned 10 years after turning off the gas.
A Choice of Catastrophes (1979)
At cosmic scale, catastrophe is inevitable. At human scale, it is optional. A 1979 map of constraints that reads, fifty years later, like a diagnosis.
I Trust Bob
How an obsolete machine is making my life future-proof.
Why is the first biodiversity satellite Chilean?
When he discovered that data about nature was lacking, Leo Prieto set out to launch the world's first satellite designed to measure biodiversity. And he succeeded, through teamwork, perseverance, and conviction. (DW in Spanish)
Baloney Detection Kit by Carl Sagan
After reading Sagan's book, I needed a reminder of his Baloney Detection Kit — today more than yesterday. This is my TL;DR.
The Demon-Haunted World (1995)
Sagan wrote this a third of a century ago. It reads like a diagnosis written this morning — not of any single crisis, but of something slower: a society losing its capacity to think clearly about uncertainty.
Hola 2026
Este año mi Eva de 15 años tomó la posta de la Sandía de Año Nuevo.
La Fascinante Complejidad de Nuestros Sistemas (2025)
Vivimos dentro de sistemas complejos —biológicos, sociales, económicos y naturales— pero seguimos intentando gobernarlos como si fueran simples. Este libro no propone más control, sino mejor diseño: comprender la interdependencia para anticipar crisis y cuidar la vida moderna.