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Articles I publish first on LinkedIn and keep here in long form. They are categorized by Professional or Personal and can be filtered by theme.

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01/10/26·6 min read

3 mistakes I would've preferred to avoid as an expat

Moving from Caracas to Lima taught me that a shared language does not mean a shared culture, that arriving physically is not the same as arriving mentally, and that relative safety is not the absence of risk.

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29/09/26·6 min read

Twenty Bolívares

Twenty bolívares bought me lunch in Caracas in 2017. By December, they bought nothing. The semester I learned how quickly money can lose its value.

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17/09/26·3 min read

My grandma lost all her savings, and it was the government's fault

A family story about Peru's hyperinflation, monetary conversion and why independent investing decisions matter.

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08/09/26·5 min read

Amaru Invest: building the tool I wanted my parents to have

The investing industry was built for people who already know how to invest. Everyone else is on their own. That asymmetry is what led me to build Amaru Invest, a value investing intelligence platform rooted in Andean principles.

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03/09/26·5 min read

The Polymath Edge

In 2024, a former Head of National Intelligence in Peru gave me a framework on how to approach my work creatively. Then I found out something deep about myself. AI can retrieve information. What it cannot do is ask the right question from the right angle, informed by the right combination of seemingly unrelated fields.

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