I come from two sides that never should have met. A Chilean side out of Concón on the Pacific coast, and a Métis-Scottish side out of the Hudson’s Bay Company fur trade and the Cariboo.
My great-grandfather Ismail Machuca built four businesses in Concón, Chile. A barbershop. A colectivo, the shared-route taxi that moves working people around a Chilean city.
Nvidia started pouring money into CUDA in 2006, a way to make graphics cards run general-purpose computation. For most of the decade that followed, it looked like a mistake. Analysts questioned it.
Jung’s argument was that whatever you refuse to look at in yourself doesn’t disappear. It goes underground, runs the operation from below, and then shows up in your life looking like circumstance.
Alexander took everything from Greece to the Indus before he was thirty-three. Undefeated in the field. Then he died, left no succession plan, and his generals tore the empire apart inside a generation.
