Today I turn 35. Yesterday, one of my mum s friends told me, over coffee, that in Italy 35 is considered the age where you are not longer un giovane (a youth). And so that made me think, what is a man, as opposed to a boy? When I was twenty-five, I felt like a man. Continue reading 35
I think a lot of us wait to become the person that does certain things.In reality, we have to do the things first to become the person we want to become. Many of carry the names of what our ancestors did. Smith, Carpenter, Farmer, Potter, Baker. There is this idea that you have to change Continue reading Action before Identity
Pretty much anything that you ever wanted when you were 5 years old you either managed to get or you stopped wanting it. For me, that was 30 years ago. I wonder if in thirty more years, the same will be true. Does that mean that it s pointless to desire if eventually our desires change Continue reading Why is it never enough?
I think there comes a time in everybody s life when you realize that the infinite possibilities of youth are starting to diminish day by day. The day you realize that it s too late to become a footballer, a ballerina, or an astronaut. And as you get older, the day after today becomes more and more Continue reading The Way Forward.
I ve started to deeply think about the connection between goals and habits, mostly due to the fact that I have been building a habit tracking application for a while. I think that sometimes goals get a bad reputation, and there is a school of thought out there that habits are the solution to everything. After Continue reading Habits Goals
I ve written before on constant actions, and I am quite happy with what I previously wrote. There is not much more to be said, but it is easy to forget as one moves forward with life. Plans comes in the shape of weeks, months, and even years. Long term planning is advantageous, because so few Continue reading On Action.
I have been thinking about my relationship with writing now that we have large language models that can write thousands of words a minute on any subject. Is it even worth writing anymore? In fact, if we zoom out and consider all the general tasks that AI can now accomplish, and the oncoming wave of Continue reading Writing in the Age of AI
I am a strong believer in mind over matter. Specifically, I believe that our attitude towards events and life in general is far more important than the objective measure of comfort, pleasure, or hardship. I’ve been perfectly happy in a UN Camp in Afghanistan, recovering from COVID, eating shitty food and being surrounded by armed Continue reading The Choice to Have a Good Day
My reflections of Palermo, the capital of Sicily, often know as the jewel of the Mediterranean.
Reading books is far less about information, and more the frameworks you build.