Footnotes to an invisible text: summaries can be great, reading is better by Nicolás Boullosa on August 13, 2026 Why do people keep writing, singing, and building for audiences the market can’t see? The answer to this question is …
The slow way will grow in value: doing the thinking, not the carrying by Nicolás Boullosa on June 25, 2026 The search box was built to send you away. The chatbox is built to keep you. A dispatch on what …
Being outdoors all year without being outside: do courtyards make sense? by Nicolás Boullosa on March 4, 2026 From the Alhambra to California backyards, an ancient architectural typology shows how patios, plants, and water create microclimates, social space, …
Male stuff: ensuring boys turn out decent adults (hint: it’s not hyperparenting) by Nicolás Boullosa on February 26, 2026 Homecoming epics and schoolyard standoffs: raising decent boys in a culture that sells insecurity as manhood. Imagine growing up as …
When the alarm never stops: attention in an age of permanent emergency by Nicolás Boullosa on January 22, 2026 In a time of constant alerts, moral urgency, and outrage, attention dissolves into a permanent state of alarm, eroding judgment. …
Why we still want humans to hesitate: preparation vs. memorization by Nicolás Boullosa on December 30, 2025 In an age of bland scripts—human and machine—we’re oddly hungry for the stumble. The pause, the self-correction, the sentence that …
The death of depth—and of long-form—is (maybe) greatly exaggerated by Nicolás Boullosa on October 8, 2025 On the vanishing patience for depth, and the quiet rebellion of those who still read. Loosely paraphrasing Mark Twain, the …
The last artisans: finding meaning in a throwaway world by Nicolás Boullosa on March 26, 2025 If you keep the right attitude and avoid modernity’s prescriptions, you might find people still doing meaningful things. In the …
Cultura del compromiso para anular el frentismo on y offline by Nicolás Boullosa on January 8, 2020 En su curso sobre el concepto de «biopolítica» para el College de France en 1978/79, Michel Foucault explicaba cómo el …
