Juan David’s Newsletter

Some people are too alive to be contained

Rushmore, Wes Anderson, and the kind of person who cannot stop doing things

May 8 • Juan David Campolargo

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April 2026

How To Figure Out Life By Ben Franklin

Notes on The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Apr 19 • Juan David Campolargo

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March 2026

The Speaker The University Didn’t Want Me to Invite

How a talk about ideas and ambition stirred a university’s quiet fears and revealed its Kafkaesque bureaucracy.

Mar 19 • Juan David Campolargo

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February 2026

Naperville Library Spy

A live look at what books are being checked out across the Naperville Public Library.

Feb 24 • Juan David Campolargo

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January 2026

How I Transcribed 362 Episodes of My Favorite Podcast Using Codex CLI and exe.dev

VenezolanosPodcast.com Transcripts are Now Available.

Jan 26 • Juan David Campolargo

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September 2025

3 Professors and a $24 Million Miracle

The Impossible Bet: How a Secret Insurance Policy Against Chinese Student Enrollment Collapse Saved the University of Illinois Millions During COVID—And…

Sep 5, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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August 2025

Obsession: the fire the gods feared to name

How an Insecure Teen with a 1.7 GPA Stumbled Upon a YouTube Burger Video, Went Undercover at Five Guys, Survived 90 Rejections, Fired Someone on Day…

Aug 27, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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Beauty Will Save the Airport

After seeing one horrendous billboard, I created 70+ better ones for a jet company. Please, please steal them… and help me erase that crime against…

Aug 11, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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July 2025

Sonny Hayes as The Ultimate Jailbroken Character

The Goal is The Goal

Jul 4, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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Pico Masala: How I Built a Restaurant Empire—Then Gave It Away for Free

A fully-built, step-by-step masterplan—from naming and branding, to interior design, viral storytelling, and a data-backed roadmap to acquisition.

Jul 2, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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April 2025

Don’t Grab The Bubble

Short Story + Short Film: When Genius Visits But Never Stays

Apr 2, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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January 2025

VenezolanosPodcast.com

Revelando La Venezuela Que Pocos Conocen

Jan 10, 2025 • Juan David Campolargo

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