Author: mauro
Call for a Desinstitutionalized and Distributed Science
Last time I participate in a PhD selection process, I asked 10 students where did they see themselves in 10 years. The answer was unanimous: “doing research at the university”.…
The logics of Anger
Anger is part of the basic biology of the human species. It spontaneously appears in infancy, is effectively universal in its distribution across cultures and individuals, and has a species-typical…
Governance-by-Fork, not Force
Bitcoin has thought me many things about money, energy, time, work, corruption… even physics. But maybe the most important was the possibility of a better, faster, incorruptible consensus mechanism among…
“Create more than you spend”
“Create more than you spend” that was the sentence that most impressed me in the Jeff Bezos’ letter to Amazon’s stakeholders (2020). I’ve never been crazy about Amazon and never…
Science is best when verified by technology
An essay based on the article Sarewitz, 2016. Saving Science. The New Atlantis During the COVID19 pandemic, once again, science has brought the solution to a health, humanitarian, social and…