#Spooktober 16: The Boy who married the Devil’s Daughter

October 16, 2022

In the Galician folktale I present you today on my Patreon, a boy goes to the Devil’s house to pay off a gambling debt and recover his soul, but falls in love with the Devil’s daughter instead. He doesn’t take it well.

architecture, engineering and construction

Kafka in the C-Suite: Bureaucracy, Resistance, and the Digital Turn

There is a scene, or rather a sensation, that repeats itself across time and professions: the quiet frustration of waiting for an answer that never comes, submitting an output whose purpose is unclear, knocking — figuratively or literally — on a door that leads only

September 3, 2025 10:00 am

art and fashion

Mediterranée 2050: a Journey into the Future of the Sea

I first discovered the exhibition almost by chance, when a friend suggested we visit the aquarium in Monaco on our way back from a vacation and, as we approached the Musée Océanographique, your eyes might miss the towering poster on its facade: a luminous vision

August 29, 2025 10:00 am

books and literature

Fairytale Friday – The Dead Mother

In a certain village there lived a husband and wife—lived happily, lovingly, peaceably. All their neighbors envied them; the sight of them gave pleasure to honest folks. Well, the mistress bore a son, but directly after it was born she died. The poor moujik moaned

August 29, 2025 1:00 am