Luis Alberto Rodriguez

The companies I love working with in office hours are the ones where the founder has a specific, weird, earned insight that nobody else has. Not "AI for X." A genuine edge that came from living inside a problem. The ones that are dying almost always have the same pattern: technically competent founders building something nobody asked for, moving metrics that don't matter, avoiding the conversation with the one user who'd tell them the truth. The lucky thing is that 2nd type of founder can become the 1st kind if they don't stand still, they are willing to talk to people, try things, and always seek high rate of learning.

Sabía que con 48 equipos, tarde o temprano algo así iba a pasar. Ahora qué hago?

Sanders and AOC introduced a bill to pause ALL AI data center construction. 300+ local bills filed. Half of planned 2026 data centers facing delays or cancellation. Each one brings billions to local economies. The people who say they want American jobs are trying to block the biggest job creation engine since the interstate highway system.

#DatoConstructivo Desistimientos de VIS: cambio de tendencia desde 2022 ¿Causalidad o casualidad?

Brazilian AI legal startup Enter has tripled its valuation to $1.2 billion in a new round of funding, vaulting it into the upper ranks of artificial intelligence companies in Latin America. Read more: bloom.bg/4euKWYi 📷: Enter

Scrolling is on the decline More charts: a16z.news/p/charts-of-th…

En dias pasados estuve dialogando en Negocios Ditu, con @VictorGrosso sobre remesas y migracion ambas en cifras récord, en Colombia. $1227 MM USD entraron en Marzo 2026 al pais.

Un Giro Económico para Bolivia - Growth Lab growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/project/un-gir…

Latin America will add more barrels in the next five years than in the previous two decades.

Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software. 5. The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed. 6. National service should be a universal duty. We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost. 7. If a U.S. Marine asks for a better rifle, we should build it; and the same goes for software. We should as a country be capable of continuing a debate about the appropriateness of military action abroad while remaining unflinching in our commitment to those we have asked to step into harm’s way. 8. Public servants need not be our priests. Any business that compensated its employees in the way that the federal government compensates public servants would struggle to survive. 9. We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret. 10. The psychologization of modern politics is leading us astray. Those who look to the political arena to nourish their soul and sense of self, who rely too heavily on their internal life finding expression in people they may never meet, will be left disappointed. 11. Our society has grown too eager to hasten, and is often gleeful at, the demise of its enemies. The vanquishing of an opponent is a moment to pause, not rejoice. 12. The atomic age is ending. One age of deterrence, the atomic age, is ending, and a new era of deterrence built on A.I. is set to begin. 13. No other country in the history of the world has advanced progressive values more than this one. The United States is far from perfect. But it is easy to forget how much more opportunity exists in this country for those who are not hereditary elites than in any other nation on the planet. 14. American power has made possible an extraordinarily long peace. Too many have forgotten or perhaps take for granted that nearly a century of some version of peace has prevailed in the world without a great power military conflict. At least three generations — billions of people and their children and now grandchildren — have never known a world war. 15. The postwar neutering of Germany and Japan must be undone. The defanging of Germany was an overcorrection for which Europe is now paying a heavy price. A similar and highly theatrical commitment to Japanese pacifism will, if maintained, also threaten to shift the balance of power in Asia. 16. We should applaud those who attempt to build where the market has failed to act. The culture almost snickers at Musk’s interest in grand narrative, as if billionaires ought to simply stay in their lane of enriching themselves . . . . Any curiosity or genuine interest in the value of what he has created is essentially dismissed, or perhaps lurks from beneath a thinly veiled scorn. 17. Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime. Many politicians across the United States have essentially shrugged when it comes to violent crime, abandoning any serious efforts to address the problem or take on any risk with their constituencies or donors in coming up with solutions and experiments in what should be a desperate bid to save lives. 18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all. 20. The pervasive intolerance of religious belief in certain circles must be resisted. The elite’s intolerance of religious belief is perhaps one of the most telling signs that its political project constitutes a less open intellectual movement than many within it would claim. 21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful. 22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what? Excerpts from the #1 New York Times Bestseller The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West, by Alexander C. Karp & Nicholas W. Zamiska techrepublicbook.com

What does a pro-worker application of AI look like in practice? Co-director @davidautor describes Schneider Electric's Electrician's Assistant tool, which provides real-time field support to electricians and electrical engineers, making their expertise more effective.

Dapper: ¡cuidado con las multas! ¿Trabajas en asuntos públicos o regulatorios y se te ha pasado información importante? En entrevista Juan Carlos Pardo, country manager de Dapper México, nos cuenta más de esta plataforma. @dapperlatam

En los últimos 15 años, la pobreza multidimensional en Colombia cayó de casi 30% a cerca de 10%: un avance social muy significativo. En este video explico qué mide este indicador, cómo se construye y cuáles son los principales retos que aún persisten para seguir mejorando la calidad de vida de los hogares.

🇻🇪🇨🇴 EE.UU. abre la puerta financiera de Venezuela. Hoy el Departamento del Tesoro autorizó operar con el Banco Central de Venezuela y algunos bancos públicos. Para Colombia esta noticia es muy positiva y ofrece oportunidades concretas: - Banca corresponsal con Venezuela - Financiación de proyectos energéticos binacionales - Canal formal para remesas de migrantes venezolanos - Asesoría en inversión extranjera hacia Venezuela

Muy complacido de ver a 8 colegas del @BancoRepublica en el top 10 de autores con más descargas en el mundo de @repec_org durante marzo de 2026. Una muestra de la calidad del equipo técnico del Banrep

New Working Paper Alert 📔 Do accents shape social and economic opportunity? With @miweintraub83 and @NGarbirasDiaz, we tested this in Colombia through an online experiment with 6,000 adults. 🧵

Este año el Banco de la República transfirió $13,9 billones al Gobierno Nacional. Este es el nivel más alto de utilidades registrado en la historia. El 86% provino de los rendimientos de las reservas internacionales: los ahorros del país en moneda extranjera que se invierten con criterios de seguridad, liquidez y rentabilidad. Estas reservas ayudan a proteger la economía en momentos de crisis, cuando el dólar sube o cuando se dificulta acceder a financiamiento externo. Conozca más de las utilidades y de la administración de las reservas internacionales en el Blog de #BanRepExplica “Las utilidades del Banco de la República y las reservas internacionales”👉 doi.org/qtmz