I keep a lot of knowledge in my head. Not on purpose, and not because I’m precious about it: it’s just hard work to get it out. Explaining something I know well, in a way that actually transfers, takes more effort than doing it myself. So it stays where it’s easiest to keep it: in…
People often ask me that, and the honest answer starts long before I had a name for any of this. I’ve been translating since I was a child: moving between languages, between symbols, between the ways different cultures choose to express the same idea. Long before I encountered the word semantics, I understood, instinctively, that…
Do you run your mind like you run your browser? Many tabs, all restoring on reopen? Do you ever have those moments where you have a realisation: the perfect thing to say, the perfect way forward, a solution to a problem you’ve been battling with? And do you find that they always come at the…
I recently found an article I published in 1999 in Ingeniería Química, a journal for chemical engineers, about the internet. Reading it felt like receiving a letter from my younger self. The article warned that the real challenge wasn’t access to information. It was making information mean something. No perfect directory existed. No single index…
