https://akos.ma/tags/borges/Recent content in Borges on akos.maHugo -- gohugo.ioenFri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/memories-of-1978-paranoia-and-pain/Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/memories-of-1978-paranoia-and-pain/I am old enough to have memories of 1978, a time that happened 47 years ago; not figments, but scattered fragments, like the pieces of a shattered mirror, and here they are.https://akos.ma/blog/ancestors-from-geneva-and-beyond/Fri, 11 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/ancestors-from-geneva-and-beyond/I’ve already written about my grandmother Herta, about one of my Polish ancestors in the 16th century, and about how my four grandparents arrived to Buenos Aires at various points of the early 20th century. Now it’s time to learn about some great-great-grandparents from the side of my maternal grandfather.https://akos.ma/blog/borges/Fri, 28 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/borges/I didn’t grow up in a family where literature played any significant role, other than entertainment, that is. My mother enjoyed reading novels by Jacqueline Susann and Harold Robbins. My mathematician grandmother read French paperbacks from the collection “J’ai Lu” by authors ranging from Agatha Christie to Guy des Cars.https://akos.ma/blog/best-books-of-2014-to-2019/Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/best-books-of-2014-to-2019/In 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 I published lists of books I enjoyed every year. Starting in 2014 I stopped publishing them every year, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t keep track of the books I read.https://akos.ma/blog/the-argentine-brain-drain/Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/the-argentine-brain-drain/Argentina is currently experiencing a brain drain so strong that it made the headlines on Swiss television.https://akos.ma/blog/languages/Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/languages/I have the immense chance and privilege of being fluent in three beautiful languages such as Spanish, French, and English.https://akos.ma/blog/how-to-desperately-suck-at-cliches/Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0100https://akos.ma/blog/how-to-desperately-suck-at-cliches/I was born in Argentina. This fact, all by itself, provides a rather unlimited amount of smiles in every person I meet.https://akos.ma/blog/being-a-developer-after-40/Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/being-a-developer-after-40/This is the talk I gave at App Builders Switzerland on April 25th, 2016.https://akos.ma/blog/volver/Sun, 16 Aug 1998 00:00:00 +0200https://akos.ma/blog/volver/– A Jorge le hubiese gustado escuchar su historia –, me dijo mirando su taza de café vacía.