Technology is an instrument.
Engineer · solution builder · writer
I understand complexity. I imagine responses.
I build them, explain them or tell them.
I work with problems where organizations, information, technology, decisions and people intersect. I seek to understand their structure and turn it into something that can work, be understood or be told.
Systems and products
Organizations
Writing
ganabalo
understand · imagine · build
product
understand · imagine · build
Financial management
institutional intelligence
HIPATIA
writing
Ideas that take shape
digital service
QuironRX
Veterinary radiology
One way of looking at very different problems
The response begins with understanding.
Form matters as much as the solution.
I Build
Projects with a life of their own.
Different products, each born from a concrete problem. Each one keeps its own identity; here they appear as part of a shared way of working.
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Financial management · organizations
Nidaba
Accounting and treasury built from real operations, with financial traceability and a logic that remains understandable for the people who manage it.
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Education · institutional intelligence
Hipatia
A platform that connects information, documents and agents with the particular reality of each school.
Identity in development03
Veterinary radiology · digital service
QuironRX
Veterinary teleradiology assisted by technology, with clinical responsibility and professional validation at the center of the service.
Visit QuironRX ↗I work with organizations
Understand before intervening.
I have worked for decades inside complex organizations and also from outside them. That dual perspective changes the way a solution is designed.
Diagnosis and model
Separate symptoms from causes and build a useful representation of the problem.
Processes and information
Make what is happening visible so decisions, coordination and improvement become possible.
Solution design
Combine organization, technology and available capabilities into something applicable.
Explanation and guidance
A solution gains value when the people who must use it can understand it and sustain it.
I Write
Ideas that also take the form of books.
Writing is another way of building: sometimes it grows out of experience; at other times, from returning to texts that have been accompanying us for centuries.
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Weaving the Labyrinth
Strategies between Heroes and Minotaurs
A chronicle of institutional transformation written from the inside. Drawing on decades in Chilean universities, it moves through power, bureaucracy, technology, loyalties and resistance to change. The Minotaur appears as the one who learns to read the organizational labyrinth and, when necessary, opens a new path through it.
The World According to My Pack
Philosophical chronicles from the countryside, the fire and the gaze of five dogs
Narrative essays born from the countryside, the fire and the companionship of five dogs. Each one brings a different way of looking at life and opens conversations about power, ethics, loss, memory and uncertainty. Philosophy embodied in everyday gestures, with a rural, Chilean and deeply personal voice.
Series
Classics for the Present
Contemporary rewritings that preserve the core of the original work and bring it back into conversation with present-day problems.
Classics for the PresentMeditations
by Marcus AureliusRewritten by Gustavo Anabalón
by Marcus AureliusRewritten by Gustavo Anabalón
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Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
An ancient voice rewritten for the present. Duty, mortality, serenity and self-government speak again in a direct, contemporary language.
Amazon ↗Classics for the PresentThe Art of War
according to Sun TzuGustavo Anabalón
according to Sun TzuGustavo Anabalón
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The Art of War according to Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu beyond the battlefield: reading the environment, resources, timing and adaptation applied to organizations, teams and decisions under tension.
Amazon ↗Classics for the PresentThe Prince
by Niccolò MachiavelliContemporary version · Gustavo Anabalón
by Niccolò MachiavelliContemporary version · Gustavo Anabalón
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The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
A contemporary reading of the mechanics of power: authority, alliances, fear, opportunity and prestige as tools for understanding how command actually works.
Amazon ↗Trajectory
Experience as context, not as inventory.
+25 yearsuniversity management · institutional transformation
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