Flu Project with Pablo González

Eleven years writing on a blog almost daily is no small feat, especially when video eats up everything these days. So I sat down live with Pablo González, who back in 2010 started Flu Project together with Juan Antonio Calles, when the two of them were in their early twenties and just wanted a place to store what they were learning.

Pablo tells how that knowledge warehouse ended up becoming a reference in Latin America too, how they wrote a post a day until 2014 and why they stay loyal to text out of pure nostalgia. He works in Telefónica’s innovation department, the Ideas Locas team, where they play with technology somewhere between science and intelligence, and he teaches on master’s programmes. We talk about the publisher 0xWord and its catalogue of seventy or eighty books, about the triad he sees as the foundation (operating systems, networks and programming) and about that bad habit of firing up Metasploit without knowing what the tool is doing under the hood. He also recalls the online FluCon in 2020, when they turned ten, and his experience with the Madrid hack&beers.

It’s a conversation for anyone starting out and unsure where to begin: first the foundations, then practice, because until you do it yourself, in your own lab, the knowledge just doesn’t stick.