It’s Getting Real
Apartment hunting for Z in NYC is about as real as it gets. Time for a coffee break.
Paolo Belcastro
Cynical Optimist
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From NYC to SF (and soon to your screen)
A week ago today I had the pleasure to attend the screening of Code for the People in NYC, and participate to a discussion after the projection. Today it s the turn of San Francisco! Come back tomorrow for the full movie In the meantime, you can read about the NYC conversation on Variety.
Code for the People
When people ask you what you do in life, there are at least two ways to answer. You can answer what you do for a living. You can answer what you live for. Usually, the former is easier to explain, the latter is a longer conversation. Well, here s a conversation starter See more at https://codeforthepeople.com/, [ ]
The Next Trillion Users
(Meet the A-Team)
A physical button for Claude’s permission prompts
Ever had Claude wait twenty minutes for your yes, while you made coffee in the next room? This is the small annoyance of agentic work: most tool calls go through, but every now and then Claude wants to do something that needs a human confirmation. Delete a folder. Push a branch. Run a script it [ ]
Who have I become?
Going to the office on a Sunday to get my lifting session in, as I’ll be on a plane on Monday… I’m actually quite happy of who I have become…
From my Window
Early morning landing in Munich (MUC) from Mumbai (BOM), 2026-03-13
Statistical Significance, or the Karaoke Problem
When a band gets fifty thousand people singing along in a stadium, the crowd sounds surprisingly good — on pitch, on tempo. Not because concert-goers are better singers than karaoke regulars They re the same people. The difference is sample size. In a crowd of fifty thousand, every individual is slightly off — sharp, flat, early, [ ]
It’s a Strange Game and More
I find intriguing how lately Apple TV shows opening credits seem to follow similar inspirations. The first is the OG, Slow Horses, one of the best series in the past ten years, with an opening music by Mick Jagger who, somehow, seems to not get older anymore It s by far the best of the three, [ ]
Greetings from a limbo
I just lived inside a parenthesis for 60 hours Exactly 60 hours ago, after two hours of attempts and de-icing, the pilot of my plane from EWR to SFO gave up and, as the blizzard was setting in, brought us back to the gate. After 60 hours in a hotel wedged between an airport, a [ ]
A new blog, and a new experiment
Like many, I have been experimenting with OpenClaw, the AI agent setup that has taken the world (or at least, the nerdiest pockets of it) by storm over the past few weeks. I set up my agent, named it Totoro, gave it the beginning of a personality, and started interacting with it via Telegram, because [ ]
Morning Batch
I’m getting the hang of this gluten-free bread thing.