Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas

Writer & Editor in tech, business, wine & spirits.
From Querétaro, currently in Barcelona.
Economic History student at UB.
Husband, Bassist, BJJ blue belt.

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Aldous Huxley understood

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

@DSobrevivientes ¡Comenzamos bien!

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

@thealepalombo @PaulSkallas FWIW, you can literally work in the US (remote) and live in Europe 🤷🏻‍♂️

Not to get very crypto punk, but maybe that utopia is yours to curate via your digital experience / geo arbitrage?

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

@DSobrevivientes Y ya la IA te puede hacer unos excels pasados de verga con que la dirijas bien. ¿Hablarte de historia del pensamiento económico? Hmm, tiene toda la información, pero la prosa va a ser sosa, y no va a proponer nada original, solo regurgitar lo que ya se ha escrito.

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

No, you don't get it.

He does not have $1 trillion sitting in cash, it is 99% stock in his companies.

To make that wealth liquid would mean selling all that stock which would swiftly destroy *both* the companies (Tesla, SpaceX, others) and the wealth. If he sold it all, he'd end up with maybe $100b max, several hundred thousand people would be out of work, the companies ruined and many of their suppliers also ruined.

Okay, but now Elon has $100b in cash, and can "solve the world's problems".

$100b divided by the world's 8 billion people is $12

If you were in charge, several of the most innovative industrial companies in the world would be destroyed, hundreds of thousands out of work, and space would again close to human civilization for another generation.

But everyone on earth could have one nice meal and you could revel in your altruism.

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

Most AI in software: "yo dawg, I heard you like summaries, so I made a summary of your summary so you can summarize your summaries."

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

@antoniogm As with the word “salsa” as explained by Seinfeld in 1992, the popularity of this gastronomical curiosity hinges on how people like to say the word “core-tah-dough”. Not much else. It’s good, not eons away from a flat white or a cappuccino, but it feels new I guess.

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

@orthonormalist Ah yes. Mexico and most of LATAM, especially with the 'tHeY toOk ouR gOld' bullshit, is resentment.

Spain is harder to pigeonhole. Seems to me like constant infighting between resentment (leftists) and manifest destiny (often perceived as fascist).

There is hope.

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

Es como, mi bro, ¿eres un implementador o un generador?

Y si no eres un generador, ¿qué te impide implementar?

No vayas a estar 'generando' cuando en realidad estás parafraseando, sin implementar nada.

*Note to self*

[Annie? Rauwerda? @anniierau]

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

I have notes. I have basslines. I’ve got funky dancing legs. https://t.co/nzFpK11V8Z

[Guillermo Sheridan @GmoSheridan]

Aquí se lee mi escrito de hoy: elegir entre odiar a Cortés (demasiado fácil) o entendernos como mexicanos (demasiado difícil):

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

I remind myself of this quite often.

[Pablo Majluf @pablo_majluf]

Indígenas hoy piden ayuda a EUA para liberarse del narcorégimen. Eso sí que me recuerda mucho a la Conquista, donde también los indígenas le pidieron a ayuda a España para liberarse de los sanguinarios aztecas.

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

@polma_carne Es cultura general!

[Rodrigo Vázquez-Mellado Rosas @rvmrosas]

Querétaro, ¿qué estamos construyendo hoy que vaya a durar 300 años?

¿Algo de lo que construimos en los últimos 20 años nos es tan útil hoy, y a la vez lo suficientemente estético, como para ser celebrado dentro de tres siglos?

[Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou]

I actually like this. It’s good to see a left winger who likes Europe and doesn’t hate himself for being born European

[PacoCalderónCartones🇲🇽❤️🇺🇦❤️🇮🇱 @CartonCalderon]

El homenaje a Hernán Cortés (no lo necesita) se llama México. Las mentes mexicanas más ilustres coinciden en ello.

[𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick]

I was never particularly sympathetic, even though I was an anarchist for many years. Was always more of the individualist anarchist / anarcho-primitivist persuasion.

To me, the problem has always been a combination of industrial civilization and its psychological consequences (e.g. loss of autonomy breeding generations of weak, low-agency people).

Communism is the final product of the industrial revolution; once tech has weakened man and severed his roots in the living earth, he develops a bitter, resentful obsession with inverting every power hierarchy imaginable, in what's basically an impotent attempt to regain what techno-industrial deracination has taken from him.

The homeless life was my revolt against it; a way of reclaiming autonomy. And it works for that as long as you avoid drugs and welfare.