Hi, my name is Juan Perret

I’ve created this website as a way to share all that I’ve done (and do) online, should anyone be curious and want to learn about me. At the moment (Sep 2025), I imagine that’s a miniscule number. Hopefully more and more will be interested and if not, well it serves a purpose for me. In this introduction I’m going to overshare, by the end of it you’ll understand why I think it’s important.

I intend to focus on sharing writings or videos on my political, economic and public policy opinions. Though I was born and raised in Venezuela, I’ve been lucky enough to travel the world, study in the U.S. and now live in Spain.

I left my country because there did not seem to be any opportunities for either political change or my own advancements. Although I’m not sure if that assessment was entirely accurate. I’ve learned a great deal from living outside Venezuela. When I left, I expected I would go to greener pastures per se. And I did, but I landed in a country clearly going through great, and in my opinion, existential political turmoil. It worried me deeply because I lived all my youth in a country where democracy turned into autocracy and I saw the same patterns appearing. But I was just a computer science student, what could I do?

Eventually my time in the U.S. came to an end because of a lack of opportunities as a computer scientist in 2023 and a time limit on finding employment. Could I have worked harder? I don’t doubt it, we can always try harder.

I worked a few years in Spain as a Generative AI engineer doing things I found interesting technology wise but perhaps a bit pointless in automating grunt work of white collar employees in latin american countries. As someone who has always been interested in history, society and economics, the automation of work was something that did not sit too well with me as our systems demand that people work to survive, let alone live.

Eventually I was let go of that position, according to the company through no fault of my own, though self reflection is enough to understand that again, one can always work harder. It’s insane to think but, in some ways I felt free. My passion isn’t to put money in my pocket let alone anyone else who’s pocket is already full. I understand that every cog in the machine has its role, but to be perfectly frank, I can’t stand being a cog.

It WAS for the better though. The time away has allowed me to reflect on what I want to do, and I want to change the world, or at least help those who can move people and nudge it in the right direction. One person can’t do anything against the tides of time and history but they can add their own piece to the puzzle.

Truly, since I graduated high school, I’ve been incensed seeing how the elites of our world have completely dropped the bag through their avarice and stupidity. And I’ve decided to dedicate my life to champion policy changes that will help everyone, ensure the prosperity that happened late 20th century can come back and argue for the international unity that is necessary should we want that to happen.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes, and will continue making them, so have we all, so has all of humanity, but the key is that we have to learn from them. I choose to confront uncomfortable truths because then and only then will we start on the journey towards fixing the problems in our lives, in our nations and in our world.

And that is the key here: truth. If we don’t understand the reality of a situation we will never be able to act in a way to make that situation better. And so if I seek truth, I also feel the need to offer it, because confidence in knowledge is the first step to trust. And I hope that even if you don’t agree with me, you will at least trust that what I say is what I wholeheartedly believe to be true.