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Why start this blog

Note: This blog was originally written in Spanish, and this English translation was made with AI.

I have decided to write and maintain this blog as an exercise in systematizing my learning and organizing my professional thinking.

One thinks one understands something until one tries to explain it. Writing the explanation forces me to separate what matters from what is secondary, and it creates time for calm review. I hope this operation becomes a central part of my intellectual work.

I also hope that this blog becomes a kind of professional memory. Many implemented procedures, small problems solved, partial or provisional solutions to larger problems, and the reasons behind decisions taken are forgotten over time. I hope to recover some of these experiences by writing them here.

There is also a professional reason. A CV says where I studied, which projects I worked on, and which papers I published, but it does not say how I think. It does not show how I formulate a problem, how I connect evidence with a decision, or how I translate a technical difficulty into a scientific question. I want this blog to help show that part of my identity as a researcher.

I am also betting, through this exercise, on saving time. There are questions that keep returning in different forms. If the answers to those questions are materialized in posts, this blog becomes my own personal, public, revisable archive.

The most strategic dimension of maintaining this blog is being able to turn it into an instrument for making the structure of my thinking more complex. On one hand, publications and scientific presentations allow me to communicate in a structured, neutral, and objective way. On the other hand, social media and public interactions serve to circulate subjectivities through short phrases, enthusiasms, and brief indignations. In the blog format, I see an opportunity to develop the connection between the objective and subjective components of my professional thinking.

Maintaining this blog will be an exercise in building my mental clarity and my professional memory.