Rigo Álvarez

Product Manager | PSPO | PSM | Latino 🇲🇽| Chess player | Software Developer | Runner 🏃🏻‍♂️

[Tohad @sylvainsarrailh]

The Mexican horizons of José María Velasco (1840 -1912)

[ChampionMindset @championminset]

Real testosterone starts with real food.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

When you eat Mexican food, your brain releases endorphins and dopamine. Capsaicin, the compound in chili peppers, binds to pain receptors in your mouth. Your brain reads this as a threat and counters with feel-good chemicals. The burn in a good salsa triggers the same pathway as a runner's high.

This is all happening on top of a food tradition more than 3,000 years in the making. The tortilla in a chicharron taco exists because of nixtamalization, a process Mesoamerican cooks developed roughly 3,200 years ago. Corn kernels are soaked in lime water, which releases niacin, a B vitamin that corn otherwise locks away in an indigestible form. Without this step, corn-heavy diets cause pellagra, a B-vitamin deficiency that killed around 7,000 Americans per year at its peak in the early 20th century. Southern sharecroppers were eating corn without the process Mexico had preserved for three millennia.

In 2010, the UN added Mexican cuisine to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, the first year any national food culture had ever qualified. The application covered seed preservation, farming customs, ritual preparation, and thousands of years of cooking knowledge passed through communities.

The diversity inside that designation is hard to picture. Mexico has 59 varieties of heirloom corn, more than 60 distinct chili pepper types, and 32 states with cuisines different enough that Oaxacan mole negro (a dark sauce from dried chili and chocolate) and Yucatecan cochinita pibil (slow-roasted pork in a smoky red spice paste) share almost no ingredients. Oaxaca alone has more than 20 types of mole. Mole poblano uses more than 20 ingredients, including several chili varieties, dark chocolate, and cinnamon, in a single sauce.

Chicharron fires three systems at once. Fat carries flavor deep into the palate. The crunch comes from pork skin dried, then dropped in 375-degree oil. The trapped moisture turns to steam, puffs the skin, and produces thousands of flavor compounds through the same browning chemistry that makes coffee and seared meat smell incredible. Then the salsa lands capsaicin on top of everything and the dopamine kicks in.

The "best food ever" reaction has a chemical basis. You are tasting dopamine from capsaicin, browning chemistry from pork fat at high heat, and a tortilla built on a process 3,200 years old. These flavors were engineered to do exactly this.

[𝐒σ𝐍ᶰყ  @SonniTx]

😁 Inchi raza 🇲🇽
Jaja Se les cayó el Coreano🇰🇷

[NASA Earth @NASAEarth]

Can you spot one of the #FIFAWorldCup stadiums? 🏟️

This is a @nasa @usgs satellite image of Guadalajara, Mexico, which will host four first-round matches of the 2026 World Cup.

[Michael McGill 🏛 @mcgillmd921]

Reject the man cave.

Embrace the personal library.

[MedioTiempo @mediotiempo]

Los primeros aficionados ya se encuentran formados en la Plaza de la Liberación para ingresar al FIFA Fan Festival de Guadalajara.

⚽🔥 Las puertas abrirán a las 10:00 horas de este jueves y la fiesta mundialista ya comienza a sentirse en la Perla Tapatía 🌎🇲🇽

📹: Gloria Reza

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Mañana comenzará el Mundial, y muchos estarán atentos a los partidos. El fútbol nos recuerda algo que no debemos olvidar: la vida no es una carrera para lucirse en solitario, sino un camino que aprendemos a recorrer juntos. Quien no sabe pasar el balón, aunque tenga talento, todavía no ha entendido el juego. Y quien no sabe vivir con los demás y para los demás, todavía no ha entendido la vida. #ViajeApostólico

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

8,000,000,000 people on Earth. Almost no one knows you exist. The few who do are too busy to care. Relax. No one’s watching. Dear son, Go build your life.

[Rigo Álvarez @RigoProduct]

@cuajimalpa_gob @carlosorvananos alcantarillas destapadas en Calle Constituyente Carlos Echanove casi entrando al túnel, son 2 en el carril de lado derecho.
Muy peligroso, tanto para autos, peatones y bicicletas

[Dear Son. @DearS_o_n]

A man must build 3 most important pillars of his life;

1. A body that can handle pressure.
2. A mind that doesn’t panic.
3. A skill that creates income.

Fail in one, and everything suffers.

[Dear Self. @Dearme2_]

The richest men in the world are:

75% Entrepreneurs.
15% Investors.
7% Athletes.
3% Artists.

0% Employees.

Nobody got rich with a salary.

9-5 is a scam.

[(Kizmar) @antonioaranda_]

No es Canadá es la calle Trueno en la alcaldía Cuajimalpa col. San Pedro Cuajimalpa después de la tormenta que les cayó a estos pobres desgraciados.

[Disaster News @Top_Disaster]

Heavy flooding on roads due to extreme rainfall in Cuajimalpa, Mexico City, Mexico 🇲🇽

[Grupo Fórmula @Radio_Formula]

😱❄️ ¡PARECE QUE NEVÓ EN LA CDMX!🌨️ Gran cantidad de granizo cubrió las calles de Cuajimalpa durante la tormenta de esta noche.

[Leon @MindMatterMoney]

The best “energy drink” is 3L of water

The best “focus drug” is 8 hours of sleep

The best “reset” is a day without screens

The best “therapy” is time spent with loved ones

The best “antidepressant” is 45 minutes of exercise

Young men, don't let anyone tell you otherwise