Dear reader, a couple of days ago I got into what seemed like a regular business meeting: two of my colleagues needed more info about a web application, in use inside the company, which was undergoing a re-engineering. To put the question… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, I’m pretty sure that this scene is not unfamiliar to you: someone is speaking too loud or making an annoying noise in a situation/place where it is unacceptable. Let’s say a child is laughing for something she has… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, too often people talk to me starting a sentence with “You know, they said/want/need…”. And then I abruptly stop them with a simple question: “They who?“. After this, I don’t allow any further conversation until I get an answer… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, a couple of weeks ago I was having a discussion about how to translate the verb “to embrace technology” in Italian. It turns out that there is no single word to express the concept, neither there is a… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, Today has been a good day: happy, thankful, productive and funny, until an SMS hit my phone and set me on an endless spiral of thoughts. You may remember my post titled Not Good Enough, in which I kind… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, as you may have noticed, I love reading (just look at the “Book I read” page). Every time I read a book, I think that it would be great to share it with this or that specific person. So,… Continue Reading →

Sometimes reality beats fiction. It even beats non-fiction, it seems. It took me a while too realize that I was working and reading in the bathroom (on a chair, not on the provocative toilet!) about working remotely. Oh well, sometimes… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, last week I was unpacking some boxes that remained closed since I moved to our new house. Opening one of them, I was greeted by my degree, my PhD and some medals for having been a blood donor and a… Continue Reading →

Dear reader, sometimes I look at the spectrum of activities I performed during my working day, and the time of day I devoted to them. More often than not, the result of mapping my schedule is something similar to figure… Continue Reading →

Last week I was in Berlin on a short business trip and, since I was meeting with some friends there and didn’t want to create logistic problems at dinner, I let down my strict ketogenic diet for a couple of… Continue Reading →